Those of you who know me know that it takes a lot for me to give up on a social network site. My profile may stay stale and I may abandon a site but delete my profile?!? That almost seems sacrilegious! Take for instance my Friendster profile - I can’t remember the last time I logged in to Friendster or even had a good use for the service. But that profile just sits there collecting dust - I don’t get any value out of using the service and I’m not annoyed because I’m not using the service. Orkut, on the other hand, has gotten to the point where not only am I not getting any value out of using the service, keeping my profile brings me negative value. On an almost weekly basis, I’m getting friend requests from random people I don’t even know, have no connection to, and no logical reason to be connected to. And they’re always from India or Brazil - not that there’s anything wrong with India or Brazil but I have no connection to either place. And getting messages that I can’t comprehend because they’re written in Portuguese or extremely broken English is only amusing the first one hundred times it happens. Sure, I can lock down my profile but why bother? I don’t use the service and nobody I know uses the service. So today I did something I’ve never done before - I actually deleted my Orkut profile. I feel liberated! MySpace and Friendster - you’re on notice.