But that's not what I want to talk about right now (although you're most welcome to write to me if you want to take this forward). Without indulging into finer details of the above -- which generally includes an eye-roll on my poker-face when I do 'indulge' -- I want to tell you that I logged into Orkut after many months.
Well, good for me!
Before I engage you with my Orkut log-in adventures, you should know where I'm coming from. Being related to retired faujis (perhaps that's why), I'm generally intrigued by the newly recruited faujis, the way they live and behave socially and otherwise.
Getting back to my Orkut account resurrection; I happened to check out the profile of this fauji chap who checked out mine in the past 24 ours or so. Given that his editable name was screeching ''last term @ NDA'', I had to take a peek.
Guess what, I ended up writing the following polite, quick mail to him. That should explain 'what happened' during his profile inspection.
I wrote:
''You checked out my profile so I happened to check out yours.
Nice pictures. I can imagine you're proud to be in the army and can't wait to tell your acquaintances about your escapades/training sessions in places civilians haven't been to (and will probably never go).
However, I think you'd want to take a peek at this article published in June 2009 http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Don-t-put-service-info-on-Orkut--Army-warns-its-men/477646
(there are a bunch like this)
In short, it is suggested (it is common sense, in my opinion) not to upload images and text on public sites that even remotely give away information about the activities related to your professional life. You can well imagine the reasons -- national security!
Without getting into details, I'd suggest you might want to abstain from putting up pictures on social networking sites, such as 'Kanchenjunga', 'with all arms and ammunition' (you get the idea what kind) and encourage colleagues for the same.
Check with your CO about the instructions sent across by the headquarters. If he doesn't know, write to the headquarters to get info/guidelines.
I am concerned about the way critical information is flying around across borders.
Best intentions.''
Nice pictures. I can imagine you're proud to be in the army and can't wait to tell your acquaintances about your escapades/training sessions in places civilians haven't been to (and will probably never go).
However, I think you'd want to take a peek at this article published in June 2009 http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Don-t-put-service-info-on-Orkut--Army-warns-its-men/477646
(there are a bunch like this)
In short, it is suggested (it is common sense, in my opinion) not to upload images and text on public sites that even remotely give away information about the activities related to your professional life. You can well imagine the reasons -- national security!
Without getting into details, I'd suggest you might want to abstain from putting up pictures on social networking sites, such as 'Kanchenjunga', 'with all arms and ammunition' (you get the idea what kind) and encourage colleagues for the same.
Check with your CO about the instructions sent across by the headquarters. If he doesn't know, write to the headquarters to get info/guidelines.
I am concerned about the way critical information is flying around across borders.
Best intentions.''
