Disclaimer:
This is just a thought out of blue.
This is nothing intriguing; definitely nothing great. But I bet that we all
would have thought about this at least once.
Before getting into my thought…
A
Question:
What will you do when you are
bored?
The answers may be (m)any of the following.
¨
I
play with my mobile phone. I press some random key and ah! I see my wallpaper
there
¨
I
open Whatsapp and see when my friends
was lastly seen online
¨
I
check if any new notification has come in Facebook. If I find nothing, I see
what my friends has updated in the last few minutes/hours
¨
I
google and try to search do some
random searching
¨
I
play music in my mobile phone
¨
I
send some SMS to friends and dear
ones
¨
I
read through old text messages
¨
I
play video games in my mobile phone
¨
I
open ebuddy and check if any friend
is online
¨
I
check if any new comment has been posted in my blog
¨
I
read others blog
Now…
Let me get back to my thought... I
was thinking how life would have been in the absence of smart phones and laptops;
to be more specific INTERNET!
I wonder if life would have been
harder or simpler. Internet is always a boon during office hours and to be connected
with loved ones. But think about a scenario where you are with your loved ones.
You have promised the person that you would be with them for entire time. Then,
you get a call from your Boss or someone from office. Ah! Your loved one would
be fuming. The million dollar smile would vanish and eyes would shine with
possessiveness. They may be understanding and all that. But, love is blind you
see. And love also has this habit of sucking all the sensible things from a
person’s head. As a result, our loved ones will always act like a dud. This is
not because they are impractical or demanding. It is only because of the love
they feel for us.
Well, I am not aiming at analyzing the
pros and cons of internet. I am just amazed by the fact that internet can be a
boon and a curse at the same time. For some reasons, I wish to use rain as a
metaphor here. We all like to see the rain through the window sill. We like to
smell the air and the mud after first rain. We love the transformation that
rain brings to Mother Earth. At the same
time, we may end up cursing rain when it leads to calamities. When it rains suddenly
and we don’t have an umbrella, we feel annoyed. We wonder what will happen to
our sandals, watch, bag, MOBILE, LAPTOP, dress and the list just goes on and
on!
Ouch! What am I ranting? Even I don’t
know dude. Today I would have opened Facebook at least a hundred times. I read
uncountable tweets that I no longer remember who said what. I even tried to
open my long-forgotten Orkut account though I no longer remember its password. I
pinged many friends with whom I have not been in touch with for a long time.
I did all these because I was
feeling dead bored. I had nothing much to do. Or did I do these to convince
myself that I do socialize? Is being connected virtually is a mode for socializing?
I don’t have answers.
After all, all I need to know how
life would be without Internet?! Oops! Then how would I convey this thought
flow to the World?
:-)))) The list of what to do when bored, I am sure EVERYBODY does that. All smiles there. And I agree, the internet has become family to every family. And the last line, lol :-)
ReplyDeleteHe he he ... I do the same when I am bored, whatsapp in particular :-)
ReplyDeleteI to do all these stuff....and facebook...now it turned like a drug to me!
ReplyDeleteI think life would be simpler. Now we have so much to do to keep socializing whether we like it or not, to keep up with the trend of socializing.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking as a teenager before the internet I can say I see many changes thanks to the internet revolution.
ReplyDeleteI can only say by comparison that much of my time was spent out of the home (and with my friends.) Going to the library for research. Going to the arcade for games. Going to the fields for sports. Going to the malls for shopping and movies. Making the rounds to friends homes for socializing. The tools you were most likely to find in my hands were for more physical type creative/artistic endeavors.
In my youth I knew my friends parental units quite well and fear that in the internet age perhaps that "second tier" social support is degraded.
Granted if I had to keep my friends up to date with the minutia of my existence I am not exactly sure who I would have found back then to give a care.
Thought provoking post Satya - When I look at so many people (of all ages) looking (gazing, staring, peering) at their handheld devices, I have similar thoughts - I fight the old codger impulse to say "well, back in my day, blah blah blah blah..."
;-)