Offline and online…
Yesterday: “Wit” is my middle name. Today: “Tweet” is my middle name. Yesterday: She has a great profile. Today: She has a great Facebook profile. Yesterday: Do you have connections? Today: Do you have...
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· Evolution… Stage 1: Armchair critic. Stage 2: Couch Potato. Stage 3: Computer chair activist/commentator/critic/philosopher. · Twitter—The only medium in the world where it’s theoretically possible...
View ArticleTwitter-Facebook musings…
· They would like us to believe… Online anonymous Modi trolls are more dangerous than the alarmingly increasing number offline politicians spewing venom. · What Facebook says: What’s on your mind? What...
View ArticleVirtual and privacy musings…
2012: I kept my birthday date public. 73 Facebook friends wished me. 2013: I kept it off and got 4 notifications. That’s the difference between Reality (2013) and Virtual Reality (2012). Earlier...
View ArticleWhen Facebook became Twitter and Twitter became Facebook…
Twitter: Let me introduce the Twitter News stream. Facebook: Good idea. Let me also do something like that. Facebook: The Like button is a smashing success. Twitter: OK you can Favourite something too....
View ArticleSocial networking and riots…
Weapons of mass destruction… An Afghani girl with a schoolbook. A Kashmiri girl with a guitar. An Indian citizen with a Facebook/Twitter account. Once they used to blame the Foreign Hand for...
View ArticleThe extremely friendly world of Facebook …
1. Welcome to Facebook. Connect with the world… People You May Know… (Oh ya? How do you know?) 2. X and you have 34 mutual friends. Y and you have 112 mutual friends. Z and you have 201 mutual friends....
View ArticleThe A to Z of… (Sify Columns)
A-Z of political newsmakers 12 November, 2013, Sify.com The A to Z of Congress confrontations 3 December, 2012, Sify.com The A to Z of IPL6 20 May, 2013, Sify.com The A to Z of Sreesanth 16 May, 2013,...
View ArticleMarch 2017 Status Updates
UK triggers Brexit. EU chief vows to break up USA. Two break-ups don’t make one unification. (People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones) Random alternate reality universe… PMs… 1947-60: Netaji....
View ArticleThe Curious Case of the Facebook Algorithm
I have been on Facebook for more than a decade and have 3000 plus friends but the last few years the News Feed Algorithm has been showing me the same 25-30 friends, blanking the other 3K. I noticed...
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