Bem, estou desde sábado preso no Orkut. Eu sabia que não devia ter contado pra ninguém que eu estou fazendo chapinha no cabelo…
Bom, desde então eu tenho mantido uma excelente troca de correspondência com os carcereiros. Do tipo em que eu escrevo e eles me ignoram. Então, resolvi dividir com vocês a minha diversão. Divirtam-se!
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Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 21:07:58 -0300
From: Leandro Giavarotti
To: help+blocked@orkut.com
Subject: Yet another senseless blocking
Username: lgiavaro
This time I was just answering a message. Is this against the law too?
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Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 13:44:08 -0300
From: Leandro Giavarotti
To: help+blocked@orkut.com
Subject: Still in jail
username:lgiavaro
Are you planning to leave me blocked for the whole weekend? Could you at least tell me what I SHOULDN’T do to avoid going to jail?
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Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 16:45:38 -0300
From: Leandro Giavarotti
To: help+blocked@orkut.com
Subject: username lgiavaro
username lgiavaro
24+ hours blocked for no reason.
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Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 18:57:01 -0300
From: Leandro Giavarotti
To: help+blocked@orkut.com
Subject: username lgiavaro
Will I have to create a second and actually bogus profile to be able to use Orkut, or do you guys think that you could unblock my real one still on this side of eternity?
username lgiavaro
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Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 22:48:07 -0300
From: Leandro Giavarotti
To: help+blocked@orkut.com
Subject: username lgiavaro
I hope this is funnier to you than it is to me… I’m released from jail just to be put there again at the next post I try to send… What’s the problem with you guys? Will I really have to create a bogus profile to be able to use Orkut?
username lgiavaro
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Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 06:51:44 -0300
From: Leandro Giavarotti
To: help+blocked@orkut.com
Subject: Are you tired yet?
Here I go, well in my second day of Orkut imprisonment. What a wonderful Orkut experience. Did that nice orangutan down there resigned, leaving only you guys to do all the job? I will miss the orangutan, he was so efficient…
username lgiavaro
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Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 08:24:57 -0300
From: Leandro Giavarotti
To: help+blocked@orkut.com
Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Just_a_little_chat,_since_I_can=B4t_write_to_my_friends.?=
Username: lgiavaro
Oh, well, since I´m in jail for 2 days by now, I think I will talk to you guys, that are having so much fun keeping me caged.
I mean, there is a lot, and I mean A LOT, of bogus profiles out there. I visit some of them regularly. They are almost never in jail. Me, I like Orkut. I post a lot. There is this community, you see, where they actually ASK you to post anonymously. I like this community. I went to jail some 2 or 3 times before because of this. Oh, but I forget, you
probably know that already, don´t you?
Not that I´m complaining. Here in Brazil, we were used to be imprisoned for no good reason until some years ago. Not that I would DREAM of saying that you guys are dictators. Noooo, that´s very far from my mind.
But now, it´s hard to be imprisoned here for no reason. Hell, some people even say that it´s very hard to be imprisoned here, period. It must be that democracy thing. Oh, but you must know that already, too. You are in the USA, yes?
Even at that dark age of dictatorship, you usually knew why you were being locked. I mean, we had laws and stuff, even if they were a little unfair. And those laws, both written and unwritten, were well known. So, if you wanted to stay out of trouble, you only had to follow a few guidelines.
Now that I think about it, why am I in jail anyway? I mean, I can remember no transgression of the written rules, so it must have been an unwritten one. Funny. I´m having kind of a flashback here.
But you wouldn´t jail me without a good reason. I mean, the USA is a free country, and supports freedom anywhere, right? So you wouldn´t have unwritten rules, because it is not democratic, and does not encourage freedom. Right?
Even that funny little prank, yesterday, setting me free just to lock me again at the very next time I tried to post. And it was not even anonymously! I mean, that´s HILARIOUS. Who would even think about it here in Brazil? Man, that was GENIUS! Your bosses must be very proud
of having such fun-loving employees. I mean, who could EVER downsize guys like you? This is the kind of attitude that only makes you more and more valuable to your company. Yep, you guys are in for a long and prosper career.
Not that it would be possible for your boss to know about it, right? They hardly know about what you are doing. They are more concerned with counting their money, the money YOU guys give them. What, didn´t you know that? If they pay you an amount, it´s just because your work earns them at least twice more. Hey, but who cares about it when you
are having so much fun with blocked accounts? And you can buy plenty of Doritos with what you make there, am I right?
Well, gotta be going. I don´t want to distract you for too long of your Little God-games. I´m sure you have a LOOOOOOT of boring block-reviews to do, and of course, throw me at the spam-eater. Don´t worry, I have plenty of other E-mail accounts to feed it! That´s the best part of Internet, why do things right when you can do they wrong
with no punishment?
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Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 10:36:25 -0300
From: Leandro Giavarotti
To: help+blocked@orkut.com
Subject: Just following up!
username lgiavaro
Heyyy! It´s me again. I see I still can´t write to my old friends, so I decided to write to my NEW friends: you, fun-loving, jail-keeping, Doritos-gobbling Orkut guys.
Well, since it´s just you and me, tell me: what are the jail-software triggers? C´mon, I promise not to tell anyone! You know I´d never spoil all the fun you have there. What about that: if I ever tell anyone about the secret rules, you can jail me for no reason, and let me rot for days!
No, wait… Oh, never mind. You already did that, didn´t you?
You know, I have a good life. No so many friends as to want to kill some of them, not so few that I need to add every single soul that asks me. At least I think I didn´t add, it´s been some time now and it´s all getting a little fuzzy in my head…
Hey! I have a question for you! How do you decide someone is Orkut-certified? I know one way that seems NOT to work: being jailed 5 times for no reason. But that´s not about me, it´s about you guys: sincerely, only you and your pals are certified, right? So you can do whatever you want there at Orkut and not to be in this ridiculous situation I am, right?
I wonder if I´ll still have friends when you release me. It´s like a relativity experiment: I go to Orkut jail, and when you release me, all my friends have died of old age. Nice…
I was gonna to create a bogus profile to continue using Orkut while my former self went slowly insane over the imprisonment and isolation. But, you know what? I´m enjoying talking to you guys! Yep, you never contradict me or mock me. You just leave me be. Actually, you just
leave me, period. But it´s soothing, now I have time to actually WATCH my beard growing, instead of only checking it at bedtime. I may even find time to do some work, instead of giving your employers money to pay you! That would be wonderful! To work, maybe even trash your jail-management system at a high-tech magazine, full of hackers trying to find holes and put Google on the ground… And maybe you guys will just have something exciting to do, instead of just reading my boring messages and reviewing profanitity-related blockings…
Kisses to you all, and my regards to the orangutan!
username lgiavaro.