Journal FortKnox's Journal: Orkut... 17
Orkut blows a rhino with elephatitis's left undergrown nut.
The coding sucks (great error messages and recovery!), the whole site is broken, and the staging and testing environment are nonexistant (much like another site I visit.........).
I'm glad someone pointed out how to turn off community and friend-of-a-friend messages, so I don't get garbage in my orkut inbox...
But the worst thing is trying to find a community. There are orkut losers... people who's sole existance is to be on orkut, and they think everyone has a right to be there. They join every community, regardless if they are even interested in the idea of the community. They have their own memes and expect everyone to join in (the whole 'lasers from eyes' thing, the 'get an anime pick of your face as your icon' thing, etc... And they have 5 bagillion communities between them. I'm looking for an AVP community and have to wade through "Adam is an alien" which was a joke community of the second, has 15 members, 1 message from feburary, and isn't removed. There should be a hard limit to the amount of communities you can create, and communities should die from inactivity.
Now, the question is... Why am I still visiting orkut?
The coding sucks (great error messages and recovery!), the whole site is broken, and the staging and testing environment are nonexistant (much like another site I visit.........).
I'm glad someone pointed out how to turn off community and friend-of-a-friend messages, so I don't get garbage in my orkut inbox...
But the worst thing is trying to find a community. There are orkut losers... people who's sole existance is to be on orkut, and they think everyone has a right to be there. They join every community, regardless if they are even interested in the idea of the community. They have their own memes and expect everyone to join in (the whole 'lasers from eyes' thing, the 'get an anime pick of your face as your icon' thing, etc... And they have 5 bagillion communities between them. I'm looking for an AVP community and have to wade through "Adam is an alien" which was a joke community of the second, has 15 members, 1 message from feburary, and isn't removed. There should be a hard limit to the amount of communities you can create, and communities should die from inactivity.
Now, the question is... Why am I still visiting orkut?
So how do you... (Score:2)
I don't really spend any time on Orkut, I just go check my messages every so often and look in the Journal Circle Community and The Underground Lair.
Re:So how do you... (Score:2)
Re:So how do you... (Score:2)
Home > Settings > click on what you do/don't want to get via e-mail.
As for removing a friend, that's a lot more complicated:
Friends > FriendsBook (the icon with the person and pencil) > click on "edit" next to the Friend you want to delete > Delete
I'm afraid I'm probably the one who caused y'all to get all the Kerry FoF spam...I didn't know it was being sent because I'd turned off FoF mails. Sorry 'bout that. :-(
Cheers,
Ethelred
Re:So how do you... (Score:2)
Re:So how do you... (Score:1)
[/Me hoses Ethelred]
Ok, I feel better now.
'Cause You Can't Help It? (Score:1)
Re:'Cause You Can't Help It? (Score:2)
Except for the Slashdot Journal Circle. What say you, FortKnox?
I dropped it ages ago. (Score:2)
It sucks. Everyone there sucks. End of story.
I pretty much agree... (Score:2)
Though I agree that Orkut's coding and stability make Slashdot look downright professional -- and that's saying something. :-P
The best thing about it is the networking aspect -- unfortunately it's become this stupid popularity contest (which the "cool", "sexy" and "friendly" points don't help, just as karma got out of hand on Slashdot).
Cheers,
Ethelred
Re:I pretty much agree... (Score:2)
That would make a kickass sig
Funny people (Score:2)
They seem to think that Orkut is the whole of their social lives (it probably is). And then there are the perverts whose sole job is to find women and add them on their lists.
You think you have seen it all? Wait till you join any of the Asian communities. Oh my *GOD*! It's so bad that it pains you to read that stuff.
But to be fair, I've met some old friends of mine whom I'd lost contact a real long time ago (from highschool/middle-school). They just randomly foun
Re:Funny people (Score:2)
Same here. I stumbled across two former classmates from high school. 'Twas muchly cool.
Orkut has its good sides, but the bad bits are starting to overwhelm the good bits...
Cheers,
Ethelred
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I want in! (Score:2)
Re:I want in! (Score:2)
Re:I want in! (Score:1)
Why log onto Orkut (Score:2)
You like the convenient access to meaningless sex?