Saturday, October 3, 2009

A lecherous treacherous lot!

My current status update on facebook reads 'Carmel has just witnessed the dawn of the Internet Letching Era via social networking sites : ' I don't think there is a person in the entire world who could be as psychologically traumatised, scarred i should say, at the events that unfurled on a particular floor of a particular girls hostel in Pune , last night.
So here's what happens. On the eve of a particularly crucial exam, i hear girls screaming and running excitedly through the lobby. As a normal inquisitive person, i chose to do what i believe to be the worst choice of my life thus far. I chose to investigate.
I walked into a room ankle deep in drool. What do i see?? A bunch of girls skirmishing over a laptop. I didn't think too much of it at first.. but then i heard one of them squeak 'Hey, that's the guy i've been checking out from MIST. Now MIST as you know happens to be one of the other colleges that share the same campus as ours. I'm intrigued. I peer over all the heads crowded around the laptop to see just what the hell these women were squealing about at 2 in the morning...And there it was, the reason for all the commotion.. a tall white fellow, in his MIST uniform, smiling out of the screen. "Facebook?!? You’re stalking MIST blokes on Facebook?!???"
No answer. Suddenly,
"Hey, isn't that that girl with the big nose who's always around him??"...
"Yup, that's her."..
"Hey, go back to his profile and check if his relationship status says single!"...
" Already did. It doesn't say... But I just found his phone number!".
A flurry of movement occurs where all the girls dive in different directions for their mobiles. " I'm sending him a friend request" said one of them. "Don't" said another. Pat came the reply... "Too late".
I walked out. A particularly intelligible professor told us about the convergence of media and the emergence of the new media as the dominant medium... But letching over the internet?? Who would have thought??!?
I left before i had the opportunity to go totally insane. In my somewhat psychologically damaged state of mind, i'd left my keys back in the drool room. As much as i dreaded going back in, i had to muster up the courage to go in, get the keys and be back out in no time. I went in only to see that the laptop now sported the MIST guy's picture as the desktop wallpaper!!!
And thus have i bourn witness to the dawn of true convergence...the Internet Letching Era via social networking sites !

2 comments:

Unknown said...

HAVE FUN IN CHENNAI.. I LOVE YOU!! :D

-arch

Me said...

the wallpaper bit..Let's not say whose laptop housed certain set of wallpapers :P: P :P

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