Moral dilemma
April 4, 2008 by sujaybedekar
There’s an app in Facebook called ‘Cities I’ve Visited’ in which people can show off all places they have traveled to. For me, this app has raised a moral dilemma -
- Create your own travel map or travel blog
- Visit TripAdvisor.com
On my recent trip to the land of infinite opportunities and shady mortgages, I took a week off as mentioned earlier and roamed around Northern USA, which turned out to be not quite the best travel plan due to the infinite snow I encountered wherever I went. And it is the ‘wherever I went’ part which is the bone of contention … the stumbling block … the main hurdle … the faltering step … the cause of the dilemma.
On the face of it, I am now a well-traveled man, having been to Minneapolis, Fargo, Chicago, Urbana-Champaign, Ann Arbor, Detroit, New Jersey and New York City (phew). But the following table tells a different story -
| Place Visited | Time spent in all |
Time spent in Bus station/ Airport/ Train/ Broken down car |
| Edison, NJ | 5 hrs | Train (2 hrs) |
| Minneapolis, MN | 18 hrs | Airport (3 hrs), Greyhound bus station (3 hours) |
| Chicago , IL | 6 hrs | Greyhound bus station (5 hrs), Car (1 hr) |
| Marshall, MI | 2 hrs | Broken down car (2 hrs) |
| Detroit, MI | 4 hrs | Airport (4 hrs) |
| Dubai | 4 hrs | Duty Free (4 hrs) |
One might scoff if I give naivety and inexperience in planning such trips as an excuse for such a sucky outcome, although in my defense the horrid weather conditions were partly to blame. Nevertheless, I would like to resolve my dilemma which is giving me such sleepless naps -
Am I allowed to flaunt the aforementioned places on the Fb travel map?
Nb: I always thought dilemma was spelled as ‘dilemna’ … but firefox spellcheck thinks otherwise
I also cheated a bit and added Seoul to my FB travel map…had been there only in transit.
PS: why are there there snippets of this post in the comments section of lotsa previous posts?
the snippets are because of some pingback thingy, i think - rectified that anyway.
i will not make a travel map because then ppl will know that i have never been out of the country and even there not souther than pune and norther than bikaner and my total uncoolness will become apparent
any words of advice oh well travelled one???
well … ‘don’t include this app on your facebook acct’ is a suggestion which immediately comes to mind
coolness can be achieved by showing disdain for petty things like ‘Cities I’ve visited’ apps on Facebook
- “I’m too cool to care!” works most of the times
advice taken and implemented andi have gone a step further in achieving facebook coolness by eschewing facebook altogether. now i am the coolest i can be in this framework as is possible.
danke for the wise words.
dilemma/dilemna - i had the same doubt a couple of years ago. maybe this will clear your doubt:
http://www.kingmarketing.ca/weblogs/ajkandy/archives/2005/02/instal_a_spell.html