I originally intended this to be sort of a sequel to my last post on Online living because I later realized there was so much I didn’t do it much justice – and as some people pointed out; maybe there is more to life than the internet.
But brings us to another point: overload of the stuff we love and hold on to everyday.
Apart from my work Email and office phone (which keep me busy nearly the entire day five days a week) I also have 3 other personal Email accounts which demand checking a few times a day. And then there is orkut – the single biggest service I use on the internet next only to google search.
To complicate things, I recently discovered a whole lot of my high-school buddies on facebook and joined in. And then there is Linked-In to keep in touch with old colleagues from work who neither fit in orkut or facebook.
And this does not even take into account the free sign-up offers I turn down everyday from places named Hi5, friendster, WAYN, Shelfari, RupeeMail, Yaari… and this list gets long.
Picasa and Flickr where I stash my pix online.
And then there is twitter; which I don’t use all that much either and just signed up because it felt like a good idea at the time (and because the guys from CommonCraft did a great marketing job with Twitter in Plain English!)
And when that day comes; I’ll do another post on it ;-)
5 comments:
Linkedin is beyond getting in touch with old colleagues. It is extremely useful in finding useful contacts while doing an investment research.
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I felt I was very much living online during my hostel days. That was when I was really very active in participating in a lot of discussion forums. But that changed after coming back home.
You must be too busy. 4 E-mail accounts, orkut, twitter, blogs and your own blog. Phew!
@faiza
True what you say abt Linked-In; but unfortunately most of what I use it for is only to keep in touch with the old folks from work.
I just hold on to it in the hope that one day I wake up to its full potential.
@saurabh:
actually not really dude.
I divide my personal Email accounts into the one I use for my friends, one for other people not necessarily friends and the other exclusively for spam (like when you're asked give an Email when you sign up for something)
I mostly pretend to be very busy
:D
hahaha!!! when u list it like that... man... it does seem like a huge circus..:)
@a wondering mind.
Yeah, it is isn't it?
And this doesn't even count the huge amount of online services we need for comment following and feed burning; one of these days I'm gonna lose track of my usernames...and what password goes with each one!
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