Recently Shiv Sena vandalized a cyber cafe in Bombay with the utterly unreasonable demand that the social networking site Orkut be shut down. Needless to say, our beloved typist Dilip blogged about it with glee, while ignoring another such incident.This incident led Dilip to conduct some ad hoc research on the Orkut website. He concluded that the hate communities on Orkut are overwhelmlingly populated by Indians. A commenter on Dilip's blog speculated on the reason. I suspect the concept of network effects might be a little too heavy for someone who finds it difficult to understand Archimedes principle.
Anyway, I did a little research on my own. I searched Orkut communities on keyword "hate". Orkut sorts the communities by decreasing order of size. Listed below are the first six pages of results:
Page 1.
I Hate Exams 39,383 members
Himesh Reshamiya Hate Club 25,990 members
i Hate Luv Cuz iT Breaks Heart 11,510 members
I hate Mathematics 11,180 members
I Hate Arsenal 11,083 members
I hate Chelsea FC 9,876 members
I hate Greg Chappll 7,832 members
I hate when some1 wakes me up 7,307 members
WE HATE CASTE FEELING 6,586 members
I HATE HIMESH RESHAMMIYA 5,987 members
I hate people with bad grammar 5,661 members
I hate manchester united 4,720 members
Page 2.
WE HATE SMOKING / SMOKERS 4,581 members
I hate Musharaf 4,365 members
I Hate George.W.Bush 4,323 members
VTU "ROCKS"(aka I Hate VTU) 4,187 members
stop his surroor-i hate himesh 4,107 members
We hate Michael Schumacher 3,639 members
I hate people who hate India.. 3,299 members
I Hate Lizards (yuck!) 3,259 members
I HATE STUDIES & LUV CHILL 3,203 members
WE HATE VTU!!! 3,120 members
I hate liars 3,091 members
10 things I hate abt my School 3,016 members
Page 3.
10 things I hate abt my School 3,016 members
I HATE GREG CHAPPEL 2,970 members
I HATE AISHWARYA RAI 2,821 members
I Hate Missed Calls 2,754 members
I HATE SONIA GANDHI(MAINO) 2,603 members
I really hate Girl's AtTiTuDe! 2,549 members
every one hate sex 2,325 members
I Hate To Trust 2,238 members
I do NOT hate stray dogs 2,107 members
God ! I HATE MYSELF 2,082 members
We hate those who hate India 1,924 members
I Hate Trisha 1,763 members
Page 4.
I HATE U IF U HATE MAN UTD 1,701 members
I hate those who hate Pakistan 1,687 members
WE HATE EXAMZ 1,681 members
I hate Indian Movies 1,518 members
I Hate 2 Wake Up Early 1,522 members
I HATE SANIA MIRZA 1,402 members
I hate NASH (Kiran TV Horror) 1,401 members
I hate my urdu teacher! 1,367 members
I hate Ekta Kapoor !!! 1,390 members
V hate those who hate india 1,288 members
I Hate Hrithik Roshan 1,257 members
we hate ysr 1,246 members
Page 5.
I hATE teachers 1,216 members
I Hate Windows, and Love Linux 1,189 members
I HATE RAPING 1,192 members
I hate Anu Malik 1,185 members
I Hate Hrithik Roshan 1,195 members
i hate drinks,drugs,cigarette 1,161 members
I HATE POLITICS 1,140 members
I hate to sleep early! 1,139 members
I simply can't hate 1,094 members
v hate tat himesh..!!!!!! 1,117 members
I HATE EXAMS!!!! 1,053 members
I Hate Dowry System 1,036 members
Page 6.
I hAtE eMrAaN hAsHmI 1,033 members
I HATE David Beckham 992 members
I HATE INDIRA GANDHI 1,000 members (*This community is dedicated to all SIKHS across the world.)
WE HATE CRISTIANO RONALDO 983 members
I hate to Wake up Early.... 949 members
We hate Kashish & Ekta Kapoor 950 members
I hate hypocrites! 959 members
I hate u But i love u 943 members
I hate ED(Engineering Drawing) 912 members
I hate to do HOME WORK 912 members
i hate himmesh reshammiya 901 members
LOVE 4 ALL HATE 4 NONE 896 members
Compare this with the list Dilip provides.
Let me analyze these results. There is an alarming number of kids who appear to hate schools or exams. In fact the largest hate site is about hating exams and has 40,000 members! A guy called Himesh attracts a lot of hatred as well. Quite a few people hate to wake up early. Well, tell me about it. Some people hate to go to bed early which is quite understandable. There is also a community of people who hate themselves.
I have marked some "hate" sites above which do not appear to be so hateful, after all there is nothing wrong in hating the caste system or dowry or raping. Hope Dilip agrees.
My personal favorite? Can't seem to decide between I hate liars and I hate hypocrites.
5 comments:
The Himesh guy is one of the 'in' music composers in Hindi films today - Himesh Reshammiya. He is also supposed to be very popular - also the most prolific. Most of the new movies feature his music or at least his nasal singing. Nver knew so many would hate him
umm...interesting Barb!
A few points :
a)what would be the difference btwn both the sets ?
-I hate people who hate India.. 3,299 members
-We hate those who hate India 1,924 members
:))))))))
b)I simply can't hate 1,094 members
I Hate Dowry System 1,036 members
I hate hypocrites! 959 members
True n hardcore liars...!
c)isnt it a universally known n established fact that kids hate schools or exams?
now we need to segment each set by the intensity of hatred for a specific issue?
the secular journalists follow the principles of motivated journalism. not surprising that their data conforms to their conclusion. they dont believe in basing conclusions on data.
Fantastic...excellent piece of original writing..I am going to watch this space from now on!
LOL @motivated journalism.
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