
With 24 hours of internet accessibility most people are reluctant to go offline, and I too belong to this group ,enjoying that round the clock connectivity and like all the others I too have GTalk as my best companion. (Skype is struggling hard to make its presence felt though). Whenever you log-in into your gtalk account, the first thing that you notice is other people's status messages. Gtalk in itself had provided with three kinds of options --"Available", "Busy" and "Custom message" but now the existence of the former two in itself has been threatened by the latter. I conducted a Random sampling (minutes ago) and found that out of 40 people connected with me through it, just 10 had the status of Busy or Available while rest have their own customized messages. The messages and their creators are of different types. I tried to classify them and came out with following categories:-
1. News keepers: These people have taken the responsibility of keeping everyone updated with the happenings of the world, so instead of checking "rediff" for the latest news just log-in and check the status messages of these dudes.Only problem with it is that most of the times they all give importance to same flashy news, i remember the news of 3 eggs costing 1 billion dollars in zimbabwe which was flashed by so many people at the same time.
2.Thought of the day: These people circulate the latest thought which they encounter and have not "thought" by themselves, through this space. The thoughts that get picked are generally "high on attitude quotient". So you can encounter powerful statements like - To you I am an atheist but to god I am a Loyal oppostition. (If you had seen my recent status messages than you could have guessed to which classification do I belong), or banal statement like - "Success is ..............", which even a school teacher would have dared to speak in front of just his/her students (who are forced to hear everything that the wise guy/gal has to say)
3.Autobiographers: These are the people who use this platform to give an insight of their personal life in which hardly anyone is interested. No offense intended but I find these status messages most annoying (though I do often switch to this category too). So you tend to find statements like - "It was a bad day" and its sequel "it was a bad day again!!!!!!!!!"
4.Critics : These are the people apart from their normal roles double up as a critic, so they dare to voice their "unbiased"opinion on movies, people, football clubs, matches, politics, institutions and so on. So you find messages like - "Rock on Rocks!!!!!!", "IIT Sucks" , "Sing is king", "Obama Rocks" (Rocks is the most frequently used word amongst them)
5.Geniuses: It is the most unique amongst all the previously mentioned categories. These are the people who would put some meaningless statement as their message and expect others to ask what it is about and believe me when you do ask, their reply will make you curse yourself for taking the pain of asking.
6.Marketer: They use this space for publicising something which can be a website or a link to their own blog (that is what i do regularly). This slightly rare specie though.
7.Extincting Specie: These are the people that have "busy" or "available" as their status message.
I feel that further categorization could be done but could not think of any more right now. Most of the people switch across categories as and when they feel like. Another thing which I keep pondering upon is the "busyness" of people (i hope that this word exists).Most of the people's status messages flashes red dot indicating that they are busy but once you write something to them many of them would enter into the world of purposeless talks.
I simultaneously belong to many of the aforementioned categories to which do you belong to and which one do you hate most??
5 comments:
nice topic showing mentality of people..I think I belong to thought of the day category.
vivek u reallyy rocked this tym... very true..
well i dont stick to 1 category, but more often it is the extinct 1..... [;)]
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