Desicritics Comments on The Depravity of Orkut

Comment by commonsense

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:28:55 EDT

Kerty: ""It is tragic that no support system exists that can help youth to look around or mingle in safe and sincere environment to find their love mates."" there is of course the dosti pub somewhere in the suburbs of chicago...i thought you were coming to this...

Comment by anthony

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 04:07:24 EDT

nice article....only 4 years late

Comment by Ravi KUlkarni

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:48:25 EDT

Dear Kela (#15), That was very funny! I have never seen that use of the word analyst. Ravi

Comment by Aaman

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:32:59 EDT

Entertaining article - looking forward to more, haven't seen your articles recently.

Comment by Die Hard

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:01:09 EST

Are you saying that one should write only if that person is good at it?

Comment by Antony

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:06:42 EST

Hi Kiran, A really beautiful, well formed and very much required article for this period of the world. I would agree with every words of you. To put it simple, the words you have written are the same i had in my mind about these social networking in the past few years. Good Work!!

Comment by kela

Wed, 9 Jan 2008 11:00:16 EST

*analsyst

Comment by kela

Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:58:41 EST

your article made no sense you're a handwrtng analyss ? ha ha how phoney and dumb

Comment by FirstWorlder

Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:47:32 EST

@Ledzius - "Classier people"...Are you refering to the rednecks living in trailer parks or some guys from the hood?

Comment by OrkutEngineers

Tue, 8 Jan 2008 23:22:41 EST

saw your pick on the boys writing to girls out of blue. It is amazing how easy it is to trap boys on this.. A lot of people do this out of fun and surprisingly it keeps on going for months and years.. Most of the hunted and hunters are engineers Might be because of the low female ratio in india (specially engineering colleges) but usually the guys sound so desperate! the ones you have picked up are probably much decent versions.. here are the few that i can quote. (quote) why u leave mnit community.i want to be ur friend thru the community n u leave it. (/quote) (quote) hi, [girl name] i m [boy name] from iit roorkee.i just started for making friend .i see ur profile in orkut .really i not understand with ur 50%concept.if u r interestd in .then u give ur yahoo email id for further chatting. i m waitng 4 ur reply. ok bye have anice day. keep smiling . (/quote) (quote) hey miss if intsrtd in a true n gud frend then waitin for ur soon contact n reply if trust me for that ......... (/quote) Though its quite true that boys and even girls try to find similar match from the community and have heard quit a few success stories on finding the "soulmates" in a community. people are reluctant to email maybe because they think sending one word in an email is not worth the effort better do that while surfing orkut.. emails for the long things

Comment by StupendousMan

Tue, 8 Jan 2008 18:09:02 EST

Hi , I appreciate the nice write up. But sadly you are in the minority. If you are resisting a internet revolution change, you wll find a cold shoulder. I noticed you asked for please e-mail me , giving the notch that you ahve caught up with email instead of personal hand written letters. so I guess you need to do some catch up to the generation. But I do agree with you on one issue: words need to be spelled correctly. People still do, but now only where it really matters (essay writing/ interview , letter to editors, novels.. to name a few)

Comment by Kiran Dhanwada

Tue, 8 Jan 2008 10:51:55 EST

@Scorpion - Thank you so much! @kela - What are you exactly talking about? My article, your profile or something else? :) @kerty - Perfectly understand how you feel. The more you are inclined 'to be online', the more you are 'away from the real world'. Sad state of affairs, but true! @Ledzius - Classier in the sense, more time to waste?? What a pitiable state - we are looking for one-upmanship even in miserable things like Orkut (or Facebook or MySpace). Third-worlders definitely would not be proud being on top in this matter, thankfully!

