I became a citizen of the Facebook universe in circa 2006 and tasted for the first time, the pleasures of rampant social networking. Despite coming from the professional field of Public Relations and having represented the buzzing world of hotels for the better part of my career, I always seemed to saddle the fence between extroversion and […]
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The Bottomless Craving For Approval
I caught myself the other day counting the number of likes on my Facebook page and it looked like I just needed five more likes to hit 100. It was a big thing and I wanted to make a big deal out of it. So I went about looking for images of the like button […]
Unfriending Virtual Ghosts
Many years ago, actor Matt Damon ‘dumped’ (yes, that is the word that was bandied around) Minnie Driver, his co-star in Good Will Hunting and then girlfriend, on The Oprah Winfrey Show and even though those were relatively innocent times (and private relationships were not managed or mismanaged in full public view to the extent […]
Living Without Being ‘Liked’
May 4, 2014 is a day that’s etched in my memory. It’s one when I had to live without the Internet in addition to being stuck alone in a one bedroom apartment . The only mode of communication I had was a primitive mobile phone that allowed me to send text messages and make phone […]
Virtual Is Not Real
These days social media or messaging services are often used as a method of sharing an invitation or for conveying greetings (birthday/marriage/first child et etc). We know so many people now that sending a personal invite to each one is not feasible. The world is fast paced and there just isn’t enough time.Not ignoring the fact […]
Confessions of a Facebook Addict
27 Likes and 10 Comments …not good enough! Logged in again after an hour- 60 Likes and 20 Comments….now it seems impressive! My new yellow shoes seem to have finally made an impression- it was worth the price. What next? I visit my Wall. Sweety has adopted a new pug whose name is Tashi, […]
Art On Wheels
At first glance the Scorpio that Delhi-based artist-brothers Manil and Rohit Gupta have driven down in looks like a blown up toy straight out of a comic book. Look closer and the spontaneously drawn organic forms, graffiti, speech bubbles, street art, language from everyday life, all come together like a thoughtfully executed painting that has […]
At Face Value?
When Facebook introduced its “like” button, the idea was liked across the social networking site. The lazy ones liked it because instead of having to undertake the arduous task of having to type “hot” or “awesome” or even “nice” in the comments box, they could just click on the button and carry on with their […]
A Facebook Friend in Kashmir
I was a tad surprised when he told me that he wouldn’t be able to meet me late evening since it was late, and he would have to return home. You don’t always expect guys to rush homewards just because it is a trifle late. We had initially planned to meet early evening, but another […]
This week in Facebook Land
Remember when hacking was something you did with horses? Remember when you dropped friends or just ‘lost touch’ with them deliberately? Remember when doctors gave you a medicine for a virus? Remember when tagging was something done in a clothing factory?
From faces to interfaces
Here’s a scene from a restaurant I’d recently been to. Two men entered the restaurant one after the other. Didn’t seem like they had come together but they sat at the same table, facing each other. And soon they started chatting. Exchanging notes. Smiling, laughing. They even got animated and frowned at times. It was […]
Cyber Granny
It’s because I grew up in the last century, my romantic vision of myself as a nice little grey haired old granny who lives in a cottage that is always ripe with the smell of cakes baking belongs back there too.That was my grandma. She grew flowers, baked delicious puddings and granted me the absolute freedom to run barefooted through her village and spend long days fishing or idling in a tree with a book in hand