It is coming to the festive season now. In the old days, people traveled a relatively long way to visit friends and relatives during major holidays bringing gifts for everyone. To this date, the in-laws still go through the whole nine yard every Christmas decorating, exchanging gifts, turkey and all. With cars and airplanes nowadays, traveling is no longer such a big issue; except for 3 things, gifts well thought out, time to shop, and the money to spend. In a big family, this yearly chore has become quite a numbed burden. Add friends to the equation could drive many up the wall.
The Internet has been bringing many conveniences to the web surfers. There have been email, instant messaging, eCard, online purchasing, and many more. It’s been a couple of years now since we have entered the “Web 2.0 Age” which brings us Social Networking.
In a social network, friends not only can send greeting messages but send virtual gifts like a drink, a growing plant, a giraffe, items for the house; draw on friends wall; give them hugs and kisses, lick them, or drop-kick them; put a tattoo on them, or even Vampire bite them!
Virtually speaking, of course. None of these cost a dime. Well, except for the ISP service charges and the time to watch that growing plant grows into something unexpected like a shoelace hanging a rotten Godzilla (no, u can’t really do that yet but perhaps in version 64.13.2b service pack XI you could – that’s if the distribution date isn’t going to be postponed for the 5th time).
With all those widgets available, one saves a lot of money which they don’t have to begin with and perhaps regain some long lost friendships a long way as well. What can be easier than doing the “let’s not and say we did” without actually having to say it out loud to your friends and not needing to actually dress-up, go out the door, spending 8 hours in search of the ultimate gift of all time… repeatedly every single year, attend the gathering for an hour and a half, and then never even call each other for another year minus 2 weeks.
The chilling thoughts make we want to quickly grab that “Festive Gift” widget and start sending the latest trendy festive gift before they became cliches.
Alpha Mike Foxtrot (or AMF – Pick this acronym up from the movie Flight of the Intruder). Gotta lrn mor abbv wuds, RdaYs u cant r8 2 kids & Xpec ‘em 2 undastan u on da Net no mor.
WhaUSay?!