Whats there in a stupid status message

Well, the thought of expressing oneself can lead to catastrophes and of bigger magnitude as well. Let me take you through what i felt in the next few rants. This is about as the title shouts – about ‘Status messages that are stupid’

A single status message, is as good as standing on a tall cliff and shouting on the top of your voice for a whole city to hear you of what you are telling to people. Its apt and its perfectly right for you to do that in your own jurisdiction. Many a times, I get offended by people and their gestures, not to mention to pick up a fight as well . This on the positive side helps us to understand the people a bit more and best of all pull or push them close or away from your peace of mind, or rather avoid making pieces of your mind.

Often a status message involves people, their current work, emotions, happiness, sorrow, joy, depression, despair, hope, wishes, prayers, wit and even stupidity – all in all, it reflects one’s true self or rather tries to put references to the esteemed personality of that individual. With the advent of the internet, the social networking apps part of Web 2.0 are allowing the more freedom to the people who are suffering from this mania. ‘Yours truly’ probably rates one amongst the top notch people(self proclaimed ) who do this act so frequently and reflecting all of the mentioned plethora of expressions at least once till now – ask my friends they are sick of that trait along with many such traits.

Facebook for instance, has a status bar and people post their ’status’ and voice out their opinion, concern, disgust, and what not. This is one side of it, later there is something called as ‘liking/disliking’ it. For god’s sake if you don’t have an opinion you need not like it or dislike it. Currently, FB allows only people to like it and if you dont have an opinion on that or in all probability if you didnt see that, is it that you are disliking it. So, with this psychic impulse, you go and ‘like’ the link or the update and you end up liking so many things. Isn’t it strange for a human being to satisfy many such criteria and think differently unlike normally. This is so true about any damn social networking site, where you have the option of publishing your opinion and ‘voicing your opinion’..you dont give a damn to anything, as long as you have a login and access to information, you disrupt the privacy and kill that spirit which leaves us in bad taste. Its true.

The GTalk/Yahoo! or any IM program take for that matter, has a status message box. As it allows you to rant in that limited space it is perfectly normal for us to notify our status as ‘Available’, ‘Busy’, ‘Invisible’. Now the abuse comes, we get an editable text field. It allows us to notify to the whole world through this window to express, how badly you fared in the day, to how awesome your day was or how things are not working, how you are requesting help from the man upstairs and etc..There are movie recommendations, music recommendations, free advices(often plagiarised shamelessly – by plagiarism I mean not quoting the sources), words of wisdom and swear words too hmmm…..isn’t it limiting your world to all the energy you see on this piece of software thats binding your life to the world. Hopeless aint it?

Twitter is another service of late that has become a little more popular, thanks to the micro blogging service of 140 character limit, we can be rest assured that we get to see small and concise statements. Its awesome and perhaps there in lies the beauty of it. Too much of anything leaves us with a bad taste, and hence there in lies a necessity for curbing it. There was a necessity for this measure to come and its not late. Happy

All I need and want to say is ‘People, I am sick of seeing the meaningless status messages, perhaps GTalk doesnt allow me to put this big status message and a reason might be lurking in that somewhere land…to blog about it }:)’

However, truth is, you appreciate few nice status messages, you get jealous of few status messages, you feel disgruntled looking at the attitude of some lowly status updates, but you would never get bored of them, trust me on that – exceptions however could be, few boring souls and unhappy minds, for whom the life is all about staring down the barrel. I am happy at least that I am treading away from the half-empty syndrome which bogged me down for the past few days. Its been a roller coaster this Spring, with Angels, Demons, Academics and what not. I have seen a spectrum and felt that I leave a note on this web world ….maybe for a moment atleast I can stop just to collect my thoughts, and set my sails again. I think I did what I wanted…and the time has come to change the status on gtalk from ‘back to blogging’ to ‘enjoying life’ or ‘whatever’ – How does it matter. Well yeah, it doesn’t matter, as long as it is not disturbing/cribbing/about things which I hate.

‘Good Day Fellas!’ – (could be a nice status message btw)

Adios!!