This is quite a tricky question. But the answer is no, if you reveal too much about yourself. And the answer is yes, if you manage to play it safe. There have been many instances of people getting harassed and targeted through these sites, though the sites themselves are trying to control it. One such incident happened a few months back. The son a businessman in Mumbai made friends with some people through orkut and after they got so close they decided to hang out and party together. But it was later found that the boy was killed and his car was stolen by his so called orkut friends.
There are also some treacherous and other unnecessary communities in orkut that drive people into many harmful activities. Many people get some lewd comments and abusive scraps from unknown persons. It is also not advisable to use your close up photos in these sites as they can be morphed into other photos and used otherwise.
Recently orkut has introduced features that bar people other than one’s friends from seeing one’s photos and videos and from scrapping or messaging. Will others sites too follow these? It remains to be seen. Some of the popular social networking sites are orkut, facebook, wayn and bigadda.
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