So, why would you name your texting app, whatsApp??? Because, wassup wasn’t available? And it would be cool to put a pun on it and rename it WhatsApp making it well ‘jargoned’ technically?
Anyways, doesn’t matter. WhatsApp is the latest thingamabob YOU MUST HAVE on your smart phones. If you are not a Whatsapper, you don’t belong to this world and only God can save you???? You don’t have to be a purveyor of the latest gizmos and/or apps, but this is something you can’t NOT HAVE.
So now, apart from the regular school/building/train/bus/college/cousins groups, we now have a brand new line of groups:
Galli/Nukka group
Pan/Gutka group
Friends-who-drink group
Friends-who-don’t-drink group
Pinky’s dance class group
Chintu’s art class group
Kitty Party Group
Garba Group
TeenPatti Group…:)
Jain Pav Bhaji 'tasting' Group.....(you know what I mean ;))
And so on and so forth…. You can only be as creative as the endless labyrinths of your mind.
And we say that we have no time in the world, ya? So profound this gets. You can be busy only as busy can be. Priorities speak the truth!
Talking about time, I wonder who makes up all these thousands of jokes that make their way through these ziggity-zaggety network of groups, exchanging screen by screen in less than a second (copy + paste at it’s best) and reaching you no matter where you are? The Santa Banta jokes, the gujju jokes, the sindhi jokes, and the ‘non-veg’ jokes. I can’t believe we still call it ‘non-veg’. Couldn’t it be just called ‘adult’ jokes? We Indians have some way to baptizing generic terminology, don’t we? And imagine the number of ‘lol’s’ that follow. INFINITE (my little boy’s favorite number). But I have to say, a lot of them are very funny and they can bring that incy vincy smile on your face in the middle of the most dreary day.
WhatsApp also inspires discussions, some good, some not-so-good, and also fights, some good and not-so-good :). And while it certainly shrinks our world (and we thought FACEBOOK did it, duh), it also makes us lazy.
People!!!! A ‘whatsapp’ birthday message can never replace a phone call, as WORDS can never replace the VOICE. Let’s not do away with that one ‘primitive’, although ‘personal’ touch that can touch the chords of the heart and fill it with the ‘feel-goodness’.
Oh, well, the two sides of a coin. So, though I need to ‘mute’ my phone in the night for my over-enthusiastic ‘cousins’ (wink wink), I love it and it’s here to stay. So let’s keep whatsapping and be a ‘tap’ away from our ginormous circle of family and friends.
Stay connected!
Anyways, doesn’t matter. WhatsApp is the latest thingamabob YOU MUST HAVE on your smart phones. If you are not a Whatsapper, you don’t belong to this world and only God can save you???? You don’t have to be a purveyor of the latest gizmos and/or apps, but this is something you can’t NOT HAVE.
So now, apart from the regular school/building/train/bus/college/cousins groups, we now have a brand new line of groups:
Galli/Nukka group
Pan/Gutka group
Friends-who-drink group
Friends-who-don’t-drink group
Pinky’s dance class group
Chintu’s art class group
Kitty Party Group
Garba Group
TeenPatti Group…:)
Jain Pav Bhaji 'tasting' Group.....(you know what I mean ;))
And so on and so forth…. You can only be as creative as the endless labyrinths of your mind.
And we say that we have no time in the world, ya? So profound this gets. You can be busy only as busy can be. Priorities speak the truth!
Talking about time, I wonder who makes up all these thousands of jokes that make their way through these ziggity-zaggety network of groups, exchanging screen by screen in less than a second (copy + paste at it’s best) and reaching you no matter where you are? The Santa Banta jokes, the gujju jokes, the sindhi jokes, and the ‘non-veg’ jokes. I can’t believe we still call it ‘non-veg’. Couldn’t it be just called ‘adult’ jokes? We Indians have some way to baptizing generic terminology, don’t we? And imagine the number of ‘lol’s’ that follow. INFINITE (my little boy’s favorite number). But I have to say, a lot of them are very funny and they can bring that incy vincy smile on your face in the middle of the most dreary day.
WhatsApp also inspires discussions, some good, some not-so-good, and also fights, some good and not-so-good :). And while it certainly shrinks our world (and we thought FACEBOOK did it, duh), it also makes us lazy.
People!!!! A ‘whatsapp’ birthday message can never replace a phone call, as WORDS can never replace the VOICE. Let’s not do away with that one ‘primitive’, although ‘personal’ touch that can touch the chords of the heart and fill it with the ‘feel-goodness’.
Oh, well, the two sides of a coin. So, though I need to ‘mute’ my phone in the night for my over-enthusiastic ‘cousins’ (wink wink), I love it and it’s here to stay. So let’s keep whatsapping and be a ‘tap’ away from our ginormous circle of family and friends.
Stay connected!
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