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An advantage of the old age is that young girls start trusting you. Facebook gives the additional advantage of introducing an element of anonymity, making it easier for them to discuss even their personal affairs without much inhibition, which they would not be able to do if they have to talk to someone face to face in our conservative society.
I don’t exactly remember how Anuradha and I started chat on Facebook but soon we became what can be called ‘close friends’, talking about our personal and family matters. Anuradha, incidentally, was not her real name. She was in her early twenties’, born and brought up in a South Indian orthodox Brahman family, had done her MA, was not doing any job but was waiting for her marriage. Her parents, she told me, were looking for a suitable boy for her.
On her Timeline, she had posted several photographs – of her alone and with other girls. She was a plain looking girl and always, always dressed very conservatively even though some other girls in the photographs looked modish.
Our chat was not regular. Once in a while she would tell me about some function she had attended with her family or about some picnic she had gone to with other girls of the village. She was quite excited while talking about her marriage and narrate in detail what she had overheard her parents discuss about the latest boy they had seen. The search for the suitable boy went on for quite some time.
Then her parents settled on a boy and Anuradha chatted about nothing but the boy, his occupation, his family, his village and so on. One day she told me that her parents had invited the boy and her family members so that the boy could see Anuradha. She appeared that day bubbling with joy.
After that I did not hear from her for several days.
One afternoon as I logged into my Facebook account (she knew I was available on Facebook mostly in the afternoons), there was a cryptic message from her: ‘Do I look sexy?’ I read and re-read the message trying to make a sense of it. By then there was another message: ‘Don’t I look sexy?’ Now I was completely flummoxed. Before I could gather my wits, there was yet another message: ‘They say I am not glamorous’.
Now some understanding of the situation had dawned on me. I sent her the message: ‘Who says’. There was, however, no reply. I sent another message, then another and continued to send messages during the next several days but there was never a reply. After some time I noticed to my consternation that her Facebook account had disappeared.
Mystery of a Facebook account
Posted on: April 7, 2015
- In: Society
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In my email I received a message through Facebook saying that Helen Arianti (from somewhere in England) wanted to be friends with me on Facebook. I checked her Facebook account and found that some of my friends and acquaintances were already on her Facebook friends list. I confirmed.
There was a ‘hello’ from her to which I also responded. Then I received the following message: ‘please contact me on my Email vina4vina@hotmail.com i have important matter to discuss with you’. I wrote using my email: ‘Waiting’.
After silence for some time, I received an email from Vina Robbins. As the message was sent using the same email id (vina4vina@hotmail.com), I knew it was from Helen Arianti. Her email reads (without any editing):
‘How are you today? I like to be open, i am a woman that have seen life, i have been in the social circle for many years, It really does not matter one’s age or color or achievement, what matters in our life is nothing but Care and expression, expression of the heart
‘This is the most important thing in life, to me the most beautiful thing created by God, is never seen, only felt in the heart, I have been hardworking all my life now, i must think of something better, to enjoy my life and probably have a family ,maybe relocate and start investing in other things Anyway, i like to tell you little about me, My name is Vina Robbins, Am British i lost my only daughter at child birth, Am working as an Senior Audit / banker in Al Rayan Bank formerly Islamic Bank of Britain United Kingdom
‘i was married but my Ex Husband got married to another woman, which caused our divorce, but is ok, since he accused me of been so busy with my work and the bank and its accounting/auditing, that i was not having time for him, but he refused to understand that i was pursing a goal, i told him that soon i would resign and we have enough time for each other but he was impatient, But is over between us, I am happy alone because I have everything i need, This is why I think of relocating to your country to get into investment and maybe own a small company which i can be able to manage Enough of myself, would you tell me more about yourself too???? I like to know you better, what you really do and your position in your work, your marital status and where you reside now
‘I love to hear from you soon’.
Before entering into further communication, I decided to have a good look at her Facebook profile. And lo and behold, the Facebook account of Helen Arianti had vanished. Her two messages in my Facebook message box were marked as ‘spam’.
PS (March 9,2016):
The other day I received another email message from Vina Robbins. It reads (given here as it is without editing):
Life without mobile phone!
Posted on: June 22, 2013
I have survived, at least till now, without a mobile phone. The government, though, is hell-bent upon making me realise through its agencies that I have forfeited my right to be a worthy citizen of this country (which, incidentally, is the only country in the world with two official names, India and Bharat).
I was first made aware of my shortcoming by some organisations which wanted to put me or keep me on their mailing lists for sending press releases or publicity material. After getting or checking my postal address, the woman (yes, it is a woman in most of the cases) would ask me about my mobile number. “What, you don’t have a mobile”, she would exclaim on hearing my response. It amused me more than annoyed me.
I received first real shock from the India Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Limited (IRCTC). I have been booking tickets on the IRCTC site almost from the time when it started the service. It was going very well. Then one day a friend, who doesn’t have an account on IRCTC, asked me to book a ticket for his parents and other family members for Ujjain where they were going to worship at Mahakal temple.
To my horror, I found IRCTC would not book the ticket till I went to the settings and inserted my mobile number at the allotted slot. As I was at my friend’s service, I punched in my friend’s mobile number. Even that was not enough, IRCTC wanted the code which it said had been sent on the mobile.
I emailed to IRCTC. It claimed that mobile number had been made mandatory for my own convenience as the booking-related information would now be sent to me through SMS. My argument that I was well enough without this convenience as I was getting all the information on my email had no effect. I then emailed to the Railway Board and sent an email even to then Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi but got no reply.
I am not a regular visitor to Facebook but I know about its potential. So I posted on Facebook my complaint about IRCTC making mobile phone mandatory for e-ticketing. I was expecting a big public outcry about this injustice. But to my disappointment, only one person, Parvesh Sharma, commented on it. He, too, did so probably because he happens to be my nephew.
Aadhar Card
The census man, after obtaining the requisite information and filling scores of columns in the form, asked about my mobile number. When I said that I had only a landline telephone, he was visibly puzzled. There was a column for a mobile number but no column for a landline number. But he was considerate to me mainly, I suspect, for two reasons. One, he was drawn from agriculture department and finding this thankless job a bit irksome. Secondly and more importantly, he was treated at most of the households roughly. Only that morning, he was rudely told by an assistant professor to come some other time as she was busy at the moment. I had, on the other hand, not only made him feel at home but inquired about his regular work and the problems in his office. In view of my friendly manner, I suspect, he allowed me to write my landline phone number in the column meant for mobile number.
I had to face the same problem when I went for my Aadhar Card. The form for Aadhar Card also had no column for landline phone number but only for mobile number. The young man, who was processing the registration, when told that I did not own a mobile, looked at me with a curious expression which I could not decipher. For once, I thought that he was going to turn me down with the remark that one who does not possess a mobile does not deserve an Aadhar Card. Probably out of compassion, he proceeded to complete the registration and wrote against mobile number “not given” instead of “not owned” which I wanted him to put down.
Ironically, the form for Aadhar Card has space only for mobile number but it accepts for proof of residence the bill for the landline telephone only.
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