Hello Friends:
I'm back after a rather long hiatus. Over 4 years to be precise! But the actual reason behind this is pretty interesting. I'm quite passionate about certain things happening around us and can get vocal at times. Of all the social media tools available to us, to be frank, I'm quite active on Facebook and Twitter. Facebook, I believe, is a place where you can connect with a multitude of people, both friends and acquaintances, and can hope to be heard and reciprocated with opinions. But this option can get a bit scary too. There are friends who are fine with you sharing tidbits from your life in terms of places you visit (like tourist destinations, 5 star hotels, cinema theaters and even loos) and which songs you listen to, but they can't seem to reconcile with the fact that you can have independent opinion about other subject matters as well. Therefore, fairly innocuous looking status messages, which were not meant to be any more significant than just a medium to vent out your ire over something which you disapprove of, can get you in trouble. Friends, who didn't mind you checking into hotels and spas too often, can now start taking umbrage at your posts. They will, at first, try to sound a bit neutral and would try to ignore you. I would have rather liked them to confront me on those! But they will not let their seething despair be known publicly. They would talk about it offline, at times when they mingle with other connected friends. And then, as is the universal law, what goes around comes around. You'll get to hear from the 10th person that Mr. so & so was talking about you in this manner. Not that I've any problems with any of this, but I would have liked a better nuanced straight talk. Because hearing stuff about yourself from n-th party doesn't do justice to any party. You can be 100% assured that you'll not get the things in entirety.
Coming onto Twitter. Though it gives you the freedom to express yourself by restricting verbiage, but it also allows everyone to be an opinion master. People can latch onto you like leeches, uninvited. But I must admit that if you've to get info on/about anything, Twitter is the place to be.
So somewhere away from the limitations of Facebook and Twitter, my blog seems to be the place to voice my opinion. It won't restrict me in the number of words I can write and it won't impinge on someone else's right to privacy by not being seen on their timeline.
Hope to get the same vigor back, to write as strongly as I can and to make sense to whatever limited audience I've access to.
I'm back after a rather long hiatus. Over 4 years to be precise! But the actual reason behind this is pretty interesting. I'm quite passionate about certain things happening around us and can get vocal at times. Of all the social media tools available to us, to be frank, I'm quite active on Facebook and Twitter. Facebook, I believe, is a place where you can connect with a multitude of people, both friends and acquaintances, and can hope to be heard and reciprocated with opinions. But this option can get a bit scary too. There are friends who are fine with you sharing tidbits from your life in terms of places you visit (like tourist destinations, 5 star hotels, cinema theaters and even loos) and which songs you listen to, but they can't seem to reconcile with the fact that you can have independent opinion about other subject matters as well. Therefore, fairly innocuous looking status messages, which were not meant to be any more significant than just a medium to vent out your ire over something which you disapprove of, can get you in trouble. Friends, who didn't mind you checking into hotels and spas too often, can now start taking umbrage at your posts. They will, at first, try to sound a bit neutral and would try to ignore you. I would have rather liked them to confront me on those! But they will not let their seething despair be known publicly. They would talk about it offline, at times when they mingle with other connected friends. And then, as is the universal law, what goes around comes around. You'll get to hear from the 10th person that Mr. so & so was talking about you in this manner. Not that I've any problems with any of this, but I would have liked a better nuanced straight talk. Because hearing stuff about yourself from n-th party doesn't do justice to any party. You can be 100% assured that you'll not get the things in entirety.
Coming onto Twitter. Though it gives you the freedom to express yourself by restricting verbiage, but it also allows everyone to be an opinion master. People can latch onto you like leeches, uninvited. But I must admit that if you've to get info on/about anything, Twitter is the place to be.
So somewhere away from the limitations of Facebook and Twitter, my blog seems to be the place to voice my opinion. It won't restrict me in the number of words I can write and it won't impinge on someone else's right to privacy by not being seen on their timeline.
Hope to get the same vigor back, to write as strongly as I can and to make sense to whatever limited audience I've access to.
