Nerve Endings Firing Away

"Facebook “allows [Indians] to do two things they love: Tell everyone what they are doing; and stick their noses into other people’s business,” says Sree Sreenivasan."

You too may have noticed the sudden influx of your friends and family in India on Facebook. It looks like the love affair with Orkut is over and considering I've never been really active on Orkut and was on Facebook ever since it was only open to college students in the U.S., I love it. It saves me from checking hajjar networks to keep tabs on people I no longer am in touch with. Since I use my real name on Facebook and even have my ex-professors on my friends list, I'm extremely careful about what I post and whom I add as friends.

But my parents are still not on Facebook and I doubt they will ever be although my mother-in-law is and she refuses to add us to her friends list, which I assume I should be happy about. Facebook can be a privacy nightmare if you don't know your way around its perennially changing settings. but thanks to the hullaballoo of its now-500 million members, it is much better now.

[Link to Why India Loves Facebook]