I have been thinking about this for a while now. Any testimonial that you see in orkut always talks about how good the person it. It never talks about the bad things person posses. According to these testimonial all the people on orkut are awesome and are amazing and brilliant ..... . But statistically speaking this is not possible. If we define amazing people to be the top 5% (or 10%) of the entire population then assuming that orkut is a fair reflection of the general population only 5 (or10%) of the entire orkut community can be really awesome or really great or brilliant. But it seems like most of the people on orkut are great etc. etc... So where does the trick lie.
I don’t have a correct answer to this but my guess is that people see what they want to see in a person. Every body on the planet has shades of black, grey etc. but if I am a friend of yours then I tend to ignore these shades and look at the white part of yours. I tend to see only the good things that you have and leave the bad part alone and hence a person who is good in the eyes of one can be a bad person in the eyes of other. (Well we see the frame of reference does matter a lot here as well and not only in physics.). But then how do you define a person to be good or bad. Hitler a person who has been declared bad by most would be admired (or may have been admired) by certain people. Doesn't it make him a good person may be in the eyes of few people only but it certainly does. This means that there are no good people or bad people so as to say but its the frame of reference that makes them good or bad.
The aim for a man should be 2 fold:
1) To be good in as many frames of references as possible
2) To make sure that in his frame of reference most of the people are good
To me its the former which is the easier part but the later which is much more difficult as the former could be achieved by deceiving others while in the later you have to deceive yourself in case you decide to be untruthful. Deceiving others is far more easily than deceiving yourself and hence the objective no.1 is easier to achieve. Hence it is difficult to find people who love everybody than those who are loved by everybody. That’s the precise reason why our ancestors used to lay stress on seeing every human being in the same light!!!
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Don't agree at all with your aims. Singular aim should be to have a good frame of reference (in which even you can evaluate yourself in an unbaised manner). Rest of the world should not matter.
Do you have some statistics on what percent Orkut users actually have testimonials? And those who have testimonials, what percent from his/her total Orkut Friends have given? I can presume the result will be very low.
Haha, you ignored the main point in testimonials: approval from the profile owner! :))
And yeah, I too disagree with the two-fold aims. One should just be good: That will make you see the goodness in the people around and also remove any botherations about what the world think of you... :)
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