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Thanks Minakshi from mommystimeline for introducing me. 

Welcome readers to my station of #BlogGarba

Tring tring tring!!!

She just took out her mobile from below of her pillow. 

“Mom!! It’s only 8:00 am why you called so early? Today I don’t have college, let me sleep I will call you later” Kashish was about to cut the call.

“Wait Gudiya!! Just called up to tell – Aaj se navratri shuru hai uth kar egg mat khana .. 9 days mata rani is coming so no non veg” Mom just warned Kashish and hooked up the call.

Kashish’s pet name was Gudiya.

“Ah my mom is so God fearing” She just opened her Whatsapp and was scrolled down all group names were changed with “Jai Mata di”, “Happy Navratri” “Mata Rani Ki Jai” and even messages with all pictures and all were flooding on her WhatsApp. 

“People are getting crazy ..” let me check FB, Twitter, and Insta once and then get fresh 

Her FB, Insta, and Twitter accounts were hacked by same sorts of messages. 

Irritated with this she locked her phone and went to the washroom.

After 2 hours…..

DP changed to Mata Rani pic…

FB, Twitter and Insta status and stories updated with hostel room’s Mandir praying Maa Durga with OOTD #GoingEthnic 

Above story line is not only about Kashish but actually, for all of us, it’s not only at time of Navratri, story on Holi, Diwali, Christmas, New year, Janmashtami, Karvacauth and all festivals even teachers day, Children’s Day and now we celebrate fathers day, mothers day, actually every day on social media only. 

We are actually living social life more than real life. It has both sides some positive and some negative. 

Lets check out what it’s bringing.

Happy Social Festivals

  1. Timeline looks so beautiful, positive and colorful with beautiful pics. 
  2. Gives positivity. 
  3. Reminds us some unforgettable moments and try to relive those childhood moments.
  4. Wish all together to the entire world.
  5. We get connected to our roots and realize that how much we are blessed with so many great festivals. 

Sad Social Festivals

  1. We share to show our happiness but forget about those who are not able to celebrate. 
  2. Pity on those who share happiness on social media on parents day, fathers day or mothers day but their parents are in old age home.
  3. Before social media, we use to visit relatives and wish now just wishing them on social media. Losing that connection. 
  4. First cousins and cousins are only seen on parents post. 
  5. Miss big fat family gathering as we have less time to celebrate with family so sharing all happiness via pictures and wishes on social media

I am also God fearing person and yes update my status too on social media. I am nowhere back to those people who share happiness on SOCIAL MEDIA and celebrate SOCIAL FESTIVAL. 

Let’s celebrate actual festival this year rather Social or Virtual Festival. 

Don’t miss to check out my post under Social media till now 

  1. Social Encounter
  2. Social Marriage
  3. Social Birthday

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Next Boarding station is of Manisha from ZarahatkeBlog

In her own words “I started blogging as my space to share my thoughts and experiences. My endeavor has been to write across different topics. Starting from writing on relationships I have touched topics on health, beauty, lifestyle, food and my travels. My highlight for this year has been the 15-interview series during A-Z Challenge of Women across different sectors this April. Last year I was the 2nd runners-up for the MyFriendAlexa campaign with Blogchatter. Looking forward too many more milestones which await for me.

 

 

 

I am so glad you are here. I hope you are enjoying the #BlogGarba. To reach the starting point of blog train, hop onto mommystimeline and follow the route to read this interesting series.”

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Ruchi Verma

Certified parenting teen practitioner, multiple Award winner, mother of two active kids believes in sharing the right source of information to readers which could help them in every possible way!!

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73 Comments

    1. Yeah !! It is Thanks for visiting here

  1. It’s weird how people celebrate more on social media these days rather than in real life. I miss the big fat family too – there’s nothing like having a happy crowd of people home to add fun to a celebration.

