ORKUT LIFE BEFORE AND AFTER

Life before January 2006 was really boring. The internet experience was boring if compared to today.People used to chat on yahoo chat rooms trying to find out girls and ended up having friendship with that gal, that also no guarantee weather its gal or gay. People used to surf the internet for other types of stuff like entertainment through online songs or some slow movie download links.People used internet for entertainment. A person would be lying he or she says i didn't use the internet for entertainment. Last but very important aspect was porn. People just cannot ignore that aspect too. Everybody would be lying if say they say that didn't watched porn on the internet.

For people not using the internet and trying to fall in love - had difficult times too. A boy used to see a gal from a distance and dreamed of having an affair or rather friendship with her.(Still we find them in Shivaji park).

Come January 2006. A new buzz words came to internet. "Social Networking".Even Time Magzine declared 2006 as the year of "Social Networking" .For people in the United States application of Social Networking was Myspace.com. For India, it was Orkut.com.
First impressions of Orkut were of some kind of dating site or providing some kind of matrimonal services provided by Google. But it simply changed everything. Everybody just logged on. Created profiles. Created Communities.

People just came and came. Old friends met online. Reunions were arranged through orkut. People who were not interested in computers created profile and added up friends. (Now Thats a great achievement).People from various parts of the country just added up including small towns.It became a fad, a cult, website. People added friends and then went on adding friend`s friend. For those boys who dreamed of having friendship the gal of their dreams was now "Profile-and-Click" away from them. Some guys even went on dates , had affairs, but still havent heard about people getting married thru orkut. Communities were created to discuss political, social and yes..... even educational issues. Something which was not done in the real world was done on virtual field of Orkut. As always the coin has two sides. Orkut is now respsonsible for deflamtion of principals, current rave party at pune, deflamation of shivaji maharaj. The government and authorities cannot stop it. Internet is the only thing till today which has survived the censorship of any government.(except china maybe).

Truly an Idea can really changed the world. Thanks to Orkut, now people have become more social atleast in the virtual world.