life’s changed a lot after orkut. i dont think anyone would ever disagree with me on that. But have you realised how it has also changed the way we use the internet.
I remember when the internet had just started in India. I was hooked to Yahoo! CHAT. Yes, that cumbersome JAVA applet that took ages to load and then not a single female would reply to your “Hi!”, “Whats Up”.
One of the serious problems was that yahoo never let you maintain ur online profile the way orkut lets you do now. (Yahoo 360 is a step in this direction). People could actually see for themselves if you are worth talking to in the 1st place. Bluff ur way and you could have a blast.
Some of my friends have friends for Brazil to China. Its amazing how in one go google could come up with something so profound that it changes the way you even make friends. in true the online friend circles are the “KillerApps”.
Orkut also signifies the start of the what we could consider a net democacy or ‘netocracy’. People are free to decide what they want, whom they want to be friends with and so on. the whole of orkut is maintained by the users. The communities, the profiles. you could even decide if a particular community is bogus and send it out of circulation.
Ya sure, you would have read quite a bit of shit on orkut already. But its really increased my social circle. its much more comfortable to flirt with someone by scrapping than meeting face to face. i am sure you would have done that too! (girls included!)
Now i wont waste ur time with the pluses and minuses of orkut. you would know much better than me. Ok gotta get back to orkut…. Cya
Hey vinni,
Well its a nice idea to write on orkut, and it has changed the way we human beings interact, but I think that there is more to orkutting which we often tend to neglect in the awe of the sheer magnanimity of the number of people u can meet…But there are a lot of things which you haven’t really considered on part of orkut.
1- It has really come up as an addiction and has been cramming a lot of time (Specially the students’ who are the most active popultion there) which could have been used for other constructive purposes
2- It has make us form pre-concieved opinions on people based on their profiles, How many times it happens that u tend to judge a person by number of friends, number of scraps and number of fans (s)he has.
3- The mechanism of Orkut which allows u to download photographs of people without there permission is also been a nuisance, where people have downloaded photograps and morphed it and posted back on net
4- Then there are lot of people running fake profiles, just to play pranks…
5- You also get a lot of friends request from people, whom u would not like to be seen with and associated with, and u don’t want to offend them with refusing your friends request.
I am also a big fan of orkut and a frequent orkutter and I reply almost every scrap but still I feel that there are some constraint that come along with the fast, easy and convinient interface as orkut are applicable in this case also…