Dear Mark Zuckerberg, thank you for launching Facebook and making the world a better place to live in. We are all for it. It has helped us locate long lost friends and bring us together again.
It has opened up the world, making it easy for us to chat with friends living in Canada, the US, Japan or even Timbuktu.
We now realise that the world is just a global village where we can live as one community, pinging each other and chatting, sharing, opining and revealing our likes and dislikes. It has helped us enter into the sphere of politics, art, music and cinema among others through our friends.
We have also chatted up, flirted and even got trapped in the nuptial knot.
You did a splendid job, Mark. But there is one question – did you take a holiday after your six days of solid work?
I think you must have. Why, O why, did you allow the millions on Facebook to give us silly information through the location thing called “Checking In”. Every time one scrolls down, there is this piece of information which keeps cropping up:
Mary X checked into Cafe Bistro with a map which looks like spaghetti intertwined showing a location. Or Gabriel Smith checked into the Mumbai Airport GVK lounge with another indecipherable map.
A few hours later, Smith checked in at Dubai International Airport, with another mangled location thing.
All this is admirable for Mary X or Gabriel Smith. We are happy that Mary X went to Cafe Bistro. She went there to eat, definitely not to admire the surroundings.
She may have enjoyed her meal and if she didn’t then good luck to her.
If we want to know where Cafe Bistro is, we don’t need that damn scribble called a map. We can locate it through various other sources. Or we may have actually gone there several times and need no directions.
Now take the case of Smith. He is a friend who lives in Dubai. He has already made his intentions clear that he will be leaving for Dubai from Mumbai.
So what interest is it to us whether Smith entered the Mumbai airport lounge or not? He has to go there or how else will he reach Dubai. He wouldn’t go to the Victoria Terminus to get on to his flight for Dubai.
And he will land in Dubai unless his plane crashes or meets with some other tragic fate. So what’s the point of all this to his friends, one wonders. So what next? We certainly don’t want to hear about Smith checking into the Dubai airport toilet with a map of it to boot.
Or Mary X checks into the Cafe Bistro washroom to puke out some of the food which disagreed with her.
Enough is enough, Mark. Locations suck, just get rid of it.
#The views expressed in this column are the authors and Pune365 does not necessarily subscribe to them.
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