How? Well if you happen to call an old school friend who is thousand miles away and its been ages that you have chatted with him; the moment he picks up the phone he smirks and says ' gurl how was your last rafting trip, seems like you had great fun. Can you organise the same for me when I am in India?'. Of course my question is - 'Did it come on today's newspaper or was it captured by sabse tez channel?? How the hell do you know whether I was sleeping or having fun in my trip?' . The answer comes - "Duh, before you can share the details with me, facebook status and photo albums of your friends does the talking". Well well, did you ever dream of such a situation? At least I did not! I could never imagine that if I sneeze the entire directory of my friends will get to know and call to ask if i am ok? Am I less than a star? I don't think so!
The idea of "getting noticed" has become very easy these days. You no longer only rely on mediums like newspapers, TV channels, radio etc. If you are talented, simple, just showcase it in a video and upload it on YouTube and circulate the link to all your friends. We certainly are progressing towards jet age where you can get results on one click of a button. The coy girl in your college who was hardly noticed during the tenure of two years is eager to share her thoughts, pictures, favourite movies, favourite books and all her likes and dislikes without even blinking these days.
There is a flip side to this as well..."you can be somebody who you aspire to be or you can showcase yourself as somebody who is absolutely different from what you are" in this virtual world of networking.
I can foresee a time when facebook sells its members' demographic details to corporates who sell soaps, detergents, toothpastes etc for a whopping amount because the founder is sitting on a goldmine of information which can be used like how. This will be the only forum which is a storehouse of millions and millions of respondents' likes, dislikes, what do they wear, what do they want to achieve, how they feel about any TV channel, vital statistics, favourite shows, favourite movies etc etc..
Think about it!
