By this time, the rage of exchanging emails greeting each other on ushering of 2010 has come to an end. Ofcourse, due to mass email option things are done very efficiently in no time. I also have got similar emails. On graduating in the age of first class postal mails, coping up self to the age of electronic emails is becoming difficult for me. Like me, there may be some one at the other end-of this Globe. Still we all are unhesitatingly grateful to Internet.
The point is exchanging greetings through mass email. As I responded to each postcard my father sused to send every week during my early days in Hyderabad, this year I started to respond to each New Year greeting emails I got. Then suddenly I realized, how stupid I'm in replying to such anonymous emails and SMSs. What is this greetings in real sense? Just a distance of clicking a send button - a wish lies.
At the first exposure to west, I got bit confused being wished often in elevators, corridors by completely unknown people. Had a feeling how good mannerism west had! It was an evaporating experience when I found nobody was there to spend a second to guide to an address. Why they should, when so nicely layout was made unlike Doyens where I live with baffling house numbering scheme that beats anybody in guessing – House No. 31 could be adjacent to a house numbered 131.
Greeting by mass email and group SMS is a baffling cyber intimacy! Never get puzzled the wishing entity at other end could be a software agent even!
Hrushikesha Mohanty
8th January 2010
3 comments:
Yes Sir, I do agree that there is a great difference between greetings through post and ecards.
A handwritten letter is far more cherished than an email....
Your view on SMS or electronics greetings is absolutely right. It lacks the warmth of relationship. As if wishes are being industrialised.
Apa
Dear Sir,
Let alone Internet (there the most of the things is done by the machine),
THE REAL LIFE GREETING on the new year has become so mechanical, a cult, that one feels obliged and finds it a sort of RULE to greet. Very few greet with the warmth and feel.
C.K. Rajendran
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