Saturday 15 March 2008

The 'e' - age

E-mails, e-friends, e-news, e-television, e-updates, e-banking, e-commerce, e-reservations, e-courses, e-job-applications (which NEVER work!!) ... a salute to everything that is e-something these days. Also a salute to all the people who have invented these soft-wares and made life easier for the layman with firewalls and security settings so that people know that their chats, blogs and money is safe and secure. But e-shaadi and e-spouse????
There are people in this world who take one of their most important, crucial and (literally) life-changing decisions merely after chatting with someone??? The firewalls and security settings surely do not extend protection for "actual lives"?? And what do two "adults" who have NEVER met each other in person chat about? Somethings are completely beyond my comprehension. Is e-knowing a person really knowing him/her??
Could not believe when my friend sent a text (e-texting!!!) saying that she is getting married to an e-someone (though he is an actual someone in flesh and blood...thank god for that) from the US she met on a matrimonial web-site. Wonder if they will have an e-honeymoon?

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