It was sometime in the summer of 2005 when Twinnie1 and Twinnie2 first introduced me to Facebook. They had been members for a long time.. yeah.. and (not-so-sorry to say.. like I do now) had maybe asked me to join f/b (read : Facebook) just for the sake of getting another friend in their friend list. But who knew.. that this another friend would go on to become one of the many FacebookFanatics that exist all over the face of this planet now.It wasnt as if I was joining a social networking site for the first time, I had been part of Hi5 for a long time... ( practically, till the day when i realised how totally juveline it was.. I loved it for the sheer variety of Profile backgrounds they offered ) Even after joining f/b, I continued with Hi5, faithful as ever.. did I mention my obsession with the backgorunds.. ? Or the fact that for 2 long years, I just had 5 friends in my friend "list".. which wasn't much of a list... just a small box with five icons, my friends' faces shining as their profile picture ( one of them had put some famous really cute actor's photo... which, to be frank, was the best out of those five pictures - i could just sit and look at the pic all day long )
But then.. kAbOOm.!! Heaven knows what came over everyone.. f/b here, f/b there..!! New friend requests everyday, superpokes, top friends, drinks and much more..!! The f/b fever was catching on, spreading faster than any rage i had witnessed so far. Not that I was complaing.. What made me ecstatic was that => I had done it first <= . I was the first one among my gang to join f/b. I was the first one to discover the wonderful applications, the quizzes, the hatching eggs, the friend games as well. Ha ha ha.!!!
But hullooo... does anyone even care..? Maybe no. Now everyone is here.. here, on f/b.. We know whats happening in each other's lives, courtesy the status messages. When i told Bestie a few days back that the real reason why another class mate hadn't come to school that day was because she had food poisoning, the only response she could think of was, " Are you psychic or what?" .. The truth is that her wall posts had popped up on the News Feed, and being the overly-inquisitive person that i am , i obviously went thru the entire process of reading SickBaby's Wall, thus being able to know about her converstaion with to her friend.
Now, now.. some may call it spying, but i beg to differ.!! Why have they been talking about everything in their life in the form of short "public" notes to one another.. ( note : emphasis on 'public' ) when they don't want anyone to know about it...
Oh shit.. i just realised that I've started babbling again. Where this this post heading..? probably nowhere. AArghh.. i do that real often, start from one thing, eventually ending on some other, which is totally different from the first in all aspects. BLahh..
The point is, that now, -Everyone- is on f/b, including my dad and his two brothers, along with many other family members from the generation. My friends have 200-friend-strong friend lists, and still growing. They find new friends through the most outlandish connections ever.
Whatever..!
No matter what happens..
There will always be one thing which i can think about and be satisfied from within..
=> i facebook-ed first <=
:D
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