Loads of friends

Thy who hath friends, has learnt the art of living... - anonymous

Friends on Orkut, Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, Random sites (rediff.com, indiatimes.com, bigadda.com whatever), on iGoogle (Google just launched social network applications on iGoogle - check it out if you have not so far), MSN messenger, Yahoo messenger, GTalk, Skype, Yaari, on X, on Y, on Z... hhhmmmm ....

Loads and loads of friends everywhere - through every portal.
Have you learnt the art of living?

From savvy at 10.15 AM: Running for a meeting...
From savvy at 10.30 AM: Getting bored in the meeting
From savvy at 11.00 AM: God, finally it is over!
From savvy at 11.15 AM: Need coffee after that boring meeting
From savvy at 11.30 AM: Dreaming about lunch already
From savvy at 12.30 PM: Wow, I am in the coolest restaurant in the city!
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Okay, okay, point taken - you want to know how your friends are doing, and what they are up to. But these? Running commentary of daily activities? Would you opt for that?

You care a lot about your friends and would love to know what they are up to.
But certainly, a continuously tweeting friend is not cool at all :)

Gone are the days when there were mails from friends written thoughtfully, about their happenings, their feelings, their thoughts and how they are going on about their life in general. - Those were fun to read, brought a smile on your face.

Gone are the days when a friend would call up sometime to ask let us meet over lunch or snacks to catch up. Those were the coolest restaurants around the city, even with the most careless cook.

Can you imagine what happens if all your friends start tweeting/scrapping/walling/poking you at the pace as in my example?

Friends are one of the best things about life, you love their updates tweets/pokes/scraps/mails/phones/meeting-over-lunches ...

And then, there are people who are literally loading the communication portals :) They are still the same friends you care about, but they all seem distant when you have to opt for 'don't show updates from this person' because of the communication overload.

Happy tweeting/scrapping/messaging/e-mailing ... whatever ... !