"I am not Mark Zuckerberg!"

I had pooled some collegues to a local restaurant to treat them on my birthday. After the sumptuous continental fare was gulped by each individual, the ritual of singing the world famous ‘happy birthday’ song was concluded. One of the seniors in the team then commented on my addiction to Facebook in a rather shrill voice and a gentleman in the viscinity just jumped out of his seat. “Are you guys from Facebook?” was his rather astonishing question. I admired the man’s naiveness which tempted me to pull his legs but as it seemed my colleague was already on the job. Looking at the bewitched individual he signalled at me and quipped, “yes..he is”. With a visible twinkle in his eyes he asked me “Did you start Facebook?”, the smile now broadening prominently on the man’s face and his eyeballs were at a point of popping out. He was on the verge of asking for my autograph I felt. I could see my friends giggling under their breath trying to channelize the unexpected humour from an unexpected quarter.

“No I am not Mark Zuckerberg!” I said in a satirical manner with a wry smile on my face. I had decided I was going to have some post-lunch fun now. At this stage the crowd around the place had virtually stopped eating meals and had begun to stare at me probably thinking that I have something to do with the social networking website. Sensing the inevitable my ignorant friend changed his question – “Are you guys from Facebook India?..huh…are you?”. It was clear that a) he was a great Facebook admirer, b) he thought it was developed by Indians and c) he was unaware of Mark Zuckerberg. It didn’t really matter you see — this guy was loaded and emptying questions at us like a machine gun.

We cleared the air a little later and ended our anxiety but not before I had mentioned atleast three more times that I was not Mark Zuckerberg and that FB was based out of US. After being convinced he concluded the high drama by saying “Facebook should get a humanitarian award or something” and left with his friend. If Mark Zuckerberg is reading this post — please come to India and see for yourself. Your invention has a big fan following here!