42 laid a brink in the wall

Ola to our one issue old readers!

Another month gone by. And what a month it has been, right? H1N1, petrifying us (got your N95's?). The economy, continuing on its downward spiral. 2 Indians - Somdev Devvarman and Sania Mirza, qualifying for the US Open and making it to the second round no less. Giancarlo Fisichella claiming second place for Force India at Belgium, and causing a stir of sorts when he moves to Ferrari for the remainder of the season (an utter betrayal in my opinion, in spite of what Vijay Mallya has to say about letting Fisi off on "compassionate grounds". Though which Italian driver would not want to race for the Prancing Horse, right? But I digress.). And the clincher. More like the shocker. YS Rajasekara Reddy, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh found dead in a chopper crash. A natural leader and charismatic administrator, lost (a piece of news which has the conspiracy theorists working on overtime). But, enough sadness for one page. Let us move onto a more "in-sync" (as Quickquotes so aptly put it) topic. Ahem - is social networking, life?

Aah, this is something which a lot of people would go against. Social networking websites like Orkut, Twitter and Facebook (the former for the masses; the centre for the microbloggers, who don't have enough time on their hands yet want to keep updating on their every blink, sneeze and phone conversation to their friends; the latter, a more refined version of the former) have taken the web by storm. Everywhere you go, they're there. Why, I even saw an advertisement for Facebook on our very own Notice Board right next to the Multimedia Lab! No exaggerations here. These "SN" websites (as they are popularly known) have grown on an individual, so much so that teenagers hardly go out to play or do any other sort of extracting work. Myself included, of course. We are a generation that is glued to the computer screens, our eyes becoming as wide as the wallpaper of the NASA image of a planet or as small as the mouse pointer. All we need to have is somebody online on our IM list, just so we can say 'hey, sup, nothing much', and the like. As my dad so kindly told me, "When we were young we used to go out and play cricket man. And you. Cha." (No offence meant to the people who still go out and play cricket of course)

I know guys who get up at 2 A.M, just so they can check their Facebook notifications. And for what? Some person commented on some picture. Couldn't that have waited till a saner hour? Seriously, is this the life you want to lead? I for one would not disrupt a good night's sleep, even if you give me a million dollars. (Well, maybe if you give me a million, but no less :D)

Get a grip. Life is for the living. A lesson which everybody should learn.  This does not mean you should not check out our e-zine @ http://www.whatelseels.blogspot.com :P Now that you guys have sunk your teeth into that one, let's dive into the issue. On with the show, and all that jazz. Keep thinking, and do keep reading.

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