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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Narcissism all around!

Why, even i caught myself today, clicking myself, from my own cell phone. In case you haven't noticed the number of 'me's in this sentence, I'll share with you the scenario in college on a regular day: most people who happen to be free lounge about the corridors and lawns, either looking at themselves in pocket mirrors, or taking pictures of themselves and their friends. Scene on the bus: people buried in smses and cell phones, and yeah, some clicking away here too! Scene on the road: well, i don't need to repeat it again. so what happens to all these pics? they're on display for the benefit of the entire world. You'll find them on social networking sites, as cellphone wallpapers. And not just photos, even blogs talk about publishing yourself to the world. Even my blog here tells people so much about me. So what with so much of obsession with the self and what belongs to the self, aren't we heading to a society where people would simply refuse to look beyond their cell phone, their profile pages and their blogs? Everyone seems to be keen on expressing themselves and not on what others have to say. So eventually, there is going to be no audience for all this display! And the snake would turn in on itself...

4 comments:

  1. good you brought up dis... i too am highly obsessed... lol,

    i must say, you are a keen observer..

    happy blogging..!!

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  2. DUDE...
    this is DIRECTLY DIRECTED towards me!!!
    not the photo ckicking part...but the rest...
    but i guess u missed the provision of reading 'others' blogs....so we are not saying we dont wanna know about others...its just that through these things..we get to know ourselves better..and know the cruel 'big-bad-wolf' world!!

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  3. hey ayesha,
    Nice one yaar!!!!!!!!
    keep up the gud work!!!!!!!!!!
    I'm amused as well as bent to ponder over wat u have expresse here, simply awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    we all read each others' blog!!!!!
    dnt woory ,we express and we try to relate to the expressions of others!!!!!!!!!
    ;)

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  4. go it, girl, go it!!! intelligent young lady!! thou art right, of course. I have often thought of facebook as a particularly narcissistic site and would like to do a study of it somewhere... but you are right, of course, it's in the air, all around... hard to escape!!

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