Social Networking

Social networking is fun. At least it used to be. When Orkut started, it used to be a real good pass time for jobless people like you. New friends were joining all the time, very old acquaintances who were out of touch for a long time started resurfacing, meeting plans were hatched on Orkut and you being early users started creating communities on a lot of your passions. I was joining a new college at that point of time and I used Orkut extensively to connect with a lot of my seniors to ask a variety of questions. But it was back then.

As time slowly passed, you started wondering what to do on orkut. People kept asking you the same silly questions on your scrapbook over and over again -“ Hows lyf “, “How are you doing” , “What’s up” and other trash like this and every time you replied to them, you could come up with only one answer “ I am fine”. “Nothing much“. If somebody had asked you this question after a year, you could have told him something but what do you tell to a guy who asked the same question two days ago.[ After all you lead a normal life]

You realized you have nothing left to do on Orkut and it’s an utter waste of time. You have already browsed to add your friends who are on the network. The communities which you joined were all dead with the last post on their forum posted about a year ago and your scrapbook was filled with questions like those above.

What did you do then? You made a quantum leap and jumped to Facebook. Although in your country, it hadn’t become a rage and very few people were on it, but every blog (be it on social media or business ) just couldn’t seem to get enough of it. Anyways, you joined and struggled to find your first friends. But as they say, jobless people are everywhere. Very soon you found that there is an entire group of your friends out there on it too and you started making friends. But there is one great thing about Facebook which distinguishes it from Orkut. Even if you don’t have friends, there are also a lot of cool applications for you to waste your time on. You can use iLike to browse for your favourite music or you can use Flixter to review movies and find reviews by other persons. For some studs there are also applications like “How sexy are you “, “What does my name mean “, “Which Godfather character are you “to make these guys feel good about themselves. You browsed through these applications to make your profile look cool but later realized what an asshole you are. So, you quickly removed them and added the few sensible applications which you found on Facebook. These include

1.Flixter – Review and rate movies and read reviews of others.
2.iLike – Browse for your favourite music and artists. Get information on the latest concerts and albums and dedicate songs to others
3.iRead – Just the same as Flixter but here it is all about books.
4.Causes – If you are interested in doing a bit of good in the world (yeah, yeah it’s John Mortimer ) then this is the place.
5.Fans – You happened to watch a match of ‘Manchester City’ by chance and just loved that player on the right wing. You are dead sure you are not going to see a match of this club again. What do you do? You go to this application and become a fan of him.

By this time, you realize that Facebook is beginning to pick up in your country and more and more of your friends are joining it every day. You are back to the phase you were in at the start of Orkut but only this time on a different platform.

I think a lot of things like "Earth" are round. Do you? No, that's not a philosphical musing. I am telling you about the future of this

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