I want to be famous , albeit on facebook!

I was happily munching my evening snacks while I was checking facebook and one of my friend updated her status "Watched  (some movie) with (some friends) . Thanks to ( tagged  all friends) for making this day so beautiful #besttimeever".Within no time , one of her tagged friend replied " Same here. crazy day it was!We are awesome!". Later the discussion went on with all the tagged friends discussing about how amazing the day was and posted some pictures taken in front of the theater with all combination of friends in different poses .This got me thinking , to whom was the status update, if the only people discussing about it are the friends who went to the movie with her?

We all are so happy about the advent of technology , and internet is one of them . We spend many hours over the net. Check our emails, shop , read news and most importantly enjoy our presence in a social media. Not just any social media , but 'facebook' . Nearly 9 hours is spent by an average user on facebook every month . But you and I both know the fact that in urban India the time spent on facebook per day itself is 9 hours for many.

facebook is no more a social media to share something useful or funny or share about events of their life but more a tool for many to create an identity online and make themselves look more fun , more appealing than they actually are ! They have a serious obsession in getting more likes for their updates and want to show that they have a cool life (like nobody has/ better than some/ like everybody else). Endlessly post pictures of themselves with a variety of poses / amazing places(not just the beach pictures from their vacation but even their short time visit to local malls) they visit, update every task they do as a status  like " ooooo I bought a pair of shoes I always wanted!" and sometimes people add a picture of shoes along with it. And someone would reply "Cheating ! Even I wanted this! 1000 likes gal". Apple.inc products have appeared in more status and pictures than anything else. "Guess what ? My iphone/ipad/mac is here ! Could not have wished for a better day". Seriously ? Don't you want to update about the amazing food you ate? Not to forget the addition of hash tags everywhere. #feelingawesome #oncloudnine #LOL ...the list goes on forever. These updates are supposed to make them more fun and appealing and they may be successful on facebook given that majority of them think like that but is it really them? or just their facebook profile?

I see psychological and peer pressure to stand out from the crowd in the virtual world , don't know if they want to do the same in the real world. And these obsessed minds "like" others post so that they can get enough likes for their posts. Some are anxious about how many likes they would have got on facebook the minute they post something. And for these people there are apps too , which gives as many fake likes as they need! " Awwwwwww ! #awesomeness "

facebook is fun . I like it but obsession of being popular ?! hmm well its up to us to choose! The endless hours spent in making someone else feel you are amazing could actually be used to help someone. I am not talking about helping outsiders or social responsibility or charity. These days we don't help our own family members.Those fake smiles for picture can become true , that happiness to update a status can be tripled , that like on our status from someone unknown can be a heartfelt gratitude from our dear ones by just helping our family and friends.Then why facebook?