    1. I too Miss family gathering but there is some positive side also of social celebration …I used to see my mom who stay alone when my cousins go live on such occations

  2. So true, Ruchi! We are celebrating socially!

  3. How true . Life has become all about social media and seems quite crass and shallow. On the other hand at least because of this we are aware of so many things….and sometimes when you
    meet your second cousins on line, it is far better to meet them this way than not at all . Don’t you think?

  4. So true, its not just festivals, its hobbies as well that have become something to just show off on your social media profile. Earlier photos were taken to treasure memories, now its become the other way round.

    1. Exactly and I can’t blame others actually I’m also one of them ..social media is taking us more in virtual world

  5. I have to agree with you . Just to make point and to have non-existent fame-people are doing so.

    1. Thanks for hopping and reading my views

  6. Very well put. I am sure many will agree with this now. A very important aspect you have pointed out and definitely needs more discussion. An introspection has to be done by every individual on this.
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  7. I agree, we have become social media buffs and our chil­dren are watch­ing us learn­ing from usa and then we blame them that they are into gad­gets.

  8. Cel­e­brat­ing on social media has become a must now. Even if you call some­one to wish “hap­py Diwali”, they expect a nice wish in text too. ?

  9. So true, Ruchie. It’s more of social need than the real love. But I’m a person of celebrating all festivals to cherish our culture, tradition and myself with abundant of joy and happiness. I love your themes of social. Happy to join with you for #MyFriendAlexa.

    1. Please love ur comments always

  10. How true! This time we cel­e­brat­ed Onam in our new house and I com­plete­ly for­got to click pic­tures and update on social media. Nev­er­the­less, the moments were cher­ished.

    1. Janta maaf nhi karegi ..u will be socially boycotted…hahaha

    2. Btw congratulations for your new nest ..

  11. Such a love­ly post… Loved read­ing it… It res­onates so well with today’s time!!

    1. Thanks a lot

  12. the oth­er day only some­one i was talk­ing to said “peo­ple have par­ties so they can put on insta! I agree. it shouldn’t be a facade!

    1. Insta stories I still hv to learn

  13. This is so true. It seems fun­ny when peo­ple take self­ies with Gane­sha in a pan­dal and update it on social media as proof of the vis­it or rel­a­tives ping and wish on social media when no one cares to call.

    1. I don’t know how n what Bappa must be thinking…bas kar pagle kitni selfie…ho Gaya

  14. True! Our life runs on social media. It is always good for us to keep a check on our social media activ­i­ties.

    1. Yup … thanks for hopping here

  15. Haha.. Two hours later DP changed! This is so true. I totally agree that though all this is beautiful, we still need to meet and keep that connect

    1. I will also change …we all do

  16. How true.
    Whatever we celebrate it’s more about hashtags than happiness.
    Love
    P.

    1. Hashtag more than our real happiness

  17. Yeah. That per­son­al touch seems to be miss­ing the­se days, sad­ly. Life seems more hec­tic than it used to be. For me, it’s a mix of both. It’s not just about social, but a bit of social and actu­al. ? Nice obser­va­tions.

    1. Thanks a lot

  18. I get so irri­tat­ed with the­se social niceties I nev­er join what­sapp groups unless they are relat­ed to work. But, at least it makes some peo­ple hap­py to share the­se things, as long as they don’t impose it’s alright I guess.

    1. Agreed .. thanks for reading

  19. We are addicted to social media, but bloggers like us, can’t even get away without it can we?
    I like the sweet sound to your story.

    https://natashamusing.com/2017/09/life-cycle-mondaymusings/

    1. Exactly we can’t live …

  20. Very true..we all do this dur­ing fes­ti­vals.

  21. Ooh…and the mandatory DP change for a friend or family member’s birthday. It’s all about virtual love, unfortunately.

    1. Hehe so true n if u don’t relationship over

  22. I used to wish moth­ers n fathers day­on FB. But lat­er on I real­ized that i nev­er said all those beau­ti­ful words to them on face. Now I stick to, if you can’t say any­thing to them direct­ly then don’t show­case on social media.

