"An Apple a day keeps the doctor away"
or
“A funky status a day keeps the stress away? “
"addiction at its best"
Seeing what’s going on nowadays, it makes me realize that we are heading in to some strange & weird world that surprisingly appreciate & celebrate every little things that happens around. Isn’t that "cool" that social media just rock! (Or suck!) (Gen X, Y, Baby boomers and "I don’t know what gen I am" lot, this is especially for you)
Look around on cyber space (not Shanthi Vihar or Buhari "Saivar Kadeys" , but the social media cyber space ) today the top status has been "happy 11:11:11". and what does it mean to you and me? nothing, but it’s just the digit sequence I guess , its kinda cool!
My point is you see, many out there look at it as something "cool" and some just don’t bother what day it is. Because it’s the era that you forget your parents birthdays (until they invite you for the birthday dinner! SHIT, no time to get a gift. and there comes the gift vouchers to cover up the damage), thanks to Facebook you kinda keep track of your siblings, spouses or fiancées birthdays (you better, coz you need them in future to remind your own birthday and also to remind that you forgot theirs).
And now It almost doesn’t really matter if you phone or text the birthday girl / boy but you wish them on FB wall for sure. and send an e- gift or a Farmville sheep or a watch dog. (May be throw a carrot). and its also important that you be part of their funky games of either dancing with some silly agricultural farm crap, casino , crime city or the good old traditional scrabble! (I personally know an addict of Scrabble, so I know what im talking about)
Ideally I should have mentioned this at the start, but nevertheless, how many friend requests that you have gotten from your office colleagues those who never smile or talk to you face to face at work? If you call it wired, how weird is it for you to actually accept them just because you feel bad? (I’m a meanie, I block them, coz I thought it’s to KIT with people, not to make new ones through FB, me old fashioned)
"Millennials are already here"
And the opposite of making friends, you suddenly realize this certain person is not on your friends list anymore? to see your status has offended them sometime back.(yeah,who cares!) . In my case the scariest is to see "black prince", "Pirate Queen" and god damn "Bandit Queens" commenting on my status??? well I don’t really remember adding any of them. Has my account been hacked? with Goosebumps all over my body I click the profile picture to see that the a friend has changed the FB name!
And let me wind up with a real story. There was this typical millennial plus plus new trainee, filling up the first day documentation, and she gives me a blank and confused look and tell
"well, I’m kinda stuck here filling this paper up"
I look at where she is stuck, to see that she needs to fill in whether she is "single, Married, Divorced or Widowed"
then i ask her politely what the problem is.
"Its just that I’m not any of these, I’m "in a relationship", and this form doesn’t have that option" she says. (you decide whether to laugh at this point or not)
Social media has gone way too deep in to the blood veins of many. But the good news is, as organizations or individuals you have god given three options left to deal with it.
PramoD
or
“A funky status a day keeps the stress away? “
"addiction at its best"Seeing what’s going on nowadays, it makes me realize that we are heading in to some strange & weird world that surprisingly appreciate & celebrate every little things that happens around. Isn’t that "cool" that social media just rock! (Or suck!) (Gen X, Y, Baby boomers and "I don’t know what gen I am" lot, this is especially for you)
Look around on cyber space (not Shanthi Vihar or Buhari "Saivar Kadeys" , but the social media cyber space ) today the top status has been "happy 11:11:11". and what does it mean to you and me? nothing, but it’s just the digit sequence I guess , its kinda cool!
My point is you see, many out there look at it as something "cool" and some just don’t bother what day it is. Because it’s the era that you forget your parents birthdays (until they invite you for the birthday dinner! SHIT, no time to get a gift. and there comes the gift vouchers to cover up the damage), thanks to Facebook you kinda keep track of your siblings, spouses or fiancées birthdays (you better, coz you need them in future to remind your own birthday and also to remind that you forgot theirs).
And now It almost doesn’t really matter if you phone or text the birthday girl / boy but you wish them on FB wall for sure. and send an e- gift or a Farmville sheep or a watch dog. (May be throw a carrot). and its also important that you be part of their funky games of either dancing with some silly agricultural farm crap, casino , crime city or the good old traditional scrabble! (I personally know an addict of Scrabble, so I know what im talking about)
Ideally I should have mentioned this at the start, but nevertheless, how many friend requests that you have gotten from your office colleagues those who never smile or talk to you face to face at work? If you call it wired, how weird is it for you to actually accept them just because you feel bad? (I’m a meanie, I block them, coz I thought it’s to KIT with people, not to make new ones through FB, me old fashioned)
"Millennials are already here"And the opposite of making friends, you suddenly realize this certain person is not on your friends list anymore? to see your status has offended them sometime back.(yeah,who cares!) . In my case the scariest is to see "black prince", "Pirate Queen" and god damn "Bandit Queens" commenting on my status??? well I don’t really remember adding any of them. Has my account been hacked? with Goosebumps all over my body I click the profile picture to see that the a friend has changed the FB name!
And let me wind up with a real story. There was this typical millennial plus plus new trainee, filling up the first day documentation, and she gives me a blank and confused look and tell
"well, I’m kinda stuck here filling this paper up"
I look at where she is stuck, to see that she needs to fill in whether she is "single, Married, Divorced or Widowed"
then i ask her politely what the problem is.
"Its just that I’m not any of these, I’m "in a relationship", and this form doesn’t have that option" she says. (you decide whether to laugh at this point or not)
Social media has gone way too deep in to the blood veins of many. But the good news is, as organizations or individuals you have god given three options left to deal with it.
- Be part of it (if you like)
- Be part of it (if you could)
- Be part of it (because you have no other damn option)
PramoD
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