…Clueless

Yesterday, I voiced my concern regarding the website facebook.in which appeared a little suspicious to me. I contacted the folks over at Facebook and got a response from them today. Here’s what they had to say :

Hi Rahul,

We appreciate your concern. “http://www.facebook.in” is a secure Facebook login page. Please let us know if you have further questions or concerns or see anything else that is suspicious on the site. We apologize for any confusion.

Thanks for contacting Facebook,

Emma
User Operations
Facebook

So, Emma from Facebook basically confirmed that http://www.facebook.in/ is a legit Facebook website and a property of Facebook. Thus, we can safely conclude that facebook.in is Facebook’s entry into India and probably will be the website to which the Indian users will get redirected in the near future. Facebook India is still broken and doesn’t work properly so I guess it is still more of a placeholder than a proper Indian version for Facebook.

A similar step was taken by MySpace (http://in.myspace.com/), Orkut (http://www.orkut.co.in/) and YouTube (http://in.youtube.com/) recently. Facebook will compete with Orkut, which is the leader in the Social Networking segment in India.

There is a kind of rush to get into the Indian market which is still in its nascent stage but has a whole lot of potential keeping in view the fact that majority of the Indian population is young and broadband penetration is increasing as every day passes.

Well, I’m a relieved man, now that it has been confirmed by Facebook that it wasn’t any scam.

So a guy named Rahul Vaid from Gurgaon published some “obscene” messages about Sonia Gandhi because of the fact that he hated her. Purely personal, right?

WRONG. The guy is locked up in Pune Jail and could face a fine of upto 1 lakh rupees or five years in prison. You heard it right people. Don’t think of even hating Sonia Gandhi. I say just stop forming any personal opinions for that matter. Everything could land you in trouble.

Our efficient Indian Police failed to track down the terrorists who sent emails after the UP and Jaipur blasts. They failed to notice a dead body of the servant lying on the roof of a house in which a girl was murdered and kept telling everyone that the servant was at large and was the killer. But some Congress Party worker doesn’t like what Mr. Rahul Vaid wrote on Orkut. He complained to the police and they swung into action. Hurray for the cops!!

You guys can suck my balls. I just hope the Shiv Sainiks don’t read what I wrote about them here on this blog and our efficient police comes knocking at my door.

Source

I usually don’t visit social networking websites much but I was quite surprised to land on the front page of Orkut.com and find the Orkut logo coloured in the colours of the India National Flag. Good thinking on the part of the Orkut team to connect to and engage a substantial number of users on their network. They even have a number of polls up for the users asking various questions about the 60 year old baby, who is still growing… growing stronger day-by-day!!

A similar gesture for Pakistan (Aug 14th) would have been appreciated too by the users from Pak I guess. I wonder why the Orkut team didn’t do it. It most definitely has to do with the userbase from both the countries. From what I know, Indians dominate this social network after the Brazillians.

Click here for more info from the official Orkut Blog.

Jai Hind!