Chai Chalk Chatter

“If Facebook were a country, it would now be the 6th most populous in the world.” - InsideFacebook.com Advent of Internet has brought about a revolution in the fields of information exchange and other web based features which were never thought of even 2 decades ago. Mark Zukerberg, CEO and chairman of Facebook, of was one of the fore-fathers of Social Networking. While at Harvard he was considered a programming prodigy and had done a lot of productive work towards developing many sites. These were very useful to the students as they were able to form a number separate study and discussion groups. Well, among all the productive work that he did he did not leave an opportunity for having fun and thus was the creation of the infamous “Facemash” and he created that, as his roommate had said, “just for fun”. Harvard had to shut down this site because it had rendered the Ha

“Chol, leh kai bol boring”. Ah! How I miss those days .Long gone are now, those days, with all the restless waits to return from school and then rush to the road, and there it was the hustle and bustle of the evening race. Today the scenario is very much different, unlike until a little time back when children discussed on their next strategy towards getting a batsman of the opponent team out, they discuss how effective is the “sange and yasha” combination with a particular hero in “Dota”, a popular multiplayer PC game. The ball bearing races have been now replaced by multiplayer game tournaments of PC games such as Counter strike, a popular FPS (First Player Shooting) game, conducted by various Game Parlours across Shillong. Well the advent of the computer gaming is not an old tradition is a pretty new form of entertainment which is getting so very popular amongst the youth. Computer gaming has both positive effects as well as negative effects and is applicable to different