I am usually hypo active in all kinds of social networking sites nevertheless how good and helpful they are. But I loved Orkut since its launch and being an active user till now.  Orkut has many features to impress me like scrapping and limited customization etc but now it is used as a target to spread mass spam to users. The day since Orkut introduced html support in scraps and Orkut apps, spammers find their goals easy to achieve.

Talking about Orkut apps, a newly introduced app called SMS Me came into my mind. This app is simply wow; it allows me to send unlimited scraps to any mobile number in India. What’s more could one want? Ok, I agree you! There are many such sites which give the same service but feeling the usability and complexity, I feel SMS Me just like using my own mobile. Upon adding this app, it has an interface in which you can recognize other SMS Me users with your friends’ database and display their profile with link to SMS them.

SMS Me has 5 tabs that include the home, friends, anyone, Inbox and Invite friends.  Let’s have an overview about the features. If your friend is not using SMS Me, it prompts him via scrap to install that application.  SMS Anyone allows sending free sms to any mobile number in your country. I wanted to highlight the point unlimited stating that other services have some restrictions while this app can simply be used to bug someone easily.

SMS Anyone section has two fields for Mobile number and the message to be sent.  Like an ordinary SMS, there’s a limitation of 118 characters per message.  Once u send a message from this app, your friend will receive a SMS from MyCantos masking their destination number with a signature for each message like “Sent by yourmobnumber from www.mycantos.com.

Until now I have been talking about the advantage of this social app from the developer’s perceptive view now let me point out how this could influence Orkut and what disadvantages it has.

• Encourage spammers to join Orkut
• Now M-commerce can be spammed easily like never before.
• No need of entering captca test for each SMS you send which gives privilege for a java script to send mass SMS easily.
• No option to block specific users, so until you both get compromised you are never relieved.

Final verdict: I love this app and hate it as well…lol.