Whenever you are online via Gtalk, the very first thing that you will notice is status messages...
I find it interesting what people have to say about themselves, their passions and express their take on the world in the most succint way possible. And it is all the more fascinating to watch the different ways they come up with to do so.
There's this friend of mine whose status messages are the most laconic ones I have ever come across: only three words - 'Not at desk' and 'I am back'. And to the best of my knowledge, he is the one who wastes the fewest number of words even when he is with us, a group of chatter-boxes. I wonder why on earth he requires to be online. Someday I will ask him if I can muster enough courage. Then take this friend of mine, who is always upto some pranks or the other... Her status messages are full of puns, very creative and lively. There's this sports bug who always writes something about Man U or Euro Cup pr Davis Cup. But I have been knowing them for quite sometimes and could find that their status messages actually reflect their nature. But can it ever be the other way round? Like, understanding the nature of a person by going through their messages?
Take this guy with whom i got acquainted very recently. He always quotes some intellectual or the other. That itself gave me a view of this person and when I started interacting with him I found that the image of this person I got from his status message is in the neighbourhood of what actually he is. (These messages give you a one-dimensional view about a person while any person is multidimensional)
I must mention this old friend of mine who never had a penchant for music. But after he bought his laptop his status messages have become so musical!
Some people change their status every now and then... some never change them at all... and ask my brother, he will tell you its the most childish thing to do. Ask another of my friend she will tell you those who don't do it are very secretive by nature. Ask my dad, or my prof, they will not understand the very meaning of it (they belong to a technologically handicapped generation)....
Then there are people who would never take the pain of writing something!
Even when we know that no one cares (ok almost no one) what we think and what we are, we like keeping an update about ourselves so that the world (at least that part of the world which talks to us regularly over gtalk) knows about you......
I find it interesting what people have to say about themselves, their passions and express their take on the world in the most succint way possible. And it is all the more fascinating to watch the different ways they come up with to do so.
There's this friend of mine whose status messages are the most laconic ones I have ever come across: only three words - 'Not at desk' and 'I am back'. And to the best of my knowledge, he is the one who wastes the fewest number of words even when he is with us, a group of chatter-boxes. I wonder why on earth he requires to be online. Someday I will ask him if I can muster enough courage. Then take this friend of mine, who is always upto some pranks or the other... Her status messages are full of puns, very creative and lively. There's this sports bug who always writes something about Man U or Euro Cup pr Davis Cup. But I have been knowing them for quite sometimes and could find that their status messages actually reflect their nature. But can it ever be the other way round? Like, understanding the nature of a person by going through their messages?
Take this guy with whom i got acquainted very recently. He always quotes some intellectual or the other. That itself gave me a view of this person and when I started interacting with him I found that the image of this person I got from his status message is in the neighbourhood of what actually he is. (These messages give you a one-dimensional view about a person while any person is multidimensional)
I must mention this old friend of mine who never had a penchant for music. But after he bought his laptop his status messages have become so musical!
Some people change their status every now and then... some never change them at all... and ask my brother, he will tell you its the most childish thing to do. Ask another of my friend she will tell you those who don't do it are very secretive by nature. Ask my dad, or my prof, they will not understand the very meaning of it (they belong to a technologically handicapped generation)....
Then there are people who would never take the pain of writing something!
Even when we know that no one cares (ok almost no one) what we think and what we are, we like keeping an update about ourselves so that the world (at least that part of the world which talks to us regularly over gtalk) knows about you......
4 comments:
Welcome to the blogosphere!
It's an interesting piece to start with, but continue writing.
Good luck.
Thanks for inspiring me to write my first blog anyway
2008, just before Facebook became what it did, eh? Status messages have taken on a whole different life altogether, haven't they?
I agree with you Suhel
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