This is a mad mad world, every one of us running faster to catch time, reach our goal, and seek more and more from ourselves and once we reach at the point of success, we ask ourselves, where do we go next? The material requirements are more than fulfilled, but the inner you cries for attention, it is hungry of love, faith, intimacy. Our inner selves are empty, because, for the sake of our career, we left our hometown, we left our loved ones, and we left our friends. We act according to our preferences, we need to reach our aim and be successful. But we know that the soul is hungry, dissatisfied after all these sacrifices. That is why, even now, we feel good to make a good friend, or discovering a long lost friend, or someone from our home town. We, with time have become selfish, so we expect our relationships and our social life to adjust themselves with our run for success; we welcome those forwarded emails, and take out a few seconds to read them and get a fresh breath of air from target oriented daily work. If friendship and adjusts itself on the desktop and even you do not have to chat on instant messenger, why on earth you will not welcome the opportunity to make friends and look for real friendship and fun to feed your hungry soul? The secret behind the success of https://orkut.com lies on this human philosophy.
What is ORKUT? It is user-friendly, trustworthy, secure and a HUGE network of friendship. This network is run by Google and it was named after the Google employee Orkut Büyükkökten, the man behind Orkut. One can join this social network only by an invitation from an orkut member. Initially you needed to have a Google account for the membership of Orkut, now an invitation is all you need.
Let me tell you what it can offer:
· An account to be displayed with three categories, General, Professional, Personal. (You can show or hide info)
· You can upload a profile picture or image
· You have an album to upload up to 12 photos. This is accessible by all members of Orkut.
· You have message facility: Send and Receive
· You can add or decline your friendship requests.
· You can rate your friends and see yourself rated by others on different basis.
· You have a fan list which can bee seen by everyone.
· You have a public page, where your friends and other members can come and scribble their messages
· There are communities on all topics available on earth.
· You can search individuals and communities; you can narrow your search by choosing different options like language, caste, religion, country, interests etc.
· You can own or be a member of a community or number of communities.
· You can find your long lost friends and even relatives here….
· Information and profile security: Because the name of Google is associated.
I consider Orkut as a global village. It is an amazing place to find new and old friends, share your thoughts and increase your friends’ network effectively. One of my friends, who works with a renowned PR firm, uses Orkut as one of his PR tool! I have found a lot of my long lost friends in Orkut and was so happy to find them; the happiness cannot be measured, really!
People are addicted to orkut because there is hope for everyone, because the network is associated with Google, it’s global and it is huge. Any one can find an old buddy, connect to people from his hometown, and find a friends and share information and resources there! It is extremely user-friendly.
There are a few problems associated also, because of load on the network, we often get the message “Bad Bad server, No doughnuts for you ...". But, as promised by the Orkut management, the problem has been solved to a great extent. There were cyber crimes involved Orkut, some used it for personal grudges. It is said that, girls are not so safe in Orkut. But I say, as girls, they need to be alert everywhere they go. So, why not Orkut? They should not trust any member until they know him personally. Although, there is an option to report a profile or a community bogus, but this does not save you when one foolishly trusts a member and discloses secret to land up in trouble. So, consider it as a matter of personal security and take the responsibility.
Orkut is a place where I can get a friend circle; I am happy that one of my friends, Suman, introduced me to Orkut and invited me to it. I joined, but could not understand what it was, but soon my old friends found me through it made me understand its value. Then I started inviting my friends and they invited their friends….and hum chaltein gaye Karavan banta gaya… Yes, I am addicted to Orkut, not because I am a normal internet addicted, which I am not. I look for real value in everything I do, I hate spending time just like that. But I am addicted to Orkut, because it has offered me a great circle of friends. I can contact them at any point of time….It is a value added service without any cost! thanks to ORKUT!
And rest….be a member and know yourself, it worth a membership of every single person on earth who is a social being at heart but do not have enough time to be social.
Be an Orkutian and Keep Orkuting!!