While browsing the internet I came across a blog entry which
does a technology compare between the 1980s and the 2012s. I almost can’t
believe so much has happened in such a short space of time. The pace of change
seems to be accelerating and I feel myself dramatically wanting to scuff my
feet along the floor trying to resist the push of 2012 towards a yet another
year of yet more blurring of the distinction between material reality and cyber
reality. STOP! says I, but the damned conveyor belt moves on.
The author of that post posits social networking against
chat softwares like ICQ (I remember! Not that I had an account. Never saw the
point spending money chatting with people I’d see physically every day anyway).
However, that is not the kind of position they occupy in my head. Chat exists
ALONG with social networking: which feels more suffocating than if just Facebook
existed. Despite a/s/l, IRC chatrooms were just so much more anonymous than
facebook ever can be!
Existing in this new reality has its perks: it can really
make you laugh sometimes. Yesterday, for instance, I observed a conversation on
my homepage between two individuals. The topic was a song that supposedly
parodies cheesy South Indian film music. One party took objection to the humour
of the other and ended the brief debate by saying-“I end this conversation and
our friendship here.”. And he did! He de-friended him! 
2012: the year when apparently grown-up academics can make
and break friendships with the click of a button on a public wall.
This is kaliyug, my fraands... 
P.S. I am only slightly kidding about the drama. I really
don’t know how to deal with the explosion of consumerist innovation. Should I
turn into a Neanderthal and smash all the smartphones I come across, grunting
and scratching my armpits, or should I embrace the evolving tribe of nonsense?
I’m feeling a little bit lot wrong-footed here 
