I remember how I felt when every time my eyes looked at the number of people on friends list of almost everyone on sites of networking in last two years. Many had friends as many as 800 or more as if they added every invitation sent or whom so ever they came across. Gone are the days when people had 8 or 10 good friends in real life and managed very well each of the relationship in a quality way.I know few people in real who even never sent any hello to people on their friend list for last 2 years or since they had initial "hi" "hello" while adding each other. In reality most of the people on these lists are kind of dead contacts which lay there as if in grave because they have no more life left. life here means that charm, that fun, that talking each day or may be at least once in a month or bi-monthly but that essence of friendship or knowing people has become dead and so boring. Here too many numbers on surface shows one's empty strength of handling social networking without understanding that this leads to nowhere. Its an illusion that all carry in the world of networking because many do that, my friends, your friends so let me do that too or else I will be left behind in this modern revolution of technological sophistication.
For few may be it's necessary and genuine when people from same big organization needs to be connected for interactions and communications but for many it becomes a trend of following few and then starts that chain reaction of "keep on adding people". I mostly reject people when they add me because I can't fool myself adjusting and congesting myself with a person who is already over-loaded. Either I know them personally or they add me if they can really understand me as a friend for long and very important I don't want to get lost in that ever growing crowd of friends where one who added me will not even recognise after few weeks or may be months.
World truly may have become a global village but I find no emotions or not even that genuine aspect of relationship which existed in real world before. Its a race and we are running blindly without understanding or questioning our own acts and behaviours online. Once my cousin told me that he adds people on and on and with many he never had any conversation. In the same way I questioned few known people and they had same answers.
Internet in reality can still be the best option to make friends or understand cultures across the globe but by only making few friends and trying to understand them first and giving time to such networking can really give back each some quality understanding of cultures or people and strong bonds which may not be that virtual as it seems to be. We have best of technology and talent but to turn the tables we need more, that we have to think.................
