The Socializing 3.0 edition
Remember the 5"x7" yellow postcard? Remember the blue inland letters, your papa jotted onto in the wee hours of the night? I atleast hope you remember using your wily tongue to stick those winsome stamps. All in the name of remembering that loved one. The handwritten letter has always been romantic and will always be so. Be it for a mother, lover or a friend. That was Socializing 1.0 Gamma edition. Tried and tested. Sometimes executed by a pigeon.
Suddenly the world just shrank into half. The neighbourhood postman fleeting disappeared from the limelight. A pudgy little device took over from him in the form of a pager. But his big Daddy, the Mobile Phone gave the world the Moses it needed. Apart from bridging all the possible seas, it paved new ingenious ways in sealing business deals, marriage proposals, contract killings etc. The Youth icon, the SMS introduced humour in our daily lives and is the most invaluable tool for the Yash Chopra genre fans. The non-socializing elements gorged themselves onto games, cameras and the jerk-special MMS. Socialising 2.0 edition. Eating it, drinking it and snoozing on it.
Welcome to the Socializing 3.0 Beta edition. Not fully tested, but turning out to be a humongous success. I am talking about the latest fad of joining online social networking groups like Orkut, Hi-Fi, Friendster, Fropper, My Space etc etc. This edition unlike the others, introduces a add-on into people's lives - meeting new souls. What outshines it is that one can never lose touch with old friends and relatives. Its relatively free. An update via a simple ping or a scrap brings back those beautiful memories. The way its going, the day is not far when a new lexicon enters our dictionary: online marriage.
All the 3 editions are intertwined and compatible. However, the scientist in me is already gearing up for the 4.0 edition. Holograms.
Suddenly the world just shrank into half. The neighbourhood postman fleeting disappeared from the limelight. A pudgy little device took over from him in the form of a pager. But his big Daddy, the Mobile Phone gave the world the Moses it needed. Apart from bridging all the possible seas, it paved new ingenious ways in sealing business deals, marriage proposals, contract killings etc. The Youth icon, the SMS introduced humour in our daily lives and is the most invaluable tool for the Yash Chopra genre fans. The non-socializing elements gorged themselves onto games, cameras and the jerk-special MMS. Socialising 2.0 edition. Eating it, drinking it and snoozing on it.
Welcome to the Socializing 3.0 Beta edition. Not fully tested, but turning out to be a humongous success. I am talking about the latest fad of joining online social networking groups like Orkut, Hi-Fi, Friendster, Fropper, My Space etc etc. This edition unlike the others, introduces a add-on into people's lives - meeting new souls. What outshines it is that one can never lose touch with old friends and relatives. Its relatively free. An update via a simple ping or a scrap brings back those beautiful memories. The way its going, the day is not far when a new lexicon enters our dictionary: online marriage.
All the 3 editions are intertwined and compatible. However, the scientist in me is already gearing up for the 4.0 edition. Holograms.
posted by Tejas at 9:03 AM
2 Comments:
still the first edition rocks..nothing can depict the emotions like handwritten letter...sms or emails cant deliver the nostalgic feeling that inland letter brings along with it...anticipating for the postman..everyday..for that long awaited letter...nd when the letter arrives...the joy s unlimited...!!
I still miss those days when i used to write couple of lines when my mom awrote letters to grndmom...but thn with the advancing technology we cannot remain trapped in bullock-cart times..!!
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