Today, I stopped scrolling my Facebook homepage as I stumbled
across my younger sister’s friend’s status.
It read “I still love my ex ”.
And for a while I was dumbstruck at what my eyes were
sighting and meanwhile I couldn’t help but let out a cackle. I, however,
lowered my intensity of volume when my roommate gazed at me with a “Are you
insane?” look. I re-entered the Facebook world and pictured in my mind, my
little sister, who is just in the verge of stepping in the teen years. Though thankfully,
she hasn’t Facebook-ed about her speedy transformation into an adolescent yet
it made me wonder if these girls are growing up too fast or are they
socialising too much?
Well when I was thirteen, I used to sack my bag to the corner
as soon as I returned home from school and glue my eyes to the television
screen until dinner. Cartoon network and the most awaited Mumin, every
Wednesday evening.
“You’ll diminish your eyesight this way”, my mother used to
advise me for the umpteenth time and my result of turning deaf ears towards her
burdened me with short-sighted glasses for life.
Now returning back to the Facebook freaks...we all have these
annoying people in our friend lists, don’t we? Someone who changes profile
picture every 8 hourly as if it were some medication to be taken three times a
day. Someone who even posts the picture of food they’re about to have…or the so
called “King/Queen of selfies” without concerning how bad the picture turns
out. Or this other one, who posts about every activity he/she does throughout
the day…as if we’re waiting for their mundane details. Then this friend who
checks in at every expensive restaurants and shopping malls while only God
knows if they really made it up to there. Oh and this one who likes every
update about everyone…even our Candy Crush activity. Lol. Yesterday, I saw
someone like the page “I Hate The Sun” and I was like “Really, you hate
something that provides us brightness? You must be pretty sick then”.
Those love-blinded couples who scribble each other’s wall with
“I love you, baby” or “Can’t wait for our date tonight” notes. Seriously? If you love each other so much, why should the
world know about it? Go get some life. Then this bewildered, despondent old
friend who never has a sunshine update…and thinks the Facebook wall is his tissue
paper. Also this desperate womanizer whose existence gives you goose bumps…or
this misogynist whom you no wonder loathe like hell but still manage to
tolerate his jiggery-pokery rambling your homepage.
Do you have your teachers on your friend list too? Then you
know how carefully you’ve got to interpret your every move before pressing that
enter button. Basically my teacher has once caught me lying about an undone
assignment. He was like “You’ve got plenty of time to cross these many levels
in Farm Heroes but none for the study” and I was like LOL. He made me write an
apology letter. So if you ask me, NEVER-EVER accept your teacher’s friend
request.
And half of the friends on your list are those whom you see
every day but have never talked to each other outside the virtual world that
Mark Zuckerberg created for us…and is earning a lot of money, of course.
Seeing these desperate updates minimizes my oomph to create
an update which ultimately ends up my friends scribbling my wall with “K ho? Kata harayis aajkal?” and it
makes me laugh.
I’m not pontificating
but it’s more fun laughing at others. So if you are among those who hasn’t changed
your profile picture for 7 months now and haven’t written a single status
update for 2 years in a row but still log into your Facebook account every day
to get updated about the updates then give me a shout out!