The congress government
in a bid to change its sagging image over YoPappusoDumb tweets has
decided to play the divide and conquer card by declaring Orkut users
as a Other Backward Community and therefore eligible to avail the
plethora of schemes under the UPA government.
The moves comes after
the UPA's efforts to effectively mobilise social media and support
of internet savvy youngsters blew up like North Korea's nuclear
missile . Citing increased abuse of the minority community on
facebook and twitter , the Congress government's megaphone Diggy
Singh gave the following report to our reporter “ We have watched
the pathetic state of Orkut since 2009 when it was eclipsed by other
social media networking sites . They have not only stolen away the
intelligent users from Orkut , they also mock members of Orkut
publicly and subject them to great humiliation . There is even a
profile called Wall of Shame in facebook where orkut user's email id
and phone numbers are posted so that members can make fun of Orkut
users in other online communities . In fact one of our very own party
officials have been subject to tremendous humiliation when the BJP
and other parties knew that he had an Orkut account. “ When asked
by our reporter to identify the official involved in the harassment
case , Diggy declined citing privacy concerns . He however added that
the person is now recuperating after such a vicious attack online in
Italy . Ending the conversation with a firm note , he said “ As a
secular state , we just cannot tolerate this kind of rampant
communalism as practised by Modiji who sends updates only via his
tweets . Every ,community needs to be addressed equally .”
The government has also
said that it will direct BSNL to provide 27% reservation in internet
bandwidth to certified Orkut users . The opposition condemned the
move so strongly that online communities froze for over a minute
before coming out of shock and resuming normal activities . A probe
has been demanded to be taken up by the Election Commission for what
many describe as a bribe to convert users into Orkut . BJP leaders
meanwhile have added that “along with a ban on religious
conversions , a ban on online community conversion will also be put
into law once it comes into power”
Critics on facebook and
twitter accused the congress of playing the minority card to
manipulate vote banks during the next general elections . “Honestly
who the bloody hell gives a scrap about these Orkut users “ posted
a fb-ian on his wall , which was then liked and shared by fellow
fb-ians .Facebook users destroyed effigies of Orkut pages on facebook
and assaulted orkut supporters by spamming their walls with viagra
and poonam pandey pictures . #BoycottOrkutAndolan became the
trending hashtag on twitter .
“
If bearing with people who had Shahid Kapoor themes for their
profiles wasnt enough , I now have to hand over 27% of my bandwidth
to these bollywood listening idiots “ laments Aditya Rockdick , a
rocker from New Delhi both an active facebookie and twitterati .
Google meanwhile
welcomes the move. “Honestly , we were in a conundrum as neither
Orkut nor Google+ did as well as
we expected . “ quotes Sergey Brin. “ The OBC status should bring
a lot of relief and comfort to Orkut users who have been ignored by
the rest of the world and have become unfriendables on other
networks . No one should have to ever go through the experience of
opening their accounts after 3 weeks and find just underwear ads and
no updates from friends . Its too inhumane of us to even think of
subjecting a person to such torture . “
Sergey Brin also added
that he would like to see Google+ users given a scheduled tribe
status in India. “you know its a wilderness out there in the world
of google+. One rarely gets to see another active user . Google+ is a
jungle with neither stalkers nor girls “
