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Social Networking .. Orkut

I somehow prefer orkut more than facebook or any other social networking sites. Linked-in is something completely different. It is more into professional networking. Orkut and Facebook are similar in their nature to get in touch with friends and other people you know, facebook has more fun forms in it like custom made applications which you can install and all those things.. but it is not that user friendly for a person who has been in Orkut from a very long time.

Coming back to Orkut, I have found my childhood neighbours after a gap of more than 18 years. Would this have been possible in Facebook or any other social networking site? I dunno really.

All that I knew of these people was the name and a vague guess about their place of residence. That itself worked out and I got back in touch with these people. Forget scrapping or exchanging contact numbers through that.. The best used part of Orkut is the interface b/n Orkut and Gtalk. Anyone whom I add on Orkut comes on my gtalk messenger list and I'd be able to chat with them.

That's how I prefer being in touch with people.. I'm not that much of a nerd to sit at a very beautiful waterplace (be it a beach or a river) and get connected to the net using a laptop and start chatting or twitterring.. I prefers not being in constant contact but being in touch only when required. Else, am happy in my own recluse! For people to get in touch with me, my mobile number is public on my orkut profile and they can call me @ any time if it is so imminent for them to contact me.

Of my childhood friends, I had contacted 4 of them but as of now, two have replied mentioning that they too wanted to get in touch with me and have accepted my friend requests and my scraps and my gtalk invites. So, I agree with the scores of people who say Orkut ROCKS!!!

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