Got invited to be member of orkut and realised what the madness was about. "I scrapped you yesterday you didn't see or wot?" i'm sure we've all heard sentences like this and more. And it's damn popular. And user-friendly. And its also really funny to watch Paul with a parrot on his forearm in his display pic. He looks like one of those Hollywood environmentalists...
But let's get down to the facts. Orkut is extremely inefficient. If i have to tell someone something, i have to send a scrap which may or may not be read. And it's not like email which shows 'You've got mail' everytime you get one. And its not as urgent as any Messenger. So it's not mail, it's not messaging, it's not an SMS... wow! i thot if you have these three you don't need anything else to be in contact with someone... but NO! orkut has come to the rescue....
What is it about Orkut that people like so much? Is it the exclusivity? Knowing that you've been "invited" to join "a global community of like-minded individuals"? The number of scraps you get that always feature next to your name? "Oh look what a loser... he/she has just 59012 scraps compared to my 75123." And what about the utopian idea of the World Wide Web; the one that professes no boundaries and no popularity contests?
And there's more.... but i have to reply to someone's scrap about my photo. And also add someone to my list. And laugh again at Paul's display pic.
(is the parrot called Polly?)
9 comments:
hey sid,
i can't figure out orkut either. i'm waiting and watching for the revelation of what others see and i don't.. :)
the only reason why it clicked for me is coz i found ppl who i hadnt heard of since 3-4 years, rather they found me.... thats even better.
u kno i 2 remained away 4 it..until 1 day i was home n realy bored and just got on2 it 2 kill time...n iv never ever bn soo happy......like within next 2 hrs i had orkut frnship request from my remotest looong lost friends from school!....n in a way its kool 4 us cuz our generatn all over it....
n the scrap thing is realy fine cuz orkut is a way of just keepin in touch while there r stupids who inspite of havin mssngrs snd scraps 2 flash off a bigger no beside their names!
but at the end it was jst a plain
delight meetin lost frns literally!
Does orkut, hi5, et all really help? I know it brings network of friends together but I think we are just begining to ride on endless loop of emails, messenger, sms, blogs, ORKUT, HI5.......
I am just like mukul, still clueless.
i agree mumbai guy... in fact in spite of msngr, orkut,icq,mail,sms.. the best way to contact an old school friend is good old landline which doesnt change even after 6 years...
inefficiency...hmmm i don think that really counts wen ur talking to long lost frends na....how inefficent were u then....
and its just that it is more interesting as compared to const and wd studio!!
dnt u think!!
ashwini
welcome to another useless way to spend time and energy that might be better spent elsewhere getting healthier by going for a jog or getting brighter by mugging up an encyclopedia. orkut is mindless, pointless, silly, inconvenient and annoyingly addictive.
it IS addictive. but why?
is it the interface?
why are there more ppl there than on places like hi5?
is just our love for google inc.?
i think its cos of the exclusivity.. i mean cmon! when u say 'become a member of a global community' and then say 'soory by invitation only' it makes u damn curious about what happens inside..
and then since u signed up might as well use it...
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