Well Sree asked me to write something about my journey in TIA and lots of thoughts have come back recollecting the journey so far. Its been 4 years since i started this virtual group something which i started to kill my boredom and explore the online social networking system. 4 years back when me and my husband stayed in Germany, i had no friends other than my husband's few colleagues. I was introduced to orkut during those days by my sister. Internet always played a great role in my personal life as i met my husband through internet. So, this online social networking excited me and made few friends like Amulya and Neelima who were totally strangers to me. We bonded very well and we all came to the idea of making a community so that we can add more telugu married ladies like us and can have more fun. Little did we know that community started like that would grow up to become such a important part of life for so many woman across the world. For the first four months i used to send request to telugu married ladies to join the community and later most of the members started joining through word of mouth.
Well every good thing has to have a bad thing. As Sree has mentioned, community got attacked by few psycho hackers many a times. The original community which started on 21st June 2006 had to be deleted and i started the community again with same name of course but in a better organised way. With suggestion of one of the TIA member Pushpa , I felt its better to accept members by verifying them on phone which would prevent from accepting fake profiles. Since then TIA has become my full time job. Each and every member of TIA unless i know them personally has been verified on phone and a proper database of members has been maintained. As community grew i needed few moderators who could share my work. Since last one and half year many TIA members volunteered to become moderators with whose help TIA has been running smoothly without any major issues. Thus far, this is TIA's history.
When it comes TIA's role in my life, what i have given to the community, it has given me back many folds of that gratitude. It has helped me shape into a better person and its been always a learning process. It has members from various academic fields, members with various talents, members from all continents of the world and members of all ages, all having common base of being a telugu speaking married woman. It is a knowledge powerhouse on its own. With TIA, i can proudly say i have a friend in every part of the world.
This blog itself is another leap for TIA's journey. Talented members like Sree, Kalpana, Sireesha, Usha, etc are giving their time and energy to organize the knowledge we share in orkut in a more systematic and useful way for all its members and people at large who can benefit through this. Lets all come together, as we have come together for our beloved TIA community, for shaping up this blog in a beautiful way by giving suggestions, volunteering and appreciating the hard work going behind.
Swathi a.ka. Mrs. TIA.
Well every good thing has to have a bad thing. As Sree has mentioned, community got attacked by few psycho hackers many a times. The original community which started on 21st June 2006 had to be deleted and i started the community again with same name of course but in a better organised way. With suggestion of one of the TIA member Pushpa , I felt its better to accept members by verifying them on phone which would prevent from accepting fake profiles. Since then TIA has become my full time job. Each and every member of TIA unless i know them personally has been verified on phone and a proper database of members has been maintained. As community grew i needed few moderators who could share my work. Since last one and half year many TIA members volunteered to become moderators with whose help TIA has been running smoothly without any major issues. Thus far, this is TIA's history.
When it comes TIA's role in my life, what i have given to the community, it has given me back many folds of that gratitude. It has helped me shape into a better person and its been always a learning process. It has members from various academic fields, members with various talents, members from all continents of the world and members of all ages, all having common base of being a telugu speaking married woman. It is a knowledge powerhouse on its own. With TIA, i can proudly say i have a friend in every part of the world.
This blog itself is another leap for TIA's journey. Talented members like Sree, Kalpana, Sireesha, Usha, etc are giving their time and energy to organize the knowledge we share in orkut in a more systematic and useful way for all its members and people at large who can benefit through this. Lets all come together, as we have come together for our beloved TIA community, for shaping up this blog in a beautiful way by giving suggestions, volunteering and appreciating the hard work going behind.
Swathi a.ka. Mrs. TIA.
