Being pensive on social networking sites.

DISCLAIMER : Article might be written in times of undue boredom, might cause extreme distortion in the cortexial areas of the human brain due to its underlying complex yet extremely simple innuendos wrapped in conceptively deceiving simple English.

Wall of Text OKAY.

The title sums it up, pretty much. 

The fad associated with the Internet social networking originated around four years ago, yeah you guessed it correct, with the launching of Google's infamously popular AND extremely innocuous piece of shit social networking site, Orkut.

In these sites, the general layout was like this.

A guy creates an account. He has a multitude of criteria to fill in his details, ranging from sombre professional details, to educational qualifications and right down to morose stupid data like how his mother looked when he was a toddler and how much she resembles a blown up potato these days.

Trivialities aside, the user gets to have an avatar of his own, a personalized book, Scrapbook in orkut jargon, where others get to post their views, thoughts, million dollar opinions, greetings, or what the hell they even get to flirt with each other.

Stories of Orkut romances even culminating into marriages aren't rather unpopular, they're considered a part and parcel of web 2.0's online valentine movement.

Orkut related stress is also an important factor I should be delberating upon.  People, especially those with the lower IQ endowed to them, tend to take it to task that the number of profile visits they receive ad nauseum really matter a lot. Also their "sexiness" and "coolness".

Apart from this there are also Fanlists, Yes people, ordinary people get to have a fanbase of their very own in these sites!

There are also a lot of factors to be looked into, since this discussion here from my point of view is taking a turn towards the rather pointless direction.

Are these sites really useful?

Maybe. But by no means they can be claimed as an essential part of the life of any devout internet citizen. 

There's the ol' faithful e-mail, the ever clinkin' Instant messenger. Its just, that these social networking sites are a mix of Forum boards, Instant messengers, chat programs, and email features which make them a totally endearing and alluring frolicking environment for denizens of the net.

My five cents done.