Facebook Addiction!!

Years back, when I was at the verge of completing my schooling, was I introduced to the fun world of WWW. I, along with my friends created a little yahoo id with a sad underscore to it, not wanting to get into the chat rooms, because you never know the person who is chatting with you. Those days, with the dial up connection, I go to the internet centre along with my friend (ofcourse to share the cost!!), writing mails to all whom you know, creating mail ids on all possible providers... very funny it was.

Days and years passed by, accessing internet became even easier while at work. You keep accepting all and every social networking invitations that came your way - Orkut, Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, Xing, Linkedin and what not. Too many things we do every day with internet...using google search, watching movies and tv programs online, downloading favourite music, connecting with friends through blogs, facebook, orkut, twitter, myspace...its endless...

I don’t even remember when I created my facebook account. It remained a dormant networking site for me, orkut being my favourite one. I still remember playing those funny IPL and Crazy taxi games on orkut. Facebook got real smart and they started introducing addictive games. Today, facebook has gotten me logging into my account, multiple times a day. Something I never did before. At least not with facebook. And the reason I login so often to facebook is F-a-r-m-v-i-l-l-e.

Lots of people tried it, sent me invitation that says "Howdy!become my neighbour?", and I kept seeing messages like "moving up”, “fertilize your friend's crops”, “found a sad, lonely cow”, “strawberries got withered", “clear the weeds”, “raccoons ransacking” et cetera. Being tempted, I became a farmer to play Farmville. I found the game very interesting. You can own a farm, grow it, cultivate it, fertilize, crop, sell the fruits, vegetables and milk, you can own animals, trees, barn houses, daily farm etc.

My parents used to say in early days, "Nee mattum ozhunga padikalana, unakku aadu, maadu vangi dhan tharuven. Nee perusaanadhukku apparam, adhe dhan meikkanum" (IF u don’t study well, I will buy you cows and sheeps, which you have to rear). It’s a habitual statement in everyone's life. “If you do not study well, you will end up doing this kind of job”. And today, my mom’s words have come true :) (oye...it doesn’t mean that I did not study well!!)