to kut OR not to KUT

The world is witnessing a new marvel in the name of orkut or so it seems. i really dont know abt the world but i sure know abt VESIT and it is going gaga over a mere website called Orkut. a website which is no different from thousands of other such websites that are spread all throughout the world wide web. it allows u to stay in touch with long lost friends and not so long lost friends. if its use is limited to tht then its fine. and orkut is a good website. though still no different from many others. but when it becomes an obsession is where i have a problem. along with a few more. the first problem is the absolute lack of privacy in the website. any tom dick and harry (not inspired from the movie) can read what other people have to say to u. ur scrapbook is as open and available for reading and scrutiny as anything tht can be (this is due to my inability to find anything else tht is more public). people in my coll are so obsessed with orkut(maybe this is the case elsewhere also) that the first thing tht people do after waking up in the morning is brush their teeth(what did u expect). and the next thing is orkut. surely it is not so important to keep in touch that it takes precedence over visiting the loo.people who have been together all day go home and scrap each other. give me a break. this is surely unnecessary. and because i hate orkut so much i shall refrain from copy pasting some of the trash tht appears in the name of scraps. i feel the makers of orkut made a slight mistake in adding an s. it shld have been crap. coz thts wht most of those scrapbooks are filled with. and people actually check those scraps. it is a favourite past time of quite a good number of people to check each others scrapbooks so that they know what some third person has to say to some fourth person which has no bearing on ur existence whatsoever and does not even make for interesting or entertaining reading. i would strongly suggest a neamen or franco(just kidding) or a jefferey archer or michael crichton or even penthouse letters if u r of that mould instead of wasting time reading useless scraps.

the scrapbook is not all. orkut boasts of a few more such attractions. there is the option of writing testimonials for each other. for the fortunate few ignorant of orkut a testimonial is a space where u can write what u feel for a person. again open to the entire world to read. another piece of complete rubbish coz i am yet to see a single testimonial tht speaks anything bad abt the person. all testimonials are oh so diabetically sweet tht u wud think everyone on orkut is an angel. and of course u cannot write anything bad abt a person coz that then becomes the talk of the town courtesy the advanced privacy options in orkut ultimately projecting the writer in a bad light when all the poor bloke has done is speak out his mind. as far as i am concerned testimonials are nothing but ego boosters created with the sole purpose of making a person feel good at the cost of truth. thank god it comes with a word limit.

after testimonials come communities. technically a community is a group of like minded individuals who wish to share views. as far as this definition is concerned the communities in orkut are fine. problem starts when die hard orkutters start making hopeless communities. u shld not get surprised if u come across a "mithun fans" community or an "i love to see the clock striking 6" community. methinks even i can start a community called "i hate orkut". might even find some takers. and with a little bit more research i might discover tht most of those communities are gathering dust but that would mean spending a lot of time on orkut which by now u must have understood i am not ready to do.

anyways thts all i can think of right now. if i find more problems will post it later.

Any pro orkut willing to contradict are welcome to comment.