No Status Message...

after putting thoughts on what to write... i figured out why not to write on the most interesting lines which affects us daily... the "status messages"..the one thing which most of us depend on and check for the updates on each friend's message...they have became a prt of life..a fashion statement i can say...the more interesting your status message is..the more involved..knowledgable..the more happening you are..gone are the days where just "Available".. "Busy" were the buzz words..

coorect me if i am wrong..gtalk..the chat messenger which revolutionised the chatting arena was the first to introduce the customised status.. though yahoo had the similar feature but i guess if u today tell someone that you still use that old yahoo messsenger..the first reaction would be.."you still use that!!!thats history my friend...."

now coming back to status messages....

well there are so many interesting messages you can find people use..

from simple ones "New Number- XXXX"

to the riddles.."Empty landscape bleached by a tired sun...."

The messages could be to serve different purposes...

a. Broadcast a personal update... my blog address..new number..current location

b. Broadcast a public information.... this one varies from informing the world about the college fest to ask people to fill in a survey... a news telecast abt the college...
to vacancies available(saw it recently..for the benefit of ppl.. "Vacancy in Cyberstar - Singapore, Sales Dept. Interested candidates ping back at rahul.gugalya@gmail.com... ")

c. take out their frustration.. "assign away to glory"... "i hate distributors".."zindagi roz humari class leti hai"... the most interesting one i saw was "Egg jams"..it took hours for me to figure out that it was for "exams" n not a new recipe involving eggs and jam....

d.communicate a message to someone.. these messages are the most used ones.. one-liners directed to an individual..so that the message is passed across...these are ma favs n have used these at times...n believe me they work...."the tulip is with me.."..."donkey is back.." u can find loads of them... but apart from reaching the right person..the entire friend list of yours won't miss it and u would spend the day answering those quries...

e.A quote..thats what you will find on most of them..dunno is that to tell others that u too read and are aware of famous quotes...or is it to inspire the world with the message... here it varies from one liners...personal fav.."life is not always good, but i am..." to paras..."With insomnia, nothing is real. Everything is far away. Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy"... i wonder if they serve the purpose of motivating!!!! Individual's creativity is also involved with self created quotes here...

f.this breed of messages is more like a prank or a statement made by a friend... i had once suffered loads coz of this..the entire rejectz gang has put a message saying "AJ is getting married soon"... there were queries from people whom i haven't spoken more than twice in campus... it was a chaos..

well it was holiday today n i was getting bored of the process charts i have been busy with for last 10 days...so another attempt for a blog... lets see how it turns out to be..

let me know if i have missed on any other category of status messages or any interesting status message you have come across... ending with a favourite.... "No status mesage.."