Sometime back I decided to severe my bonds with a hugely popular networking site. Not surprisingly enough even though I had 100+ “friends” on the list nobody noticed.
Which means I am pretty “friendless” and all my subsequent posts should be pretty depressing..Maybe depression has become fashionable these days..Britney knows better for sure.
Maybe I should commit suicide live on the Internet..and get an “Internet Memorial” built in my name (I have no idea what I am talking about)..
Or there is this other possibility..
Does an online networking community really work? If people whom I knew so well didn’t notice, do people sitting on the the other side of the globe really bother about each other? Or is it one of those “feel good” factors that technology has introduced in our lives which we are happy to acknowledge to give us the fake feeling of togetherness?
Whom are we lying to by calling ourselves a global community?
Mr Whitrick, from Wellington, was watched by about 100 people in an internet chatroom as he suggested he was going to harm himself.
Just minutes later they watched in horror as he apparently hanged himself.
Other reports suggest that the people who are believed to have encouraged him to kill himself could face manslaughter charges.
Do we really wanna live in a “connected world”?
Currently reading: Maximum City by Suketu Mehta
