Some days back I had written about my initial experience with Orkut. Continuing from where i left off, I have been noticing that many messages that I receive through the messages option is just plain old chain mails. Here are two such examples:
message: Dear user because of sudden rush of people signing up to orkut is come to an attention that we are vastly running our of resources so with in a week any one who does not receive this scrap will be deleted of our server . We know
that you are still using this account We want to find out which users are actually using their orkut accounts so if you are using your
then please send this scrap to every orkut user that you can if u do not pass this scrap to anyone then we will delete your accountJust follow these simple steps. 1. Click on the “Messages Tab” in your account. 2. Click on the “compose mail” option which is the last one of the four icons you see together. 3. Select “all friends” 4. Cut and paste this message
When u r online …whose name do u look for first? when a slow song comes on the radio-whose face comes to ur mind first? when u hear ur phone ringing who do u hope it is calling? whose name makes ur heart skip a beat? in the next 60 seconds send this to all the people on ur list and the person that u are thinkin of will do something special to show how much they care about u! if i dont get dis back i guess ur not my friend. If u have alot of love for someone copy and send to ur whole list in 5 mins ur true love will call u!!!!! Just try
By looking at the above messages we can directly know that the message is pure chain mails, just waste of time and bandwidth. Just considering the first message, anyone new to web or orkut will directly send the message to all the people in the friends list. What this does is just increases the traffic as well as the load on the server and nothing else. Seeing how many times the Orkut server was overloaded in the small number of visits I made, one can say that it can live better without the additional unwanted load.
On a totally different note, there is a Orkut toolbar for Mozilla Firefox browser, those interested can install the extension.
And on a totally different note I don’t understand the concept of writing a scrap to a person whom you meet daily, is it that we are slowly getting socially disconnected and require an on-line medium to tell our friends what we wanted to say. Well there are many interpretations that can be made. I believe using a blog will be a much better option, people write what ever they require and other can comment on it, helps everyone, the writer (writing experience) of the blog, the visitor (comes to know more about the blogger) and the general public (can find information which sometimes may not be easily available on the net). Please do leave a comment to let me know what you feel. Plz. do not interpret that I don’t like receiving scraps…i like them…so please do scrap.
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