What’s the next big migration?

So I am back from home. Seeing your mother after a long time is great and so is having stomach-full of her cooked food. (maa ke haathon ka khana ) But then the vacation ends and you are back. The same is what I have been doing. Now that I am back in Mumbai time to get back to work and make good of my time.

The big news today was facebook buying instagram. And pages of the newspaper have been devoted to analyse the good, the bad and everything in between. Going through these pages and contemplating on the articles that I have read recently, a thought passed by my mind. It was the great migrations of social networks.

 First all of us were on yahoo messenger. Buzz was what we used to do. The chat rooms where we used to sit hours looking for a good chat mate. ASL please? Was the first question asked. This was ou first taste of socializing online.

 And then as the internet speeds in the country went up and all of us got computers at home it was the era of orkut. This was the time when we compared the number of friends we had and just log in to check who all visited our profile and secretly hoping it was that special someone. More and more people brought their lives online and the late evening play in the park was substituted by a visit to the orkut account.

Then came the cavalry with broadband expanding its bandwidth on our lives. We had internet acess everywhere and a guy named mark zukerberg created a platform to cash in on this “facebook” was what he called it. We left orkut and rushed to facebook . with all its apps and user friendly pages brought us to the walls of our friends. Like,comment or poke or just stalk people without them knowing it.  And not to forget twitter the “microblogging” zone with its follow and retweets captured our imaginations.

Now that facebook and twitter are in, we may have grazed their pastures and looking to migrate to a new platform. What this will be no one knows perhaps we have to wait a little more before our friends migrate first.