Beware the self promoter

A new virus is spreading all throughout social networking sites.Arnab Goswami of TIMES NOW claims that Indians are affected by this deadly virus the most and that 1 out of every 10 Indians addicted to social networking sites seem to show symptoms of being affected by this virus. The name of this virus is - SELF PROMOTION.

Yes,am talking about that pathetic section of people in the internet world called "self promoters"(not to be confused with spammers).This virus had originated in orkut when a bunch of people who were really shy snd reserved in real life realised that there was no reason to be shy in the internet world,they realised that internet is a tool where they could show the world their strength,their power because if you abuse someone in real world they would attack you but in the internet world...they cannot do ANYTHING! And hence the virus was born and had spread everywhere.

Symptoms of this disease:
Maximum photos in their album would describe about their achievements, no don`t be fooled am not talking about getting distinction in 12`th boards or getting selected in your state cricket team.No not those kind of achievements.Their albums would be filled with screenshots of their own self proclaimed achievements,like...

-Editing your profile pic by adding an "ACCOUNT VERIFIED" tag in it and uploading it in your profile proudly proclaiming that orkut/facebook admins know you personally and thats how your account got verified.

-Using Greasemonkey scripts to enhance the style of your web pages but proclaiming to the world that you are a master in web designing which apparently makes you nothing less than God!


Other symptoms would include the abuse of the usage of the "status message" space in facebook,some horrendous self promoting status messages like...
"wanted to buy an i-pad to know what the hype was all about...went to the market but it wasnt available so had to settle for an itouch"(ahh subtle!)

"Hey all!My nokia cell which has an airtel sim isn`t working right now so will be using my samsung corby which has a docomo sim for now..however the docomo rates are high so have put my vodafone sim in my corby..so remember please call me on my vodafone number now but sorry the voice quality won`t be great cause am using corby and not nokia n series"(zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz)

"oh wow twitter has put up my profile pic in their homepage!! did`nt know i was so popular! Here is the screenshot of the twitter home page.." (posts a link of an MS paint edited pic)

Yes every single status update would be a reminder to their friends on how freakin` popular/great/busy they are.Such people would even tend to warn their friends if they go offline for ten seconds just incase if any of their friends starts worrying when it takes a whole one minute for him to reply.There are 99% chances that such people have an "its complicated" as their relationship status.Maybe if these people spent more time in real life than in pseudo-world they would figure out if they are actually in a relationship or not.



Such people don`t actually meet too many people.They rarely do anything productive,do not engage in human interaction yet claim to the world that they have many friends.Sad really.If you want to promote yourself but cannot afford a decent PR than you can be sure that this virus would attack you next! Hope this warning is an awareness for all the people out there and here`s hoping that the next victim of this virus isn`t you!
Here is an example of how a self-promoter`s orkut album would look like

http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Album?uid=18077190329384452290&aid=1


Yes i too was badly affected by this virus while i was active in orkut,happy to say that this virus is finally off me! However a new virus has affected me now and it is called SPAMMING..poor friends of mine in yahoo messenger!