Frou is.... blogging right now.

I had dinner with a friend last weekend. I have not seen her for about two weeks so I was excited to update her on what's been happening, what I have been doing, who did what to whom and so on.

To my surprise, all that was dispensed with. She appears to already know plenty - about me as well as my clique of friends (we have many in common.)

"Oh, I have been surfing Facebook on my iPhone while on the roads and it shows me all your status updates."

What she meant by status update is that little box on the right hand side of the Facebook application interface where you can key in "What you are doing right now." For example, "XXX is currently eating bak chor mee" or "YYY is having a hiccup attack" or "ZZZ has a zit the size of Mount Olympus."

Coincidentally, another person told me last night that he thinks that one of my friends must be feeling desperate. I asked him why he thinks so and he said, "I saw her Facebook status updates and she sounds like she is trying hard to impress somebody."

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Wow, I never thought those few silly words we write in our status updates can be so telling. Even more so, that people actually take notice - whether or not he/she knows you all that well.

I guess it is fine if it is only your close friends who reads them but since we often add people whom we are not that close to (at least, I do), they get your updates too. I don't know about you but I have a tendency to approve a friend request if I find that person vaguely familiar or if we have friends in common. It's not that I am trying to win the "who have the most friends on Facebook" competition but it's just that I never thought there is any harm to it. In fact, it can be useful. I have found long lost friends through people that I added who happen to be friends with them as well. (Singapore is very small mah!)

What I never realise is, once you add someone as a friend, he/she is privy to all itsy bitsy details of your life including the fact that you had bak chor mee for lunch yesterday. Yes we may think that it is all in the confines of the cyberworld but people are actually coming up to me in real life and asking me how that bak chor mee tasted!

Pretty much like blogs as well, isn't it?

That's the thing about the cyberworld. We think we are wearing a cloak of invisibility when we throw words out there; a private affair between us and our laptops. But truth is, we never know who is noticing and reading - and who actually cares about it.

So for the benefit of those who are reading and who does care: The Frou is going to have Yong Tau Foo for lunch today. Extra brinjals! Yums!