Ruchi Verma
Writing letters to mummy and papa was in my routine in the hostel. For every small thing waiting for outing timing and going out to make an std call from PCO or sitting next to landline of hostel waiting for papa’s call.
Those years were really amazing when I get call from college office that you got a mail..oops mail means letter, I used to run from hostel till office to get that letter and remember sitting reading that letter from my papa with teary eyes.
The year 1999, my friend who stays with his parents have his own computer and that with an internet connection. He told me that there is a better way now to send a letter to your dad via Yahoo and with so much surprise we all friends reached his home and he created my yahoo id and told me how to use. Thanks, Amit, I still have that id.
I called papa and told him the same and very next day first mail in my mailbox from papa and I was so happy to receive it.
This was my first encounter with social media as before that I was only looking up for Google.
For next few years, I was like yes!! I’m so active that I have a social account going cyber cafe either to check email or chat with friends online on Yahoo chat.
I still remember when I returned home after my post graduation I entered in a cyber cafe and while passing I saw a boy chatting on some very attractive window, due to my curiosity I enquired cyber cafe person who was my family friend ‘What he is using?”
He replied a new social platform by Google is called ” 
“ I was like ok let me also open an account on it and this is what I saw myself encountered with the second social platform and started enjoying uploading pics and connecting to my friends on finger tips.
Then it is on with FB, Twitter, Instagram, Flickr and much more. Even few friends saved my name as Social Queen.
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Itās fun to be a king or queen on social media but v canāt forget those times when letter meant the blue coloured inland letter lying in our letter box , that handwritten love was very fragrant
Absolutely…I still hv those letters of papa n friends …n mummy’s where she always mention her one dialogue” jo ped jhuktha hai Wahi khada rehta hai” always
Ha the Orkut days and tesĀtiĀmoĀniĀals! ? I rememĀber them vividĀly. All the best with Alexa. LookĀing forĀward to readĀing your SM encounĀters.
Thanks Shalini…
Ah.. FeelĀing nosĀtalĀgic dear.. I rememĀber yahoo chat used to be so fun and interĀestĀing ?
My life changed with Yahoo chat ..u will read in coming post
Yes, I remember using internet only at office for a very long time and then Orkut happened and then Yahoo. You brought so many lovely memories flooding back Ruchi.
Ya …m sure many are in same old zone
Yeah! Good old Orkut… We could call it the father of social media š This post was a trip down the memory lane.
So happy u liked this
I donāt remember my first social media encounter. ? But itās definitely FB!
I also used orkut and yahoo and realĀly it was so fun time. Missed those days of colĀlege life when theĀse things just startĀed and only few teenagers used theĀse.
I do remember Orkut days and the yahoo chat rooms. HA HA where ppl use to ask each other Hi ASL . Loved reading your post.
This is such a beautiful start of the challenge. All the best for #Alexa watching this space for more on Social Media Journey
Social media was first facebook then twitter.My favorite is twitter though
You took us all down the ‘memory lane š
Feeling so nostalgic dear. Remembering those orkut days.
I rememĀber writĀing letĀters to my materĀnal grandĀmothĀer ?It used to be funā¦ techĀnolĀoĀgy has made comĀmuĀniĀcaĀtion so easy
It was fun time when I was using OrkutOrkut and yahoo
My first encounter with social media was when i created a yahoo mail to chat with friends! It was fun!
Ye the old says chats and letĀters were so much fun
Hahaha!! Orkut was like a rage those days.
Wonderful article. I remember being mesmerized with socialmedia when i first used it. I got really obsessed.
For me it was MBA wherein I used computers maximum earlier than that it was sending forwards to friends thatās it. The first time I came to know about Facebook I hated the concept and not we canāt survive without it.
your blog reminded me of good old pen-friend days! nice post.
Ya those days were so cool
I still remember when gmail was only by inviteā¦ And one of my school friend invited us 6 people on gmail. Before that, same as you, it was just yahoo!
RealĀly reminds me how far techĀnolĀoĀgy has come. Who knows what the future holds for us.
Oh the good old Orkutā¦It was like my first love ? I migrated to FB only after orkut was off the rails ? This post made me feel nostalgicā¦Thanks for sharing!
You made me nosĀtalĀgic! I recall yahoo chats with ranĀdom peoĀple in a cyber cafe where we would use asl and talk ranĀdom stuff
Ah! I started with Orkut. The testimonials and scraps were such fascinating things in those days. I met a lot of my old school friends over Orkut and that was the main reason I joined it. Thanks for reminding me of good old days. ?
So glad that you hopped here and happy that I made you remind old days