One Last Time to ORKUT - A Sensational Farewell
If
you want to revisit your long ignored Orkut profile, now is the best
time to do so. Google is going to shut down its Orkut social network on
September 30, as it had announced earlier.
Orkut was the search giant's first foray into the social networking
space, which failed to take off due to tough competition from rival
services such as Facebook and Twitter.
Google later launched
another social network called Google+, which may not be giving sleepless
nights to Facebook, but turned out to be far more popular than Orkut.
While Orkut wasn't a big success across the world, it was very popular
in India and Brazil.
In a blog post, Google had said, "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 bid Orkut farewell."
If you want to save the data you have on
Orkut, we've written a complete guide on how to download your Orkut
scraps, testimonials, and photos.
Google
had said that it would save an archive of all Orkut communities after
it shuts down the service on September 30. The company had asked people
to remove their Orkut account from Google permanently if they didn't
want their name or posts to be included in the community archive.
Both
Orkut and Facebook were launched in 2004. While Facebook has become the
world's largest social network with over 1.2 billion users, a Reuters
report
said Google declined to comment on the number of users Orkut has.
Orkut's fortunes floundered a few years ago and it is finally being closed.
Thank You ! Thank You ! Thank You !
