A phenomenon called Orkut

An old friend of mine...Someone with whom i used to play football in 5th standard in my school scrapped me today. For those still living in the old age in some desert ( how are you reading my blog ??) Scrapping is writing a message in someones scrapbook on Orkut. Orkut as defined in Wikipedia 'is an Internet social network service run by Google and named after its creator, Google employee Orkut Büyükkökten. It claims to be designed to help users meet new friends and maintain existing relationships.'

I have been a member of Orkut for the past 6 months and i am surprised to find out how many people still remember me in this world. Some people with whom i played and studied in school, some with whom i used to share a bus ride to school, some with whom i met at coaching classes, some who used to work with me and have now left the company. Generally some people with whom i have shared some part of my beautiful life.

The guy i have mentioned above was a gud friend of mine until he left school and we lost contact. The way he reminded me about him was by writing 'we used to play football together in school and you were always on the losing side.' Yaa that does remind me something.

It is just one of the friends i have met through the network.There have been some special people with whom i had lost contact and they suddenely appeared one day.It was great to know that they still existed on this planet and are leading a life just like me.It was surprising to know how much life has changed since i spoke to them last time.We exchanged numbers,addresses,emails and some notes on life.

There have also been some nice people who tried to be my friends.Like this one guy who looked at my profile and said 'U look like Gay.Wanna Enjoy.' I was so afraid of him that i didn't open my account for alomst 2 weeks. Then there was this guy who wrote to me asking 'Are u from some ABC school ??I used to study there when i was 3 yrs old and it looks like i know u.'I asked him to send me his snaps when he was 3 and may be then i will try to remember.

My sincere Thanx goes to the guy who invented this thing called orkut. Without your vision i wouldn't have had the oppurtunity to relive some golden days of my life. Just one request please include a feature where girls who do not accept invitations from guys for friendship should be banned from the using the network.