anyone NOT on orkut?

Follow us:WhatsappFacebookTwitterTelegram.cls-1{fill:#4d4d4d;}.cls-2{fill:#fff;}Google News"Oh great I'll find you on orkut", i said and walked away. And two days later when i signed into my most favorite passtime, i had a new friend request on orkut.

Everyone is on orkut. And for anyoone who isnt, i cant help but think of that shady PSPO pankha ad... where the guy who didnt know about the local fad was met with a simple "Yeh PSPO nahi jaata!". And it was his cue to catch up with things.

Anyway, what i still find amusing is why so many people fuss over adding or not adding people on their friends list. I've friends who keep invitations pending for weeks before they decide to unwillingly click "accept". and then of course there are those who're part of the elite club where membership comes .. not very easily. My questrion of course... orkut has no perks for being or not being on the friends list! Either ways, your scraps, your photos your profile can be accessed.. so besides the "I'm on his'her friends list" novelty factor.. there's really nothing else to it..or is there?!

Of course orkut does great for your social life. You dont have to bother getting her number, you dont have to impress her in those 2 and a half minutes at the airport when you meet her.. so she thinks your a nice guy and gives you her number. All you need is the name.. and your good to go! a few scraps that gradually move to private messages, (clearly no longer fit to be in the scrap public domain) and you look back and pity ancient romeos who went to such lengths to get her to rattle out the first few digits of her number.. knowing fully well that there was a good chance that one out of those ten digits could be wrong. Enough to end that romance.. that never was!

All's great when you end up meeting old crushes, ex bosses, grand mother .. (who's mananged to finally hold a mouse and not giggle!) and a half a million others who you'd have forgotten if it wasnt for orkut. what comes as the only liability perhaps is the fact that you also end up reviving ocntact with people who're best forgotten! Then again, what chance do our noble intentions stand in front of "expanding the circumference of your friend circle!"

All great, only for systems in almost every company that has tried so hard to block orkut. There's one word that makes the world go round.. PROXY! ;)first published:January 06, 2007, 15:59 ISTlast updated:January 06, 2007, 15:59 IST
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