Cyber Slaves
I was checking my daughter’s 'status'- (Status stopped meaning what you and I know it means long time back, and then it meant what Mark Zuckerberg wanted his Facebook folks to infer from it: whether you were single or taken, and now, it is on Whatsapp in a new avatar: a picture or a slogan that defines the day that was or the day that will be. The Birthdays, Rose day, Friendship day, all have their place of pride up there on it.) I wanted to get an idea of what time she hit the sack, by the time of the last post, (which generally is her status, it’s the beginning of the end-of-the day activities for her and also her kindred souls) when I come face to face with a cute guy (learnt sometime back not to get my maternal excitement up- it must be his birthday, and ALL of them post their pictures and videos with him to underline their importance in his life lest he forget them in his annual record keeping from one birthday to the next.) Coming back to ...