You have 3 new scraps, 2 friend requests and one new fan!
Does this kind of a notification sound familiar? Or do we
know only likes, comments and wall posts?
I am not sure how many of my readers have used Orkut or if
any of you will miss it when it shuts down on September 30th. It was
the first experience of social networking that I had. Finding old friends ,
writing scraps and rating friends were all favorite things to do.
Your popularity went a notch higher with the number of fans
you had or the cool ratings you got! * Blame the hormones man :P* The scraps
turned out to be like chat windows * Damn, my orkut scraps are so embarrassing
now that I can’t help wonder what an idiot I was then :D .Not that things have
changed massively now: P *
Making new friends through mutual friends was common .Orkut
was in fact our first play ground where we started stalking. But it wasn’t
sneaky initially *Sigh it was quite, late by the time I realized that Orkut
gives each of its users the names of the users who view their profiles unless
you deactivate your privacy settings* But nevertheless stalking people was an
interesting past time *Oh please! Save the look! All of us did/still do it :P*
It was the new shiny website which we got attracted to! I
remember wondering what xoxo ,tc
,hf,muah, and umpteen other abbreviations were at one point of time. Slowly it
became a part of life but I guess we were less obsessed by it unlike Facebook
these days. I mean we didn’t have to like each other’s pictures or comments, we
didn’t necessarily scream out to the world when we were having lunch or
visiting fancy hotels but we still kept in touch with our far flung friends * I
know not all of us do it ,but there’s still a vast majority who do. I mean no offence
to anyone who is very socially active :P* .I am sure, had Fb not taken over the
social networking arena Orkut would have
brought in these features.
Friends poured out
all the love in their hearts through testimonials which brightened our days. It
gave us the sheer joy of connecting with old friends , stalking on our crushes,
reading feel good testimonials and then
one fine day Facebook replaced its hot spot!
Walls became definitely cooler than Scraps ,Pokes more fun
than Fans,Albums and Tagging replaced photo sharing and we
all quickly gave our ‘likes’ of approval to Fb . That’s exactly when Orkut
started becoming a memory.With this fast paced life where we quickly adopt new
technology , Orkut was replaced very soon in a way that we hardly ever go back to
it . *If Twitter was active when Orkut was forgotten a new hash tag trend would have been created : #RIPOrkut #FbFTW .*
This post was for the generation who advanced from Orkut to
Facebook and still remembers fondly the initial days of introduction to social
networking *And all the stupidity we did then :P*. If you guys also have such memories share them with me.
Till my
next post,keep smiling*friendly glee *and have fun .