Thought Overflow

Every coin has two sides.

I don’t know how many times I’ve used this statement in debates, essays and posts in general. It’s really rather true, isn’t it? No matter what situation, person, thing or circumstance you look at, it’s always interesting to find the other side of the coin.

So, I was chatting with a good friend from school whom I recently got back in touch with. She told me today of how she’s managed to keep in touch with quite a few of our friends from school whom I seem to have left behind in the sands of time. How’s she managed to do it? Orkut.

Yeah, you read it right…Orkut.

It really made me a little jealous for a bit, making me think about how I have been posting about the evils of social networking websites, while others have been making hay while the sun shines, keeping in touch with old friends, finding new ones, etc. Heck, even the new admissions into the various top-rated B-schools that a starry-eyed me is looking to join have formed communities on Orkut to get to know each other even before they have officially become students of these colleges.

That’s the other side of the coin, folks. If you can get past the odd (and completely useless) display names people keep for themselves on Orkut (and forever in G Talk, as a result) and the annoying chain mails/messages that everyone loves to forward, Orkut really can do some good.