A NUISANCE CALLED FACE BOOK

Nuisance called Face Book :( By Sanjoy Kumar Satpathy)

Days gone by one used to wait and wait for the postman's cycle bell to ring for a post card or an envelope to arrive from a friend or a relative. The anxiety and the happiness associated with it cannot be perceived by the present generation of youths. That was a hobby as well as an art to reply back immediately and putting it in the mail box of a railway station called RMS.

But like the society the postal department got eroded and corrupt. The postman in spite of delivering the letters read it or threw it to fire or delivered it too late. People lost faith in Indian Postal Service when the courier system took advantage of it. The habit of letter writing became thing of past, students forgot the art of writing a letter but used phone to send back the reply .Gradually phone calls replaced the letters. Then came the IT revolution and people spent hours waiting or writing e-mail to friend and relatives. Gradually that too became infrequent, only personal information or lousy photos were sent. Once the internet became available in smart phones and I-phones replaced big size computers at home, users of the modern gadgets became maniacs. People seldom replied back to the e-mails. The sender had to give a phone call to remind the recipient about the e-mail.

Of late the Face book and many such sites have taken over the likes and dislikes of the society. Those do not have credentials became a member of the face book. They started posting photographs taken with a mobile or smart phone in those sites. It’s quite irritating to watch photograph of someone sitting on a commode or taking bath or eating at a road side Dhaba in the face book. Someone clicked like and the face owner started showing to his friends as if he or she has got an Oscar. Like everything in life FB has got some merits. Users do meet in face book some relatives, or friends who seldom attend any family functions due to tuition or examination or some plea or other. They come to know about their cousin sisters and brothers through this electronic media called (FB). Some use it as a time passes others as a hobby. Some even use it to find out a suitable Life partner and some for physical gratifications.

 To me it’s a big nuisance, you only have electronic friends,relatives who would never come to your house to help you in time of need or carry your dead body to the burning ghat or the grave. Let’s wait with a hope that some change would occur in the minds of the people and one would realize their mistake and try to have real friends and not fake ones. Here is what Chanakya said about friends.

"A false friend and living in a house with a serpent mean nothing but death"