Seems like people are following a trend unconsciously in social networking sites, especially FB i.e. Facebook. Ever noticed the various stages of a person's life in such sites? Let us examine ;)
Stage 1 : You are new to the world of social networking. You either choose a picture of a celebrity as your profile pic or a very far away shot of urself. Then, You add every tom, dick and harry into your list, just to increase your number of friends.
Stage 2 : You are now new to the world of Farm and mafia :P . Yes...yes... I am talking about Farmville, Mafia wars, Aquarium, blah blah! You start adding more people up [this time, you add up more random ppl, you dont even bother to know which country they belong to!] just to increase the strength of your clan or neighbourhod or whatever!
Stage 3 : You get fed up of these games. You remove all the random people from your list, thereby bringing your mighty friend count of 700+ to a modest 150+.
Stage 4 : Now you arrive to the "You are single and you are ready to mingle" stage. You change your Profile picture every few hours and atleast once every single day!
Stage 5 : You are soon fed up of the above stage, and decide to stick to your current picture for a month or two, i.e. till you get another good pic of yours clicked! [Yes, it takes a month or two :P ]
Stage 6 : You are engaged. Relationship status gets changed within minutes of your engagement ceremony. Please note: The profile picture also changes ;)
Stage 7 : You are married. Now the profile pic changes from a single person to that of a couple. In some cases, this change is seen in stage 6 itself. People also tag their spouse's name to their profile. Such as Miss.X is married to Mr.Y. Seriously, FB is turning into a family tree tracker!
Stage 8 : You are in the honeymoon phase. Please note : This stage lasts for nearly an year or two from the day you get married. The profile pic changes every fortnight, with the couple displaying all sorts of poses :P
Stage 9 : A kid is born. Now you can see that the profile picture changes to that of the baby :) From here, mostly, the profile pic is that of the baby and the various stages of its growth :)
Please note : This post is not 100% correct and is liable to change from person to person. The views/gyan put forth are solely on the Author's observations of her friends list :)
Enough for now... B.R.B!!! ;)
very true, i have observed most of my friends doing this..so you are in stage 4 uh? ;)
ReplyDeleteHahaha :D I am in stage 5 actually :D went right from stage 3 to 5 :) Which stage r u in? :P
ReplyDeletei started frm stage 5..have bee in stage 5 fr the last 2 and half years..and am not planning to switch for quite some time..stage 5 rocks :D..nice analysis btw.
ReplyDeleteNot 700+ .. only 500+ .. Since at least till 2 years ago those games would not allow you to have more then 500 people.
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Suraj - Yeah stage 5 is the coolest! :)
ReplyDeleteShrijeet - So u ve tried it eh? :P
Btw, thanks for the comments guys! :)