Orkut-Nama

Recently I removed a lot of information and pictures from my Orkut profile and unjoined many communities, though this was done only to curtail my online presence on different sites, but this invoked many responses from my always ‘holier than thou’, omniscient and caring friends. None of them near the truth. I was trying to end some speculations which resulted in some more speculations.

But that led me to think over the whole issue. I joined Orkut two years back when all the social networking sites were still in infancy in India. I joined just for the curiosity and my desire to be abreast with all the latest happening in tech arena.

For the early two-three months, there were no friends, apart from the one who invited me (at that time you needed to be invited from someone who is already on Orkut to be there and there were not many, in fact techies were proud that they were on orkut.). But Orkut created huge userbase in just one year. And some of my friends came on Orkut and the chain reaction started.

Soon I realized that my ‘FAN’ list is attracting names, who would never say a single nice thing about me (probably they do not know a nice things about me..), I was surprised why people are becoming my fans. I am not a star. But, surprized vanished very soon. The scrapbook (place on your orkut profile where you can put publicly displayed private messages) explained. “S**e, main tera fan ban gaya hun, tu bhi ban ja.. “(I just became ur fan, now you too get in my fan list) . Unabashed self–glorification.

Soon people were comparing and how many ‘FANs’ they have in their list and who has got the most number of ‘FANs’ and who is yet to be included. Dumbass like me were having fans..

Then came the testimonials. A lady whose profile profile name will ‘hit you hard’ wrote the first cutie cutie all goodie kind of testimonials and then I was writing the same for a couple of my good buddies trying my best to do jutice with what to be written and what not to be written. Ofcourse, my ‘ Writing Orkut
Testimonials’  book contained the following sacrosanct rules

• You shall write only good things.
• You should try to fill the limit of 1024 words.
• You must reciprocate the testimonial gesture.

Though I can write a book on Art of Writing Orkut Testimonials, but I am keeping it for my coming posts…. I think the post is getting stretched like Indian inning on flat cricket pitch, so declared. 

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