About a year back, I got an invite for Orkut from a lot of friends, but I repeatedly ignored it. I was working then, and my company did not have internet access. So, these things hardly had any impact on me. About a couple of months back, I got the invite again, and this time, I had no hesitation in joining the social network where people spend hours of their invaluable time probing for contacts, and writing scrapbook entries that is absolutely meaningless and worthless. By the way, scrapbook entries are nothing but writing comments for your friends which can be anything trivial like Hi, how are you or Coming home for lunch. People get hyperactive when the number of comments in the scrapbook entry approaches a "milestone", which can be considered to be worthless again. How does it make a difference when people write 100 entries to you or 110 entries, I don't understand? There are people who also compete to write a milestone entry and feel really happy about it. Scrapbook entries float like this Whoa! Congrats on your 1000th entry! I need a party! I am the lucky one to do it!! What sort of an achievement is this now? There are hundreds of things one has to break his head for, but when you see a person entering a state of unexpressible bliss, I am left wondering with a few questions Am I getting this wrong or is it really of noteworthy achievement? Many of them know the in and out of this community network application, with all the little tricks hidden in them. If you have to ask your friend whether he is coming for tea, why should the whole world know about it? Everyone has a minimum of two to three chat applications to communicate with his friend, but when it comes to writing a message, it has to be only on orkut, and why is that? Obviously, you have to reach the milestone right! It is not a joke to be getting 1000 scrapbook entries. You really have to work for it.
Orkut is good as long as you want to find your friends who have been hiding from you. But, to use it as a communication tool is a big joke. There are hundreds of email providers and chat applications to take care of that. Atleast, it is not worth sending a message to your roommate - I am feeling very bored today! and it does not make all the more sense, when he is sitting in the adjacent terminal.
Ok, I need to go post a scrapbook entry for my friend. Who knows, he might be reaching a milestone and there might be a party!
Orkut is good as long as you want to find your friends who have been hiding from you. But, to use it as a communication tool is a big joke. There are hundreds of email providers and chat applications to take care of that. Atleast, it is not worth sending a message to your roommate - I am feeling very bored today! and it does not make all the more sense, when he is sitting in the adjacent terminal.
Ok, I need to go post a scrapbook entry for my friend. Who knows, he might be reaching a milestone and there might be a party!
i completely agree with u gk....u have come up with an excellent blog....
ReplyDeletei dnt agree with you...its a nice safe way to have fun
ReplyDeletelooking at the postive side of things, an indian grad student takes out so many positives from such a trivial thing (i guess when u r mind is bored...anything and by that i mean anything is considered an acheivement :-)
ReplyDeletePerfectly correct! Some people get too carried away by Orkut... I too get addicted for a few days and then have to make a conscious effort to pull myself away from that !
ReplyDeleteit is the most amazing way to kill time. u must have seen the sheer variety of profiles on orkut ;) where else in the world can you get to gawk at so many babes on the sly.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you. While it is fun sometimes, it is really overkill when people start expressing feelings for each other through the scrapbook and I have seen the worst instances.
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