One thing that my newly acquaintances would ask from me, besides my cell phone number, is my MSN messenger or Skype account. Nowadays they don't even ask for my cell phone number anymore, "phone calls are costy" so they said.
Since I've neglected my MSN for quite a few years and the trend tends to favor Skype, I suffered myself the annoying process of establishing a skype account and with help from a friend, managed to initiate notice to as many people as I could.
First few days there was the anticipation of any response to my initial message, followed by disappointment when found none. I am known to have a handful of virtues but sadly, patience is not one of them. So by the third day, I posted a sarcastic rant on my user's intro. All but one responded to it, Bless that soul!!
It was fun, I must say, to indulge oneself with so many types of modern communication. Some convey not only words but also gestures that would fail to delivery when put into words. Unfortunately, ones who have limited clarity in speech remain so while they are typing to chat online. So much so that it triggers even more misunderstanding than chatting face to face.
It wouldn't be fair to say that this misunderstanding often occurred since chatting online also involves the speed of one's typing-hand, and frankly, most people type s~l~o~w. Eventually those who couldn’t keep up with their companies dived, deep, deep, down. Yet the urge to express oneself refuse to bend. This urge channeled itself to a new outlet-the blogs. It allows people to elaborate whatever it is they have to say within sufficient time, though often still insufficient in their delivery of points.
There are simply too many kinds of cyber alternatives with which people nowadays use to celebrate their ego and I can say, strangely with pride that we’ve succeed to abuse them in every possible way. The email account that gathers more garbage or forwarded articles than mails, the msn account that received pointless ads, the skype accounts that few actually purchase for phone-call clearance, the yahoo account, the qq account; as someone who have experienced all the above, it becomes clear to me that nothing in the world could fill up the blanks in various cubes of dialogue, since there are simply not that much to say while our daily lives is in fact plain. The scarceness of reflection increased as the insight for life declined.
I can say with certainty that whatever new cyber gadget emerges every once in a while will certainly and quickly lose their charm. For the least, I know they’ve lost their charms in me.
