Why does it feel when I am in the process of writing a blog or tweet or update my status on the gazillion social networking sites that I have accounts... that i want attention. I guess that's exactly why... I do want attention...
But I am not the only one right? That applies for all humans regardless of whether they are as addicted to the Internet like me or not. We all have this natural in-born craving to get noticed. We like to stand out in a crowd. Not all the time but once in a while we do.
It doesn't matter who you are or what you do. Its not about how much money you make. Its not about on what level of the food-chain you are. The high ups get noticed anyway. But even the ones at the bottom of the pile get noticed for being at the bottom of the pile.
Whether it is at a professional level at work. One wants to do well. Speak up in a meeting. Get a job well done just to get noticed. On the other side, it could be a casual get-together with friends or family. It could be a simple walk in the park but you could get the craving to wear something that would make you stand out or do something different.
This is all regardless of how good or worthless one feels at any particular moment in time. This is really bothering me by the way.
The strange part is that you could be at either extreme to get noticed. Extreme behavior is easily noticed. Best or worst, you are breaking news.
I think its only moderation where one can get away without getting noticed...or wait... on second thought, even those people would get noticed. This time people would say, this person is a good moderate guy. He doesn't do anything extreme. You can have the craving to be moderate as well to get noticed.
If you are at the top, you get noticed. If you are the bottom, you get noticed. If you are somewhere in the middle, you'll get noticed.
Should I be feeling insecure? Regardless of what we do or don't do, we'll get noticed? If we don't get noticed, we'll follow our natural instinct to do something to get noticed. We are made strange beings, that's for sure.
ya thts true :$ n i think blogging has made me more of an attention seeker...
ReplyDeleteawww... sometimes i love the attention seeker in you ada... i miss u!
ReplyDeleteYup. Guilty!
ReplyDeleteI want one of those.
its this strangeness is humans that lead to the success of facebook, blogging, twitter and so many other things! Even before this online revolution it was pen pals in news papers, cool nicks on msn, 7 colored nick names with special character nick names in mirc... Do you remember? What about the time of my personal website? People learned html and some used front page... They kept a guestbooks! That craving inside us has been within there forever! And it shall increase as i feel....
ReplyDelete@mubi @farhan - confession time :)
ReplyDelete@ghazal - oye ghar kee baat ghar mein...
@yasir - oh yes... you were the first one who stepped out in the family we all followed...inspired... you always left us in awe... just look at the internet life we all live now... how far has the internet come... and so quickly moving ahead also... sometimes its difficult to catch up....
I think that blogging or tweeting or facebooking is less attention-seeking than emails or phone calls, especially to those that one hardly knows.
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