Google’s scheme, which now calls dating, ‘Business Networking’, has swept the youth all across the world. So if dating can be termed business networking, I guess its safe to say that I am studying human anatomy and agriculture at the same time when I am running people under my combined harvester in San Andreas.

In the world we live in today, everyone knows about orkut.com, Google's interpretation of Business Networking. While not as popular in the west, It has become the essential part of the online culture here in Asia. With millions of users from Middle East, India and Pakistan, everyone over the age of 15 who has access to the internet uses Orkut. More specifically, the Orkut virus is the most successful viruses of all time. You don’t even know your infected, and it doesn’t stop there, you are urged to invite more and more people on Orkut so you can grow your so called business network. I was not into this thing. Sure I like a community, associate with friends and people, but being brain washed and picking up chicks is not socializing. Therefore, I dedicated this post to show what I got from being on Orkut.

As I stated, I didn’t want to join, but a friend of mine, after 12 unsuccessful months sending me invitations, finally compelled me to join. I use Yahoo! as my email provider, and luckily I never get stuff from orkut in my mail. Not even invites from my friend. So in order to join, I had to create a Gmail account. I was reluctant to use a Google based service, knowing that Google had privacy issues. But I did it, I filled out the form and signed up with orkut. Then the site wanted to know about my details, like career info, about my school, college and the other stuff. That’s ok, I can understand it, but why in the world did it want to know my martial status, about children, my drinking or smoking habits, my sexual orientation, and other personal information that is otherwise required by a dating site. Anyways I as always did supply the information they required so that can continue and pursue my objective. After a few more queries, it said that my profile is finished and now I can add people into it. Since being a gamer, I naturally hunted for other gamers and added them to my friends list. And thus the experience began.

The First Day

Activity was rather low on the first day there. I snooped around communities and took part in rather aimless discussions as like “Is Area 69 a better place to steal a Patriot or should the Easter Basin base get the glory” and “Who sucks most in the WWE”. I mean this stuff was totally meaningless. If you want a Patriot, just get from whichever location is the closest to you, and the WWE is full of suckers on their own merits. I also viewed some other profiles and researched better communities. Found some related to my University and hometown but they also focused on nothing. I then took the liberty and added some people into my friends list from the university community. After that, there was no more action here; either that or I was too busy reading the Vista Performance Guide here on GameSpot.

The Second Day

I log in the next day (Yesterday) to finds a couple of scraps (or comments) waiting for me. Most of those greetings or invites to meet each other, but the most notable thing was a request for a testimonial from a guy. I knew him since we go to the same university, so I wrote one for him. I wrote what I thought of him and he rejected it stating that it was not proper, and I should do it again. So I redone the previous one and wrote him a new one. He approved it at first. But then hours latter I find another scrap saying that he deleted it and another, rather flaming testimonial about me (which I cant post here, because it contained strong language). Even though he had provoked me, I remained calm and approved his testimonial, because it depicted his feelings about me. This is the main thing a testimonial should do, rather than claiming false, sugarcoated attributes about one. So I wrote him a new testimonial and told him what a testimonial really is, but guess what it again got rejected, and this time the reason was that “it didn’t say what I wanted it to say. Put something in it what the girls would like, so I can get more chicks.” This came for a guy whose profile strictly states that he is here for business networking. I refused to write another one for him, so he went berserk and signed up on GameSpot just to take revenge on me. He made strong comments about me in my blog under a fake name “CharmedNemesis” but I didn’t moderate them. Instead I left them there for the world to see.

I didn’t make an entry for day three because its still in progress. It will be released though if you’re interested, maybe tomorrow or on Sunday.