Facebookly Photogenic!

Sorry about the word 'Facebookly". Facebook is so popular these days I could almost feel that the word could be used as an adjective with a little bit of tweaking.

Does it happen with you that when someone clicks a picture of you having a ball in a bar, all you can think of is "Wow! That ones going up as my profile picture!" Some people will even forget that they are drunk and will pull out their fancy Blackberrys and iPhones (I have a modest e71) to upload the pictures right away. Others will pester you to send the picture immediately using bluetooth as if its a race of who can get to the wall faster. Or does this happen that you are in the middle of a raft (Rishikesh baby!!) and your friend takes out the camera and then you can expect to hear what has been heard a million times before "Facebook picture please?"

I know of a friend who is dead scared of heights and jumped from a cliff (Rishikesh Baby!!) twice just because his picture did not come right the first time.Sorry I forgot to mention that he was jumping into the Ganges and is still alive. I wonder what was going on in his mind the second time he jumped "Is he getting the right angle?Is this stupid helmet blocking the view?I hope it looks like I am pro?Oh no!Will I have to do this again?" Its funny what all things can give you courage.  

Does this phrase often cross your mind when you read a notification that you have been tagged in a photo - "Shit!Which photo?" And when you open it and it turns out to be this hideous image where you have been captured which your mouth open and looking totally demented. You frantically look for the "Untag" link but somewhere in the corner of your mind you still know that the picture exists on the world wide web (Which is Facebook these days by the way!). A thought also crosses your mind that maybe if you hit the "Report Abuse" link a 1000 times, the Facebook people might remove it because you had read something of this sort somewhere (probably on facebook). I don't know what the big deal is? (Please don't put any of my photos). Okay so sometimes we do it too. Okay I do it all the time.

Confession: We paid the snowmobile guy at Rohtang Pass 50 bucks so that we could get a picture on the beautiful machine (We couldn't afford the 1000 bucks ride fee).