I have been in a sour mood for past 2-3 days. No, it is not PMS, work pressure or even the usually X-Y story; it is like an ongoing Buzz going in my life … literally!
Around a week back when I logged into my Gmail account, instead of the inbox, I was presented a web page that spoke about the latest innovation by Google – Buzz! Being quite a champion of Google’s other concepts that have come from the 'Google Labs' like the online calendar, sent message undo and mostly integrated chat with my mail, I thought lets try it why not? It didn’t exactly explain what features it offered…
What followed was I was unknowingly being ‘followed’ by 89 people and (horror of horrors!) was following 103! Inspite of being bugged by almost all my friends and family members to join Facebook or Twitter, I have resisted the pressure to do so (I even deleted my Orkut profile 15 months back). Being on a digital cleanse has demonstrated to be the value of obscurity kind of rightly put by Clive Thompson. So, suddenly being in the middle of an exploding family of pseudo twitter was, I can say, least exciting for me. Fortunately, having techie friends helped and before my whole contact list and blog was on public display I could switch off the buzz option. Even if privacy is not an issue, who would want to know:
- What you had for lunch/ dinner/ snack?
- Your mom following your every conversation with that cute hottie you added via ‘friend of friend’? (yes, mom and dad are getting on it too).
- Love conversations of sickly sweet couple friends on Buzz display – Eeew! Guys, save it for better moments, when it can come handy (ahem!) for a better purpose.
- Having 30 unread posts/ comments in a matter of 10 minutes – mostly irritating status messages on display (‘We used to buy 400 roses on every Valentine’s Day to give to each girl in college’ – dude, good for you!) and lastly,
- Horror of horrors (again), some of your work colleagues, with whom you wouldn’t even want to hang out beyond work, suddenly being added in the thick of your social circuit!
Atleast for me, I was quite irritated with someone claiming by online social circuit on ‘auto follow’. I think maybe it is not a surprise that recently Google gave an apology and there are some merits of obscurity!
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I guess the most difficult part is to deny a friend request. I'm trying to act more impolite but we somehow carry so many hesitations and social pressures that it becomes difficult (at times, not always) to just block out people. Or better still is that one should decide on a code of conduct before jumping into virtual waters. Also with so many virtual profiles, I guess i would now have to tattoo their passwords to remember them.
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