I created my profile on Orkut some 3-4 months ago and I have not looked back since then. I met many of my friends which I would not have met otherwise School friends , college friends, companions and collogues of ex- company. It really is a great tool to be in touch. It is rather an obsession and addiction.
This is something familiar to me ….
This reminds me of a similar situation some half a decade ago. Then chatting was in vogue and I had a lot of spare time after my MBA entrance exams. It quickly became a fad. I would chat from morning through to afternoon .So would many of my friends. There seemed to be no other better way of doing timepass and networking. Many people would just create some anonymous id’s and chat with their own friends just for fun.
All that soon reduced considerably once chat rooms services were stopped by yahoo. Now chatting is used more for business and keeping in touch.
This is in fact true for all new technologies. It is first misused as people grapple with it and then as it’s implication is fully known it is used for what it was meant for and for serious business !
Now coming back to Orkut.
One of my good friend told me that he looks at the number of profile visits and if they are less or none then he feels bad about it. For him morning first thing in the morning is logging to Orkut and evening first thing back home is also Orkut !!! Ha Ha !!!!!!!!!
Addictions are always bad ….
I have realized in this short period of time that keeping in touch with all possible friends is good , but an amazing amount of time is required for it. Secondly I feel that one must also forget something over a period of time. One cannot be in touch with all his friends all the time.
I guess Orkut will soon be used for scanning CV’s , authenticating profiles ,matchmaking and identification apart from just socializing .
On my part I am reducing time spend on orkutting substantially and increasing on blogging!!!!
