| Friends, "A book on Facebook! What the hell?" quipped one of my friends when I told him that I am going to write a couple of books related to my facebook activities. Another friend said- "What exactly do you mean by this, Amitabh. Could you please elaborate upon this?" The fact is that I am presently writing books on my various activities related with Facebook. I don't really remember when I joined this remarkable social networking site. I also don't know who introduced me to this wonderland. But I do know that initially I had not taken this site favourably. I remember that I hardly visited the site and more often than not, I deleted all the messages related with facebook that came to my yahoo mail. But I do remember very well that over a period of time I got so fascinated with this social site that it became a part of my life. Fortunately for me my wife Nutan took this site with equal enthusiasm and with this we became a real facebook couple. Today we have reached such a situation where we can't even think of a life without facebook. All our happiness and sorrows, all our emotions, all our programs, many of our functions and many of our activities get governed, facilitated and guided by facebook. To take only a few examples. I had to go to Bhopal. I wrote it down on my facebook wall and the friends at Bhopal got activated. We had a nice get-together there. I was called for a program at Poona. Again facebook came handy and I got many an offers of lunch and dinners at Poone which I could not attend due to my severe paucity of time. Only recently I went to Gurgaon and my information status on facebook helped me meet many old friends. Why only this? Facebook also helps serve many a social and serious purposes. A boy at Patna needed an immediate social intervention. I wrote it on my wall and my respected friend at Patna got into action immediately and within a few hours a life a saved. Something of the same kind happened in Bangluru where a person in critical status needed blood and I could get it arranged, courtesy facebook. There are many more such examples. Facebook has also helped me evolve as a writer, a thinker (if I can claim so) and a poet. Also as a social activist because both the social organizations I head the National RTI Forum and the Institute for Research and Documentation in Social Sciences (IRDS) have got immensely benefitted by facebook. At the same time, many of the high quality and sometimes controversial discussions have emerged between different friends on facebook. Many hilarious and interesting comments also came every now and then. Keeping all these facts in mind, I have started writing these books based on my different facebook activities. As per my present planning, there shall be two books- one in Hindi and one in English. These books shall consist of my writings as that of many of my friends who have helped make the discussions so lively, interesting, soul-stirring and fruitful. The number of books might increase because the material available is substantial. Interestingly there are many important members belonging to this yahoo group as well who have been part of this facebook friendship and have helped enrich my endeavour there. They shall also be there in the book along with their comnents. For any information and suggestions on this, kindly contact me at amitabhthakurlko@gmail.com, amitabhth@yahoo.com, 94155-34526. Shall feel personally obliged. Amitabh Thakur IPS, presently at IIM Lucknow 94155-34526 NB- I have not been given any commission by facebook (at least not so far) for this |
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