Google Talk

Whats the first thing that you do after logging into your Gtalk Account?

Its Obbb re...you check everyone's status message. Different People, Different status. Sometimes even Different People, same status....

On a rare minority of people in my gtalk list use the 'Available','Busy' or 'Idle'message. Logo ki saari creativity inhe messages mein hi to dikhti hai aur kaun kya kar raha hai...yeh bhi samajh mein aa jaata hai..

These days the placement seasion is on and statuses read "(Shubham is) a victim of recession" or "When it hits ur Fren its Recession, When it hits U.. its Depression :P"(Shokee).

With the coming of exams..log padhai kar rahe ho ya nahi..status zaroor lag jaate hai..like "DND, unless i m d only one who can diffuse d bomb which is about to blow"(Gangwar) or "Study as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were to die tomorrow.."(Prateek) or "YOU DEESTURB ME, I KEEL YOU. SEEMPLE."(Bhiday).Though in the last sem with electives, status messages like "Kitne T1, T2 , Compre aaye aur gaye...bt hum wahi ke wahi ;)." come forward.

Want to let everybody know about some one's b'day or some event then your status reads "Happy Birthday " or "Please come down at 12 to wish XyZ a Happy Birthday"

Want to inform people about some important meeting then people have sm's as "BITSAA presents a lecture on MBA basics @ 5:30"or "Yahoo coming for placements tommorow @ 9".Some other SM's are situational. For instance, say on Republic Day about 75% of the people will have their SM's as "Happy Republic Day" or another common one is "Proud to be an Indian".

Concluded an event (with reference to Mime Club or Music Club, (yahi ek aad club hai jo ache se kaam karte hai hai ;) ) successfully the SM's are "Mime Performance Rocked as usual..." or "Cheers to Music Club...".

With Valentines Day coming there are desperate SMs like "I need a date" or "Wanted a Love Guru !!"( Rajesh Bhasin) or "Searching for someone..." . Billu bhai's awesome message on recession and Valentines day reads "True love is when you tell you tell your Girlfriend that you work for SATYAM-and she still loves you" and Abhay's message on the same subject reads "Due to recession Girls are finally marrying for love.". Then there are some SMs(like Abhay's or Bhaven's ) which have link to some mast fundoo sites.

But the best ones are the ones which convey a message or has a funda behind it. I remember one SM that read "there are some things in life that money can't buy ........ but for the rest I NEED MONEY.."( has to be Pandeyji to come up with something this good). Others of that kind I like are of the type"destiny is calling me... so i put your call on hold!" or " I get enough exercise pushing my luck" or "Progress isn't made by early risers or hardworkers,but by lazy people, trying to find easier ways to do the same job." (Henry Ford) .

Sometimes I do see different people with the same status messages like Shubham and Chillu both stating "A victim of recession". Another example was when a few days back Vishrut and his room mates( thats Bhasin, Kazi and Bhaskar) got WiFi net in their room, all thier messages were similar.

Thanks to Gtalk that it has provided such an wonderful option apart from the boring "Available","Busy" and "Idle" SMs. So next time dont leave your SM any one of the default boring ones. You may be lucky and someone might like your SM and in turn you...

Also Vodoo(Manish) and rDx(Kushal) have embarked on the difficult mission of trying to analyze the gtalk status messages of BITSians...

Check out their efforts here.

Both of them have done a gr8 job at being vella's..maybe being at PS-II does that to people..

Cheers guys...Continue the gr8 job ;)