Lately this WORLD of mailing ,chatting, staying online, staying invisible, staying busy, stealth settings, orkuting , blogging, twittering as injected many thoughts in my mind . It made me realise how much time is spent on this and is it really fruitful???
I remember the day when i got my first yahoo mail id created. It was some time in the year 2000. I landed in Pune and my cousin made fun of me when i said to him I dont have a mail id.....hahaha...i rushed to the cafe the same day and created one. Then i guess i didnt even use that id for like 6 months. Whenevr i logged into yahoo messenger I just had one person added and that was myself . Way back in 2000 this did nt make much sense to me.
Here comes the hour of the day after 9 years !!
My yahoo messenger has almost reached a limit where in i cant add more contacts. Gtalk id is also circulated to all.
Yahoo mail box had like more than 10000 mails and Gmail count is increasing immensely. I have a hotmail, a rediff and a sify id too (though i dont use them) U can find me online almost 18 hrs a day be it yahoo or gtalk. I mite not be available on my desk, but gtalk is logged in , just ping me :P
We use yahoo stealth settings to become visible to some and invisible to others. We set r gtalk status to busy, so that ppl dont disturb , but we are online.
My roomate sitting in the next room pings me n says, food is ready. We discuss wat to do on weekends over chats. The punch line now is "Ping me ". Moreover, my parents have got msg id created and they chat with me online rather speaking over the phone.
The importance of hand writen letters, long phone talks , face to face talks is gone.
Now its n era of video chats!! webcam on ,mic set , answer the chat call.
Ecards are sent to convey greetings. Blogs are written to convey thoughts.Offliners are sent as reminders.
Does this all really serve the purpose.
I dont think so!! When u chat wid a person, u nevr know his reactions to ur msgs, its so diff than talking over phone or sitting face to face. U mite be under impression that samne wala person in in India, but he mite be in US and making a fool of u ( I say this because one of my frnds played a prank on me recently. He just didnt let me realise that he is in US n not INdia, and this was just because we chatted online, n I nevr bothered to give him a call ).Many times the situation is such watevr I write smane wala person does not understand, n i hate to explain evrything. It would have been much better if i just spoke and he could understand with the tone wat i meant. There are smileys being used to convey emotions..the so called emoticons. I generally dont ping a person,because I dont know if he is the one i wish to speak to. But I do reply to msgs, n even he does not know if im the one replying. This has many times created problems n confusions for me.Nowadays my status msg describes my mood. If i have to share any thing I blog it, rather than talkn discuss. If hav to discuss come online, we can discuss in chat.
There will come a time when ppl will forget to talk. It has started happening to me. U talk less and write more, rather type more.
The question is WHY?..and can we get rid of this ??
And u know why I wrote this, because this is the best way to communicate ur thoughts at this hour of the day.
I will update this blog and set my gtalk n orkut status to blog updated n my idea is conveyed to around 50 ppl at once ...yeah! provided u read this one :P
chao
~chika
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