The Orkut fever has been rising for quite some time now and the time had to come to break it - orkut recently introduced a new feature called profile views.
Boon or a bane?
Well, the smart guys at Google wanted users to know who is viewing their profile and it will no longer be a secret. There is an option to disable it - but then it comes with a penalty for you too - fair enough! even the refresh time has been set to a day to avoid ppl from changing this setting often! - a well crafted plan indeed..
On one hand, it prevents u from simply surfing on orkut for obvious reasons :-)
But as Karyzma and me discussed this the other day, we can always have a secondary profile created exclusively for surf purposes - smarter than the Googleites thought!!
I personally feel this move is to promote the Google romance stuff they released on April 1. They now want the serious users to shift to that product rather than hanging around on Orkut.
Happy aur kut!
3 comments:
This, I think, is just to keep people stuck on to the Orkut itself for a longer time. Obviously we'II be interested in people seeing our profile..so we'd end up spending more time on Orkut.
Ah, and you still caught on to the Google Romance thing they released on April 1st?? That was a April Fools Day prank :P But seriously its lot easier for them to get into that business.
And so I think even with a secondary profile, the purpose of Google is served.
I think I like the feature...although it is kinda creepy who you find watching you though (especially the romance part).
PS
Since you don't have backlinks enabled, I want to let you know that I referenced your site on Inside Orkut. Congrats!
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