Posts Tagged for: Social Life

Why you should follow me on Twitter!

By Prashanth on 13 March 2010 under EGO, Opinion, People, Social, Thoughts

  1. I don’t use twitter like a group chat! Ex Tweet: “@A @B @C @D LOL @Efff must be named Fuckasura :P Lol :D ”
  2. I don’t tweet about products which are #Fail. If you don’t like it, don’t give a damn about it. What’s the point in tweeting “iPad sucks” for 100 times & making it trending! For record, I tweeted only once about iPad, that too I guess about that spoof ad.
  3. I don’t participate in making some lame #hashtag trending. Ex: #Nityananda. For those who were part of it, what do you think you achieved by making that trending? All phirangis woke up to see Nityananda trending, they go search what’s it is about. You know what kind of impression they might have got about our culture? our nation?
  4. I don’t tweet about #IPL (Seriously)
  5. I don’t participate in RT & win contests, let it be an iPod or a Mercedes car!
  6. I know the difference between RT & @Reply!
  7. I’m on Twitter for valuable conversations which used to happen in early 2009 & 2008. And all those folks who were adopted to that kind of Twitter aren’t active today. Because, the other kind of people outnumbered them in a large volume.

When somebody ask me what Twitter does, I always say “It doesn’t do anything, it’s just a platform, you can use it any way you want to!”.

Well, this is my personal opinion, the way I wanted Twitter to be, I’m not enforcing my thoughts, you can go ahead & use it the way *YOU* want it!

To conclude this little post, my handle on Twitter is @hnprashanth :-)

My Year 2009 in a Video!

By Prashanth on 29 December 2009 under EGO, Events, Experience, Past, People, Social, Tech, Thoughts, Videos

Missed out a day on Twitter? Just check @tsuvik’s timeline!!

By Prashanth on 25 November 2009 under People, Social, Tech

I met this tall guy Vikas SN at a random tweet up around a year ago! Which essentially means we were following each other. I used to pull his legs saying “You are a human RT bot :P ”, he never took it seriously & went on & on!! Then after few months I realized that, without knowing, I had  started a practice!!! Whenever I’m busy & couldn’t check Twitter whole day, I just visit his timeline at the end of the day!!

This is his typical timeline!! Any thing interesting or impressive happening of the day, it must be present on his timeline! His handpicked RTs could never bore you. Today, this timeline made my day by linking to a “20 Essential Tips and Tricks Every Flickr User Should Know” where I discovered really awesome tools which can help me use my “Pro” account at it’s limits!!

Hope this dude continues doing this great job! You can follow him @tsuvik

Second most popular “Prashanth” on internet!!

By Prashanth on 20 November 2009 under EGO, Social, Tech

Google Search for “prashanth” and you can see me in third place! First two results are about Tamil star Prashanth [DAMN!!] & the third is mine :-) So effectively I’m the second most popular “Prashanth” on internet *right now*. Why I’m stressing on *right now* is, Google results are dynamic, they can change drastically at any point of time! I’m happy to get there since “Prashanth” is very common South Indian name.

Orkut facts!!!!!!

By Prashanth on 20 November 2009 under People, Social, Thoughts

Some of the facts about Orkut which I found with set of friends I have there, but it’s the same for most of you I guess.

  • Most of the people on Orkut have personality disorder!! They pretend to be something which they are actually not.
  • Though there’s a separate box provided by Orkut to update status, most of them still edit their First & Last name to update status. Like: “Rahul – back from the trip!”
  • More than half of my friends don’t have their own picture to upload, they use some actor or actress’s pictures!!! <This annoys me a lot>
  • “LOLZZ” is the most used word!!! in status messages, scrapbooks, etc…etc.
  • They use some jinck-chack characters in their names, which takes a while to understand to read & understand who that person is! Like: ♥●• ♪Ğø|{$.. ♥●• …not lonely any more :D !!
  • Some of them are so ego conscious, they force you to write a *good* testimonial for them, rate full on “Cool”, “Trustworthy” & “Sexy” :P
  • Most of them are “Very attractive” or “Mirror cracking material”

That’s it for now!!!

Twitter ID confliction: Shorter one or the one well known!

By Prashanth on 10 July 2009 under Conflicts, Confusion, Frustration

Living on Twitter since BCB4 (Barcamp Bangalore 4), July 2007. When I registered for Twitter, I had no idea about it & wasn’t serious on continuing it! So, I went with usual username which I use everywhere “hnprashanth”. But now a days it seem so lengthy, people often run out of characters (should I say 140!!?) because of lengthy usernames while replying or re-tweeting.

I made ‘n’ number of attempts to acquire @hn or @hnp on twittter which *were* inactive. But Twitter always replied saying “We will release all inactive usernames soon”, which never happened! Now, I don’t know what happened to these two guys, they are back on twitter :( I am just getting frustrated for not getting Twitter handle which I wanted the most.

Finally compromising a bit on username, I had registered @hnpr. But rejected right away by my friends on twitter!! Now it has become a tough for me to choose between @hnpr & @hnprashanth. Shorter one or the one well known to everyone!!?

What ya say!!?