The same 25 guys

Doesn't it strike you? The same people saying Good morning on WhatsApp. The same people liking your posts on Facebook. The same people speaking to you over phone. In fact, you have lesser friends now than ever before. Doesn't it strike you that you are now preening and performing to please these small number of known people rather than impressing the whole wide world? An actor defends herself on Twitter against abusive hordes. They would some, 80 or 90 in number. By being nonchalant about what she's recently done on screen. She doesn't have to. Because whatever she has done, has caused many many thousands more to go across to cinema halls all over India and see the film. Don't know about the grandmothers going, though. She does not have engagement with that silent unapprochable majority. And she's responding to some abusive idiots who have actually not seen the film probably, no one knows. A friend has shouting matches on Facebook regularly with exactly six people over politics. The same six people. It's like a domestic fight on the balcony of the house everyday. Everyone sees and yet cannot or will not participate. The friend thinks he matters. The silent majority smiles. To keep my sanity and humility going, I also post sometimes in medium and other blogs. No one likes anything that I write. No one comments. Humbling experience. Then I know, I don't matter at all, in the larger world. There are many others who are far more important and talented. You know how algorithms work, right? Choose to surround you with what you want to see and what you want to read or view and who you want to mix with. Usually, the small bunch of the same 25 people. Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. All follow the same system. You're stuck with the 25. And that's dangerous, certifiably. Because that's "andhon mein kaana raja" kinda stuff. So, trust me, going out and mingling with the real people still works. Even if you are shy or unsocial or both. Now let me deal with Google News that for some reason is only providing me with Taimur, Sunil Chettri and Kumaraswamy in no particular order. Probably, the same algorithms!