Monday, May 18, 2009

Online Romeos

More concerning than the invasion of Taliban in Pakistan, is the invasion of cyberspace by self-styled Romeos. Well, all guys can claim to have tried a hand at some degree of online wooing, (including yours truly) and thats perfectly fine and understandable--but the extent to which people go to flatter eligible single PYTs is often ridiculous.
Well , everyone is well versed with various structures and parts of speech of the "friendship requests" on orkut and facebook.

'wanna 'friend'? (verb)
I want to friends with you (intransitive verb).
I want to do friends with you.
can you do friendship to me?
Do you want friendsheep? (Are you selling sheep? NO thanks)
Can you perform friendship with me ???(I am not making this one up...i wonder wht is there to perform?? :P or has friendship become a direct metaphor for something else? )
Wanna Frandship?
Mujhse Dosti Karogi?
can we make friendship with each other? (No dude, you make friendship with someone else, and I will make with someone else :P)
The over smart ones, with good grammar :P -->"I was stuck at your profile, and its not my fault you got me mesmerized. Hence, sending you this friend request..Dont get me wrong."

All roads lead to Rome. Shahrukh Khan is to blame for this-for starting the Love is Friendship ideology...Dosti pyaar ka pehle kadam hai..pyar dosti hai..

in the same line is complimenting...for every damn little thing

1)"Nice pic...every change of pic by a girl is followed by minimum 50 "Hey nice pic". Even if the pic is Kareena's pic. Wht the hell nice pic...go and say that to KAreena.
2)"nice profile" (Global appreciation...thinks tht it will give the impression tht just looks r not imp...n he gives weightage to everything)
3)"Nice 'about me'---Even if the about me is only "Strangers keep out"
4) Nice taste in Music (Attempt to be different --though has no clue who Goo Goo Dolls or Coldplay is...)
5)" Wow, you got 499 friends" (Dude, doesnt mean she is desparate to make it 500)

6) Microscopic appreciation (Nice hairstyle...nice lip gloss...Mole just above lip really suits you...basically creepy kind ..Dont know their psychology)

7) Nice Background... ("Dnt know if it is for humor, or if they really really like the background more...)

8) Nice Album.. (Even if album has only Hrithik pics with captions...hes sooo cute...)


Facebook--commenting and liking..

The dude likes every status msg u put....
PYT is bored!--- OR (Online Romeo "likes this")
PYT cant wait to go home ( OR "likes this")


Also, the DEAR phenomenon...
Addressing all members of opposite sex by "dear" is in vogue... Hi Dear, Hello dear, Thank you Dear. ok dear, brb dear, cu dear, ttyl dear, gn dear, how r u dear, i c dear.. It seems there is some DEAR key besides the RETURN key on their keyboard.

Have to give it to the ladiez who get to deal with all the CRAP. I dnt know if reverse trend happens at all, and I wonder if guys would mind tht at all...

15 comments:

Unknown said...
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Unknown said...

great list of "fraanship" requests..watch-out this space for more updates.. ;)

btw, where is the return key ????1

ZK said...

Return key= ENTER key!!!
Cmon , u being from elecs-IT background should know!!

All Talk and No Action said...

Spot On Mister !!!

Amazing Humour and Sarcasm :))

But yeah...it's true that girls have to put up with lots of crap online...

Guys should try being more creative than plain irritating!

The Ink in My Veins... said...

rotfl... this makes me feel nostalgic..I, just today morning, got a request saying :Add me because i'm male" :O

awesome piece of work...you do go through a lot of women's profile, now dont you? :P

kotak parag said...

lagta hai khud ka pura experience ka summary likha hai..lol.

jokes apart...nice creative write,,

gr8 2 b ur frnd ...:P..:d...:)

Veda said...

hey u know what, im gonna link this pg to my 'its raining men' post. What says you? :P

This irritable male wooing has been around for ages, wonder y u didnt mention the rather new-er version of romeo bloggers.

Just incase u dont know, :P Dudes come to ur blog leave u a comment..asks u newbie-doubts, wonders where they can talk to you to get 'faster' replies. Some turn to tweets, and after a handful of them tweets, blogger romeos ask if u use messengers!

These guys hv more brains (and style) than the looser ones u wrote about...and therefore should be handled with more caution! :P

ZK said...

@ aby; yea thts my side side-research project.

@veda...thts the single longest comment i hv received...someone must hv bugged u real hard :P
Once i figure out properly tht category, it will go in there..
BTW, r u on gtalk? ;) or facebook? :P

Anonymous said...

nice one zubin...quite a good piece of work..a perfect blend of humour,sarcasm and truth....juz to my taste..keep it up...thanks for the poem...

Lavanya said...

nice one zubin...quite a good piece of work..a perfect blend of humour,sarcasm and truth....juz to my taste..keep it up...thanks for the poem...

Zlaek said...

Oh boy... you seem to be one hell of an understanding guy. What we deal with is one thing... but the fact that you've put it here, and the way you've put it here is outstanding. I left orkut a year back...I heard they introduced some stuff which locks your scraps and pics, well good.

ZK said...

@ lavanya ;;;Thanks :)

@ Chinmayee.. Thanks..yea men are always understanding :P yea orkut got me many friends back, so I wont leave it :)

S.A.L. said...

Ha ha ha... you writings are full of humor. Really funny... Keep it up!

ZK said...

Thanks Shomoita :)

Snehal said...

I really like this post.Gosh so true and funny :D