Tagged...
You can call me sociable, to the extent one needs to be termed as a social animal. I am an introvert by nature when it comes to personal life. My professional life is far from it, an introvert cannot survive in my area of interest.
Though I enjoy my solitude, of late I have started hating people more than Jonathon Swift who once wrote, "the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl on the face of earth". He was referring to Mankind.
This recent bout of hatredness is a phenomenon called "Tagged" on the net. Some obscure human being whose name can range anything from Ram to Rodrigues has been tagging me regularly. I get atleast 10 'Tagged'mails everyday.
While I am quite active in Orkut and appreciate the great service it has rendered for all t hose who wanted to wish Minal Panchal of now infamous Virginia Tech shootout, but that's just one out of the million cases.
'Tagged' is the latest of irritating unstoppable net invasion. My cyber identity like any netizen of this world is extremely precious. I do not like anyone invading my virtual space. Be it Myspace or Ryze. I didn't raise to Ryze and even refused to 'LinkedIn'.
The point is I do not want to be tagged(it sounds to me more like a dog's tail) by someone I am not interested in or do not know. And those auto responses that say how much Mr. X would be feeling bad if I did not answer in affirmative, gives no joy to my funny bone.
And why the hell should I provide my cell number, landline number and birthday. Are you going to get me the gift which I want or going to pay my phone bills? Anyways I cannot do anything about my mails, they have been bugged already.
Dear Ram-Rodrigues, please do not add me in your list. I am no important to be the part of your illustruos friends list. Presently, majority of us lock ourselves away from real friends and then desperately seek out company in the virtual arena which for me after a time is not only scary but a step towards creating an ecosystem where symbiosis is just another word.
India, as one of the greatest civilization of the world once boasted of human bonding that was a part of joint families connected to each other.
Alas! Virtual Connectivity has put end to this reality of human connection.
Though I enjoy my solitude, of late I have started hating people more than Jonathon Swift who once wrote, "the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl on the face of earth". He was referring to Mankind.
This recent bout of hatredness is a phenomenon called "Tagged" on the net. Some obscure human being whose name can range anything from Ram to Rodrigues has been tagging me regularly. I get atleast 10 'Tagged'mails everyday.
While I am quite active in Orkut and appreciate the great service it has rendered for all t hose who wanted to wish Minal Panchal of now infamous Virginia Tech shootout, but that's just one out of the million cases.
'Tagged' is the latest of irritating unstoppable net invasion. My cyber identity like any netizen of this world is extremely precious. I do not like anyone invading my virtual space. Be it Myspace or Ryze. I didn't raise to Ryze and even refused to 'LinkedIn'.
The point is I do not want to be tagged(it sounds to me more like a dog's tail) by someone I am not interested in or do not know. And those auto responses that say how much Mr. X would be feeling bad if I did not answer in affirmative, gives no joy to my funny bone.
And why the hell should I provide my cell number, landline number and birthday. Are you going to get me the gift which I want or going to pay my phone bills? Anyways I cannot do anything about my mails, they have been bugged already.
Dear Ram-Rodrigues, please do not add me in your list. I am no important to be the part of your illustruos friends list. Presently, majority of us lock ourselves away from real friends and then desperately seek out company in the virtual arena which for me after a time is not only scary but a step towards creating an ecosystem where symbiosis is just another word.
India, as one of the greatest civilization of the world once boasted of human bonding that was a part of joint families connected to each other.
Alas! Virtual Connectivity has put end to this reality of human connection.
posted by cyberoam at 9:52 PM
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