OCWAFD

 Feels good to create my own Blogspot.

The other Social Media , somehow do not impress me.What's App has become inevitable- inescapable , in fact. After your text messages and e mail, you can not ignore What's App. 

But what puts me off in What's App groups is unrestrained self fulfilling opinions.People are full of themselves in no time and soon, the Group Admin loses control. It is the culmination of of verbal anarchy. Free and undiluted . No rules in the jungle. The real pain in the other end of the alimentary canal  is Knee jerk forwards which is clearly by reflex.I choose to call this as "Obsessive Compulsive What'sApp Forward Disorder( OCWAFD). 

Soon, one gets the' posts fatigue' and gets weary if not contemptuous.

And the longer you continue, the typical underlying behavioral traits surface and cause fissures in the so far healthy relationship.Left vs Right, Liberal vs Conservative, Minority vs Majority, North vs South, Sons of Soil vs Immigrants, GOP vs NDA- the whole plethora unfolds itself. 

Like the cliche" You may win an argument but lose a friend/many friends."

I believe that it is the inehrent King Narciss in all of us- the genetically passed on  Infection, leading to this OCWAFD  pandemic. 

My children don't listen,Wife doesn't heed, Parents don't care, Boss scoffs, juniors make faces behind your back, neighbours look the other way around. How the hell am I going to expose this ignorant world about all my superior thoughts?

Well, atleast in open to public platforms like You Tube, you can ignore or unsubsribe.How cn you escape the barrage in a What's App group created for alumni, Fellow workers, Retired veterans, Followers of Tai Chi, Residents Welfare Association,Metro Police,  Your Bank's stupid chatbot ,Covid Apps and so on?

All this horror invited because somebody benevolently condescended to include you and you walked into the honey trap.Like you always click: "I Agree", to T &Cs of  all Free Apps you can download on your mobilephone.

And what a torrent of an  inflow!

Regular greetings on select birthdays, Homeguards day, Piles Day, Eating preferences of Kamala Harris, WFH jokes, Half baked business analytics  ... Boy, this is surely Big Data,-Variety, Voluminous ,Velocity , all rolled in one.

And for every great self publicised accomplishment like, "My niece is part of the Vaccine Invention team in Belarussia", not less than three hundedfolded hands and Thumbs Up emojies.

To clear chat ,you will take solid forty  minutes in one session alone.If not , your 1 TB internal storage in handphone is full in two days!

Like all inventions and innovations of Industrial Revloution 3.0., these are Eletronic Janusses.

A la Arvindswamy in his villainous performances. Handsome but lethal.

And so, to strike a saner balanced communication strategy, I finally opted for my own Blogspot.

Like Mr.Aathma , in Sujathas's SciFi story- about the only lone survivior of the Nuclear Holocaust in WW III:

I will write, post ,read and toast to myself about the prolifc writer in myself.

All by myself. You don't exist please.

Sounds perhaps like "Intellectual Masturbation"?

So, be it. I am enjoying it, same like what  Mcdonalds' clip says.