Face-Booked!!!

Most of my blogs are initiated after a conversation with “the Swamy”. After a long long wait over to finally kickstart my fledgling corporate career, I decided to call him up yesterday.

Well as always we have myriads of topics for discussion and somehow conversation veered towards “Facebook”. It’s one of these social networking sites similar to Orkut where you get to meet old friends, old flames (:P) and others. When Swamiji gave me the “nirdesh” on joining Facebook which in his own words is where the “niche junta” is headed I thought of giving it a miss. After all, I had successfully kicked off the Orkut habit and did not want to get started on another. However infused with the hopes of finding a special someone spurred me on to give it a try.

Now let’s rewind to May-July 2006. I had been on an internship to Canada and had made a few friends particularly my flat-mates with whom I gelled instantly. When I reached there I had not an idea of where to start with my culinary skills and both Paula and Andre gave me an introductory course in this. A short description of the affair is to be found here. Not only with cooking but they helped me on with a lot of things without which the going would have really got tough. (Come on now you perverted minds don't get the wrong idea about things :D) Facebook being more popular over there I had opened up an account and added them but not done anything else.

However since I returned I had not once got in contact with them. Saying that I was busy would be just a plain pack of lies. At least dropping by a word or two by e-mail would have hardly taken anytime. However my foray into Facebook after all this time set me on rectifying some of those mistakes. I still remembered my login and password after over a year which says something about my memory (joking, I was just plain lucky to have remembered). However on re-entering I did find my old flat-mates still very much on Facebook. Paula had indeed got a scholarship to Oxford. So I decided to send her a message congratulating her and got a response within the next few hours. She was plain glad to have got back in contact and has welcomed me to visit Oxford if I ever get the chance to go to England (which is very remote). However Facebook seems to have egged me on to get in contact with all those old friends.

Hence Facebook has my attention for now. It’s a cool site with lots of features and I am looking forward to familiarize myself with the various nuances of it. My only fear is this time the addiction should not be intense enough for me to get hooked on to it during office hours in which case if my boss finds out, it could be another long wait in the murky world of joblessness!!