Well, I had this conversation today morning with a colleague and was pleasantly surprised to know that he did not accept linked-in contacts with people who have invited him to be a part of their contact list coz he did not know them personally.
IMHO, Linked-In and such professional contact websites are very useful for getting in touch with a probable business associate and you will be able to have a successful business relationship with him/her.
I have this peculiar habit of not accepting friend requests from unknown people on Orkut. I should interact with him/her atleast couple of times, either through scraps or chat or phone. Only then, would I send a friend's request or accept one-- Be it a girl who has sent me the request or a guy. My colleagues have chided me many a time as to why I don't accept friend requests from unknown girls too.. and they would take the link of the profile and contact that girl just to have an online friendship with her. This will not lead anywhere, but they say it is psychologically satisfying! WTF???
And I still have not been able to use facebook to the fullest extent.. I am more comfy with Orkut scrapping than Facebook's writing on the wall!
But there are quite a few ex-colleagues of mine who are on Facebook and Orkut and who cannot live without getting online on either of them.. At any point of time, they would be online on one or the other social networking site.. Is that some kind of an addiction??
Talking about addictions... TV is one of the most common addictions for many people and I went through this post which proved the point that I am not wrong in not watching TV for days/months at a stretch.
When I am not that keen even get in touch with anyone online or personally, WTF would I do knowing the events that the entire world is doing?
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