    1. I wish my dad could see.. as after loosing him I started blogging and he must be super happy to read.

  23. I do not prefer posting my personal pictures on social media. I might sound outdated to many but those are my personal moments and I want to enjoy them with my family.you said it right it’s better to celebrate actual festival rather than social festival.

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    1. So nice ….

  24. Hi Ruchie, this is the truth. Our cousins are ignored over other virtual friends. We prefer to meet all relatives and cousins only in marriages which happen in years. It is high time we should start socialising in person.

  25. That what­sapp bit is so true !

  26. Yes, sometimes it feels like the entire celebration is just about getting good pictures to put up on social media.

  27. Actually it is the situation all around. We all celebrate everything first through social media then with people around. It is great also that the people we can’t meet frequently can keep in touch through social media. But it has some bad effects too.

  28. The entire post resonated .Itoo feel we need to keep it real and not just for show.

    1. Seriously sometimes feel sad

  29. It is true that we are more vir­tu­al than in real­i­ty, but I think there has to be the bal­ance between two.

    1. Exactly balance is really required

  30. Though i do not do that per­son­al­ly, have seen plen­ty who do that.. ? I feel blessed to have a rather humon­gous fam­i­ly and we cel­e­brate fes­ti­vals col­or­ful­ly in our own per­son­al place. Those are my most lov­ing mem­o­ries!

  31. This Social series is epic. Liking all posts and the pointers are just smooth always. ?

  32. This is a different angle to festival… I mean social festivals..cool… DP and group name changing according to festival has made me smile ?

    1. Ya actually we do that

  33. Ruchi you have very beautifully explained the real life situation in the current times. There are so many social media platforms that where ever you go you tend to find similar behaviour. I sometimes feel our kids are going to celebrate festivals in the virtual world only and will forget about the real world all together.

    1. Yeah .. it’s sad sometimes and good when u can’t meet friends and relatives because of busy schedule

  34. You have nailed it on the head! Social celebrations seem to have taken precedence over real connections and celebrations! We as a family make conscious decisions everyday to connect as a family. Social Media can wait.

  35. hahaha.. that’s a hard reality isn’t it? Celebrations have moved from personal to social but the warmth is missing. Lovely post you nailed it.

  36. Social media has both its good sides and bad sides. While it does help people to stay in touch with their near and dear ones, as you mentioned we tend to feel its enough with meeting our loved ones virtually rather than face to face. We are slowly losing the human touch to just loving shares, likes and comments and that’s quite a sad state to be in.

  37. So true. We all live virtual lives – social media can be both a blessing and a curse!

  38. I just love the way you have written.. These days celebration /festival is more like fashion show and it is true that social media is taking this fashion show to another level.. Now the festive feeling is missing from us…

  39. Things are just glorified for the likes and comments from unknown people. We often ignore our loved ones. Its a very relevant pot and we need to understand the good and bad both. Lets make a change this Navratri

  40. A reality ….yes v r celebrating the festivas virtually ….let’s go back to old times when there was no twitter, no cameras to click , just fun n happiness n togetherness which v cherish even today

  41. I agree. Social media has taken over everything and even festivals are not spared. The pictures & timelines might look beautiful but where are the feelings. You can’t find them over social media. Loved the post till the end. Greta job!!

  42. It is all social & virtual world which is highly active in our lives these days. Must say this is such a well thought post to re-think & re-create the lost real world around :)Let’s start living the life to the fullest in real sense & not for showing off the society !!

  43. Well, that is the irony of life. As you have two sides of a coin! The virtual world has swept away these festivals. But then, let’s look at the positive side of it.

  44. U summed it up dear, we need to understand m feel abt festival, real to Garba sake saath karne main Maza ata hai

  45. So true Ruchi. We all are so engrossed in the virtual world that we are losing touch with reality. I hope we don’t get carried away so far that we can’t find a way to return

  46. Interesting. Loved ur take. Happy Navratri.

  47. Absolutely true that we losting connection only because of social medias now we wish­ing them on vir­tu­al world.well writing article.

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