Whats all about this "Follow Me" ?

So Facebook asks "Whats on your mind?" and Twitter asks "Whats happening?". Social media is trying to be a boon to some people but for some its just waste of precious time.So tell me how many of you spend some quality time on internet. The good old days of internet has vanished where people used to come online seldom as the cafe would charge 40-50 bucks for 1 hour and only richmen could provide such facility to their children.But that was some 5 years ago.Considering today's scenario one can say that even a common man can afford internet.You get internet on your mobile and there are twitter and facebook which are compatible and optimized for mobile users. These days I see that lots of celebrities are showing active interest in Twitter.I admit Twitter is fun. But its sometimes cool to read those tweets. Amitabh Bachhan who is a legendary actor tweets about Rajnikanth who is another Superstar in South India.The Anna Hazare anti corruption campaign proved successful and enormous support was gathered through this social media. Sachin Tendulkar is now India's Twitter king as he has more than 10 million followers. So by writing whats happening and whats on your mind ,don't you feel that you are exposing your real life to the virtual world. Now a days popularity is measured on the basis of the followers you have on these social media's. Well this is not the case.So whats all this fuss about Follow me!!. There used to be a time when two friends who meet after a long period of time would say "hey add me in Orkut!" Forget Orkut,its dead now. It was soon replaced by "Hey,Are you in Facebook? then add me!!" . Facebook these days represents our virtual world .It indicates our virtual reality.How virtual are we? Facebook says I am 80% virtual. How I get it is based on some stupid ,absurd application which claims to measure your virtual quotient. I have many of my office friends almost all my office friends. I see my Manager in my person you know list in facebook n right sidebar . So the one thing which is popular now is this. "ok Follow me on Twitter ,Ok?" How easy is life? Just click on follow and you get the updates from your friends in form of Tweets. A Girl asks her boyfriend to follow her. This boyfriend of hers is not techsavy unlike her.So he thinks his job is to follow her anywhere and everywhere she goes. So there she goes to the washroom and she is shocked to see her boyfriend in the Ladies washroom. "Hey ,what the hell are you doing here ?" she says "you just asked me to follow you,so I'm following you," he replies. "Idiot,Following me doesn't ,means that you follow me everywhere.I asked you to follow me on Twitter," she gets vexed for once and throws him out of the washroom. Social media has changed the world.Sitting at one corner of the world you get to talk to people who is on the other corner.You get updates from them and comments on their status and photos on Facebook. Trust me ..It gets crazy sometimes… believe it or not.

Stephen Kanagaraj