Some one has to put some sense into people writing in public places like Orkut. Ok you may write anything in your profile and to your friends, but show up a little courtesy for other people too.
It started when Avinish, “scrapped” Ranjana. For no apparent reason she dismisses his “invitation” to be friends and humiliates him. This ignites a chain reaction which has every guy in Orkut behaving no less than male chauvinists towards her. There are a huge number of mails getting forwarded regarding this issue.
The girl has been, humiliated thoroughly, with senseless scraps filling her pages every minute. She has deleted her profile form Orkut!!! I guess that will make them happy. The guys have proved them selves as total male chauvinists. Apparently not even a single person has asked the reason for her behavior. They got their chance and tore her apart. After the incident every guy is asking Avinish to fight back(if that’s what they call it), but he has kept his silence, out of fear or what I don’t know.
The profile and the testimonials points that they both are well respected in their friend’s circle. May be this is something that they have to figure out rather than the world to solve. Stop sending sneer remarks to her.
It’s high time that, everyone realize that some, basic decency is always expected in public places on the net. You won’t shout scornful remarks at a person in public because there you can’t hide. But on the net your identity is hidden, so that doesn’t give you the right to act irrational.
Background Info:
Avinish is just another engineer out of college on job hunt [Profile in Orkut]
Ranjana, form her profile I guess she is working in some company in Mumbai. Aparently she has deleted her profile. Some one has created a bogus profile of her[Bogus Profile]
This is the Community that has come up in Orkut – Avinish vs Ranjana- D Orkut War
A snap shot of what Ranjana wrote to Avinish.
August 24, 2006 at 6:13 pm
She has deleted her profile from Orkut? Ouch.
Mind enlightening me on who this Avinish and Ranjana is?
August 24, 2006 at 6:31 pm
Jerry, can you provide a link to Avinish and Ranjana’s orkut profiles? It might help readers to put things into context.
August 24, 2006 at 6:43 pm
Please make sure in future when writting about something like this than please do provide some background info and adding links if available.
August 24, 2006 at 10:49 pm
Orkut is a open madhouse anyone can create ‘n’ number of fake profiles and spam ur scrapbooks to eternity. These type of abuses happen quite often there.
August 25, 2006 at 1:51 pm
Thanks Jerry for the links and the webshot. It looks to me like this guy Avinish just wanted to “get to know her”. Anyway, it was sad she came under so much attack and had to delete her profile.
August 26, 2006 at 1:47 am
Am I the only one without a Orkut profile
? – Guess I’m too old to be part of the “in crowd”
August 27, 2006 at 10:11 am
Not at all Hindumommy,
Im sick and tired of people sending me notifications asking me to join Orkut when the website is blocked here in the UAE.
Only to reminds me Im old and imprisoned.
September 5, 2006 at 3:20 am
As a request to all readers of this blog, can you guys click on the report bogus profile link?
That bogus profile needs to be killed.
September 7, 2006 at 1:41 pm
Yes, I am the (in)famous Ranjana mentioned in the above article, the same Ranjana who is at the centre of this entire Orkut mess.
I need to finally clear this up.
This whole thing started when that Avinish guy sent a very rude, abusive and insulting scrap to me out of the blue one day. Under normal circumstances, I would just ignore such things and delete his comment. But I was having a really bad day that day and the last thing I needed was some random stranger dissing me on the net. So I reacted the way I did and left him that comment thinking I was handling this with him on a one on one basis. But this entire thing blew way out of proportion and I received 600 scraps from people from all around in 4 days. I didnt know such a mail even existed till people started sending me scraps informing me about it. I didnt get to see the mail myself till my friend sent it to me a week after it was out. I got some really nasty scraps from people who thought that Avinish sent me a harmless friend request, or a “will you make friendship with me?” type of scrap to which I reacted like this lunatic.
Then came that bogus profile of me, with my pic and all. The information on the profile was extremely lewd, which is why I shut down my original profile. Now that bogus profile is causing a lot of problems in my personal life which is why I request all of you who’re reading this to report it as bogus as soon as possible.
Please do that. That profile needs to be shut down asap.
September 7, 2006 at 1:50 pm
Very unfortunate, Ranjana.
Since things have gone to this extent, why dont you lodge a complaint with the Police so that atleast people will think twice before doing such things?
Or just write to Orkut explaining them the scenario. Sorry, Orkut is blocked here in the UAE, so I cant really figure out how to report the bogus profile.
September 7, 2006 at 9:54 pm
I’ve already writen Orkut and Google 2 mails so far. Still havent got any replies from them and nothing has been done about the bogus profile either. I even tried approaching Cyber Crime Protection Cell here in Mumbai, but they said they cant do anything about this.
September 7, 2006 at 10:51 pm
Ranjana, why don’t you write me a e-mail with a detail account of what happened and we will try to raise this issue via the Mutiny.
October 25, 2006 at 11:33 am
Ranjana,Now that the wind has blown over, Why dont you get some point of contact in Google India s office at Banglore and raise an SOS there.I dont know if its feasible.But I guess it sure helps.