My 1o year old brother wants me to make a Facebook account for him, because all of his friends have one. I wonder what these kids do on Facebook; at the risk of sounding like a reminiscing-grumbling-geriatric, when I was a kid, if I had to talk to my friends, I had to go calling at their houses. There weren't mobile phones and no internet either, at least at my home. But kids these days? Little pestering runts, how do I explain to the specimen which has been ordained my blood-brother, that Facebook is the most insidious evil monstrosity ever? How could I tell him that I myself had to invariably struggle to get rid of this affliction?
He wouldn't believe me; I guess things must run their course. Hopefully, he should realize the higher truths of life in a shorter span than me. Hmm, let's see.
Fuckin' Facebook and fuckin' kids!
Ah... the good old days, when friends really were good and few... 10 year olds won't understand, children must experience things for themselves...
ReplyDeleteOn another note, you know how about only about 1% of people actually consciously care about existentialism, comparing the remaining 99% of our childhood and now, the artificiality in their personality seems to begin much sooner now!
Don't let the kid get on Facebook. He'll age 10 years too soon and waste away his life.Facebook should have a lower age bar, really. An 8 year family friends daughter is on facebook, if you can believe it.
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ReplyDeleteThe artificiality yeah, and the worse part is it's not their fault. It's the times, and we gave it to them!
BTW you never called me you dolt, there was something I wanted to talk to you about. Maybe an apology for the abrupt and somewhat rude exit that day
@Harrington
Tch, I pity these kids, but then I also envy them for their playstations and Xboxes.
They're in a whole new generation, succumbing to to habits that grew on us as 15-16 year olds and to our parents as 20 year olds.
ReplyDeleteWhat does the farmville addict in the mother tell the daughter when she wants to play word challenge on Facebook. It's a menace.
And we grew up faster than our parents, they're growing up faster than us.
Um my 10 year old sister has a Wii and was gifted an I-touch on her birthday this year. Also, she "reads" on her Kindle.
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ReplyDeleteMenace indeed, and the way you put it, it almost seems logical; I guess it is, just something hard to digest. As for your sibling, "Oh you rich kids!" But seriously, a kindle? Damn!
ReplyDeleteBTW how were results and shite man? I'm being presumptuous here but you must have nailed it?
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ReplyDeleteRead the blog, realized I couldn't comment on it so here goes - Congrats on the deed, and good luck for the same; the first step is the hardest, don't count your chickens before they hatch, etc. etc.
Ha, yes. Comments have to be moderated by me.Thanks for the congrats, btw. You should expect what you want and visualize it and think postive, only then do you have half a chance at it(is what I believe).Do you have access to google talk, btw
ReplyDeleteAh yes yes, I just like throwing around flea-bitten expressions. And yeah, add me
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done that
ReplyDeletethe pic on ur bogpost page is similar to the cover art of a book called "Hotel Everest".
ReplyDelete-Manish Jha
It's a small portion of what the view from my guest house in Challal (A village in the Parvati valley in Himachal) used to be.
ReplyDeleteAnd I tried googling up that book, couldn't find it.