Identity Crisis?

I was just checking my orkut account today when i got a friend request from a guy (or maybe a gal) whose name was "living life to the fullest"

I racked my brains to recollect a certain guy or gal who introduced himself to me as "hey man. I am Living life to the fullest. Pleased to meet you"

Thats when i realised that the social networking bug is sucking the brains of ppl dry.

Whenever you update your profile, there is a First Name Field and a Last Name Field. Ppl are supposed to write Their Own First Name and Last Name in the respective places.

But i just don get it... Why the need to express yourself so explicitly when hardly a few ppl care?

And if there is an urgent need, ORKUT has a Status Field right below the name. You can change it countless times to tell whether you are eating, sleeping, or just changing yo status msg to get some rare attention!

Today a distant friend calls me and while chatting he says hez added me as a friend on orkut. I said that I din get it and then he says that hez the guyz whoz living life to the fullest!

I brainwashed him left and right, asking him whether he writes the same name on his resume or his bank cheques. But i don think he really got what i said, coz now his orkut name is "Brainwashed, But Still Living Life to the Fullest" lol

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One more thing that bothers me is the use of absurd symbols to make up alphabets in names (i admit I have tried it too)

I was once $@UR@B# but i got over it. Can you imagine the time ppl waste in writing names in such complex manner?

And they never consider the fact that others may think of searching them by typing their Normal Names!!!

Here are few more ppl who i have to figure out!

"***$ID***" """BRING IT ON"""

† †®[]}{ă/\/† † † † Ðşøüžā † †

$@/\/KET comin bak

and on and on the list goes...