Sunday, March 22, 2009

Social Networking Sites

While there is a hue and cry about Identity Thefts and crimes linked with networks on the Web, I fully endorse Networking sites!

I discovered friends long lost, school friends after 25 years, classmates who I may not recognise if I come across them face-to-face, relatives and Gen Next, buddies, and their babies in all moods and poses, .. and the list goes on!!

In an other wise rushed routine - I catch up with all who desire to keep in touch by stopping by my page. I know what they are feeling like, if some one is in the sulks, if some one is fretting, if someone just finished her Board Exams, someone got drained baby sitting, someone got through an audition, I know it all in a brief tea break!! I touch base with more than a hundred friends, while keeping from intruding into their personal . I manage to keep pace with people sitting all across the globe!!

What is annoying - is the rate of change of layouts and frontages. Barely had I managed to figure out Facebook, when it changed the look and feel -- I am still struggling to figure out some parts of the navigation!!

When I managed to load most of my connections on LinkedIn - the new look has thrown me in a tizzy - I find so much data thrown at me when I log on - I am not quite sure what I must read!!

Orkut and it's special themes eggs me to upgrade the 100 MBPS Broadband connection -- at times the screens can try ones patience while loading, when all you want to do is to make a quicky scrap 'Hello"!!

I wonder how any Hostel - ite would want to commit suicide - by feeling isolated from people due to net addiction. I have discovered more ways of keeping in touch, hollering, upgrading my skills, and most of all CONNECTING with people! Often - people I may not otherwise know -- friends of friends, groups of like minded people - amateurs, experts, connoisseurs .. so many to meet out there!!