Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Facebook, USA, captured during the session ‘The Next Digital Experience’ at the Annual Meeting 2009 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 30, 2009 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Sometimes I wonder, what was going on through Mark Zuckerberg’s mind while he thought of coming up with something like “Facebook”. If I will go with the tag line and will take it for granted that the team that came up with it must have asked Mark, why and what was he creating, then as the tag line, “Helps you connect and share with the people in your life” suggests that the output he wanted was to connect every one virtually.
As a not so good software engineer I know that, before the development of any application the team follows few steps like,… making sure if the product they are going to develop is feasible or not… what are the requirements… who are going to be the end users … and the steps continues. But the motto is to give a valuable and profitable service to a specific group of people. So like everyone else Mark Zuckerberg must have thought of these issue thousand times, million times and billion times before giving birth to his brain child at such a young age.
But let me tell you, although he went on to become the successful creator of this trend setter web application. But let me tell you in his dreams also he would have never thought of one thing during all these processes involved in development of a application or software. Now you people must be wondering, what is that one thing I am talking about! Are not you?
Ok, let me reveal to you where mark Zuckerberg’s intelligence fall short to beat intelligence of few people who are now turning pages every days to read faces of people whom they do not know in real world.
Nowadays, almost every day I get the notification in my Facebook account that, one of my friends has received the blessings of any specific god whom he has faith on. (Now please do not ask me how his God could be in his friend list, I have no idea about that.) I also do not have any idea if all the millions of God we human has given birth to with our blind belief have they own Facebook accounts or not.)
Back to the story, from one friend to another and then to some other person… now hundreds of my friends receive God’s blessings in Facebook. Here I am talking about beliefs, religions, so to stay away from any controversy or not to hurt anyone’s sentiment I will lie and say I do not see any humor in it.
But do not you people think, by doing so we are not only making fun of ourselves but also we are making fun of that God, whom we respect, love and believe the most. Since my birth I have always seen God’s living in temples, mosques, churches and in Gurudwaras… I have never ever seen him living in Facebook pages. Since the day God could convince me that, there is a higher power which controls our lives, blesses us and punishes us; I realized God has only devotees not fans…. I always went on to his place to bend my knees, hold my two hands together and pray not to hit a like on his picture just with a smooth touch of finger on any keys.
These are small things that very clearly show where we are all heading towards. From our busy schedule, we could not find enough time to visit God’s place so we made him part of our virtual world by giving few small pages in “Facebook”. I never got a single notification which says that, someone has sent his prayers to any specific god but many people do not mind getting those virtual blessings every day. Somehow intentionally or intentionally, we are either believing or acting of believing in that power with only one desire that is to get his powerful blessings.
It’s fine if living in a world of billions of people, we have to depend on another virtual world to find little bit of space to get all the happiness, peace and love they need in life. But can’t we Keep God away from this world and let him live somewhere in that world which he has created for us to live with love and togetherness. Why we are busy dragging him in to that world, which might not end in 2012, 2013, 2014 but the truth is that a virtual world where all these social networking sites resides does not actually exist!! And believe me, we do not need to seek help from NASA on checking existence of this virtual world!
Can’t we just stop liking God’s blessing! Can’t we stay happy being his devotee or follower instead of trying to be identified ourselves as his fans!
Wait for your turn when God will send you his friend request!! (Photo credit: sitmonkeysupreme)
Being Arindam.. 
earthriderjudyberman
March 20, 2013
I think God’s busy enough without keeping up with social media. The posts I avoid are religious messages with threats that something will happen to me if I don’t “like” and “share” the post. The most recent warned to pass this message on if I believe because “God saw you reading this.” That’s a tad scary.
Arindam
March 22, 2013
Absolutely!! I too believe the same Judy. God has other important things to do than asking us to hit likes on his pictures and messages. Yes I too come across these religious messages with all those threats which are somehow meaningless. Somehow they irritate me with their appearance on my Facebook’s wall.
renxkyoko
March 20, 2013
The Pope Tweets, too. Now I don’t know if he has a FB account.
Arindam
March 22, 2013
I think that must be his official account. But if pope is using this social platform to pass on his message, then it’s fair enough.
Maxi
March 20, 2013
“Have you been poked yet? Wait for God to…” This is beyond ridiculous.
blessings to you Arindam ~ maxi
Arindam
March 22, 2013
No I just thought that scenario may be possible someday, seeing the way we humans are including our Gods in to these social networking sites.
georgettesullins
March 20, 2013
Apparently I have been reading that if we are involved in social media we will be leaving quite a footprint for posterity. Question: At what point will all those great servers in the sky delete once we’re gone? i just can’t believe everything on the internet can be “saved” if you get my drift. Interesting post filled with respect and love.
Arindam
March 22, 2013
Yes how can we be leaving our foot prints just by using all these social networking sites. If no one among us remembers all those great people who have contributed so much to the humanity and our society after their huge contribution to the real world; to except that people are going to remember us due to all those pics and status messages we share, is quite foolish of us!!
Thanks a lot for taking your time to read this one, and leaving such a thoughtful comment.
belasbrightideas
March 21, 2013
Arindam, quite a provocative post. I had no idea, except I heard a National Public Radio broadcast on this very topic the other day.
In a culture like ours in the west, we’ve never really had strong traditions, religious or otherwise. We’re an adolescent nation. And so many of us feel God is everywhere and anywhere, and why not bless someone with a virtual prayer. Now I’m not giving an opinion on the subject; just stating facts.
I think it’s a marvelous thing to have lovely temples and altars to worship; to ponder the mystical in places meant to evoke mystery. The closest we get here in the US is the Catholic church, which is having many a crisis these days due to lack of integrity in their heirarchies. I’ve also gone to Greek and Serbian orthodox churches with friends, growing up. And a Southern Baptist church with all black skinned people, save for me! All of these places helped me to feel a real sense of connectedness; of community. Of reverence.
That all being said, my church is out in nature. There is no hall grand enough to match the Creator’s design in its most raw state.
Lucky you for living where those old structures are still standing and radiating the worship of generations past!
Patti Kuche
March 25, 2013
It doesn’t surprise me Arindam. Catholic newspapers always, maybe they still do, had a classified section at the back where people payed for prayers to different Saints for intercessions!
Island Traveler
March 25, 2013
He is an amazing man with lots of talents. As for God, personally he doesn’t need a web account to reach us. Also he has to do is whisper in our hearts the things he wants to say and create a nature marvel to remind us how much he loves us. I find God more when I shut off all the media/entertainment devices and just be one with silence and nature.
WordsFallFromMyEyes
March 30, 2013
Ha! Like this post much. A bit longer than I’m used to but well punctuated with photos.
Re Facebook – I have only just joined in the last month (believe it or not!) and I find it regularly talks about poking people and do I want to friend people? It’s a bit harassing, really, but I’ve made a habit of delete, delete, delete from my inbox. I’m figuring they must get more $ for the number of hits on their pages, so that’s why they keep sending me emails, asking me to hit their pages. I don’t know, just guessing.
Cheers!