Orkut is not a villain
March 6, 2007 Category: General 
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Often I see people refer to Orkut as dangerous, a den. A friend who says she's frightened by the murder of the woman who met the boy on Orkut, a relative saying it is not advisable to use, etc..
Use Orkut to almost 3 years and it just brought me good thing. Rediscovered friends (who could not even 10 years) helped me in exchange for the car, allowed to visit places and people of BH when I moved here and did not know nearly nunguém, allows me to maintain contact with friends (s) and family who live distant, among other things. And you never got viruses on Orkut, I had no password or stolen and I received insults.
But of course he, like any other environment offers risks. A woman of 43 who was killed, for example, could have known the boy in a ballad. Defamation, and against the young of Minas Gerais and Rio Grande do Sul, could have been made by e-mail or website. The communities that proliferate offensive there could also be sites (such as already exist for a long time) or a group of friends in any city. But the facts are passed through Orkut. Then they see him as the villain.
We will begin to see Orkut as something that can bring benefit. And knowing how to use it. Be discreet in your profile, do not put phone (my nephew did it for 12 years), do not give details of famiília, study, work or place suggestive photos (especially children and adolescents). They are basic care for live more safely. Not only Orkut, but elsewhere.
You have the option of staying inside or outside of Orkut. It is up to you to define whether or not it is interesting to be part of a public social network, available to everyone. I'm there and it does not bother me at all.
Maysa
I think everything in life has at least two sides, and Orkut could not be different, and this case is related to the purpose, so that people use. We can not forget is the importance of this tool available to us by technology. Some use it for business, others for pleasure, others as a means of communication between family members, to find other people who really have no news, there are those who use it to find a love, a boyfriend, flirt, finally is wide range of options that orkut gives us. Unfortunately as in all media, that also has those who are there to practice unlawful acts, and users should be aware, and this is no different than our day to day, we must be cautious in our social interactions . One should take utmost care in every message you send to a friend or girlfriend, and also with those that you receive and preserves, as others may be reading too, and this can be good and sometimes not, can disrupt you, when you think you would be helping. In my opinion Orkut, like MSN, Mobile, the Windows Live network itself and other means, should not be used to maintain a relationship, especially loving and financially, but for a first contact, but then nothing replaces the eye to eye .
AOrkut is not even a villain. So I think the most dangerous msn orkut. But for me the problem is uncontrolled access to the internet. Bandits, prostitutes, mentally ill, are weighed and mixed people trivialize the crime, sex, suicide, homicide. I believe that authorities are asleep at the wheel because they should be control over the users more closely. [Comment ID # 29725 Will Be Quoted Here]
2Orkut is another technology that we use to entertain ...
If there are problems, the culprit is not technology but your users ...
In the above text is a series of guidelines for the prevention of such problems. Just be careful, 'cause there are malicious people everywhere.
thank you
3http://www.estrategiadigital.com.br
We just have to be careful with targeted advertising, as the state was in the paper yesterday about MySpace and the use of profile information.
And I think it's just not putting private data on orkut that he will not be unsafe.
4I also think qo Orkut is not a villain! On the contrary ... I think the space is wonderful for keeping in touch ... because we found several people but no one misses the daily contact and phone number, address email to ... but communication continues through orkut!
5Allais, I see only advantages in orkut hj! Mainly because of the popularity he has with the Brazilians ... they increase the chances of you finding a lot of friends "lost"!
I wrote about it even in December, take a read: http://rumorejo.blogspot.com/2006/12/reecontrando-amigos-no-orkut.html
Hugs!