Becoming a social nuisance in the online world

It all started with Yahoo groups when I was in school. A common mailing list that should keep the kids together forever, a means to share all the good and the bad encountered in the outside world. Truth be told. It did have a certain amount of success... Some of the news came through the groups. Like someone getting married, or change of job and the like. It also made it easy to mail a bunch of people without keeping all the email ids in the mind and careful not to forget anyone. And then of course came, atleast in my life, the issue of sharing bookmarks with del.icio.us. and tell the whole world of your ideas using blogs. Of course I jumped on the bandwagon the minute I came across blogging, (these days I would probably say stumbledupon blogging), I created a blog and wrote one damm article. It was too much of a hazzle writing all that I was thinking, and worse, I was probably in a location  far away from a computer and in no state to be writing anything (german pubs still dont have computers in them). Tried starting a blog a year later, and that fizzled out even before I posted anything, and the service was taken down. And then came the bane of all social interactions called orkut!!! damm that was a scarry place. I was there, then I was not there. I never knew why I joined up in the first place, but I def know why I ran away from it. Then of course I was invited to join the german version called studivz. I mean what does one do in such a site if you are so lazy not to upload any pictures, and not particularly interested in poking and kicking others, who probably just want to be left alone. But it gets worse. I was invited to the mother of all social gettogethers on-line, Facebook. Finally people all realised that blogging took too long and that there should be an easier and quicker way to get on your friends nerves, and voila comes along twitter.

Now call me insane, but I love to read what the guys in the software and the electronics industry keep dishing out, hoping that I ll be one of the first to know when the artificial brain is presented! Long story short, I was also on twitter.

Now a couple of days ago, there was a huge discussion with a couple of friends, about the benefits of social-networking and the social side to facebook. About how contacts help in this difficult economic times, and how people used twitter when the plane landed in hudson river, and the siege in mumbai. So I decided to really put my effort into it. Connected my blog to facebook, after deleting most of the entries, i would not want my friends from reading. I could do that easily as noone was particularly reading my blog anyway! ;). Then I installed scribefire and twitterfox, and connected my twitter to facebook. So now even if I sneeze you guys are going to know! HA! There you have it.

I am not going to upload any pictures though... I shaved my head, and i leave it to your imagination about how I look. What a rant!