Earlier you had to look at your neighbors to feel the green monster surging up your chest…now a quick peek at your social networking site does the trick; one click and you suddenly realize yours has to be the most God forsaken, trite, mundane, non happening life on earth…and here you were quite satisfied with your own sweet existence until the fatal click happened…pouf!!! all your self esteem is out of the window-your pudgy,dowdy schoolmate of yester-years has suddenly metamorphosed into a total Goddess, the happy go lucky loafer in your locality is now something of a jet-setter, the most inane colleague at work is suddenly hobnobbing with the who’s who of the whatever world you associate with…even your ex boyfriend/girlfriend/ crush/ spouse who you thought was stuck in some primeval evolutionary quagmire is posting mushy status updates with idiotic smileys and utterly soppy pictures with the new found love of their lives…and here you are-back where you started. All that you had built up carefully over the years-job, relationship, lifestyle-crumbling under the collective weight of albums, status updates, tweets and scraps which seem more real to you than your own life.You do a double take on the site...all of you that wanted to remember and be remembered is now desperate to forget...at least until you can pay back,with the greenest monstrosity ever-and then it is time for someone else to call it quits. A simple idea that is rewarding beyond measure to millions can leave you feeling emptier than ever.Ironically though, all this was meant to bring people together…the worry is, in creating too small a world, we might soon be treading into each others private spaces-when everyone is everywhere, no one is quite all there, methinks...
(Written after a conversation with a Facebook phobic)
