Unity in diversity

I still remember that afternoon; Bhat asked me my Orkut id?? N I had no idea wht he was talking abt. (By the way for those who don't know my professional background, I was highly paid, s/w engg then), My reply left Bhat dumb folded. It was the last thing on earth he cld imagine that a s/w engg doesn't hv a clue abt Orkut.

He explained me wht Orkut is n y we use it (No no no its not only for dating guys, I guess its the best tool ever launched for connecting people, better than Nokia I believe :D) I was very much indifferent n showed almost no interest in this crappy thing, but I had no courage deify orders of Peshawa the Great (Bhat). I ended up opening an account on Orkut.

My frnds n/w started growing. Soon I had more than 50 frnds in my list and had subscribed of about 5 odd communities. N suddenly I realized flaw in this so called n/wing tool. There were thousands of communities out there, every community claiming how it was superior or different than other communities.

Communities created on cast, sub-casts, some geographical parameters, sun signs, moon signs the some pathetic ones like my name starts with ... Everybody was struggling hard to advertise his/her uniqueness. People even ended up forming communities like I hate XYZ, where XYZ is either some other community or a revered personality in some country, or even a nation at times.

People started derogating some other community, religion some times techno savvies pointing out how technology they are wrking one is superior than some XYZ technology.

Sole purpose of the tool was defeated, tool wasn’t connecting ppl n e more, in fact it provided more n more ways, ideas and directions to classify and disconnect people from each other.

Groups started getting more n more specialized like Java->Core Java, J2EE
J2ee-> struts, EJBs,JDF n ….. specialization is still gng on.

At this pt of time I am not able to put my thoughts together, but you can form a group to discuss wht exactly I meant n start threads on that. :D

As Jonh F. Kennedy rightly said “If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity”