Relationship status : committed
My cousin told me that by changing one's relationship status to committed, the number of scraps one gets on orkut increases by an enormous amount. It did for me. I got a lot of calls, messages and scraps from 50 odd people in a short span of time.
Moral of the story: people are really interested in love life of others. They simply are. They want to know who is going out with whom, specially if they were your peers at some point in life. And when almost all your peers have had a relationship, and you haven't, that's when you realize that its high time to hook up with someone!
posted by Vineeth Kashyap at
5:42 AM
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Curiosity is one of the admirable as well as an annoying trait of human beings.Why do u think when a fire or an accident occurs people just stand around and watch instead of helping and coming in the way of others?
This even applies to personal lives.everyone wants to know who is getting hooked up with whom.while this is sometimes nice,it can get frustrating at times,especially when u wanna be left alone.
there is a time for everything,especially a relationship.End up rushing into it,it'll be the biggest mistake of your life.take it too slow,u might end up single the rest of ur life!
all we can do is wait for cupid(in some cases parents) to strike! :)
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Balzi, at 9:57 PM
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MIASMA, at 12:49 AM
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MIASMA, at 12:52 AM
yup!!!!
ppl R interested in other's personal lives.....
but the current scenario has more than jus interest to it.....
Firstly!
the committed status in ur profile which got ppl to visit ur profile n ask u about it was more coz
the change came in more or less like an announcement... (P.S: thnx to the new feature on orkut... "UPDATES"....)
Secondly!
when ppl dont mind announcin their relationship status, others dont mind expressin their curiosity about the same either....
on the other hand, if the person involved, prefers to keep it to himself n his partner... the interest gets restricted to mere short duration conversations n gossips among the others n eventually fades away!!!!!
wow!!!! this can be a topic for GD na.... ;) these days i'm missin it so much that for every other topic i come up with such explanations.... [:(] [:(] sob! sob!
but nonetheless!!! yup the fact remains.....
ppl R interested in other's personal lives....
be it for short-time discussions (i.e, minus the person involved.... in short! gossip!!! ) or a direct confession of curiosity to the person involved!!! ( R u really committed?????? [:o] [:(] [:(] [:(] [:(] ..... [;)] )
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MIASMA, at 1:09 AM
lol ... lol ... nice comments balzi and miasma !!! balzi's last line was killer .....
@vin - i'm sure u got a solid kick out of this "prank" !!! i had a suspicion all along but since the chances were 50-50 all along whether you were simply conducting a study on the quirks of the human race or was this a serious disclosure, i decided to play it safe :)
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Abhishek Ramani, at 3:49 AM
You call it interest/curiosity, we call it concern. Period.
P.S: Nice posts by balzi and miasma
P.P.S: If you say you don't want the concern, then shut up! You'll get the oil if you're a squeaky wheel. Stop running around yelling to the world that you're committed if you don't want your friends to ask you a few questions of concern... ;)
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Thayu, at 5:48 AM
Concern : "something that interests you because it is important or affects you". Taken from the web dictionary. Word of warmth. Thanks for the concern. I hope it is always there for me. But I can challenge you, more than 50% of the people had curiosity/interest than "concern". Because when I get to know someone is going around with someone else, I have curiosity, a subject for gossip (except that I have concern if they are very close to me). Probably because I am an ordinary human being. There are a few extra-ordinary people who get "concerned" about lot of people. Hats off to them!
"running around yelling to the world that you're committed" : my profile, I change it. I dint announce it to the world, nor did I yell/shout. Orkut probably did it for me. But orkut does what people want. And yeah, period does mean there is something else that will follow (probably it means gap?).
Lastly, people who have real concern, dont wait for someone to yell and shout around, they can silently sense it.
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Vineeth Kashyap, at 9:52 AM
Alright, looks like you don't know the difference between concern and inquistiveness... That is all I could make out from your comment. Firstly, how the hell is someone who rarely gets to meet you gonna sense it? Second, the sensing part is what would be "prying" or "sticking your nose in someone else's business" by your definition. At least, that's what YOU would call it. Thirdly, people don't react to such changes in everyone's profile - one of my "friend"s on orkut changed his status to "married" and then back to normal. (And I got to know that thanks to orkut's notifications) You think I reacted or responded to it? Well, you could say I did - I said "More useless info! Duh!"... He wasn't enough of a friend for me to say anything to him! :)
Two more things:
1. We are living creatures, and I think you would've studied that we ALL respond to stimulus. If we don't, we are either numb, or dead, or insensitive or whatever - in short, "abnormal". The stimulus was orkut telling us you were now "committed". Our response was either shock or concern from your close friends, or from people who didn't know you too well and a few others, it would've been "Yeah, right, like I care!" Now tell me honestly how many people responded? All? I doubt it. And the greater the number of people who responded, the happier you should be! Coz it means you have that many good friends! :)
2. You seem to jump to conclusions with insufficient data/material. One of the most important parameters is who makes this change. If you had been a guy who had been going out with many girls throughout engineering, people wouldn't have even batted an eyelid. The only reason people responded was because it seemed so unlike you. You probably didn't know what you were getting yourself into. Had you been a veteran on such issues, the response would've been totally different.
Also, you seem to be generalising. I thought being a programmer, you would've learnt of something called "exceptions" and that in life, they aren't all that rare. Second, saying "human trait" is like saying "system behaviour". At the lower levels maybe most people are similar, but what you're talking about here is the upper layer abstraction. And the differences are enormous. Though during execution everything is a set of assembly instructions, you definitely can't compare say, C#, Java, HTML, Python and VBScript, can you? Ok, maybe this isn't the best of analogies, but I think you get the point...
If you really want to study human traits, why don't you take up Psychology? Then you'll learn about taking an evenly balanced sample-space and all that stuff. Ok, its not like those guys are religious about it either. Most of them take only the results they want and sweep the rest under the convenient rug of "statistical anomalies"... So it is a case of "believe what you will" and twist interpretations to wrap around these... :)
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Thayu, at 10:35 PM
dude i think i know who that cousin of urs is !!! Only that guy can get these ideas !!
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