Surya’s blog

I’ve finally become free from a voyage that many idiots including me embarked about a year ago. I’m finally completely sane. I had decided long back to write a blog entry on “why orkut sucks” and I think this is the perfectly right time to do it. So this isn’t the way you’d normally expect a person to prelude his blog after months of inactivity and if you’re one of those ‘pro orkut lover’ you wouldn’t indeed like this. Yeah, and this is my first “hate rant”.

I don’t have anything against most of the social networking sites out there (probably because I don’t visit many) but orkut is something which just rages me to the core. I find it ridiculous that it’s a big “phenomenon” in India (I would infact rate Chris Crocker’s videos more than this crap).

PS : Parental advisory :P, entry is a bit profane.

I really don’t understand the purpose of the “orkut scrapbook” (or perhaps, spambook), is it that the website fails to convey what the scrapbook really is or is it that those idiots who use it fail to understand that its not something which can be used chat with other users. Almost every orkut user thinks its the elite instant message protocol which can be used to send messages like “hi der???!!!!!”. My question to all these losers : What the fuck is wrong in using any of the IM services available, instead of spamming a user’s scrapbook with retarded junk ?

Another interesting, part in orkut is the “Testimonials”. Orkut users, especially Indians fail to understand that it’s not a place to spam others with graphical chain-messages. The best part, the users even accept testimonials submitted for them with these messages containing junk. Yeah, and a typical testimonial would start like “So let’s see….hmmm…..insert name here“, is it just me or is it that it’s the gayest way of starting how you feel about a person ?

It’s also very common to see that users have special names in their profiles using ASCII codes and fonts. Now my question to these high faggots is how in the world do they expect people visiting their profile to know who they are ? Randomly searching, I got this name “NOT#!NG $PEC!@L F0R ME EXCEPT……………”, Now seriously tell me what does this fruit expect from the people who visit his profile ? Being a non-orkut user, for me at least its quite difficult to understand who the person really is (or I don’t even know what that emo line means). I would try reading the testimonial at last to see who the person really is and you know its filled with chain-message junk.

<sarcasm>When it comes to security and ease of interface, orkut beats any website</sarcasm>. Orkut users randomly run these javascripts to send mass scrapbook entries to all the users (oh by the way, that’s more of spam). What these nincompoops aren’t aware of is, it takes a second for someone to add a XSS method to the scripts which would make the user vulnerable to hacking attemps. Orkut doesn’t care about this, they think putting a security tip at the homepage of every user would make them stop using these “mass-spam” scripts. Unlike Facebook, orkut doesn’t have an API. These javascripts can even change the user’s profile fields (no wonder, so many viruses are posting more spam in the spambooks).

To conclude, I would prefer facebook over orkut anytime. It’s more secure, neat interface and not gay like orkut (you can’t even use a fake name). Those orkut users who whine about abuse of their accounts (normally after getting hacked), probably deserve it because I would call it the “heights of insanity” to upload your picture at a site like orkut.

I’m done with the “anti-orkut post” :). I’ve some scripts being coded and would release them soon. Yeah and welcome to Abishek @ blogosphere.

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