We all know that Social Networking in recent years has become 'the' thing. Even this blog link, I will first post it on FB and WhatsApp. So, even I am a victim anyway, just that at times I wish, lord! Can I have a little peace without that notification on my mobile beeping! You might say switch the ringer off, but the increase in curiosity and anxiety these things have got me into doesn let me do that!
Most recently, something that I have noticed becoming a rage is WhatsApp groups.. Trust me! More than the value they add to your life, they are the biggest pain in the ***.
What started as an easy way of carrying info and catching up has now become the biggest monster of constant texting. And ya constant reading of like some 72 texts that flidded ur inbox during your restroom gap! As my brother always says, "the 'typing..' that appears on top of the WhatsApp window during a chat is sure to get you into anxiety disorders"
I wonder, people who always talk about lack of work life balance and the need of always being connected to work are the most active in office WhatsApp groups..
Office WhatsApp groups are a group of 20 people of the team together talking on the group. Any info, discussion, decision point floated in that group will never have a logical end not will have a conclusion ever at all. Cause each one types whatever the want. The disasvantages of such groups include being subject to people talking about unfinished work, loose comments on others jobs and worst of all, long forward messages that never end. Even one to one conversations happen in the group at a lot of instances.
In process of talking so much on WhatsApp to the same colleagues who we see at work 10 hours a day, we lose out on seeing our family faces, hear them out or even have dinner time conversations with them. When right from morning traffic to the night time serial being discussed virtually, are we ceasing to live for the moment. ?? Hell yes! Answers my Mind.
As much as I spoke about misuse, certain things, that make me feel good about WhatsApp groups is the connect it provides. Being part of groups of people in different time zones, cousins in different parts of the world, groups of people who studies, worked together wanting to catch up makes it one of the best means of catch up ever. The time when we used to have international phone numbers and say 'iyayo ISD' WhatsApp has broken those barriers completely. While I see my Now Tech Savvy mom, moderating a group with all her cousins and neices, I feel happy seeing WhatsApp being put to proper use.
While wondering what next will make our lives 'unnecesarily busy', it's time for me to get whacked from all people in the WhatsApp groups I belong to! Minimum 100 slaps I expect!
PS: In the time span of 30 minutes writing this post I went back into the WhatsApp window atleast like 25 times(excluding personal messages)
Cheers
Most recently, something that I have noticed becoming a rage is WhatsApp groups.. Trust me! More than the value they add to your life, they are the biggest pain in the ***.
What started as an easy way of carrying info and catching up has now become the biggest monster of constant texting. And ya constant reading of like some 72 texts that flidded ur inbox during your restroom gap! As my brother always says, "the 'typing..' that appears on top of the WhatsApp window during a chat is sure to get you into anxiety disorders"
I wonder, people who always talk about lack of work life balance and the need of always being connected to work are the most active in office WhatsApp groups..
Office WhatsApp groups are a group of 20 people of the team together talking on the group. Any info, discussion, decision point floated in that group will never have a logical end not will have a conclusion ever at all. Cause each one types whatever the want. The disasvantages of such groups include being subject to people talking about unfinished work, loose comments on others jobs and worst of all, long forward messages that never end. Even one to one conversations happen in the group at a lot of instances.
In process of talking so much on WhatsApp to the same colleagues who we see at work 10 hours a day, we lose out on seeing our family faces, hear them out or even have dinner time conversations with them. When right from morning traffic to the night time serial being discussed virtually, are we ceasing to live for the moment. ?? Hell yes! Answers my Mind.
As much as I spoke about misuse, certain things, that make me feel good about WhatsApp groups is the connect it provides. Being part of groups of people in different time zones, cousins in different parts of the world, groups of people who studies, worked together wanting to catch up makes it one of the best means of catch up ever. The time when we used to have international phone numbers and say 'iyayo ISD' WhatsApp has broken those barriers completely. While I see my Now Tech Savvy mom, moderating a group with all her cousins and neices, I feel happy seeing WhatsApp being put to proper use.
While wondering what next will make our lives 'unnecesarily busy', it's time for me to get whacked from all people in the WhatsApp groups I belong to! Minimum 100 slaps I expect!
PS: In the time span of 30 minutes writing this post I went back into the WhatsApp window atleast like 25 times(excluding personal messages)
Cheers
