For some reasons I stopped writing anything besides Post
dated cheques and office emails few years ago. I have not been busy, that’s for
sure. I have had plenty of time at disposal every single day. And now that my son
has grown from infant to toddler to a child and pretty much on his own, I can’t
put the blame on him. Therefore , today at the stroke of midnight when the nation celebrates
its 69th (or 68th if you count like I do) Independence Day
I decided to come back to the skill which at one time I really believed I had in great reserve.
Wait! Did I just revealed the place where I was hibernating? I
am pretty sure I have. Tell me how are people wishing each other or congratulating and praying for a prosperous tomorrow or having I-day bash ? The unambiguous answer is of course on
the Social media! And that’s my culprit.
I get it that social media has been around for
quite a while now. But was it ever like this before? While you needed to reach
out to a desktop or a decent internet connection to broadcast the idea to the
world 3 years back, its lot more different now with smartphones buzzing with status update
feeds from various apps thanks to 3G data plans.
With people tweeting and whatsapping every idea they get every minute , there is absolutely no scope of discussing or doing a debate the good old way. Leave aside writing a whole blog and hope people to read and comment. As the walls are vanishing , so is the difference between knowing and not knowing , letting others know or not been able to convey.
People instantly believe what they read and share. Be it intenet hoaxes like reverse ATM PIN's automated call to police stations or NDTV news regarding some factory worker having injected AIIDS virus in pepsi or coke, or mermaids or aliens being real things or the Full form of INDIA is - Independent Country declared in August crap.
People suddenly appear to have good knowledge about everything and the ones who knew facts from the time they read the relevant textbooks (The front benchers were the original alpha males until being back benchers became fashionable) for the first time are increasingly feeling cheated.
I know I am not going anywhere. Perhaps my level of English has also declined during this period of LOL and ROFL vocabulary. So until I gear up , pardon me for this abrupt end.
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