I want to become a blogger not only to increase my typing speed but also to share my immense knowledge on useless things. I have made a good start by setting a "fancy" title for this post, but when was I ever alive in cyberspace. Well, thats what the title of the Pink Floyd song mean, doesn't it ?
I do have accounts on facebook, myspace, twitter, hi5,orkut and a few others, but does this actually count as being a part of cyberspace, where all we are doing is occupying the pricey space and filling it with useless and redundant information about ourselves. Believe me this space is not infinite and is going to be exhausted soon and that is when companies would start charging for every email id we keep, every account we hold on social websites, every image we upload and blog we write. The Think-Tanks of the internet by then would have made us so addicted (well I am referring to those who are not already) to our social presence that we would actually not stammer to pay. After all 5cents is a small price for a status update on FB if it gets us 10 likes and 17 comments.
I was talking to a high profile employee of one such social("duh") website, he said that he really dreads 2 people in the world, one is Facebook and the other is Google. Well he is not totally wrong when he refers to the two gargantuan sites as human, after all Android does mean "having human features" according to Webster. His reasons are pervasive, they know everything about us and can use all that information against us if they want. Well can we blame them, who is actually providing them with all that info. But we have to furnish all the information to have a social standing otherwise we would be "social outcasts". Isn't it a CATCH 22 situation.
Now the quote below makes more sense to me :- "Why is it drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users ?"
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