This piece of mine is inspired from a recently read article late at night when my senses were already in a slumber thanks to a few empty glasses that stared at me from the deep cavity of the wash basin at the kitchen…I was wondering about friendship and thinking of few old friends…some of them the very first one whom I called as friends, when I actually started knowing a relation that’s called “friendship”.
But now given the current scenario when life is fast paced and when we are all struggling to survive with that ever grinning fake smile, it seems friendship is just confined to Facebook…Even within Facebook it reflects a status message that I chanced upon to read which goes like this “Friendship on Facebook is like `KOLAVERI DI`….No need 2 understand, just enjoy it. Yes that’s how it has been over the last few years….
We take pride in the ever growing list of our friends in Facebook sometimes even without knowing whether we really want to call the other person a friend or just an acquaintance…I hope soon Facebook has a separate list where people can be added as acquaintances and not just so called friends. The very meaning of friendship and the closeness attached to it has changed and it’s not just the fad called Facebook but also our lifestyle which has to be equally blamed for this.
How many times in the recent past have we picked up our fancy mobile phones to dial up a friends number and connect with him/her??? Rather we are just happy to follow posts about marriages, deaths, births, promotions, new relationship statuses, holidays, parties and even ill health reading them all just like reading some glossy bollywood magazine without the least care or emotion just clicking the “like” button or adding a few senseless comments like a programmed robot. Yes sadly this is how it’s all been restricted to….
If at all we take fancy then we prefer to few lines in the chat window which ultimately just articulates into few newly coined phrases like “LOL” and “ROLF” which even the English dictionary is yet to get acquainted with….Is this the new age of friendship??? I get scared to ask this as I am also a part of this ever growing generation whom we proudly call “Netizens”….
Commenting on a few pictures without really understanding the emotions that went behind them or liking a few status updates is not called friendship..It is rather tested when we can actually be there when someone needs us rather than behave like maniacs in the cyber space showing our likes and dislikes…I would prefer a friend who’s there for me when I need him/her the most then a friend who likes my every stupid post and am sure so would many of you even if you like to flaunt your growing friend list….never the less happy Facebooking!!!
