Of Orkut and Alter Egos

Saturday, March 8, 2008 by clandestine observer

Yes, we all know that orkut is probably the biggest thing that happened to youngsters in India since… I don’t know….. porn!!!! But this craze has given rise to peculiar problem of its own. I don’t know why people are sooo excited and enthusiastic about adorning their profiles with freaky one liners like ‘U may rock, but I always rule!’ and ‘Friendship is my life’ (aaargh) may be it’s the realization of being totally inhibited and getting away with it.. what’s more annoying is that these people have a separate grammar and spellings, customized to suit their needs.

I genuinely have to sit back and think for a minute or two when some guy writes ‘Yo maan ,… wazzap??’, apart from the confusion of why that person is reenacting the newest Mortein commercial online and ‘is this the same guy I know from somewhere’ I try to be as normal as possible while replying to such scraps while the part of me is screaming to just cut the crap out!!!! What’s even more surprising is that the same guy would probably say “ I am a Cancerian’ when asked if he was a virgin.

The internet is like that, it is an arena for not being inhibited and showing off how ‘cool’ u really are, it’s a place where people brag about themselves or try to be the next Soparrkar . but the least those guys can do not listen to the voices in their head while typing and have mercy.

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2 comments:

Nikhil Shintre said...

I agree, though, not in entirety!
See,
bout the " Wazzap?????? " part --
Oh come onn.. its just the need of the day..
its not that we are trying to put on some attitude or something of that sort,
but its all bout a new way to greet..
see, my grandpa use to grett like this " namaskaar.. kaay mhantaay?? "
i say , " wazzap..??? "..
you get to the attitude part only and only when you get to talk with that person!

Now for the other part..
i;e making out to be somebody else who actually you are not by any damn chance..
yeah..
that is what i hate the most..
Its a medium and you gotta be fair with the medium..
like all the other media of communications,
this one,
too,
has its loopholes..
You gotta live by the system or
do something bout it or
just leave it..

--- NVS

Nikhil Shintre said...

hey dude check this one out..
http://nvsonly.blogspot.com/2008/04/listen-to-radio.html