I am not a regular user of the Facebook (FB), not because I didn’t know how to use, but that I didn’t know what to use it for. In due course, I learnt it the hard way. I always felt alien in the FB world, in such a place where the old people also are posting updates, playing games and competing big time with their kids or grandkids or kindergarten kids.
I resolved that I should get into this and prove that I am not a tech-ignorant and started Facebooking quite aggressively. So here are some facts I have learnt about FB:
- You exist, only if you constantly visit and do some activity on FB. There’s a timeline that keeps track of when did you last exist.
- Whatever nonsense you post on FB, there is always someone out there who likes it.
- Gone are the days of personal invitations. No one invites you for any occasion through an invitation card or a phone call or an email anymore. They post an event on FB which curtly asks you if you are attending.
- Any event in your life has not happened yet, unless you post it or update your status in FB. So, you are a bachelor until you change your status to “Married” or an expecting father until you post your newborn’s pics online.
- You should not ask anyone what they are up to. You are outright admitting you have not visited FB of late to check what he/she is up to and further up, wasting their time.
- If you don’t find your best friend in town suddenly, do not panic. They sure must have updated FB to let everyone in which place they are.
Guess I am still wedded to old ways of communicating and not yet tuned to the current trends. An old wine in an older bottle.
Hah! Reminds me of Artie Decker getting fired as a baseball game announcer because he is not up to the latest technologies, in the movie Parental Guidance.
Get on board Artie! If we wish to exist, we have to get adapted to this revolutionary digital way of life named Facebook.
Hola Mark!
