When Rishi and Jia caught up on wednesday at " Beyond coffee ", the coffee and hookah lounge, Rishi gave Jia his sister's wedding invitation card, and when she asked about how the arranged marriage girl search was going for him, he ranted his displeasure on how his facebook page seemed to be lowering the chances of him getting good prospective bride matches. He told her the first thing a person who gets an arranged marriage proposal nowadays does, is look up their Facebook page. If the girl or guy in question was'nt good looking, or seemed to have questionable pictures of maybe with a cigarette /glass of alcohol/ an unrelated person of the opposite gender hugging them ,he/she is discarded as not good marriage material and the marriage proposal is turned down. Not just that, they seemed to be spreading the word of this absurd inference to the rest of their friends and considering gossip spreads like wildfire, the marital prospects for the person are reduced considerably. When Jia met with Sita that evening and told her about Rishi's issue, Sita told her that she had a similar experience when her parents were looking for matches for her before she married Ram. She and her parents liked another guy's match and Sita and the guy started to speak with each other regularly, getting to know each other day by day till she opened up her heart to him completely, after which one day the guy suddenly called off the marriage saying she should be careful what kind of an image she's portraying to people through the pictures on her facebook page where she had her hands on her MBA guy friends' shoulders and seemed to be partying hard. Jia and Sita agreed it was a good thing the match broke off anyway cos that guy seemed like an idiot and Ram just happens to be her dream guy. Nevertheless, poor guy Rishi now is very careful about what kinda stuff is up on his facebook page, lest he stay unmarried for the rest of his life! ;)
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