Lately I have not been too active
in Facebook. Some status updates every other day, funny picture, comment here
and there. Some might think that I am busy studying at home cramming my head
with knowledge on the verge of finishing medical school. Though I am so glad
that people think of me that way, I would like to burst your bubble, it’s a wishful
thinking.
I noticed some downward pattern
in FB nowadays. Now even attention whores update once daily. It breeds cycle of
event. The cause and effect. When you see that your friends not active in FB,
you might think that they are busy living life or studying. If you were seen
too active in FB, they might label you as loser who couldn’t get a life. Others
will mirror the same action and assumption resulting in vicious cycle of FB
inactivity, which is not a bad thing at all. Everybody is out and about, upping
their cool standard these days. Hipster’s principles apply to everybody.
Updating your FB status too frequent is sooo yesterday, uncool.
With slight fall of FB
significant, along come rising of Instagram giant. Since it become available
for Android users, its popularity surge spiking on steep raising angle. Everyone
is an artistic photographer now, every little thing worth capturing. The adage
of ‘a picture paints a thousand words’
severely abused. The showing-off trend regarded as ‘in’ and hipsters-approved
as cool. The proof is rock-solid with picture rather than mere FB statement;
that you are so cool to be here and there, hanging with those cool friends, eating
this and that (I fell mostly on the latter).
The one pattern that never seems
to cease and at its persistent raise is sharing baby pictures. Some of them are
not even neonates anymore, they are toddlers, some babies not even cute anymore,
some never even cute to begin with. Baby stop being cute once they reach 1.5 to
2 year-old sometimes earlier. Why are you still flooding my wall with it
though? Acceptable baby picture update in my book of baby-pic-sharing etiquette
are (1) the first day of birth, (2) 1st birthday, (3) 1st
day of school and please stop at that mandatorily. Some proud parents even go
such extent creating FB account for their newborn, breaking age limit rules.
Too excited to share to the world the fruit of their loin, a fertile proof.
This offense is done by majority stay-at-home mom, or working mom on weekend
hysteria.
I don’t need to see your baby
sick, doing boring stuff (watching TV, sleep etc.), acting – too hard by forced
of parent – cute, etc. Even society weans their attention to Suri soon right after
her adorable face hits tabloid. No awe factor anymore.
If you are too keen on capturing
your baby milestones in worldwide web, store it somewhere in cloud storage or
Picasa. Even the Optimist Priest will find it offensive feeling obligated to
reply ‘Oh, she/he is so
adorable/cute/charming’. Putting your baby as profile/cover picture is
major offense. Let alone some random baby picture. Beware, those people who add
you as soon as you put baby picture as DP most probably paedophile. Kids aren’t
supposed to act, wear or appear as adult, they are baiting paedophiles
attention. Some even put naked picture of their baby, destroying their child
reputation at early age. Go be a good parent, broadcast your child to the
world.
“You are literally too stupid to insult.” Stu Price, The Hangover
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