Blogging: Test Match Cricket Vs. T20 Cricket

10 years! And I am back!

I have returned after an absence of 10 years from the world of #MacroBlogs. What had kept me away was...let me think!!

Well, yes, 140 characters, single impulsive pictures that defined an instant, 7-second videos that described my state mind; instant connections actually had me by the throat. Easy, fast, riveting. Simpler to produce and they did not take much time!

Just as the story of cricket. Remember the fun of watching test match cricket. You savoured the technique of each player, the flair in the game and the ever cheering crowd – the richness of the game stretched to five days. Then came the faster and more decisive one-dayers. The T20s soared in popularity just as instant noodles. It cut across class, caste, creed, gender and age. Everyone had an opinion on every performance, game or even techniques. Most reactions and opinions were rubbish, particularly when it came from people who have never faced a ball coming at even 100 miles an hour!

#Microblogging has turned out to be just the same. People were expressing themselves freely. Actually, the exact reason it was created for. However, maturity and responsibility of what is published did not match the newfound ability to write.

In the beginning, people were cautious, chivalrous and even very measured. Once they had tasted blood with instant reactions and appreciation, messages, opinions and postings got bolder. Giving rise to slanging matches, erroneous data, fake news, trolls, organized trolls, funded trolls, malicious allegations, slangs of vicious kind, and much more. Anonymity helped to a large extent.

Both close circle and open circle micro blogs became platforms for creating conflicts. This is not to say that we do not have good content here, but the turn of events in the last three years have pushed the credibility of the micro blogs down the drain.

Is that why I am back to my macro blog after 10 years? Well, yes and no. No, because I still think the fun of explaining a point of view is best with macro blogs. And yes, because I do not believe more than 60% of postings on micro blogs!

After all, T20 is just entertainment. Test Cricket is the real game!