Orkut Blocked in my Office

Orkut Blocked in my Office

In most companies in India currently ORKUT is being banned. The same is the situation with my company. Why and how is it justified?

1) People waste lot of time writing scraps for friends and posting in different communities.

2) Time is wasted by browsing through all the contacts of contacts, especially if you are guy you waste the whole day looking into girls profile.

3) With almost every other person logged into Orkut there is a wastage of bandwidth and company resource.

But do you think that Orkut is the only way that people waste time in office. I dont think this should be done. There are lot of ways and lot of sites where we can pass the time. It depends on the individual as how he has to manage his time in the office. I dont see any problem in someone using Orkut or Yahoo messenger in the office. It is justified if the reason is something like Security.Why the ban will not be successfull is because there are lot of proxy sites going around currently through which the access is still possible. Its difficult to block each and every proxy site. If one proxy site is blocked another crops up.

But in my office all the sites are blocked and I am not even able to use any proxy sites. CA security system and the firewall is too good.So the conclusion is why ban when there are alternative ways of accessing the same??But the funny part is I joined Orkut almost when it was started about 9 Months back and that time it was a craze in and around the world with not many Indian users. Today every Indian with access to internet is a member!! How slow we are in adopting to new technologies or initiatives, this is one good example