Call it what you will, but one point became apparent to me this Independence Day. There's no escaping our gadgets.
As friends inundated Facebook and Twitter with their plans on the mid-week holiday, I stoically went about my work preparing for office.
I cursed them under my breath for spoiling the day for the poor sods who were working on August 15. But there was only that much I could take.
After the umpteenth BBM and status message exhorting my patriotism, I just wanted to know one answer. Don't you guys ever switch off? Yes, that's right. Don't you ever log off? Can't you not share with the whole wide world what you're doing with your "meaningful lives".
My tirade caught my friends off guard. You're a fine one to preach such stuff. Who was the fastest off the blocks when chats began with asl? Who signed on to most of the photo-sharing and social networking sites just to check them out? Guilty as charged.
But doesn't that make me more qualified to say "Time out!" I'm still as fascinated by technology as I was at the turn of the century when I made friends across the globe (and was once asked by an American chat friend what's cricket when I named the game I love to watch).
As friends inundated Facebook and Twitter with their plans on the mid-week holiday, I stoically went about my work preparing for office.
I cursed them under my breath for spoiling the day for the poor sods who were working on August 15. But there was only that much I could take.
After the umpteenth BBM and status message exhorting my patriotism, I just wanted to know one answer. Don't you guys ever switch off? Yes, that's right. Don't you ever log off? Can't you not share with the whole wide world what you're doing with your "meaningful lives".
My tirade caught my friends off guard. You're a fine one to preach such stuff. Who was the fastest off the blocks when chats began with asl? Who signed on to most of the photo-sharing and social networking sites just to check them out? Guilty as charged.
But doesn't that make me more qualified to say "Time out!" I'm still as fascinated by technology as I was at the turn of the century when I made friends across the globe (and was once asked by an American chat friend what's cricket when I named the game I love to watch).
But somewhere along the way I felt it wasn't worthwhile to let the world know what my Farmville score was.
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