Orkut hype by media

The media lately has been blaming orkut for few murders and kidnaps... Some say orkut is a dangerous site, they say orkut can kill you... WOW!!! Excellent....... Mind blowing.

What is orkut? Orkut is a site where people can chat with others... just like facebook, myspace, Yahoo 360...... and 1000s of other similar social networking sites. So, other such sites don't kill? Why ONLY orkut kills?

It is said that the murderer met the victim on orkut and asked him/her to meet up at a place at a particular time... They met..... the offender did the job... the victim was fool enough to meet some unknown/untrusted person s/he met on the virtual world. And people blame orkut. Hell wait..... what about Yahoo chat rooms, MSN chat rooms, rediff chat rooms and 1000s of other chat rooms where people around the globe make friends and often they do meet up! Why orkut is the only one targeted?

Its simple, orkut is privacy killer. Anybody with an orkut account can see whom I have scrapped and who has scrapped me. If I have scrapped my number to a friend of mine then it is visible to all. If I tell my friend through orkut that I am going to meet you at ABC street on 15th September at 4.20 PM, then it is visible to all people(including 420 people). Think before you propose on orkut, it might be that some of your gfs sees the scrap and you lose about 5-6 gfs in a day!!!

Coming to the point, investigators can search for a person's orkut profile and going through the scraps can make out what s/he had been planning in the last few days. That is how they came to know about few murders and kidnaps in the recent past. Now, you blame orkut for this? Come on, you must thank orkut for being able to help you catch the miscreants!!! Had the conversation been taken place on Yahoo messenger or MSN then you would have never known that the victim planned to meet up virtual friends in real.

Its not that people on orkut only plan to meet up, meeting virtual friends in real life is very old concept, even before orkut thought of making a website! Blaming orkut alone for what happened is pathetic logic. If you blame otkut then you have to blame other 1000s of sites also through which virtual sweethearts try to be real sweethearts!

Personally, I keep no scraps and I don't scrap about any information which tells about my location or personal details. I also don't meet my virtual friends in real life, mainly coz I am ugly and don't want to lose my virtual friends also! Its better to share secret information at a secret place, use "send message" option. Some like to talk through testimonials, that is also a good idea.

All I wanted to say is: Hey media people think before you 'sell' the news.... have a look around the world before jumping to conclusions.... baseless conclusions.... so sad, here I am shouting(typing shouting) and the media is busy 'selling' news!!! bu hu hu........... :((

*Guess now the news is about how Sanjay/Salman is behaving at jail, what they are eating, what they are wearing, when their gf is going to come to see them, where did they piss, where they will crap and when they will marry, will they have sex in jail? and so on..... Hail the media!*

*I am no fan of orkut, in fact I dislike it to a lot of extent but not like the media who hate orkut for crappy reasons!*