Malaysian Indian teenagers and their ‘internet’ usage

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Emails. No one can deny this. Gone are the days when emails were used to greet someone, to get-to-know someone and even keeping in touch with someone, and that someone could be anyone! Today, though some of these things are still happening, but at the same ongoing pace, our teenagers are blindfolded on what is the bloody meaning of HOAX and STUPID FORWARDED MESSAGES! HOAX – which means whatever information you happened to receive, it is actually a bullshit! “MSN is closing down so forward this”, “Microsoft is paying money for forwarding this message”, “The biggest human skeleton”, “Dead mermaid found in Manila / Chennai / Brazil” and etc. You name it!

Once our kids received these kind of messages, they would be so excited / worried depending on the message that they have received and irregardless of the accuracy of the message, their next step would be to FORWARD IT! You see, I’m not blaming those kids for forwarding emails but for god’s sake, please think for a moment on what shit you are forwarding and GOOGLE IT YOU NOOB! For instance, if you received an email of a “dead mermaid found in bla bla bla”, try googling for “dead mermaid found hoax” and have a look at those search results. Furthermore, if you received an email of “Microsoft is paying money for forwarding this email”, then go ahead and try googling for “microsoft is paying money email hoax“. Do you think those fellas at Microsoft have no other better work to do rather than paying some bunch of idiots for forwarding the same lame email? Once again, the search results would tell you everything!

I’m not asking you to Google for whatever forwarded emails that you have received but if you are deciding to forward them and happened to use your brain a little to see whether the information of the forwarded email is correct or otherwise, then GOOGLE IT! A tip: Try adding the word “hoax” at the back in your keyword searches. The results would tell you whether the email is actually a ‘hoax’ or a pure information (which I highly doubt of it).

Now, as for the STUPID FORWARDED MESSAGES category, this consists of ALL kind of emails ranging from “JENNY killing you while you are sleeping” to “LORD VINAYAGAR giving you a continuous bad luck for 1 month”. IDIOTS!! This is how I would categorise those kids who tend to forward these kind of emails. Don’t they have a brain? Do you think that LORD VINAYAGAR is actually keeping track on how many idiots are sending ‘the blessed email’ and blessing them based on that? Or do you even think that he has his own MySQL database to store all the information on who have sent ‘the blessed email’? MORONS! Can’t they think that GODS and GHOSTS have nothing to do with emails and technology? Usually, these kind of emails would have a nice introduction, informative and full of attractive pictures and all of a sudden, the last part would be accompanied with some texts. Either you forward this email in 5 minutes or get yourself killed in 10 minutes time. Yea, right!

The same thing applies in Friendster. The infamous “ALLEN SMITH” hoax has been going around for ages, albeit Friendster has made an announcement stating that there is no such person as ALLEN SMITH! In addition to that, the same “forward this or die” message would be circulating and some idiots would even post it in bulletin boards. You guys should seriously consider of googling for “the meaning of bulletin board” and keep the explanation of that term in your brain, if you have any! Another thing would be those “REPOST THIS WITH ANY OF THE TITLES BELOW” or “REPOST THIS WITH YOUR PHONE NUMBER”. Come on lah, what is so interesting about this?

Dear kids, instead of doing these craps and wasting your precious time, do something which would benefit you. Learn Photoshop. Start designing some graphics. Be a freelancer. Learn HTML / PHP. Start a new website / blog. Earn some bucks using those adsense or whatever other advertising means that may apply.

Insaflah!

Nambe perre thaivuseithu kapathungge!

Now, repost this blog post in your Friendster’s bulletin board or else, expect a guy named MAKKEZ to stab you tonight!