Puranjoy,
>Where?
Waiting to get added by many girls?
>That’s it?
What else do you want me to say?
>Why do I have an idea that the phrase “for the keepers” either didn’t mean anything to you, or it touched somewhere important?
Shouldn’t you be the one to tell me why you got the idea?
>Care to clarify?
Why should I clarify?
>When was the last time you got a reasonably long comment composed solely of interrogative sentences?
Have I ever got a comment before having only interrogative sentences?
P.S.: When was the last time you got a reply to your comment composed solely of interrogative sentences?

@aparna,
“Hmm”? That’s it? I just offered you a whole new life in a comment, and you say “Hmm”?
Why do I have an idea that the phrase “for the keepers” either didn’t mean anything to you, or it touched somewhere important? Care to clarify?
P.S.-When was the last time you got a reasonably long comment composed solely of interrogative sentences?

Sangs,
Yeah maybe

Puranjoy,
Hmmm

SK,
These days I am not even in touch with most of my friends through Orkut

Karthik,
LOL

Arvind,
>borekut
Good name
Yeah I wonder if he would have got even one reply

Ranjhith,
I wish that guy had got replies like this

Anonymous,
Those were some interesting questions and observations. The reason why people blog is always an interesting topic in itself

Jagannath,
Yup. Welcome to my blog! Thanks for blogrolling me.

Santhosh,
Thanks. This theme is my fav of all the themes till now.

It has really lost its charm

Here is when my observation started - I am one of those people who started using internet in nineties, when public awareness of the internet was practically nonexistent. The internet was available mostly in academic institutions and research labs (even those I am not sure how many). I still remember the days when I used the early versions of Netscape, and for that matter even its predecessor Mosaic. People in those days used to be crazy about “home page”. People liked to create home pages and it was a “trend” or considered to be a ‘cool thing” to do. But most of my friends who did it, at some point of time, abandoned their “home” pages, and I really doubt if some of them even maintain it today (and for that matter, if the home page even exists).

I think blogging will be around for long time and the adoption (of blogging as an active hobby) will continue to grow. That brings me to the aspect I was thinking of other day - will people who take the time to blog today, continue to do so for a foreseeable future? Statistically speaking, why do people blog? Is it because they want them to be “heard”? or they want to have some interesting conversation going on? Or they want to share some of their experiences they consider would be of value? Or perhaps a combination of all these? And what demographics do the “active bloggers” represent (excluding people who blog for business purposes or promote their business ideas)?

Any way, sorry for the deviation from the main discussion, but I think some of the features we get from the Internet are probably more than what most of us need. The blogger’s “disconnect” with ORKut can be explained based on that observation ..In fact it is a predisposition of mine that, some of the bloggers will give up blogging over time - changes (personal and professional) in life could be responsible for that, but some of them may really loose interest ..

Last but not the least, my statements about people signing up for all the internet services should not be construed as a form of complaint or criticism by any definition of those terms…What I have written above is just an observation seeking validation and statistical advantage.

Thanks for providing me with a column to express my views on this, and thanks for reading this comment.