Sunday, May 16, 2010

Five Ways Social Networking Can Make You Unsocial

Love being a Twitterati, don't you? Also, keep checking every minute on who has 'liked' or posted some smart comment on that party snap of yours in Facebook? Well, the good news is: you are a celebrity in the virtual networking sphere. The bad news: your reallity rating points (RRPs) are going down abysmally, here's how:

1. Speak the TW language: tweet so much that you prefix 'tw' to anything and everything that you do - you have your tweakfast, you drive to twork and then come back twome. And you start resembling a distant cousin of Jadoo of Koi Mila Gaya fame.

2. Tweet about whatever you do: urban legend has it that a good soul had programmed his bed to tweet about whatever he was doing to his dearest wife. Well, that may be some way off but then, when SRK tweets from his shower, you also want to do so - just that you forgot to notice the water in your shower ran out whilst thou were tweeting.

3. Sticky fingers on the laptop/iPhone/BlackBerry - those who thought QWERTY was an ice-cream flavour a while back are now adept at hoptyping their way to virtual stardom. Well, only that they forget real life is not always WYISWYG (what you see is what you get)

4. Honey, I got so drunk last night - really? Yes, your boss saw those vodka vein pictures on Facebook too - and now...

5. Highly likely - this does not do much damage, save that you end up 'liking' Osama & Obama on Facebook at the same time

Disclaimer: this post may only look like the warning on cigarette packets. But hey, social networking is not an evil after all - the author of this post being a firm believer in this statement. Neither do these words prove the author is not guilty of any of the sins above - so consider this as loud thinking and nothing else!

1 comment:

Nothingman said...

i've been off facebook for about 2 months now and took a long break from twitter too. Yeah, well that kinda stuff helps. It's not that bad an addiction really.

N