ORKUT finally shutting down

The site that most of users (atleast I) had forgot about. Google is finally pulling the plug from its first social media website orkut.com

It was second famous website nearly 10 years back after myspace. Especially in south asia or latin america. Its reported to still have market share in India and Brazil.

Orkut users were already migrated to Google plus.

Here is the extract of email sent by Google to its Orkut users today:

A Farewell to Orkut

After ten years of sparking conversations and forging connections, we have decided it’s time for us to start sayinggoodbye to Orkut. Over the past decade, YouTube, Blogger and Google+ have taken off, with communities springing up in every corner of the world. Because the growth of these communities has outpaced Orkut’s growth, we’ve decided to focus our energy and resources on making these other social platforms as amazing as possible for everyone who uses them.
We will shut down Orkut on September 30, 2014. Until then, there will be no impact on you, so you may have time to manage the transition. You can export your profile data, community posts and photos using Google Takeout(available until September 2016). We are preserving an archive of all public communities, which will be available online starting September 30, 2014. If you don’t want your posts or name to be included in the community archive, you can remove Orkut permanently from your Google account. Please visit our Help Center for any further details.
It’s been a great 10 years, and we apologize to those of you still actively using the service. We hope you will find other online communities to spark more conversations and build even more connections for the next decade and beyond.

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Here is the marketing trrend from last year for social media access:

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I forgot it even existed until I read the email about it being shut down.

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End of an era. I thought after Friendster and Xynga, Orkut would be the be all and end all. But then FB came along :blush:

BTW that infographic about G+ members, how many of them are those that Google decided to open up accounts on their behalf because they were on Orkut, or those that accepted that YouTube pop up forcingasking them to activiate their G+ accounts

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Orkut used to be very famous decade ago, when facebook was not so common.

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Exactly what I thought about G+ too lol. I often accidentally end up on G+, feel sad for it and then leave :confused:

Orkut was fun in its heyday :slight_smile: I had created a few dp’s which seemed to have gained some traction and alot of people had started using them :smiley:

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Just logged in after what 7 years? OH MY GOD ZOMBIES IN THE CUPBOARD!!!

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go on, share those for old time's sake

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I do not remember my user credentials or password…oh those days… :wub: