Whats Up or Whats App?
Robin moved to Pune recently to join an IT company. His lips were tanned by smoking over 40 cigarettes daily. Yellow rotting pit will be an appropriate description for his mouth. The relative inconsistent timings and volume of work in the initial days gave him the flexibility to be high on booze whenever he was free. He religiously drank on Friday, Saturday and Sundays. It was also not an uncommon sight to see him drinking on some of the weekdays as well for reasons best known to him. If you keep yourself into these kind of activities, naturally you will not be having any good socially accepted hobbies like- singing, drawing, reading, playing musical instruments, hitting the gym for a workout, learning a new language and many more. You will be cut off from the real world. But who the hell needs the real world and real people when all narcissism and self-indulgence can be done in the virtual world?
Robin moved to Pune recently to join an IT company. His lips were tanned by smoking over 40 cigarettes daily. Yellow rotting pit will be an appropriate description for his mouth. The relative inconsistent timings and volume of work in the initial days gave him the flexibility to be high on booze whenever he was free. He religiously drank on Friday, Saturday and Sundays. It was also not an uncommon sight to see him drinking on some of the weekdays as well for reasons best known to him. If you keep yourself into these kind of activities, naturally you will not be having any good socially accepted hobbies like- singing, drawing, reading, playing musical instruments, hitting the gym for a workout, learning a new language and many more. You will be cut off from the real world. But who the hell needs the real world and real people when all narcissism and self-indulgence can be done in the virtual world?
People with these traits are very active on social media sites and lately are the earliest adopters of these innumerable android apps and gadgets. The audacity with which people adopt and influence others to do the same is alarming. I met Robin after 7 long years. I used to remember the intellectually stimulating discussions we used to have in the engineering days. He was able to convince his most challenging opponents by his arguments, expressions and his articulations.
Now he was talking to me without making eye contacts. His shoulders were down and he was continuously scrolling the Whats App application on his Samsung smart phone. I was just wondering what can be so important which is making him obsessively retard our face to face communication. He did keep the phone in his pocket finally only to say excuse me to me after 1 minute. Someone has again pinged him!
Etiquette say that if you are with a person, you can very well say to even your parents that you will call them back in few minutes. But who cares?
Etiquette say that if you are with a person, you can very well say to even your parents that you will call them back in few minutes. But who cares?
Personality disorder
It was almost the end of the second and the last round of placements at the prestigious Imperial Institute of Management. Abhay was feeling the heat now. Placement season will soon be over and he is yet to get a job. He was a heavy user of social networking sites. As an addict of facebook he used to spend some 18-20 hours a week on it. All of a sudden facebook has become an enemy of him. A flurry of messages congratulating the placements of his friends started to bother him too much. There was a sudden personality disorder in him. He used to keep himself closed in his room and stopped talking to his classmates. Notably amidst this chronic depression, he did not put any facebook updates like –“Feeling so down today”, “I want to be left alone”, “I want to leave this mad race and this cut throat competition”, “I have run out of luck totally”, “I am wondering if my life really worth anything?” These were the exact things which he used to discuss with his closest friend Shakkal, every time he visited him during that tough phase. As they say, “Life is like a box of chocolate. You never know which you are goanna get”. He got a job just before the end of studies in a top International consulting firm. The company was very employee friendly. No swiping machines were there. Work from home facility was there and no dress code was there. Abhay started to show a different side of personality disorder. He was updating his every move on facebook. He wanted others to feel the same way he felt when he did not have job and others were making those fervent status updates. “Feeling on the cloud nine”, “No swiping, no dress code. Life cannot get better than this”, “Sipping a cup of coffee with my favorite snack! Me working from home;);)!! ”. The reality was that he was not made part of any project. He knew it very well how dangerous it is to be without work when you are drawing an outrageously high salary by Indian standards. Still he was putting up those artificial status updates to gratify his ego.
It was almost the end of the second and the last round of placements at the prestigious Imperial Institute of Management. Abhay was feeling the heat now. Placement season will soon be over and he is yet to get a job. He was a heavy user of social networking sites. As an addict of facebook he used to spend some 18-20 hours a week on it. All of a sudden facebook has become an enemy of him. A flurry of messages congratulating the placements of his friends started to bother him too much. There was a sudden personality disorder in him. He used to keep himself closed in his room and stopped talking to his classmates. Notably amidst this chronic depression, he did not put any facebook updates like –“Feeling so down today”, “I want to be left alone”, “I want to leave this mad race and this cut throat competition”, “I have run out of luck totally”, “I am wondering if my life really worth anything?” These were the exact things which he used to discuss with his closest friend Shakkal, every time he visited him during that tough phase. As they say, “Life is like a box of chocolate. You never know which you are goanna get”. He got a job just before the end of studies in a top International consulting firm. The company was very employee friendly. No swiping machines were there. Work from home facility was there and no dress code was there. Abhay started to show a different side of personality disorder. He was updating his every move on facebook. He wanted others to feel the same way he felt when he did not have job and others were making those fervent status updates. “Feeling on the cloud nine”, “No swiping, no dress code. Life cannot get better than this”, “Sipping a cup of coffee with my favorite snack! Me working from home;);)!! ”. The reality was that he was not made part of any project. He knew it very well how dangerous it is to be without work when you are drawing an outrageously high salary by Indian standards. Still he was putting up those artificial status updates to gratify his ego.
