Saturday, July 26, 2008

A funny analog

While browsing through the Orkut pages in my zero-productivity hours, found these:

"about me: I am HIGHLY ALLERGIC TO STRANGERS. Please DONT send scraps / friend requests if we dont know each other."

"about me: I only accept requests from people I already know. Unless we know each other, DON'T BOTHER to add me."

I am sure you would also have stumbled upon these kind of pages on Orkut (mainly of girls). This seems to be in fashion among girls to have these words in the profile. You will not be considered popular and attractive unless you have mentioned this intention of yours somewhere in your profile.

Now, I have absolutely no problems with people mentioning this and I understand it might be due to genuine reason of not having enough time to click 'no' on hundreds of daily friend requests they receive. But these words (in a very funny sense,)remind me of days when I was applying for MS. I was looking for financial aid to support my studies and would go to the webpages of professors to look for any funding opportunities. Here are some samples of what I encountered,

"... Eligible candidates are encouraged to apply. Note: I DO NOT work with Masters students. Please don't contact me if you are not applying for PhD."

"I DO NOT work with new incoming students. Please contact me ONLY IF you have taken a course under me and have done well in it."

And some as blunt as,

"... If you are a Masters student, DON'T BOTHER to contact me."