Scrolling down the most recent stories on my social networking account, the other day, I found one of my friends lamenting on India’s defeat to Australia in a recent cricket match by putting up a status message that portrayed his disheartened state of mind. On observing his status intensely, I found that the message had become a topic of discussion for a few of his friends who were either supporting his view or were just ridiculing his concern. A few stories later, I found another friend of mine had put up the news of his placement in an excellent company. The most striking part of the message was that he was indeed “dying to put up this news…” of his placement on his profile. Having congratulated him, I started contemplating about the developing desire among us for shouting aloud the happenings in our lives on the social media and in turn to all our friends, from the childhood BFF to a person who might be on our friend list just because he might have said “hi” to us at some point in his life. I started wondering how it has undeniably become an integral part of our lives to let other people know about each and every event of our life.  

We cannot deny the fact that Social networking has proved to be extremely propitious for all of us in various ways such that with a click of a button we can be in touch with everyone we know, anywhere on this planet; but at the same time we have witnessed an unprecedented obsession and craving to peep into the life of others, of course fueled by their own willingness. It has created a parallel world where stalking is as normal as willing to know someone in real life, public announcements are as normal as telling something classified to a relative, the hunger to be appreciated for putting up all the silly or sometimes not so silly things, is as normal as the desire to be a triumphant. Perchance in this world, everyone is a celebrity and everyone is a fan. It has given all of us the opportunity to enjoy the stardom at the most basic level. What we fail to realize is that this prominence is gradually taking a toll on us by addicting us to its huge yield and in turn making us overlook the evil side of it. People have become fanatic to such an extent that they tend to ignore their priorities. From a primary classroom to an office cabin, this parallel world of Social networking has become viral. Our day starts in this world with a “good morning…” status message and ends in this with something like “Dozing off.. gunnyt”. Perhaps we have gone a little too far from the exact purpose for which it was intended, putting our intellect, emotions and the moral values at stake.

Behind every action is a thought, and behind that thought is a desire of some kind. Probably we need to figure out a way to curb this desire of elaborating what’s on our mind to an extent so that we can start enjoying the life the way it is planned, before this desire becomes a basic instinct for us. We should realize that outside this world of binary 0’s and 1’s, a world exists with seven colors of the spectrum and millions of other fruitful shades, Perhaps it’s just the right time to reform it or else our generations to come may witness an inevitable outcome of living this world which may or may not be adverse!!