I happened to meet a friend of mine after many years. It was a moment of rejoice. As moments passed and we delved deep in conversation, I realized our talks were centering around FB to know which of our other friends were when and where and what was going on in their world. We exchanged quite some updates.
I am not a social media addict but this one has got me hooked as it connected me with all those school and college friends and teachers and a few others whom I would have never been able to connect with again in my life as, as is a part of all our life's journey each one of them had moved to some corner of the world and were living in a world of their own. The joy of finding a close buddy lost in the tide of time is profound and cannot be expressed in any words. In a way, sincere THANKS to Mr. Zuckerberg and his team for creating Facebook.
A chance conversation with an ex-colleague after a decade ended with are you on FB instead of what I thought that he would ask for would my contact number. This stuck a deep chord in me. Gone are the days of personal touch and face to face conversations, isn't it..?? The surreal world for sure has enamored us and sucked us into its vortex without us even knowing about it.
You know you have an FB addiction when you start thinking in status updates, get anxious when your statuses go unnoticed and all the jing-bang that follows. How else do you explain teens-adults alike being hooked to apps like farmville, fishville and its ilk. Look around as you walk wherever you are or at your workplace, how many people are using their laptops or cell phones for face-booking oblivious of the environment around them and are transfixed on the gadget in their hand or laptop before them. Next, look at your Facebook account, do you really have 777+ odd friends in this world whom you personally know? Do you really know all about the hundreds of “Subscribers” who follow your updates? Now, do you get the drift, eh..??
It is indeed an intimidating reality that people from all parts of the world are hooked if not addicted to this marvel called FB mania that is sweeping the world at large. Inspite of it being a part of the surreal world; we end up posting anything and everything about us here including very personal information without considering the safety and security measures for there is an audience that responds. It has also evolved into a medium to create rebellious, revolutionary change that brings forth issues which we are otherwise ignorant from unless it's gained momentum and glares at us on the FB news stream. Excess FB addiction aka the hook-line-sinker form affects work productivity, study performances and relationships too, to some extent; the damage of which will be known in the years to come. It surely has its pros and cons but it is always up to the person to exercise prudence and control after all the data is gulped down and kept safe by a third party for their consumption who at the end of day would know as much about you as you do or probably a little more by keeping a mark on ya personal trends n' tastes. At the end of day's play, we should always be responsible and accountable to everything that we post and do with our personal account and be aware of the time efforts we are investing in it.
At the end, is it worth it all..?? It's too early to be judgemental on this now till enough evidence, statistics and research lead us to some form of conclusion but it's only a matter of time to unveil it at some point.
Are you a part of the FB Mania, too..??
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