Confession

If you are reading this thinking I am about to confess something, you are wrong. This is not about me. This is about the various confession groups that mushrooms in Facebook. Every organization, especially in IT industry has a confession group on FB and we end up being notified for new posts on these group even though we are not part of that company or even industry sometimes. Thanks to our job hopping friends on fb, who shows interest in commenting on these confession posts. Sometimes you get to know where a person works based on which confession group he comments on and your mind voice goes like - Payapulla company maarinadha sollave illa.

I always used to wonder the motive behind such confession groups. Are they even helping the person who's posting these confessions anonymously? Wait, are they even for real? What is the guarantee that the admin of such groups doesn't post cooked up story once in a while or too often? After all who else is going to know the source of such posts except the admin. When you read a confession post and think that is too dramatic and unreal, then it probably is. Would you even dare to let the admin of your company's confession group know all the mischievous things you do? It can be anonymous to people reading the message, but definitely not to the admin. So probably people are not truly confessing something they are guilty about and truly want to admit they committed something they are not supposed to do. Instead it's either a cooked up story by the admin of the group or the admin's friends or some random person who has a good imagination to narrate a story that interests many people. 

Ok, let's assume the confessions are true for the sake of further analysis and fun. As soon as the admin posts the story from a confessor, people put on their judgement hats and begin giving advices, scolding and shaming the confessor. Let's take a look at the types of people commenting on such confession groups.

Sincere Sigamani: These are people who truly believe the confessor is for real and actually looking forward for any kind of help and advice from random web surfer. They get serious about the topic and start giving sincere advice, as if the  confessor is going to follow it and thank the commentator for helping them. But most of the time the advice given by these people is like (a+b)^2 formulae. Everyone knows the answer.

Police Perumal: As the name suggests, these people will be too much of a police. They right away conclude the confessor is a criminal and start cursing them. They even go to the extent of cursing the admin of the group for posting such stories. 

90's kid: Every confession group gets a comment from a 90's kid who most likely is not a 90's kid but a kid born in late 90's who is actually a 2K kid. Irrespective of the confession, the agenda of these kids will be to highlight their inability to find a girlfriend. They get super jealous about the confessor if the post is about a guy cheating on his girlfriend or wife.

Pullingo: They are everywhere these days. While they are not truly pullingos because nobody knows what that word means, these people are not even the pulligo that people imagine what pullingo actually is. If that was hard to interpret, please read it again until you understand it because it's the most important thing to know. Comments from these people are mostly irrelevant to the post and they are actually from a parallel universe who co-exists among other people commenting on the post. 

Memes maams: They are very talented set of people who manage to find a relevant meme containing Vadivelu, Goundamani, Santhanam or Nithyananda dialogues countering the confession. They take things lightly but seriously light. 

Then there are people who get annoyed by all the confession groups and comments and think people are wasting time on other's problems and trying to give solutions without knowing the full story. These are the people who once used to read all the confessions and comments, so much that they have done some analysis about the type of people commenting on confessions and write a post on their blogs about it.