Face Book

Even though I spent a 'hellottof' time on the Internet, I hardly looked at the possibilities of networking through sites like Orkut and Face Book. I have been receiving invitations from many friends over the years, but never managed to even look at those seriously pushing it away as "one-of-those-friendship-thingy".

Recently an old friend from school got in touch with me after she found out about me from another common friend who was there in one of the old school group in Orkut. (Although all she wanted to know was if the gossip about my marriage was true;)). Then came another surprising phone call from the USA from a friend with whom I had lost touch after school some 15 years before! (Gosh, time really flies..).

So I decided to venture into Orkut and registered my name. Once the initial curiosity died away, I quite didn't like the whole set up there. Well, now I have my profile in the Face Book and also set up a group called The Blue Yonder. Rather than posting for "God-Knows-Who", this rather helps me to post with in a structure.

More over, I find Face Book as a excellent way for social networking. A no-nonsense site actually! Excellent functionality, clean interface, user friendly and I could 'connect' with it, unlike Orkut or My Space.

One thing that was annoying me so much about One Tight Slap blog was the fact the kind of people who post comments with anonymous tags. Some time sweet, some time malicious. As an owner of the blog, I always have the freedom to decide to post or ignore those comments, still it hurts so much some times, to see that there are people who prefer to even make racist comments, and throw abuse just because she/he doesn't like what you do! This was one reason why I have not been posting any thing even though a lot of activity has been going on as usual.

I still like it around here, as this was where many of my friends were keeping track of our work. Since I am going to travel extensively in the coming weeks, I probably might be posting some travelogues to ensure that some sort of 'process documentation' goes on for the organisation.

If you already have a Face Book profile, then join us here and keep track of the work and let's expand our network. Will be great to see all the readers / blogger's there. Or if you don't have an account, create one here and then join us.

It’s been collective thoughts from around the world that ignited many ideas in our work.We believe in the synergy created by the meeting of minds to evolve as change makers. Idea of this group is to bring together those who have interacted with us in various capacities. If you had interacted with us earlier and /or would like to keep track of developments in Responsible Tourism, we welcome you to join us!

A lot has been happening at The Blue Yonder in the last month. Promise to keep you all posted!!
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