I’m this mean and unfriendly
With Facebooking, Orkutting and What-not-ting, I’m suddenly getting in touch with a plethora of henna-haired, Talwalkars-shaped ophthalmologists, Montessori teachers, investment bankers and mid-level executives who were once my schoolmates.
For someone like me who sucks at networking, this is turning out to be one big bore. Now, if it’s just keying in a polite, two-line email I don’t mind it all. But these people insist on asking me for my number and actually calling up.
After the initial 4-5 lines (are you still alive? you married? kids? where on earth are you? do you still eat that stinky maahali kazhangu? etc) I clam up. The next 10 minutes on the phone simply drag, and I hate every nanosecond of it. I don’t want to talk about teachers who are now 70 plus if not already dead. I don’t want to know which idiot is working for which conglomerate. Why, I’ve become so fossilized that I’m not even bothered about who married whom.
These telecons often take more alarming routes – these ex-classmates actually suggest meetings. Maybe I should seriously think of shifting to sub-Saharan Africa.
Oh yeah, so true. This facebook fatigue has hit me too.. and thankfully, am already off facebook now
hahah! i’m on detox. i’m on fb primarily to scrabble. and also timepass sometimes. these reunions with strange ppl scare me too
i like you. i do.
I like you and I LOVE mahani kazhangu! I thought I was only one who still eat it. See, now this is why you need social networking
Luckily I only keep in touch with friends on Facebook… thus far only one face from the past has popped up, and that was a welcome one
Like Umm, my favourite thing on FB is Scrabble. Want a game? 
PS. I promise not to make any small talk on Scrabble’s chatboard. Other than loud groans when I lose.
When I play scrabble with you you’ll hear me whimper, Shyam. As WA says, where’s the question of you losing?
You should ask UmmON that question.
Honest.
Shyam losing on scrabble? Hmmmm not sure about that. I am just tired of it all, apart from reading a handful of blogs, can’t be asked to log onto facebook, orkut, twitter, meets and what not. Bored of it all.
That’s the numero uno reason I haven’t made my presence felt in any social network. If I really wanted to keep in touch with classmates, I wouldn’t have let them slip away in the first place. I don’t remember most names and am not even curious in a “Whatever happened to …?” way. Anti-social? You bet!
Now now, is it really that bad
Honestly, I am that way too…don’t know what to say after the first 5mins (atleast you held on for 10mins).
LOL.
Hi,
Just found my way to your blog via Shyam’s – and what a lovely find it is!
Agree totally with you on the trauma of strange people resurfacing after decades – am just going through that experience myself, complete with fake joy at reconnecting with people one had active dislike for and being forced to read and share every mind-numbingly little boring detail of each other’s lives.
I’ve avoided – and intend to always avoid – joining Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites. Those whom I want to keep in touch with, I do the “normal” way!
Thats why I closed down my facebook, twitter and the like. Have a hard time keeping in touch with current friends, why wake up old ghosts? (அடி பட்டா தான் தெரியரது)
I love magali. My fridge is never without a stock of it.