After the recent extra dose of spamming and malicious scripts spreading on Orkut, I decided to write a letter to them. This is what I wrote :
You may find a lot of goody-good stories coming in about how users met with their long lost high school friends and childhood friends via Orkut – I did too. But now after about 2 years+ use of Orkut, I am unfortunately disappointed. While orkut warns people regularly not to click on links and malicious scripts, I find a large number of my friends falling prey. I agree it is their fault but orkut should do something on their part to make it safe in the first place. How do you explain a 10 year old kid not to click on ‘javascript’ when all he wants to do is ‘open locked albums’. With good competition in the market, and most importantly- orkut being a Google product must maintain some standards like every other Google product that doesn’t fail to marvel the world. I hope that Google/orkut team takes this seriously as a major concern and do something about this. In my solidarity to express grave concern I have decided to remove all pictures from my album.
Here is coping it gets published and takes seriously 
Untill there, this picture remains on my Orkut album as one of the two pictures.
You are quite right. But I even got a step further. I never uploaded any of my pics to orkut in the first place!!
Its really sad that one of the most popular social networking sites is in such a bad shape. However, other sites are as bad. Just check out myspace.com for instance. It is so full of ads that it does not seem like a social network at all!! All it seems like is a regular web portal. One can agree that ads are important, but the company should find out new ways to generate revenue, don’t you think so?
I am sick and tired of social networks. Alas! my friends aren’t. They are ready to give me a thrashing if i don’t log on once a day. I am in a dillemma.
Meanwhile, of all the malicious scripts on orkut that claim to open ‘locked photos’.. Do they really work? I’ve never tested any of them. Also, the method they employ in doing so amounts to hacking, isn’t it? Its high time orkut did something concrete about it.
Yea, none of those scripts work. Even the scrap all script is harmful to your account. But I think facebook is doing a decent job in keeping the spam under some control. But, the applications are a menace out there. Facebook somehow at least seems to be caring about it and working towards cleaning up (their blog and facebook update page)
Social networking are truly a money minting business ..
respected members of the orkut,
i want to infrome u that the orkut is not opening from two day so pleze tell us what to do about it.ther is a infromation writen that{Warning: orkut requires that cookie functionality is enabled. Check your browser settings to make sure cookies are enabled}so pleze healp us to logein to the okut.
thanking you,
yours faithfully,
benaiahjameson
got any reply??
respected members of the orkut,
i am not able to send any request to my friend from last 2 dayi. t is showing that you are temparorily out of service and sometimes i am not able to send a scraps as well. so you are requested to check my broweser setting as soon. please do not ignore my message.
eu gostaria do meu orkut original