I  am a member of Orkut for a long time.  I had good friendship with a man of 40s named Parthasarathi.  He is a member of the popular Bengali band named Eklabya.  He is an oncologist and lives in South Kolkata.  We used to chat through Orkut.  He has a French cut and is a handsome man as it appeared in website and as his profile told me he is an oncologist working at a South Kolkata hospital.  One day he gave me his phone number.  He messaged me his address.  I went one day to his home.  His house is an old building.  I rang the bell at the door and there he is!  A giant with a big French cut beard!  He looked like the ginnie of Aladin!  He has a huge belly!! He has big shoulders.  Below his eyes, he has a thick dark spot.  He told me that he practices late at night.  He is a nice person.  He asked me about my job and everything.  He is a very serious type person.  He told me how people in orkut disturbed him.  He told me how the gay friends disturbs him and the girls disturb him.  I smiled and thought they have not seen the real giant behind. 

Later he blocked me and now I can hardly think of a person like him and hardly want to meet a person.  A person may look sweet in a networking site photo but in reality he might be a devil!  But in real life, I found Parthosarathi is a nice gentleman and lives his pastime with music and he sings in his band Eklabya beside his profession as an oncologist!

One of my Orkut friends met me near my Gariahat office.  One morning I was chatting with him and he told me that he is coming to meet me!  He came straight away and I talked with him.  I saw that he is an ordinary guy with spots in the face like a Dalmatian.  He does not look impressive and in Orkut profile, there is no photo of him, just a picture of “something else.”   Usually it happens that a person not so goodlooking do not give picture in a networking site, they give picture of something else.  So this guy named Amitava told me that he is from a business family background and he used to chat from a cyber café. 

But unusually in both the cases of these friends, after we met, there was hardly any messaging between us.  Probably the curiosity disappeared.  So whenever some of my friends tell me to meet somewhere I just avoid! I am right, isn’t it?