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| Farewell message from Google |
Ten years ago in 2004 Google had emerged into the community into social networking with ‘ORKUT’ and it had created a massive popularity in many countries , Orkut was running well with massive users until Facebook emerged globally with a hug popularity, it has not only replaced Orkut but many other popular social networking sites like Myspace, Friendster etc.
And finally Google thinks it’s the time to shut down Orkut on 30th September 2014.
And finally Google thinks it’s the time to shut down Orkut on 30th September 2014.
Now a days Facebook is ruling the social networking community, many of us have forgotten about Orkut, and the younger generation may be not knowing what is Orkut,
What is Orkut?
A short introduction for those who don’t know about this :
Orkut is a (was a after 30th September 2014) Social networking site lunched by Google on 22nd January 2004. The website was name after its’ creator ‘Orkut Buyukkokten’ . It has the features like Messages, Instant chat, Scraps, photo albums, community and forums etc. It has been esteemed as the major social networking sites for countries like Brazil, India, Pakistan etc and It was having huge users about 100 million until it was thrashed by competitors by 2010. But due to massive competition and social networking features of other social networking sites gradually people loosed their interests over Orkut and migrated to its competitors like Facebook.
Orkut is a (was a after 30th September 2014) Social networking site lunched by Google on 22nd January 2004. The website was name after its’ creator ‘Orkut Buyukkokten’ . It has the features like Messages, Instant chat, Scraps, photo albums, community and forums etc. It has been esteemed as the major social networking sites for countries like Brazil, India, Pakistan etc and It was having huge users about 100 million until it was thrashed by competitors by 2010. But due to massive competition and social networking features of other social networking sites gradually people loosed their interests over Orkut and migrated to its competitors like Facebook.
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| Screenshot of Orkut.com |
People who are still active the active users of Orkut , they can export their Orkut account’s date such as Testimonials , Scraps , Photo albums , messages via Google Takeout within 30th September 2014. It is important to preserve your important data before you lose it. Although Google told that, they will archive the communities but it is important to take screen grabs as it lose the Orkut essence.
Social networking sites leaves many memories , where we spark our chat, where we talk more than we do in our real life, where we share more . The first every Social networking site that I have signed up is orkut when I was just 17. I made some good friends, I meet with them in real life, many of them has now became like my best buddies . Thank you Google & Orkut for all those memories.
Here is a message from Engineer and Director of Orkut :
“It's been a great 10 years, and we apologize to those still actively using the service. We hope people will find other online communities to spark more conversations and build even more connections for the next decade and beyond.”
“It's been a great 10 years, and we apologize to those still actively using the service. We hope people will find other online communities to spark more conversations and build even more connections for the next decade and beyond.”
So, what are you going to remember about Orkut? I have a lots of memories .
