People who know me, people who I know and the people who have no option but to acknowledge my presence will be wondering about my sudden disappearance from the ghastly social forum called Orkut. Ghastly because of its dull template and stupid posting methodology. Now Orkut is probably the worst forum for offline interaction but unarguably the most popular. People find it hard to admit that they are there on Orkut only because their friends are there and it serves no purpose..... I scratch your back you scratch mine…Oops scrap!.
Plausible reasons which compelled me to step from India’s most coveted/visited website/forum.
1. I don’t have time Seriously people I have a life. I have a daytime job of a fully enrolled student of “Microsystems” if this word doesn’t scare you then my course definitely will. Secondly I am away from home and I have to maintain my own culinary routine (…yeah the chores). All this takes time. All this when I don’t even have a part time job.
2. Orkut lacks the exclusivity it once had Back in my college days in India I had only 15 friends in my friends list. So Orkut was an effective mode of communication. Now I have over a 120-220 friends ( don’t remember the exact number ). Now imagine a communication channel of a given bandwidth designed for sustaining certain number of users for effective noise-free open communication and it suddenly gets invaded by twice the number of users. What happens is a reasonable drop in quality, shorter bandwidth of clear signal and noise. (I apologise for the analogy.. its professional jargon my readers).
3. People who matter left Orkut People who introduced me to Orkut left Orkut and all my friends in India have a full time job. Moreover those who are really interested in my well being won’t mind giving me a call. Only a guy who doesn’t really want to waste a phone-call will scrap me “hey dude, wassup !” …wassup my foot up yours. You couldn’t give me a call you cheapster.
4. Everybody yes everybody is on it Brasilians are wasters (.. I hate the communist pseudo socialist South Americans.) but what saddens me is that half of my progressive nation of Indians is hopping on to Orkut. So dudes and dudettes of my beloved country rise and wake-up in the 21st century and take up hobbies of genuine concern. You have a full time job excel at it, you are student.. you fool study or you’ll end up swotting like the author and if you are jobless then get a life dude.. seriously!.
5. I have more avenues for wasting time I think that studying for more than 3 hours a day is a hazard. My friends have ended up in reputed institutes of higher learning while studying for just 3-4hrs a day. So inspite of people who genuinely consider studying 8hr a day is a good thing are in disbelief and I reckon they haven’t studied that well in their lifetime. So I have blogging, reading and writing as my hobbies for killing time. Since books are expensive here down under so most of the time I am reading from the internet. And of late I have been getting very tough assignments from my teachers at the University so that requires a lot of time and leg work.
6. The whole idea is technologically backward and lame I feel the idea of scrapping itself is pretty stupid why would anyone scrap someone when it’s visible to anyone who uses Orkut. No pet peeves here I have nothing against this openness but why can’t we just give someone an offline message on Yahoo/MSN or an SMS. Scrapping is about exhibitionism you scrap someone something to get reaction from a third party who is reading the scrapbook .Duh!…how stupid but see that’s the Indian psyche isn’t it.
7. The communities of Orkut My blog post will be incomplete without mentioning the hallowed communities of Orkut. The author himself was a member of 50 communities half of which sent regular spam in my inbox …”Earn 5000$p.m working from home” I know for sure the guy who sent this or forwarded it hasn’t seen 5000dollars in his life. Because he would have known that kind of money you can’t earn sitting at home unless of course you are Don Corleone from the Godfather. (..absolute respect there).
Plausible reasons which compelled me to step from India’s most coveted/visited website/forum.
1. I don’t have time Seriously people I have a life. I have a daytime job of a fully enrolled student of “Microsystems” if this word doesn’t scare you then my course definitely will. Secondly I am away from home and I have to maintain my own culinary routine (…yeah the chores). All this takes time. All this when I don’t even have a part time job.
