Okay, I change my mind on facebook. I have seen it only as a real distraction (and it is!) before and resisted putting myself out there for a long time. A friend told me on good ol' email that my entire school gang was on facebook. These are people I am not in touch with through email, so I registered and began adding friends. How wonderful this last long weekend has been - I have gotten back in touch with people I last met in the mid to late-80s. Wonderful people who knew me from those days and who still remember! The beauty of it is that they range in distance from me - 3 kms t0 a few thousand. And I get to know something about their lives daily....or weekly - even monthly is a huge positive difference!
I have found that I have intersecting friend groups with one school gang having common college credentials. Well, with the size of my hometown, that is not really that amazing. With the size of my state, kind of amazing.....these people found these friendships far from home in engineering colleges, where perhaps the 'quaintness' of Trichy was one common nostalgic conversation point! When we were there, it was quite the norm to try and 'make' things 'happen'! :-D
It is a bit scary to be 'out there' as much as this entails. I guess people still have to be a friend to see your wall and all. What happens when your boss is your friend on the wall and taskmaster at work? Not my boss but the concept of having all parts of your life so interconnected.
My plan is to keep this phenomenon under control....no more than a half an hour every day. The scary question when I deactivated an old account (started up just to see one friend's pictures) was - why do you want to deactivate? option a: I am getting addicted to facebook and have to quit for the sake of my sanity (or something like that!)
It is good to have a presence on the net, I think....it provides the space that elders say temples provided in villages in olden days. Just that our definition of a village is kinda different now! :-D
A meeting point to gossip and get entertained while getting on with routine life. Technology does make things interesting....this weekend was magical with my getting back in touch with atleast 10 people I lost touch with. Vive la technologie! :-D
G'night!
The Spirit of the Marathon
13 years ago
3 comments:
Agree! I was a dormant face-bookee until suddenly my school friends found me and I was transported right away to another world!
I re-connected with who I used to be before I came back to India, my school self, that innocent little girl! And found my school pictures and group...even more special to me because I left school as a refugee!
And yet, it took me a whole year to get the courage to post my pics! As for controlling...half an hour sound good...can you please tell my husband!!! He's discovered a new way to time-pass and BUG people!
Great to have you on FB!
I fully agree with your opinion that Facebook is addictive.Had the same problem spending most of my time on F.B at the office.My staff started having a funny look on their faces and i decieded enough is enough.very minimal time on F.B now.
Check out the blog on www.artwolfe.com regarding facebook and photographers` rights. Date feb 18th and 17th.He is one of the world`s leading nature photographers and i value his opinion.
:-) Seems like the heartfelt rambling struck a chord. Sundar, the pictures are stunning. Even the way the blog/website are set up is awesome....some people have a ton of creative genes....and others go to jail for creativity...in accounting! :-D
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