04 December, 2007

"To send scrap to all your friends at once CLICK HERE"

Does this text look familiar to you???
Just open your orkut accounts for a moment, and check your scrapbook...atleast one of the ten scraps displayed will have the deadly blue bar saying, "To send scrap to all your friends at once CLICK HERE"

Im not a regular visitor of orkut. Only during holidays when i have nothing better to do... i resort to the pleasures of orkut. And these days, i dont know dating back to precisely when, these "deadly" blue bar messages seemed to have picked up amazing popularity. Not talking about my scrap book alone, I can't stand the sight of those, thus i keep deleting every such scrap... but even in others scrapbook, they are full of those.

Agreed, few are forwards, which can be still pardoned but scraps like-
XYZ: hi
"To send scrap to all your friends at once CLICK HERE"

or even worse... I couldn't believe there were those hopeless souls existing who sent scraps like-
ABC: happy birthday
"To send scrap to all your friends at once CLICK HERE"
Can you comprehend the heights of lunacy involved in such an act!!!

And now the latest buzz... you might be well aware of the "Diana, director of orkut..." message. Well im not commenting on those... its hopeless!!!

Imagine, just with the push of a button, you send a "hi" message to your entire friendlist... however huge it is. There might be one or two of those characters in your friends list whom you dont really know but simply added cause he or she is a friend of your friend's friend. And when the person receieves the scrap, he/ she will be actually wondering who the hell is this person???
Im writing on this today cause such a thing has actually happened with me and it is really very annoying!!!

But isnt it saving time??? Sending a "hi" message to all 250 of your contacts with just a click... is a pleasure that only modern technology can bestow on us. But by succumbing to the thriving technology... we are losing out on friends, feelings, in short life.

Lets keep technology at its place...
Let technology strive and lets help technology strive...
But lets not give up ourselves completely to it...
lets not trade on conscience!!!

PS: hope i didnt make it sound err so over serious :)

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Just a few odd minutes ago, i was fuming over the "Diana.. blah blah" forward in orkut. I'm wondering how you missed that point! But still, good work bringing up the topic!! you don't sound serious and all.. :P

and i think it's high time you stop the triplets!!!(hope you get what i'm saying) :)

Reflections said...

poornima,
hi, yes i remember the 3 dots :-). even i have shifted my blogs to Blogspot coz the link to my msn pages was not opening.
you r welcome to my blogs too.