Emails, IMs, scraps and blogs

A long ago, it started out as emails. The person you knew and wanted to contact with, would be sent an email which would be answered in return and thus both sides would communicate with each other and share the happenings of life.

Then it was the Instant Messenger (IM) craze. Everyone would be hooked onto chatting and hours and hours would pass by in typing furiously into the IM client window. It was a completely new thing. There would be so many people to chat with, one could also search for like minded people and add them to the buddy list and thus communicate with total strangers. Social interaction through the internet was reaching new heights.

And now the latest thing is writing 'scraps' in Orkut or writing 'Friends Comments' in myspace (which by the way is missing an apostrophe after 'Friends'). This is again a completely new behavioral pattern. Now not only do people want to get in touch with their friends, but also do not mind others reading their conversations! It seems people would rather engage in frivolous talk with a big group of others rather than send detailed personal emails to close friends. Personal life is all on the web and everybody knows about everybody's life.

Of course then there are blogs, such as this and many many others, which are another way of expression (what I do here) and communication (what I don't do here).

Pick your way of communication and expression. The menu card is big, thanks to the internet !

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Tag: My Thoughts

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