Monday, April 10, 2006

Expressions... They do make a difference...

Yahoo, MSN, Google... there is an endless list of IM services. They are very useful for software engineers like us who spend best part of our days in front of this "smart" terminal. But sometimes it makes you wonder whether one can really communicate through it. Here is one such funny incident which happened today.

Today I got a mesg from one of my friends. She informed me (with I donno what expression): "U know what... Salman got jailed". I didn't know how to respond and foolishly I said what first came to my mind: "Good". Now, all you intelligent people must have figured out what a mistake I made. I don't presonally dislike Salman but if he has been jailed for something he has really done, I can't feel sorry for him. But it seems the "poor guy" did not do such a crime to deserve such "cruelity" on the part of our law system. Well, I did another mistake of pointing out that he is not exactly a poor guy and he owns best of the cars available in India and killed some really poor guys with that. Now the second part was my mistake and not the mode of communication. But I guess I made my point, so lets move on.

Well, obviously I am not worried about Salman Khan here. But coming back to the thing which i find more concerned about is the expressionlessness of this thing called IM. I guess most of you guys must have used it (while at work or home) to stay in touch with family and friends. Things are not always funny. It is not only Salman you talk about.

All the people who agree can put comments here. All those don't agree, send me an IM. ;)

2 comments:

Raman said...
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Anonymous said...

Very true. :)