e-Love among Malaysian Indians

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I really wanted to discuss about this topic for a very long time but unfortunately I didn’t get the right time to do it. Anyhow, I shall do it now.

e-Love, or better known as “Online Love” has been going around for quite some time as we all may know but what we didn’t knew is that how this e-Love thingy managed to influence the heart and brain of some of our youngsters, particularly those guys. Oh and please don’t mistaken me for condemning this e-Love whereas I am not. Before I proceed further, let us go back to the old ages, to those days when mIRC reigned as the pioneer platform for Malaysian Indians in making love online (not the usual ‘make love’ which equals to fcuk). I bet some of you would know about mIRC and some might even be addicted to it those days (or maybe even now), but we can’t deny the fact that e-Love among Malaysian Indians were popularised by this program. And the reason? Well, because it mainly involves chatting and just chatting! Note: Please bear in mind that the term ‘e-Love’ used in this post defines the love that blooms ONLINE without meeting each other, and not after they got to know online, met outdoor and then only proceeded with loving each other.

We all love chatting, be it chatting for fun or chatting seriously, but when it comes to chatting for a specific purpose, which is, to find our life partner online, there comes the drama. Those days in mIRC, the following names were very famous:
 

Priya
Nisha
Prisha
Shasha

 
The above names would somehow gave an impression to some kiddie boys (mainly those school boys who loved to play truant and spending their whole day chatting in cybercafes) that the girls with those aforementioned names would be very hot and pretty. Talking about that, when those names were customized such as:
 

PriyaCutie
NishaHottie
Prisha**Kiss**
~muax~sHaShA~muax~

 
That would certainly be a double joy and do expect our kiddie boys to jump around as they would be starting to dream on dating the girls with the following names. And there goes their first message to the purported girls, the same message in which the purported girls would be receiving in less than 5 seconds from 10 other guys right after she had signed in to her mIRC:

Hi dear, asl please?

And either there would be no reply, or a reply would be coming in 10 minutes later. Talk, talk, talk and finally the boy would be asking her HP number. Once again, either she would give a fake one, says that she doesn’t have any, asks him tons of questions on why he needs her HP number and at last, giving her real HP number. There would be many possibilities in this situation but the second answer would probably be given the utmost priority. Talk, talk, talk once again and the boy would twist the whole conversation and would ask:

What do you think about sex?

Period. And that’s it about mIRC. If the above question comes out from a guy, he would definitely be a pervert whereas if the same question comes out from a girl, she would definitely be a, well, he. Now, let us ditch mIRC for the time being and hop to our favorite social networking site, Friendster! In Friendster, it is so common that even a 14 year-old girl can be tricked into falling in love in 2 days time, and ditching her the following week and find for another.

Friendster doesn’t allow us to chat, but it allows us to send messages and comments, which turns to be a chatting platform for some. Although it doesn’t have the same ‘kick’ as in chatting, but somehow e-Love would still work in Friendster! You go and add a girl, send her a message saying that she looks very cute (although if she happened to use some Indiaglitz’s ripped photos), keep on saying that she is sweet and wonderful and once you got her number, consider the task to be done. Mind you, the following only applies to those 14-year-old girls who talk and act like sluts.

The point here is, the girl might be a genuine love seeker (keep aside her age) and she would be expecting a genuine love from the boy. But when the boy happens to be a playboy, she has been officially tricked. Even the boy can also be a genuine love seeker expecting a genuine love from the girl, but he won’t knew that the girl is a slut and would end up failing his exams and doing all sort of shits after he got to know her true colors.

Even in mIRC, no one can stop me from using the nickname PriyaCutie, chatting with some guys for a few days, talk as if “I’m a girl” and being so sweet in such a way that the guy would melt in few hours time, fix a date and time for a meet-up session and whoops, there goes the expectations, dreams, hopes and so-called blooming love of that guy, waiting and expecting ‘PriyaCutie’ to show up at the meeting place. For that guy, he would feel miserable after being cheated but for me, it would be ‘fun’. Even in Friendster, I can even do a Google image search for a chick in Sri Lanka, open up an account based on her picture, faking all the details and start going around and adding some guys. In the end, I would ended up saying “I love you” to 10 different guys, arrange a meet-up session with each of them and that’s it! It doesn’t matter if those guys are genuine love seekers or playboys but for ‘me’, what matters is that ‘I’ am doing it for fun!

The paragraph above are merely an example of how some guys who have nothing better to do in life would be interested in doing and has nothing to do with ME!

I know there are some couples who met online, love bloomed online, kept in touch via handphone and finally, they decided to meet up for the first time as couples. But, these kind of cases are very very rare, as most of the kids nowadays would crave for hundreds of photos at the beginning of a conversation or a message, so that they can ensure themselves that they won’t be talking to a kampung Meenachi or a karat Bob, and then only they would be interested in keeping in touch with that particular person.

To sum it up, with the increasing number of fake profiles, fake photos, fake infos and even fake love itself, what you gotta say about this e-Love? An activity of someone who is in dire need of fun? Something that won’t last? Something that is fake in nature? Something that is true, but would fade away once two parties meet each other? Something that is very pure and dependable on the individuals involved?