A Cross-Border Story
Distance Is A Notion Give your Facebook a rest, and read this story when she was in grade six and he was in grade ten. Back then, school kids weren't privileged with mobile phones, neither had a heavy wallet. Internet was a gourmet product those days; internet cafés were quite popular for every kind of computer tasks, from school projects to colour print outs. One evening, her friend asked if she knew about the then trending social media; she wasn't aware. Her friend took her to a café before the chemistry tuition and opened an account for her on ORKUT! That too with a new REDIFFMAIL email id!! The winter/Christmas theme was her all time favourite, and she loved the scrapbook application with those animated posts. 90s netizens will understand the fascination with Orkut: it has multiple chat room with unlimited access. She loved interacting with strangers, knowing what others are like, possibilities, theories. It happened when she had just been done with her grade sev