Orkut by google

DrunkShaman

http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/30/google-will-shut-down-its-orkut-social-network-in-september/

Not sure if many of you (or any of you) know this community called Orkut by Google, has finally shut its door to the members. It started back in 2004 and I was surprised that it survived this long. This was one of the communities where you had to be invited in.

EDIT: My fuckin Ghaad I sound like a spammer lol.

ghaztehschmexeh

Oh so that makes 3 social networks google have made that never really took off... lol

PyrZern

Well, I'm still looking toward a new social media though :P
But I think Facebook is too solid to be taken down easily now...

Anchang-Style

Wow never heared of it..

ZacD

I think a lot of people are tired of Facebook, there's a lot of people looking to jump ship.

DrunkShaman

First off...WOW. This was surprising to me that no one knew about Orkut but then it wasnt as surprising because Facebook took off and started spreading like a fire in the forest. Perhaps it has something to do with them welcoming everyone where as, for Ockut you had to be invited by one of your friends who happens to have an account to enforce the idea of having sensible people in the community.

Secondly; I didnt know that people are actually tired of Facebook and looking for ways to move on to something else. =\

throttlekitty

I tried Orkut, it was a terrible flashback to random spam on AIM. I don't remember anything about invites.

People are talking a lot about Ello right now, if you're in to that sort of thing.

oXYnary

ZacD wrote: »

I think a lot of people are tired of Facebook, there's a lot of people looking to jump ship.

Try this. Invite might take awhile.

https://ello.co/beta-public-profiles

PyrZern

ello seems ..... ugly <_<"

Kurt Russell Fan Club

I agree that ello's ugly. I think the monospaced font and the spacing in the design just make it hard to read.



I think if they just tightened up the design (and dropped the crappy font) it'd be more usable. But I think the crowd who want a cool hipster site are already on Twitter/tumblr/rotary telephone anyway

ZacD

Yeah ello looks too much like a bad Tumblr theme, but I like the direction and mindset they have. I like Google+, but Google as a company is too much like Facebook. Being able to have Circles and communities is great, Facebook already puts people and friends into circles, it would be cool if they were automatic in same ways but tweakable. I hate having to put Facebook into most recent every time I go to the news feed.

almighty_gir

why do people keep trying to re-invent social media?? the entire concept is bullshit.

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GarageBay9

almighty_gir wrote: »

why do people keep trying to re-invent social media?? the entire concept is bullshit.

It's the dot-com goldrush of this era. Start a social network. Get a million users (half are bots and fakes, don't tell the investors). Sell for enough money to buy a small island. Take your money and run.

PyrZern

almighty_gir wrote: »

why do people keep trying to re-invent social media?? the entire concept is bullshit.

Might be a better idea to see what's broken with the ones we have currently. Unless you mean the whole idea of the existence of social medias is a bad idea; which I disagree.