Comments on: orkut pissyness, round 2

By: willem lensselink

willem lensselink — Fri, 13 Feb 2004 07:39:50 +0000

never the less
who invite me for membership of orkut

That’s a friend

willem

By: B-$tring

B-$tring — Sun, 08 Feb 2004 02:19:48 +0000

My big gripe is becoming the trolls in 9000 groups with no info, obvious scripts…

By: B-$tring

B-$tring — Sun, 08 Feb 2004 02:19:33 +0000

My big gripe is becoming the trolls in 9000 groups with no info, obvious scripts…

By: Marc

Marc — Wed, 04 Feb 2004 00:28:46 +0000

“The food here is *terrible*!”

“Oh, I know. And such small portions!”

By: Life With Alacrity

Life With Alacrity — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 12:48:26 +0000

Insecurity at Orkut

Like many others, I’ve been paying attention to Orkut in the last couple of weeks…(post continues on issues feeling ‘insecure’ about Orkut, and why.)

By: Seth

Seth — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 09:09:15 +0000

You control who may send you messages and whether those messages are delivered as email, orkut-internal messages, or both. Go to Home->Settings. There’s a big list of all the different ways people can send messages, and for each one you can opt in or out of either medium. So if you don’t want friends of friends to be able to send you email through Orkut, this is how you do it.

This is unrelated to whether your email address is visible. As someone else mentioned, you control that in your profile.

By: seanbonner

seanbonner — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 23:57:37 +0000

Orkut is scaring me

I’ve been meaning to write about this for days, and haven’t had a spare moment. Here’s what some other people…

By: Paul McGarry

Paul McGarry — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:59:42 +0000

Gina – Danah – thanks for an interesting and informed critique (round 1 and 2).

Critique? I suppose that depends on whether by “critical” you mean “Characterized by careful, exact evaluation and judgment” or “Inclined to judge severely and find fault”.

I’m not seeing much evidence of the former.

By: zephoria

zephoria — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 13:27:49 +0000

I’m sorry that you feel that way.

By: Joe Smith

Joe Smith — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 11:47:22 +0000

but presumably your research informs your critique; therefore, espousing a close-minded view of the application serves more to discount any other views, or other ways the research might be applied. i simply question using your participation in a venue such as orkut as a rationale for research and then delivering such a scathing critique of the application, especially since you are an academic and knowledgable in this field, and your views may impact others’. i don’t think you encourage a diversity of views into a topic when you condemn something you’ve researched only from a very nonobjective, personal point of view.