Bogus Blogging

In theory, friendship is a beautiful bond between two people, which transcends age, gender, race, religion, caste, color and everything else we could possibly imagine. So, unsurprisingly, many find friendship a safe haven or starting point to nurture a secret desire. There is no dearth of instances around us that speak volumes of the fact that friendship is the biggest (e)scapegoat or the ultimate fall guy we resort to when a relationship that we always wanted never materialize.

Whether movies reflect the social scenario, or the other way round, we never seem to run out of the ideas to start a “Friendship” with someone we like. Contrast to the conventional methods of initiating a friendship, we now log on to Orkut or Facebook in a bid to lay the friendship foundation. It is easy to lose count of many that spend hours to get close to the people they want to. For a starter, they send friendship requests, followed by scraps, an invitation to online chat and then cell phone. Well, strangely, the whole process appears to be an extremely foolproof approach. To support this revolution and cash in on this trend, the mobile phone network service providers have almost cleverly introduced many packages tailor-made to the needs of blossoming friendship across the country. Needless to say, much of their revenues are generated by the consumer segments that can, apparently, move mountains to foster their friendship.

Sharing of cell phone numbers and even harnessing on wrong numbers are some of the other bizarre techniques of developing friendships that we know of in the modern times. And, in fact, we have seen the rate of friendship hitting an unprecedented new high in the past ten years, which can easily be attributed the cell phone revolution. We may not have the statistics to confirm any number yet, but don’t be dumbfounded if you find one soon.

Just come to think of it- if the number of friendships is growing at an astronomical proportion by the day, then why on earth have we not witnessed a similar improvement in the behavioral patterns of the so-called educated & civilized people who live in our society? We still live in a society that is infested by selfish people corrupted by unethical practices and seething with jealously at other’s prosperity. Or, those ostensibly smart professionals that are keen on being friends with others, rarely care about their social responsibilities and seldom make any sincere effort to create an environment of love, peace and co-operation around them.

Get up in the morning, step out of your house and look around yourself – you will find blood-suckers, waiting to pounce on easy prays and ready to prosper at others expense. It goes without saying who the blood-suckers are – many of them live with us, live within us, and maybe a part of our genealogy. But do we care? We are just too busy in getting along with people across the social networking sites to foster our so-called selfish relationships under the guise of “Frienship”!!!

Welcome to the world of competition! Just make sure you keep your character, ethics and virginity intact!