What is Orkut you may ask? It's the exact same thing as facebook, myspace or friendster however it was developed for Google By Orkut Büyükkökten a turkish born software engineer. For some unknown reason Orkut exploded in Brazil around the same time as the other websites, and there's been no looking back. Brazil comprises over 50 percent of the usage of the networking site, and India and the US trail in a distant 2nd and 3rd places. Facebook and myspace have both recently introduced Portuguese versions of their site for use in Brazil however a large majority of the people are content with their form of time-squandering and see no reason to switch to another social site. If all your friends, neighbors, cousins and even children--Brazilians have lots of kids--are on Orkut why in the world would you change to myspace or facebooky. Not to mention hundreds of relationships have been spawned by the romance that can only be created by creepily leering over pictures unbeknownst to the target. Technically any of you who has a gmail account also can register for your orkut account lickity-split. I have to warn you it's search capabilities are sub-par in comparison with facebook and the stalking capabilities are highly inferior.
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