All for the love of advertising

Advertising is, informally defined, the art of blowing your own trumpet in a tune that you think suits your image to grab attention of anybody who cares to hear you out! And who knows it better than the FB, twitter and the rest-of-the-same-virtual-world addicts.

Under the guise of networking, my kinsmen keep on rhapsodizing about their mundane lives, e.g, "Too much traffic, how will I ever reach?" , "What life man!", "What am I doing?", "Today I saw a cutie pie on the road"...blah...blah...blah. And jumping to their rescue are the need-to-comment-on-everything brigade who obviously are dying to network and prying for attention! Hence the inane comments follow!

Curiously, even dogs, cats, rats and some other forms of life have also found their way into the virtual social networking sites! It's all about the company one keeps, I suppose.

Now coming to my irregular presence and absence in many/any of the sites - I do not consider my life that exciting to be providing arresting status updates every minute. And I often wonder, with genuine appreciation, at those who manage to package and advertise their regular lives in such a fascinating way so as to create enough hullabaloo. Original advertisers, I must say!