Facebook, Orkut and Twitter were probably designed to keep people connected across the world. It created a virtual world where people thought they could Like, Poke & Follow people. Well, almost. But we can't really do much without Indianizing everything we get our hands on. Mc Chicken burger has a little brother named Mc Aloo Tikki and Subway sandwiches have fillings of Chicken Tikka.
So while orkut came up with background themes for occasions like Diwali and Holi, all of these social networking sites had an option to access them in Hindi. While surfing one of the days I came across a blog, that glued me on to it. This blogger by the name of Krisha Ashok in one of his blog entry talks about Indianizing the 'Like' button in facebook. His writing hilariously takes you through the various possibility that the Indians will create even in a simple social networking site like Facebook. Even more interesting is that the buttons would have the possibility of exceptions. Eg: I like the picture but not the caption, or I like but don't get the wrong idea.
I do agree we like to modify the things our way, but that is probably how we make it acceptable to the masses here. I guess every city in the world has a trade mark, we as Indians may have just found ours!
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