Facebook, You, Me and Humlog

P.S - If you are going to read this, you will have to ignore my linguistic skills.

Majority of my online friends call me facebook maniac and they are not wrong.  Facebook has changed my life a  lot, I was never the same.... primarily because I didn't had too much of information and never realized what the world is up to. With the help of facebook, I have found me inside me :-).


I am not writing this to describe my affection with facebook but to touch on an unknown problem we are ignoring.  I am trying to address a psychological problem we might see in coming years. The original article was published in WSJ related with this.  What you see on facebook status updates is not the actual life we are going through, that's just may be friction of it. By just reading the status updates don't assume, life is cool for your friends and you are struggling.

Everyone is going through the same phase, some are sharing there happy moments and some not. We all have our own struggles in life and we must cross these hurdles to get the real happy and peaceful life.

On facebook, we are only comfortably sharing our happy moments or may be we are trying to hide the exact picture from world.  I would say its fine...what would I bother someone else of my problem, let people know about my happiness..I will take care of my sorrows.

Next time your friends post updates related with an excellent vacation, don't be disappointed that you cant go...just enjoy he pics and like it.  We all have our own set of priorities and responsibility, next time you will be on vacation and your friends will like it.

Don't be disappointed if you are really struggling to get a good status update, search Google and you will get websites just focused on status updates.  Copy and Paste, I am sure I will like it.

Why India can’t be Egypt and why we don’t need?

So the aspirations are building up and everyone is just trying to imagine common man fighting on streets and a revolution is about to happen in India. Corrupt will be thrown out and punished, wise men will lead us.

Day dreaming is good and gives you feel good factor but trust its not going to ever happen in India and its not required as well. We have democracy and someday we will understand the power of democracy.  On the other hand, we are not the same protesters as Egyptians are, if we are on streets either we fight with each other or destroy public property. Majority of either of us are violent 50% and other 50% don’t want to do anything at all, hence a revolution is not going to work neither we will see. 

Comparing with Egypt is good and we must be ready for a revolution with our mindset, we need not create new ways of doing things, we just need to do things right. Egypt had no democracy; they didn’t have any option of throwing out the regime so they took there struggle on streets.

India has the power of election and being one of biggest democratic nation in the world we must exercise this option judiciously.  You may not have best of the candidates in electoral foray but we have to exercise our voting rights, select and make are elected representative accountable, they will change. This change will only come if we participate and take out some time in building the nation.

We simply forget about the accountability and assume its going to happen and that’s where we give free hand to corrupt. We must participate in governance, follow rule of land and ask others to do so, keep in touch with your representative and ask the status and state of governance. The corrupt will fall in line if you raise your voice.

We do not need another freedom movement in India, we have had enough bloodshed. We just need to participate in the existing democratic process.