It seems to me that everyone under 25 is obsessed with three things in India. They are
- IPL
- Chetan Bhagat’s new novel and
- Orkut.
I don’t blame them for the first two since even above 25 are obsessed with them . But I can’t understand the lure of Orkut. Orkut is considered as a social networking website where you can catch up with your friends but I have found that people who were considered as serial murders during college have friend list crossing 100 (I have less than 150 friends).
Its surprising that orkut is helping people discover friends with whom they rarely spoke but made a point to share sutta. Boys who were scared even to ask for notes from gals are scrapping them as if they were his best buddies in college. (And the buddy added in the friend list is busy scraping the same gal). If u ask me, Orkut has launched a revolution by making Indians realize that its a national duty to have atleast 100 pals and to scrap atleast 10 people a day.
But what I am unable to understand is the role played by offices and colleges in this national movement of friendliness. Where ever I have gone orkut has been banned . Even proxy servers are unable to help us to perform our duty. Offices are treating orkut as a nuisance where employees spend precious resources by sending long scraps to people who reply with “HI. How r u?” or “Fine”. I am unable to understand the mentality of management. Do they think by banning orkut they will be able to make employees work. I doubt it. What didn’t work in last 3 years is not expected to work ever .But I don’t want to blame the management, they can make mistakes while going through tedious process of making stupid decisions , playing golf and finding scape goats for their poor decisions.
What I really have objection against are the-colleges. Why are they unable to acknowledge that how important is for student to scrap people whom they share bench before and after lunch. It seems colleges have underestimated their ability to churn out students without any employable skills. It is this network and not kotler or Theraja’s or Boylsted which will help them to achieve their monthly target of insurance/profits, or locate a fault or design an RE model etc. J
To conclude -
It seems that youngsters are obsessed with orkut and oldies with preventing them from doing so J. Hence I would request you to follow the age old dictum. Love (Scrap) thy neighbor; but don’t get caught.
2 comments:
Orkut (or to name any social networking website) is something that most of the people are misguided. The important point here is to note that technology can be easily misused with the vary impressions of those misguided people and that’s what exactly happening now.
No wonder! Orkut provides a great or bigger platform for people to make friends with no acquaintance around them but at the same time how many of them make this point responsibly out of many others. In most of the cases it ended up with pure passing the time or wastage of time with other valuable resources that an office premise provides to the employees. Are they able to tap the time spent on it? Is it benefiting the employee and the organization/employer as a whole? And that’s exactly the concerns for the office managements to tackle with. After all the money spent by an employer on the employee should justify its returns. I guess, on the similar track it holds good for colleges, also.
I am not against Orkut or for that matters any other websites as long as people use it responsibly, which also matter of fact defines the social behavior. Also, there is a need of this awareness to how to build the ecosystem around for a better life beyond WWW. I guess the debate will remain ON for a longer time than as expected by some of us.
ur wrath against the management & specially the college management !is i what is support to !
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