Monday, March 28, 2011

Abbreviated thoughts.

A lot has been said and probably a lot will be said about the social networking sites. Here are my two bits too.

1. A limit of 140 characters. Some one came and thought, hey people are very verbose. Why not cut down on these words and get to the essence of communication. And if they cant do it in 14o characters, they dont deserve to be heard. So now we have character limits on status. Ergo, status messages like, Morning peoooopleeee!! Aw hot coffee burns..! Just out of shower. Water is sure wet!
2. No limits on friend requests: I am guilty. Its kinda hard for me to refuse a friend request. Am planning to now though. Earlier, I thought it was kind of cool to have a gazillion friends on FB, Orkut (Does any one still go there) etc. Now, I have a friend list of about three million and I dont even know one percent of them. So the shears have to come. Now.