Many years ago, chatting to your friend meant visiting them and catching up about what happened over the weekend and who you had a crush on and what your future plans are about.
You had to literally call the house phone to pretend that you had an incoming call so that your parents would not complain about you being on the phone for too long. Two minutes was all that you would have and any minute after that was a privilege. You had to strategically lie that you're calling a friend about homework so that you could have extra time to chat. Your parents would give you dagger eyes and an endless lecture as to how expensive a phone call is. My parents would actually print out the phone bill and make me mark all the numbers which I had called...and my phone calls would be 90% of the page. They threatened to disconnect the phone service, but I was fortunate because they also needed the phone.
These days, we have smart phones, internet and everything that we need at the touch of a button. When I was growing up, there was no "internet". You had to go to the library to get information...presentation preparation was a byiatch!!
Now that we have all these social networks at our disposal...life has become easier. People make business connections on Twitter, people find all school and long lost friends so easily on Facebook. People find jobs on LinkedIn...the list goes on! If you don't have an email addy even now...you are living in the stone-age!! Some people think that the social networks are just a fad and that they will pass and fade away with time... I beg to differ...in fact...I'm willing to bet on it that many years from now...it will grow and be so big that we will be doing most of the things that we need to do on the internet and through social networks.
So if you think you don't have to look good on that profile pic that 10 000 people all over the world see as they log onto your profile...think again my friend, that could be your next boss looking at that pic.
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