This post is dedicated to a strange phenomenon observable in a queer subclass of Orkut & Googletalk users. In an effort to send out a message, or for some other entirely crappy reason, these guys and girls often adapt incomprehensible and PJistic Gmail IDs. What's worse, some go to the extent of susbsituting their names with something that's hip-hot-happennin (or totally useless, of course).
Man is a social animal, but you'll agree that this soup of social networking becomes harder to understand the further you get from your teenage days. I mean, there was a time when you 'Orkutiyaed' for hours at a stretch, looking at arbit profiles of girls (and answered arbit friend requests if you ARE a girl). There was this time when you consolidated your friend list and boasted of 300+ friends, many of them you never even talked to. Worse. Many of them you did'nt even know.Especially the Brazilian ones.
But there is a limit to how deep can one go into this MAYAJAAL. Here's a sample of gmail id's and orkut names I have come across. I am not mentioning whose gmail IDs these are, because in most cases I have absolutely no idea:
.] avishkar.smarty
.] monophilogynist.pk112
.] thisisme17
.] giggidy.giggidy
.] cutie.pie
.] blueeyedbaboon
.] dudes8686
.] shakeyouabhi
.] xxayisjeeves
.] mecoollibra
.] newton.evems
.] badal2405
.] pdon007
.] hunkydude
.] coolest007
.] typhoon.2010
.] moodyarian
.] tropicaliceberg2006 [wth??]
.] sexysyk
.] comiczone420
.] yvvvvvvvvvvvvv
Phew! If you are reading this and any of these great gmail IDs belong to you, could you leave a comment, preferably citing the bizarre circumstances in which such names were created?
Now analyze this. I am logged into Google Talk, and in my IM contacts, I see a person with a name (for example) 'tropicaliceberg2006'. The display image is a portrait of Shahrukh khan, and the name is "PLZ GOD THESE ENDSEMS R KILLING ME...:(:(:(" [similar combinations expected].
HOW IN THE WORLD AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW WHO THAT IS?
No concluding remarks needed. Instead I'll chip in with a quote from 'The Big Bang Theory'-edited for effect
" Hey if you could stay for the night at our place, we could play World of Warcraft and watch BattleStar Galactica together!"
"OR, We could just get a life."
