Does anyone remember the social networking giant of a time "Orkut"? Perhaps not many.. Though it was the most visited site in India and Brazil at a point of time in history but gradually it lost its shine to other competitive sites and web applications offering much newer and advanced features like our very own facebook.com, twitter.com etc.
Bad news for its fans and those few who still use it to send and receive scraps.. that Google - the owner of orkut.com has today announced that it will be shutting the service down.
Google Engineering Director Paulo Golgher wrote in a post on the Orkut blog. "Because the growth of these communities has outpaced Orkut's growth, we've decided to bid Orkut farewell (or, tchau). We'll be focusing our energy and resources on making these other social platforms as amazing as possible for everyone who uses them."
Beginning today, it will no longer be possible to create a new Orkut account. Current Orkut users will be able to log in, play games, and use their account like normal until Sept. 30. You have until September 2016 to export your profile data, community posts, and photos using Google Takeout.
Google will be preserving an archive of all public communities, which will be available online starting on Sept. 30. If you don't want your posts or name to be included in the archive, you'll need to permanently remove Orkut from your Google account.
Bad news for its fans and those few who still use it to send and receive scraps.. that Google - the owner of orkut.com has today announced that it will be shutting the service down.
Google Engineering Director Paulo Golgher wrote in a post on the Orkut blog. "Because the growth of these communities has outpaced Orkut's growth, we've decided to bid Orkut farewell (or, tchau). We'll be focusing our energy and resources on making these other social platforms as amazing as possible for everyone who uses them."
Beginning today, it will no longer be possible to create a new Orkut account. Current Orkut users will be able to log in, play games, and use their account like normal until Sept. 30. You have until September 2016 to export your profile data, community posts, and photos using Google Takeout.
Google will be preserving an archive of all public communities, which will be available online starting on Sept. 30. If you don't want your posts or name to be included in the archive, you'll need to permanently remove Orkut from your Google account.
Truly, 10 years of remarkable service and my first social network experience ( I was personally very happy when i completed my first 100 scraps :P )... We'll miss you orkut...
Maybe not that much!! :P
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