Facebook is the last thing I check before closing my eyes
for a sound sleep... (the second last being Gmail )
and the first thing after I open my eyes. Sometimes I even find the Facebook
app in my mobile open when I get up. I know you are not very surprised. I am
very confident 90% of people reading this will have the same story to tell.
This e-existence of mine was simply unthinkable 7years
before but for now it is most of me. Where on earth do you think you can get updated
with the places your people around you have gone to honeymoon..or what
jewelery people have worn in their weddings or where did the person you last
met in school is going for a holiday…right from a boring meeting in office??..Or
the inside scoop of a controversial engagement…the first look of your best friend’s
car…or the dinner your neighbor prepared.. while travelling in a bus! Stalk the
person you secretly have a crush upon…like every silly update posted by
him/her.. I do it all. Right from the current affairs to Indian politics..to
the presidential elections in US..to jokes…to quotes.. to whether Shiela is
hotter than Munni… to the random shares of divine deities you get it all in the
single tap of your smartphone. Isn’t it awesome?
Managing the Facebook profile updates can also be nerve
cracking at times. As you all have realized by now likes and comments are your
only popularity meter… :P I sometimes
even like my own random posts.. its nothing but an utter display of self
confidence (few are smart enough to understand the underlying sarcasm). Once I even
went to the extent of calling one friend of mine asking him to like a silly
post of mine to save my post from just 1 like which was mine. Now you guess how
nerve cracking it can be… phew!! Oh yes…profile pictures.. I change them occasionally
just when I think I have stopped getting the required likes and comments.. :P
Its like my monthly visit to the hair dresser. Its always smart to be prepared
for people stalking my profile. And if you think any of your favorite picture
has not got the enough popularity as it deserved…fear not! You can always
recycle your old profile pics to the current one to alert people to like them
in case they haven’t. :D :D
Whenever I visit to party/wedding/picnics, I often hear people
around me saying things like: “wow this picture is so nice…it would put it up
as my profile picture”…
I also have helped innumerable charitable causes by sharing
random posts of sick babies (never ever bothered to find out if the share was
genuine)…have slammed rapists…raised my voice for a cause…liked a photo-shopped
picture of a God and get disappointed as nothing happened in the next ten
minutes as was promised. Yes you get it right, all on Facebook!
The instant sight of the red notifications on the top right
corner instantly uplifts my mood for a second and sometimes continues just like
talking a guilt-free bite into dark chocolate. Hence my love for Facebook continues
and if you ever hear people talking about calling me Facebook-addict or about me
paying too much attention to the online page and drifting away from the
grounded reality…just remember…being popular is not that easy…..hufff!!!
PS: I even had to add the word “Facebook” to the disctionary
of MS-WORD to ease myself writing this blog post.
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