Fakebook

I think a lot, do a little, and say very little and I put my hand on the Bhagwat gita and swear that when I use Facebook ; Twitter, whatever I write is not true, not completely true.  It is not that I like to lie (that often) but my social networking life has become a reality TV show watched by thousands and they need me to be interesting and entertaining to be my friends.  Ordinary facebook profile would be suicidal for my social networking life. People won’t post on my wall and like my status posts and they won’t even comment on my pictures and that’s just too much to take.

Why don’t we all look back and see who I am talking about. It’s all of us, each one of us is a total mess and living separate life online. We all are going through an identity crisis and we don’t accept that and we won’t say the truth.

Facebook’s timeline feature introduced recently promised to put together pieces of our lives in a chronological way but now all we see is the comical version of our self or a fake autobiography organized up neatly for the whole world to see. 

When we are not using social network we are thinking about it and anticipating the pokes, likes, comments, new followers, messages, friend requests and when we are on it we are trying to be cool, friendly, talkative, showing off and sometimes demeaning, abusive and all for the sake of maintaining a staying popular and to get an increase in fans and likes.

I still don’t understand what an employer can find about a person by looking at his facebook profile and twitter or by following his online activity. In reality it sounds like spying, perverted and its social voyeurism at its best.  Moreover, will the information, that he finds would help him? Will it be true?

So much for our dreams of a hopelessly connected world!!!

The lies that we say and tell and the stories that we weave around them are going to become a source of our own demise tomorrow.

I understand a person’s obsession for social networking is not founded on ill terms but is being lived on it, every day. If done all things under peer and social pressure then we would lose something valuable. We will forget who we truly are. It would be self defeating in the long run.  It’s a battle for finding ourselves in the crowd.

Let me ask gain!!! Would you really hire the right candidate by scrutinizing his social networking activities?  Well good luck to you and your company if that’s your criteria.

It’s just the way it is, Social Networking is just like a TV reality show, I can’t say the truth and neither can you.

Unbelievable but true, websites like Facebook and Twitter have become such a fad that everyone is betting on them to unravel the mysteries of advertising and finding new insights into consumer behavior and human psychology. They think that they could tweak our brains to their advantage to make us buy more of what we don’t need.  Trouble is we are not ourselves online and the person that they are selling to is not really that person that everyone thought he was. Duh!!!  It’s such a big waste of time and money.

 So the question worth asking here is when everyone whom I and you know is lying then would the insights that you would get based on those lies would really be true?  There’s no happily ever after for our social networking hypothetical and hypocrite self. Your whole life is being guttered down the social hysteria.