Comment by Kiran Dhanwada

Tue, 8 Jan 2008 00:14:29 EST

@Scorpion - Thank you so much! @Kela - What exactly were you trying to convey? Your profile, my article or something else? :) @Kerty - I can completely relate to how you feel. The more closer you get to 'being online', the farther you go away from the real world. Sad, but true state of affairs. @Ledzius - Classier in the sense, people who have more time to waste? And probably Third world people are smart (or in other words, the classier people are dumb!) - they wanted to avoid some of the horribly irritating features of Facebook (or MySpace) anyways and hence Orkut! Same situation - different lens - unfortunately, 'being perenially online' (on Orkut or Facebook or MySpace) brings in such lowly intolerant qualities in mankind of dividing people into Third World and Classier! Such a pity!

Comment by Ledzius

Tue, 8 Jan 2008 00:05:40 EST

Orkut is dominated by Third worlders, people from India and Latin American countries. The classier people prefer Facebook, if they decide to have an online profile at all, in the first place.

Comment by kerty

Mon, 7 Jan 2008 22:35:55 EST

I have never understood these virtual dating and social communities. We still have real world out there, have not lost it completely. One must be terribly lonely or socially depraved or deficient with minimal social worth or social skills. I know some people use it to sharpen their dating/social skills that can be useful in real world. But really. There is very little reality or connect with real world. The role play, fake, anonymous, posers are so liberally mixed with the real, that one can't assume anything, one can not trust anything, not even pictures can tell a whole story. Now why would anybody in their right mind go there to look for real friends or spouses? Sure, if one is looking for quick hook-ups, NSA flings, experimentations, virtual place to hang out where everybody knows your handle, there could be no other place like it. But than why act shocked when you get flooded with such seekers? What were you thinking when you joined such communities? That you would fall in love at first sight, or first email/IM? One has to wade thru tons of scrap to get lucky, but more likely, one might miss it completely while bypassing a heap of scrap. It is tragic that no support system exists that can help youth to look around or mingle in safe and sincere environment to find their love mates. There is that bar scene, dance clubs, malls or parking lots of McDonalds and walmarts. I have seen after-dark parking lots of anchor stores and restaurants where youth in large cluster of cars hang out with a prospect of meeting like minded persons and they are seen to sprint off in a hurry as soon as any cop car is seen approaching - within minutes, the whole lot gets back a deserted look. What a pathetic and seedy way to meet people! I think adult world has abandoned their responsibilities and youth are left to fend for themselves in darkness. If you are going to take away arranged marriages as a viable choice, at least provide them a safe space and structure where youth can mingle freely and make intelligent choices about critical decisions of their lives. Youth are driven to virtual communities where options are no better.

Comment by kela

Mon, 7 Jan 2008 13:39:46 EST

dumb dumb dumb...

Comment by temporal

Mon, 7 Jan 2008 11:43:38 EST

kiran: how do you know i am deaf? ;) khair the point about exclamation marks is simply this...it reinforces a point one wants to make think this way: an exclamation mark is akin to JUMPING up and down by the writer to draw attention to ONE point...if that jumping is done by a battalion or a brigade or a division it tends to spoil the effect imho of course:)

Comment by Scorpion

Mon, 7 Jan 2008 11:25:42 EST

"I reply to their scrap by email and they scrap me back with a reply – what do I call such people – pea-brained cretins??" that is hilarious! :-)

Comment by Kiran Dhanwada

Mon, 7 Jan 2008 08:18:21 EST

@temporal - I would admit that you have got an excellent sense of humor but, were you trying to be funny here? The rate at which exclamations appear in the article is directly proportional to the number of ways Orkut baffles me - and hence I thought so be my writing. But yeah, like your sense of humor (and your 'friendly dictionary') - would love such feedback anytime.

Comment by Kiran Dhanwada

Mon, 7 Jan 2008 08:17:43 EST

Comment by temporal

Mon, 7 Jan 2008 03:25:24 EST

kiran would have sent you an email...but let this suffice for now....since you mentioned wassup...may i offer this definition of an exclamation mark from my friendly dictionary?

1. a punctuation mark (!) used after a word or words that express surprise, make an emphatic declaration, or the like; exclamation point.

sheesh! :)

Comment by DCritic

Mon, 7 Jan 2008 02:59:14 EST

Very good, don't repeat this.