The other thing that gets me is being “invisible” on ones Mobile phone.. i.e not picking up calls from known numbers..defeats the purpose doesnt it?

@ Mohan:
Sure, I agree that you don’t login just because you want to chat. Infact, I wasn’t too comfortable writing that at the first place. But, it really doesn’t matter if others know when I am online or when I logout. Well, I am sure there are people like you who differ with that, and that’s fine too. But, the biggest hurdle with ‘invisible’ and ‘away’ modes is the protocol which you are talking about. Believe me dude, it really doesn’t work that way all the time, at least with me it hasn’t. So, my suggestion for the ‘invisible’ chatters to use the stealth settings to maintain the ‘protocol’, at least.

@ Veena:
Absolutely not. Anonymous blogging is completely different from ‘invisible’ mode chatting. When you chat, you do with your friends, not with some unknown individual. Anonymous blogging is emant to be anonymous (literally!!!). Fortunately or unfortunately, people do find out the name of the blogger, but that’s not the point of anonymous blogging at all.

I am sure we all have gone through the same ‘dharmasaMkaTa’. But depending on the time and circumstance, I am sure it’s easy to choose one over the other.

@ Srik:
Hmmmm…I guess there are more number of ‘invisible’ chatters in this world than I imagined

@ SJ:
1. Absolutely not the same. I probably should write a post about this….LOL. See my response to Veena above.

2. First, nobody has to change. This is just my take. But, I am sure the ‘invisible’ chatters have their own reasons as to why they do that and no amount of persuation from me will work, and rightly so. This is just my take. Plus, this was a general post to ALL the ‘invisible’ chatters in the world, so can’t ping every one of them

3. On that note, should I tell the whole world who gave me the idea of this ‘burkha’? Or do you think it is self explanatory

4. As a matter of fact, I think there are more ‘burkha raja’s than ‘burkha rani’s. That’s just my guess, statisticians may kill me. Well, no way am I going to ‘barkhaast’ goLisu all of them. One, it is the individual’s choice to be in ‘invisible’ mode just like I like to be in ‘online’ mode and two, if I ‘barkhaast’ goLisu everyone, then there will be hardly anyone on my messenger list

And finally, the rumor mill here had some juicy stories about your return trip to dEsha, I couldn’t ask you about that in Chicago. Invariable when we meet at such Kannada conferences, you seem to be in the first row and I happen to be the last bencher

1. Veena’s comment says it all. gaajina maneyalli kuLitavaru bEreyavara kaDe kallu bisaaDabahudE?

2. Even if you are annoyed by this phenomenon of “chatting with burkha ON”, this is not the way to lash at them. Your tone/tune might make them feel superior. Just make “kaaleLeying fun” at them as if to ridicule or make a mockery of them and then they’ll change.

3. If nothing works, then be reminded of an old melodious hindi film song sung by Mukesh, for the film ’sabak’ (1973). It starts like this: “barkhaa raani jaraa jham ke barso…mera dilbar ja na paye zumkar barso…”. Change the first word from ‘barkhaa’ to ‘burkha’.

4. That might leave a question in your mind: what abt burkha ‘raja’s !? Well, avarannella nimma listnimda ‘barkhaa’st goLisi.