'Internet hey to friendship hey' the jingle starts in Hindi and it goes on to celebrate the virtues of the internet in building friendship by sharing etc.
It does or does it?
Wasn't friendship warm and personal earlier. How many of us have recently called our best friend/ or a relative on a birthday - has it not become an SMS or lately just a FB status wish.
We no longer have the patience to call/ or even listen and exchange pleasantries in a phone call. Now we go through the monosyllables while waiting for the conversation to end.
Internet has created a new set of contacts. People whom we actively engage but limit to the digital screen. In the process what we have lost is our friends, our relations with a close one. And emerged lonelier than ever before.
( I have been a doer and recipient both :))
The challenge remains to balance it both. On a really rainy day only a friend can lend you a shoulder.
It does or does it?
Wasn't friendship warm and personal earlier. How many of us have recently called our best friend/ or a relative on a birthday - has it not become an SMS or lately just a FB status wish.
We no longer have the patience to call/ or even listen and exchange pleasantries in a phone call. Now we go through the monosyllables while waiting for the conversation to end.
Internet has created a new set of contacts. People whom we actively engage but limit to the digital screen. In the process what we have lost is our friends, our relations with a close one. And emerged lonelier than ever before.
( I have been a doer and recipient both :))
The challenge remains to balance it both. On a really rainy day only a friend can lend you a shoulder.
