The recent Facebook fiasco reminded me of a conversation I had a few years back with a couple of my teammates.

'You are not on Twitter?' one of them had asked.

'No'

'Facebook?' asked another.

'Nope'.

'You don't want to share photos of your vacations with your friends?' this was accompanied by a look which screamed the unasked question - 'which planet of a far far away galaxy are you from?'.

'Why would I want to?' I arched my eye-brows the way Mr. Spock (of the Star Trek fame!) does when he hears something particularly fascinating (or inane!).

'And you don't want to see photos posted by your friends?' I think by now my teammates were imagining a non-existent green antenna popping out of my head, right in between a pair of extra eyes.

'Again, why would I want to?' Don't get me wrong. I love all my friends but that doesn't extend to spending time looking at them and their family frolicking about at their latest travel destination.

'Oh'

To this day, I am not sure if they simply ran out of arguments or gave up this exercise as a futile one.

Needless to say, the recent brouhaha convinced me (not that I needed any convincing!) that I was right in steering clear of the so-called 'social networks'.