Reading Jeremy's entry about the Orkut newsletter reminded me Orkut exists. I haven't logged into the site in ages -- it fell into the same category as other social networks "I've proven my social worthiness by being linked to a whole bunch of people many of whom I never met, now what?".
This resulted in a discovery of over a 100 unread orkut messages (I'm not stupid enough to have them e-mailed). That resulted in a couple of things..
1. I wasted 15 minutes and removed everyone who was a 'friend' and sent a 'friends-of-friends' message. Fuck you, spam your own goddamn friends.
2. I set my orkut settings to not even show me 'friends of friends' messages. Chrrrrist-on-a-lolly-pop. Don't these people have lives? Who the hell needs an Orkut community for abandoned-former-orphans-who-enjoy-caligraphy-while-pooping?
Maybe I should just remove my Orkut account and be done with it, it's not like I'll login again for another few months.
And their damn newsletter didn't recommend me any new friends. Bastards.
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Thanks, that will cut down on the spam I get. :-)
You can be quite the fiery one can't you!! Mind, that said, I've never seen an 'Orkut', so I'd better look before commenting any more!
#I closed my orkut account soon after I opened it a few weeks ago. I commented on this to Jeremy at the time privately, but others might find it amusing.
When you close your orkut account, you get a standard email to confirm the closure of your account. At the end of this e-mail is the cute, but quirky line that really summed it all up for me.
"Thanks for playing. - orkut."
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