Like Kar De Yaar!

The social media is eating into your brain cells and people around me are turning into dimwits at  hours/day ratio. That’s a random measurement but the point being, people are turning desperate for likes. I cannot take it anymore and I need to whine for benefit.

I do not blame anyone actually. I would be lying if I said I don’t care about the number of likes on my photo or comments. At the same time I am happy with what I post with minimal acceptance. But then, these few words have changed the cognition of ‘Acceptance.’

100 plus likes hai matlab bandi toh hot hai and so on.. Don't you'll makes faces at that statement when you have heard it too. 

Today we are calculating the worth of people based upon the number of likes, comments and retweets they get. The ego is polished with a certain number of likes and retweets that your commonly made statements get. I agree some of them are over-the-top fancy, sensible and knowledge bearing but not all! Your caption by some philosopher is not not opening your eyes to the world just because you're posing alongside a window. 

Things have taken turn for a worse when you’d rather miss the entire frame of scenery behind you and focus on your face so that you don’t have to ‘square it’ for your display pictures. Again, who doesn’t like ‘Hey nice dp! Cool pic!’ I am not saying it is all wrong, but spare a minute to think if it is actually who you are.  Are you clicking a picture to capture that moment or are you thinking isko 100 + likes toh ayenge hi. By the way, let me remind you there’s another set of people in your friend-list whose only work is to like whatever you post, good or bad because they want that ‘like’ in return. Barter likes and Retweets bro! DAFUQ. 

People nowadays do not take a bite before you clicking it for #foodgasm and #foodporn on your Instagram. Likes are important over hunger. Why can’t you just relish the dish without letting your 1000 plus friends know that a Dosa or a Pav bhaji was extremely foodgasmic or that’s what they say!

I am seriously waiting for the time when people will learn the online check-in or web check-in does not mean you check-in to airports on Facebook! Everyone travels by airplanes and even before passing through the entry gates, you’ve checked in for your friends to show you’re travelling somewhere. That little plane symbol also makes it look so genuine right? 

The whole shitty thing works on making people jealous. Why? Do you want to show you’ve better clothes, slimmer figure, more money or an excellent 3G connection! Or in this case, wait my 1000+ friends out of which I talk to like 20, need to know how cool I am. Bro, you suck! 

Honestly if you observe a little, the best moments are when you burnt your tongue because you couldn’t wait to grab the bite of the hot steaming dish, the best moments are when you smiled whole-heartedly and not pouted for that selfie with bright red lipstick, the best moments are not when you posed for photographs in linear manner but when you’re caught candid.

It is really simple guys, do some things to make you happy rather than concentrating on making others jealous. One check-in at a holiday spot is enough for people to know you’re out of town. But every two hours if you’re posting a picture from the place with a plastered smile are you really enjoying? Some of you might curse the poor connection because it is taking time to upload.

Married people on their honeymoon trips have 100% assurance that they’ll get close to 200-300 likes because lovely couple jazz and that. But aren’t you happy with marriage congratulatory posts? Why don’t you check in ‘feeling horny with ....’ in some exotic location. Oh sorry, that’s private right? You cannot post such things on FB. Or can you? Will you, why not? 

Think people think! Go ahead tag yourself with 3 others having fun in the garden behind your house. Don’t forget to do the victory ‘V’ sign, because that gets likes you know!