Jan 21, 2012 10:46 PM
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I strongly feel my journey with MS was no accident, MS came into my life because of a friend (@pranay22) and I am really and truly very grateful to him for introducing me to the world of MS!
MouthShut_Official or MS as we fondly call it has given me more than I ever expected/ imagined that I could get from a mere website, how you ask? For starters it has given me an opportunity to know people who are gems, who have become a part of my life unknowingly! My day is incomplete without interacting with them through various means of communication; this is truly the one thing that I will treasure for the rest of my life!
Secondly if I am able to write this review today its only because of MS and the great platform it provides you to write, Write about anything you want, I still remember that a year ago when Hemani (@jains24) commented on my first diary, It was in the afternoon and she said my post was a bright one, I don’t know if I had not read that comment that day I would have never come back to MS after that!
From then on there was no looking back, Jams ( @JaveedAhmedM) was the second person who regularly commented at my posts, Initially I thought he was a bit too frank and straight but now I can vouch for the fact that he is one of the most genuine people you will ever find online or offline.
Then Mr.Bollywood, (@fenil_seta) was always there to encourage me no matter what I wrote, he is the only person I need to decide if I want to go to a movie!
When ever I think of gifts I think of Mr.Mazhar (@maaz_nawaaz) and I am one of those people who got to experience his hospitality, he is not only generous in giving gifts for your fds, rods but generous in other things too. Talking of gifts, they badly need to be revamped or something else needs to be given to the real contributors, make earning of points difficult ( by difficult I mean genuine reviews, posts and comments) and once someone has like a 1000 points MS can at least give a hundred rupee gift voucher! :P
This brings to one of the many things that I have a problem with, ooops like I said before, one of my expectation that is the lack of recognition of genuine members, Paul for example has written over 500 reviews and all of them are genuine and that’s not a joke or easy, Trust me!
Virtual Gifts, Star status is just not good enough if you ask me, but then its just my opinion and according to me this is not a serious problem but one of the things I would mark as a con since I am writing a review!
Talking of stars my review would be really incomplete if I don’t mention one of the real heroes of MS , Mr. Deepak (@deepak27) he is truly our hero for he stands always against anything that is bad fearlessly! :D He is truly one of the friends I have made on MS and is one of the very few people who give you proper feedback on your posts!
When there are people there are bound to be difference of opinions, and of course I have had my share of fights and patch ups on MS, in fact I am really thankful that I got into those fights and arguments; it has only made me stronger! I am not considering fights with “things” who pose to be members! :P
To trust or distrust? Now, that’s the question that is the real question here, but what I would say is “Distrust” feature on MS is one of the weakest feature, I always see people comparing Facebook and Mouthsut, but in this matter there is no real comparison, because on FB you can really choose with whom you can interact, MS needs to improve a lot in this regard.
What I feel is that once you distrust a member it should be like the BLOCK feature on FB, that person/thing should not be able to see your posts or what you are doing and vice verse till the time you unblock/trust again.
And now coming to the biggest problem/con/negative that I want to focus on that is as we very lovingly call is “FAKE IDS”, I don’t know how and what caused it to start but Boy! If you don’t stop it, it will eat up the entire system!
I don’t know how MS is going to handle this or is never going to handle it, but all I can say if you are not going to rRajeev_Vermact your members or will sit quiet when they are abused and attacked one day will come when you will have to pay people to generate content, I guess that is where the site is heading to and that really breaks my heart because I will lose a wonderful platform and feedback when it happens! L
And the battle between the heart and the head continues and so is the case here, commercialization, more ads, tie ups with corporate companies, forcing content on members, all this will completely remove the little heart that is present here and I really don’t want that day to come, and may be that’s what will give me closure! :P
Well, my relationship with MS is no less than any of the relationships I have had with guys in my life, first there was attraction, I was attracted towards the user friendliness the members, reviews and everything else, then I was addicted, there were days when I used to post 3 diaries!
And then came the most dangerous stage, without my knowledge I got extremely attached to MS!
Attachment is always inevitable, be it people or things and that’s only word I can think of when MouthShut_Official comes into my mind, I am not addicted, I am not angry, I am not disappointed, but what I am is “attached” to this website!
Love has three stages I believe and the last stage is always attachment and we always know how difficult it is to get over something/someone that you are really attached to and how obvious it is when there is attachment there are expectations!
And then, there was another phase – Frustration! :P Doesn’t this sound all familiar, this is exactly like when you realize that your prince Charming is not really that and no matter how much you try you cannot change him to that and neither can you stay away!
I tried posting a diary about the changes I would like to see but then I was accused of being a drama queen, then I tried giving suggestions of which none of them were implemented!
And now, the latest news is that I spam the site :P So, from getting the “STAR” status in three months to spamming , I have done it all and I have absolutely no regrets what so ever! It’s up to MS administration to break up with me/members or put in a little effort to maintain the 11 year long relationship!
What ever decision is made, Good byes are always painful and I would never want to break up with MS, this review is just to show how much I love the site because writing is the only way I know to express what I truly feel!
Thanks for all the love, support and encouragement, I will cherish all the experiences I have had with MS for the rest of my life, the journey was not bump free, but it was AWESOME! :)
PS : In this review I have mentioned only a few things, I wanted to write so much more and mention so many more people, but I couldn’t do it because I would never want anyone to read a long review, I don’t read them myself :P oops!
Love,
Wannabe Desigal :)
