Note to anyone interested: it is my first blog post written from a library. The library mentioned here is in BIT Mesra.
When I started using Facebook in 2011, things were a little bit different for me. I was surrounded by many friends, had shallow tastes and thought of myself as the greatest genius walking on the face of Earth. Things have probably changed for the better in all those years (atleast I like to think so).
I shouldn't bore with those uninteresting details of my life (or should I, Random Reader?). So, many things in short, I thought Facebook as something which was purely meant for entertainment. Entertainment for my previous self was goofing around practically doing nothing. So, I couldn't really understand why Mark Zuckerberg's motto for creating Facebook was to connect people. Or was there really a use for social networks?
But things changed when I started reading Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality(you should try it preferably after reading the original version by J.K. Rowling). As over the years, my interests have become increasingly unique and different(my friends say so), I found that no one in my batch or immediate circle of friends was reading it(as far as I know). But, as it was so beautifully written, I had to discuss it. With someone.
Within the last few days as HPMOR was ending, I have discussed the plot and the characters with people from Melbourne, Bangalore, Sydney, Boston, Chicago, Kharagpur, Warsaw and Mumbai. It didn't matter whether the person I was talking to was a guitar player or an AI researcher or a mother who recently gave birth to a son. We were in for a cause - to have a great time by discussing a thing that we loved.
It was such a great experience. Playing games like "Not Paranoid Enough" with people from opposite the globe, is a thing I seldom do - infact it was my first.
All because of Internet. All because of social networking sites like Facebook. And, most importantly because of people.
I am studying engineering now. One year left of my undergraduate studies. I sincerely hope that I am able to do justice here by creating something that makes someone's life a little bit better and happier.
When I started using Facebook in 2011, things were a little bit different for me. I was surrounded by many friends, had shallow tastes and thought of myself as the greatest genius walking on the face of Earth. Things have probably changed for the better in all those years (atleast I like to think so).
I shouldn't bore with those uninteresting details of my life (or should I, Random Reader?). So, many things in short, I thought Facebook as something which was purely meant for entertainment. Entertainment for my previous self was goofing around practically doing nothing. So, I couldn't really understand why Mark Zuckerberg's motto for creating Facebook was to connect people. Or was there really a use for social networks?
But things changed when I started reading Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality(you should try it preferably after reading the original version by J.K. Rowling). As over the years, my interests have become increasingly unique and different(my friends say so), I found that no one in my batch or immediate circle of friends was reading it(as far as I know). But, as it was so beautifully written, I had to discuss it. With someone.
Within the last few days as HPMOR was ending, I have discussed the plot and the characters with people from Melbourne, Bangalore, Sydney, Boston, Chicago, Kharagpur, Warsaw and Mumbai. It didn't matter whether the person I was talking to was a guitar player or an AI researcher or a mother who recently gave birth to a son. We were in for a cause - to have a great time by discussing a thing that we loved.
It was such a great experience. Playing games like "Not Paranoid Enough" with people from opposite the globe, is a thing I seldom do - infact it was my first.
All because of Internet. All because of social networking sites like Facebook. And, most importantly because of people.
I am studying engineering now. One year left of my undergraduate studies. I sincerely hope that I am able to do justice here by creating something that makes someone's life a little bit better and happier.
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