In the last few days, there were so many who asked if I were on facebook. Well, I was so tired answering to people that I am not.
To speak out my heart loudly and to tell about my perception towards facebook/orkut, I hate being on any of those social networking website. I like the concept of social networking site in terms of technology but I am simply not the kind of person who can be on it and share my likes/dislikes with the entire world. To me, it is more like allowing people to invade my space. I cannot be into something just because everyone else is. But I respect LinkedIn which is the other form of social networking site. I analyzed thoroughly before getting on to it. LinkedIn is so nice and so easy to be in touch with people professionally. There is no need to share one’s likes/dislikes, photos, scrapping others and I am glad there is no such thing on it. I love the fact that the top news allows us to be on top of tech news.
I have hand full of friends and I am in touch with them. I really don’t care about others whom I do not want to be in touch with. That is ME. There is no way I am going to change just because some body asks me to join one such site. I do things that my heart tells me to do and I cannot do anything different than that. When I do otherwise, that’s when I can’t be in peace and get irritated. Being a true fan of all the google products, I am still not convinced to be on google+ despite of getting several invitations. All the features are very interesting and the fact that this product came out so soon under Vic gundotra’s leadership is very inspiring. But the concept of creating a public profile and showing all the products the user is into is something I am not happy about. Why can’t uniting on a portal feature and revealing to world be an option? Creating a profile is ok, but a public profile is not ok according to me.
There is this very close friend of mine who always teases me that I am not in touch with lot other people and I am not in one of the snc. I keep quite because this person is a very close friend of mine. There are times when I just get irritated and talk back to him saying that I cannot be like him and do all that he does. To me there is nothing called as right or wrong and nothing called as one should do this/ not do this. I always thought some things are purely one's perception and no one should be forced.
Someday if I am on one such site, then I would have had a very strong or compelling reason to be on it. I wish no such compelling reasons arise rather I wish it needs to be convincing.