10 reasons to hate facebook

1. If you don’t like crowded places, facebook is not a place for you. You will find all kind of people in it, just like when you travel in a metro/ tube/bus/train you tend to bump into all categories of people, people who are weird, ugly, interesting characters, beautiful people and all other categories you want to categorize people into. But unlike a metro or tube where you would not talk to a stranger unnecessarily, on facebook you may receive a friend request or a poke from someone you don’t know at all. And to add on that you can get messages from strangers as well asking what you do and where are you from etc. Facebook was never for you.

2. Places- facebook offers a functionality which tells the exact location of where you are at a given point of time, this implies that you don’t have any privacy. Be rest assured to face questions and remarks from your friends when you are at a particular place and you didn’t want them to know about it. Especially when you are in a relationship and want a hideout, may God bless you.


3. People talk just about everything on facebook, starting from what are they eating, where they are, movie reviews, political views, expert comments on sports,social issues or any other matter that you can think of as a debatable topic. One thing that is scarce on facebook is the respect of others views and thoughts. If you like expressing your views freely, facebook isn’t the place for you.


4. If you are an amateur photographer, writer, painter, musician etc. or even an artist who believes in constant learning and growing and also appreciating others creations, facebook isn’t the place for you. You will find great artists who only believe in their own creation and think that others don’t have creative abilities. I don’t know if you will be surprised to hear, as a matter of fact, all these great artists achieve their so called greatness by mutual admiration (I leave it to you to define the mutual admirers group).These great artists don't believe in the fact that Art is never perfect. Oh yes, feedback is something you will never have to ask for on facebook (it comes free of cost and against your will).


5. If you have a bad argument with any of your friends, barely it will happen when you will get to know the issue direct from your friend’s mouth (surely there will be your best friends who will always come to you and tell you if they felt bad about anything you said to them, and for such friends it doesn’t matter if they are on facebook or not), you can expect to read that friend’s status message directing at you. If you like direct conversations, facebook is not for you.


6. If you are in a relationship and you accept a friend request from the opposite sex, you will face questions from your partner, needless to say questions often lead to arguments. If you believe even if you are in a relationship you still have your own life, and can still make friends then facebook shouldn’t be in your browser history as the last logged in page.


7. If you are there to make friends, be in touch with your school friends or old childhood friends or have a nice social life, you are mistaken, mostly people use facebook to prove their point, publicize their skills, showcase their creativity. Basically it has to do with gaining attention and show-offs. If you are not an attention seeker, sorry you won’t feel too happy being on facebook.


8. If you don’t like being part of online communities created by your friends or acquaintances and wouldn’t want to see unnecessary updates that keep popping up every minute, facebook isn’t the place for you.


9. If you are a private and reserved person and don’t want people to interfere in your personal life, facebook may very well destroy your private and personal life.


10. If you want your email account to be secure and safe, facebook isn’t for you.

Those Boring Conference Calls..

Aah, did I touch a string or played a chord you were trying to avoid! Don’t feel bad, I know you would have called few of your conference calls boring in the past. Well, don't we all sometimes. 

What is that one thing that makes a conference call boring?

Lets look at a few day-to-day examples, shall we? A presentation that you are least interested in, a report that has too much of data, graphs and bullet points; mostly being overdone with bright colors and designs [as if you were watching models walking in Lakme Fashion Week], an organization structure change that barely impacts your day to day job, a discussion that leads to an inconclusive argument, and sways you from solutions, a recurring conference call where all you do is discuss about things that were not done as decided in the previous call, a call which you joined for a mere formality or may be you are just standing in for your boss.

So what do you feel like doing when you are stuck on a conference call due to these reasons, apart from making faces and feeling frustrated - that where the hell am I stuck!

Let’s start with some business activities, to make us feel good that we still work while being on such calls [it's all about utilizing your time, ain't it]. To name a few- replying less important emails (depends on how many you receive in a day), drafting a less important email that needs one liners more than anything else, chat with a colleague on an ongoing issue - obviously on small and minor ones, go through a document/report that you have been wanting to somehow finish reading - a tick in the box basically, or do some basic reporting that needs less of your concentration.

We might not feel like doing any or all of these things during such calls always, so what else can be done? 

Have some fun probably. These calls turn out to be your chance to do something different that your busy schedule doesn't allow you to do; as we know its all about evolving. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Why be that Jack anyway! So here are a few things you can do while being bored to death on such calls; chat with your latest crush or love interest at work (make sure its not an explicitly-romantic conversation if you are talking on the office communicator, if it is, use your mobile. I am sure you know what I mean.), check out that cute, hot guy or girl on your floor - within your visible reach of-course (some may find themselves unlucky in this regard, I know you feel too bad about it), Facebook and Twitter are age-old options; not sure if you are bored of these too, shop online (now this is the most expensive thing to do on a boring call, unless you have a fat salary and love to shop), if you are using headphones for your call then you can stretch the wire and chit-chat with your colleague/s sitting next to you or a couple of desks away, and crack a few jokes (make sure the mute button on your phone is on or else you will end up being a joke yourself), start a group chat with your colleagues who are on the same call to check if they are also bored (make sure you don’t involve your boss in that chat, you know why, don't you) or may be you would just like to sit back and read an interesting article or blog on the internet.

Depending on what we do on such calls actually determines the duration of the call, a boring call often seems to be longer than its specified time. Doing something interesting shortens its duration and makes it a stress buster on that very busy day where you haven’t been able to take that smoke or coffee break even once.

While I write this on a boring conference call, I hope you make time to read it during one such call.

The ....

When you open your arms

the sky turns silver

the clouds get their existence

the trees start dancing

everything turns into a dream

When you take me in your arms

the sky showers its blessings on me

the clouds bring back my existence

the birds make me sing

the trees make me dance

my dreams turn into a beautiful reality

The Rain...