Stone age, it used to be there.
Where? Do I care? I never was a part of
it. I used to get a simple idea about how it may have been looking at the
characters in the Cartoon Show called The Flinstones during my childhood. How
true is that, I would not be bothered with my knowledge coz the world runs with
the hypothesis itself. The childhood was in fact amazing. Unmanageable energy,
care-free attitude and silly innocence. The Black and white television, the
wresting show which we used to think it was real for a long time until the WWF
changed into WWE, the jungle book and many more in the silver screen. Good part
is everyone has a childhood he/she is fond of remembering once he/she starts
getting old.
Grown up and still growing, the
continuous and varied phases of life, teach u lot of lessons. People u come
across may make an impact or not. But, when we enter one phase of life, we just
have left the initial phase of life. These phases are full of vivid experiences.
The people, by far are the most important ones in each phase of life. We miss
people and then we connect events with those people when we start turning the
pages of our memory lane. So people come
first.
Networking was tough even about a
decade ago. The advancement in the cyber world has brought great benefits to
daily life of every one. Let’s look at the brighter side coz darkness comes
without invitation. By far one of the finest
forms of modern day cyber invention is the page called the Facebook. Engineers
will find my language technically unsound in terms of the terms I may be using
from the internet world, the computer world , the network world. But let’s be
sensible and not technical here. 6 years
have passed ever since I signed up for a Facebook account. Hi5 was a regular
feature then. Very much inclined with Hi5, never wanted to use it so early. But
yes, it prevailed throughout the world like wild fire. There were lot of
platforms like Hi5, orkut and other such networks connecting ur people in the
cyber world. Particularly, one made a mark right from its beginning and spread
like air everywhere and it was Mr. Mark Zuckerbergs
invention in the name of Facebook. This is all I know about facebook here in
terms of its so called glorious history.
Honestly, everyone in the world
has accepted a fact that this social network created a world within a world
where meeting people to know first never became a priority, finding old friends
and finally communicating in such a wonderful platform got real concrete form. Millions
of people use facebook. It’s basically
none of our concern. People we are concerned are not among the millions,
but are rather the people like the minions, the characters from Despicable
me-2, sweet and cute in every aspects.
I am not an exception. I belong
to normal facebook users. I also have people of my own world and the timeline
and the walls are in fact very interesting. The friend request, the
relationship status, your work status, marital status, ur hobbies and finally your
text called the Facebook status. People update every moments in life ranging
from smallest amount of sadness to highest degree of obvious happiness. The
wide range of people with wide range of
interests. Some seek attentions and some get attentions. You die for likes and
comments and some are overwhelmed with uninvited likes and comments. The world
looks like its in the process of merry making and everyone looks happy with few
sad notes and few serious quotations duly copied and credited to the philosophers
in the status. But apparently not every thing looks so real. It’s all the
general human tendency of seeing the grass always greener at the other side.
The social network is overrated I guess. You have a world to cherish when you
try to come out of this virtual world.
I would say it’s the 80’s impact
or say ‘born in the 80s’ thing that we’ve experienced everything. We grew up in
the transition of technological advancement and I guess there are a lot of
things we remember as a part of our childhood, the way it used to be and how we
started becoming so technology lovers gradually adapting to it. But 20 years
down the line, the people at our current age, most of them will have nothing
more than the timeline to look at it. Moreover, people already have become so
monotonous in the virtual world of facebook as well as the use of so called
smart phones that the world has become a
loner’s paradise. We need no friends to hang out in real coz we got hangouts
and other messengers to talk to them.
People celebrate birthdays with
camera’s ready to take shots more than the gifts for a birthday gal or the
birthday boy just to check in and post some pictures and tag and no one is
particularly interested in the cake. You go to a party. The dance floor is dark
yet with few glittering lights. You check in again and look out for a place
with proper lights to take pictures again and dance??? Do you care?? Hell, no.
You don’t drink but u always love the word “ cheers” be it for a tea or for a
coke. You become a rapper with the use of words like mah for my, lop for love,
ya for you and the obvious k for okay. The 36 pictures roll in the analog
camera had some values rather than the digital cameras today that really
provide you perfections in a matter of 1000 shots you take in comparison to
what the analog camera used to give – the anxiousness about how your pictures
would finally be developed and how it would appear. Everything again comes in
the social network. Whenever we visited to our relatives any time, the very
first thing we used to do when we were kids was normally ask the photo albums
to look at the pictures and spend quality time for it. Your digi-cam gives you
500 pictures you sort 200 of them upload a 150 and get likes for few 15. Energy
wasted, I must say. I was not an exception either but for all this long time,
I’ve been using this facebook and it has given some form of realization that it
takes away your lot of productive time and your interest in real time
happiness, the real feelings you should feel when you run through any form of
experience rather than getting prepared for it. I would not say it’s absolutely bad and should
not be used at all coz our people are important to us. But seriously we prefer
talking to them more in online mode rather than in live mode and this is what
amazes me the most.
Social network has become a part
of our life for obvious reasons that it has already eaten us up. But as the age
passes by, our energy will gradually look in for a saturating direction and
before it starts to head towards the direction, it’s high time for us to
rethink again. Are we surrendering our lives to technology and internet? The network was created by humans, today it is
in the form of facebook and other social networking and tomorrow another
platform may pull our interests towards it.
But it’s a human creation and we as humans, lets not be a victim of our
own creation. 