Self Marketing

The thing about blogs, facebook, twitter and the rest of the jing-bang of social media is that it gives voice to everyone…even those who have nothing of consequence to say. I know all hell just might break loose and the people who slapped 22 cases on Khushboo might decide to do the same to me for even trying to be in the vicinity of “free speech”. But then we all know how free India is in its free speech ;)

Anyways before I digress to the point of no return, the in thing these days is to unabashedly tom-tom about your lack of any talent whatsoever. The only talent of any consequence the person will have is to write bragging statements about self. The worst thing about this is that most often than not the people who have things to say are the quieter folks who will keep their talent and views to themselves or at least not display it on their forehead, worst actually on their status messages. So the ones gaining prominence and becoming page 3 are the ones we would have dusted under the carpet had the not been so in your face thanks to the “this revolution called social media”.

Complexity of relations in this “socially networked” world…

When virtual profiles have become extension of our self it isn’t shocking to expect to relationships to spill into the virtual world as well. While we humans are still trying to learn the complexities of the real relations (and miserably failing at that if I may add) how would we ever deal with this added dimension…

Though I embraced the social networks yet I am quite wary of them and now and again I have this urge to kill my online presence. I am still not too sure why I haven’t done it already. Normally I would not prefer to make my emotions public where all and sundry can discover all there is to know about me by just reading my profile. Similarly I would not let my personal relations with people in real life affect my connections in the virtual world. But the recent events have forced me to reconsider. Do we connect with ex of a friend after a disastrous breakup. Isn’t that like giving my approval or feigning ignorance at what happened? Do I want to judge people in their virtual realities? Come to think of it would I meet my friend’s ex for drinks? I think not.