Who's that guy...!

A penny for your thoughts. (I know nobody else bothers paying you for that but anyway...). I suggest you remain broad minded and keep all your options open. Accept all the statements described hereon provisionally, analyse objectively and then arrive at a conclusion.

Here we go. How do you imagine this guy is going to be?

1. He has an IQ of 140.
2. He is supposed be earning anywhere between $115k to $230k
3. Is right brained- subjective, creative, intuitive and holistic.
4. Attracts artsy people- those free spirited artists with great imaginations...
5. Is a true romantic- "can make his partner feel complete, shows uncontrollable love and fills his partner with euphoria every time he touches"
6. As a date, he is mature, in the prime of his life, cherishes his friends, ready to try out long term relationship if he wants, and experienced. His dates should be prepared for some scintillating conversations with the occasional wild time out!
7. Resembles Jai in Sholay and Aslam in Rang De Basanti.
8. Can become an MTV Roadie, if he so desires...
9. Gets voted by his friends and peers as amongst the most generous, most talkative, hottest and best companion on a deserted island!
10. And as per his, ahem, sexual personality, he is The Tentacled Monster (now that's really original!)

Who could be this superman?

SRK?

Naah. Too narcissist. Too much into the open to be really mysterious and seductive...

Hrithik?

Nopes. Too polite. Lacks attitude. Has some talent but nothing to be compared to this illustrious and colourful personality...

Vishwanathan Anand?

No way. Very intelligent, no doubt. But lacks the flair...

Who else?
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It had to be....................................ME!!!

I get this description of mine on Facebook. The IQ because I managed to solve 28 MBA entrance styled question out of 30 in about 15 minutes. The salary because of having two professional degrees, having read more than 5 books in the past year and believing in solving problems! About the rest, the less said the better.

Noted author Robert Greene contends that ordinary life is harsh and people are crying out to be led out of their ennui. They want fantasies, dreams, enigma, contradictions, irrationalities and magic.

And what better place to find it than Facebook?

Long live the web 2.0!!
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Epilogue
Anyone who said the Internet couldn't become an alternative to the 'real' world must never have had a taste of these web 2.0 innovations. First there was orkut. People retrieved the whereabouts of their friends, made new friends, made new girlfriends/boyfriends, even found a wife/husband, joined communities, scrapped each other tirelessly and saw themselves get completely hooked to it.

Everything seemed so perfect for orkut in India that it never even bothered to bring about any new improvement, be it security or newer features. Perhaps it was so depressed by its failure in making inroads in the US and Europe that it failed to notice that what a strong hold it had over a potential clientele of one billion people.

Then came Facebook and along with it, all its two-a-penny applications, some of which have already been described with glee earlier in this post! Facebook gave an entirely new dimension to social networking by opening its space to private application developers. A brilliant and original idea after all, its billion dollar valuation has also played its part in bringing more people on board.

All this has woken Orkut, and thus Google up and now it’s fighting desperately hard to stay in the race. It has tightened security measures, addressed privacy measures (The creator Orkut Buyukkokten and others would never have thought about strangers going to girls and asking for ‘lovship’ and ‘frandship’) and has also allowed Facebook like applications to be added on their profiles.

But what works in this game is the viewership a site already enjoys. I have so many friends on orkut that it actually forces me to come to reply to scraps or wish others on their birthdays. Plus, profile surfing is still the easiest and the best, allowing for socialising. On the other hand, Facebook seems to be suffering from overkill.

Who is going to prevail? Well, let’s wait and watch!