2. Orkut lacks the exclusivity it once had Back in my college days in India I had only 15 friends in my friends list. So Orkut was an effective mode of communication. Now I have over a 120-220 friends ( don’t remember the exact number ). Now imagine a communication channel of a given bandwidth designed for sustaining certain number of users for effective noise-free open communication and it suddenly gets invaded by twice the number of users. What happens is a reasonable drop in quality, shorter bandwidth of clear signal and noise. (I apologise for the analogy.. its professional jargon my readers).
3. People who matter left Orkut People who introduced me to Orkut left Orkut and all my friends in India have a full time job. Moreover those who are really interested in my well being won’t mind giving me a call. Only a guy who doesn’t really want to waste a phone-call will scrap me “hey dude, wassup !” …wassup my foot up yours. You couldn’t give me a call you cheapster.
4. Everybody yes everybody is on it Brasilians are wasters (.. I hate the communist pseudo socialist South Americans.) but what saddens me is that half of my progressive nation of Indians is hopping on to Orkut. So dudes and dudettes of my beloved country rise and wake-up in the 21st century and take up hobbies of genuine concern. You have a full time job excel at it, you are student.. you fool study or you’ll end up swotting like the author and if you are jobless then get a life dude.. seriously!.
5. I have more avenues for wasting time I think that studying for more than 3 hours a day is a hazard. My friends have ended up in reputed institutes of higher learning while studying for just 3-4hrs a day. So inspite of people who genuinely consider studying 8hr a day is a good thing are in disbelief and I reckon they haven’t studied that well in their lifetime. So I have blogging, reading and writing as my hobbies for killing time. Since books are expensive here down under so most of the time I am reading from the internet. And of late I have been getting very tough assignments from my teachers at the University so that requires a lot of time and leg work.
6. The whole idea is technologically backward and lame I feel the idea of scrapping itself is pretty stupid why would anyone scrap someone when it’s visible to anyone who uses Orkut. No pet peeves here I have nothing against this openness but why can’t we just give someone an offline message on Yahoo/MSN or an SMS. Scrapping is about exhibitionism you scrap someone something to get reaction from a third party who is reading the scrapbook .Duh!…how stupid but see that’s the Indian psyche isn’t it.
7. The communities of Orkut My blog post will be incomplete without mentioning the hallowed communities of Orkut. The author himself was a member of 50 communities half of which sent regular spam in my inbox …”Earn 5000$p.m working from home” I know for sure the guy who sent this or forwarded it hasn’t seen 5000dollars in his life. Because he would have known that kind of money you can’t earn sitting at home unless of course you are Don Corleone from the Godfather. (..absolute respect there).
The Hate Communities which are totally an Indian/Pakistani phenomenon. There is so much hate in sub-continent heres a sample
hate India
hate those who hate india
hate pakistan
hate those who hate pakistan
hate musharraf
hate manmohan
hate rahul dravid
hate those who hate rahul dravid
hate hatred
hate sachin tendulkar
hate those who hate sachin
hate those who like sachin
hate vp singh
hate saurav ganguly
hate those who hate saurav ganguly
hate dhoni
hate dhoni's hair
hate those who hate dhoni
hate ekta kapoor
hate modi
hate himesh reshammaiya
hate greg chappell
hate aishwarya rai
hate cricket
hate sania mirza
hate caste
hate amitabh bachchan
hate aamir khan
hate those who hate aamir khan
8. Another thought about orkut addicts is here below. Its from Jabberwock the hugely popular Indian blogger…. Replying to one of the reader of his blog he writes in the comments section..
“I get the impression that many scrapbook addicts are like personal bloggers, except that they don't have the writer's drive that would produce 800-word posts. So they deal in a couple of sentences at a time, but still get a sense of power/self-affirmation. In the current era of self-publishing, where everyone has the opportunity to be a "writer" (that is, have something in the public domain with your name attached to it), perhaps scrapbooking is the lowest form of the trend.”
REFERENCES
Jai Arjun Singh, Jabberwock:"Orkut, the killer wall"
Source url: http://jaiarjun.blogspot.com/
