Bidding Farewell to My Dear Old Friend- Orkut

I still remember the good old days when social networking was new to everyone and Orkut was the shining star that linked everyone far and near. It gave a new meaning to friendship, dating, love and relationship. Everything was Orkut and everyone out there were busy scraping in Orkut. Youngsters were struggling hard to increase the number of friends in their Orkut account, and many found life partners through this social networking site.

This social networking site is owned and managed by the Google Inc. This social networking website was meant for helping people meet new friends and to maintain the ones that already existed. The site was founded by Orkut Buyukkoten, who was an employee in Google Inc. The real reason behind the finding of this networking site was to find Orkut’s lost girlfriend. He lost her girlfriend in a train accident. Since her name did not appear in the dead list, he decided to search her in his own way.

Buyukkoten became an architect and soon he started hiring developers for the purpose of making software that could help him search for his girl friend. To accomplish his dream of finding his girl friend, he had to lose millions of dollars along with 3 whole years. He was able to find out his girl friend and soon when he decided to shut down the website, the CEO of Google put in a proposal of buying this website. Soon it came out to the world with the popular name ORKUT. It did not take much time for this website to become a familiar name in every household. Buyukkoten will be getting a share of the revenue whenever a user registers to the website, adds a friend, or even log out of Orkut.

The reason why Orkut became popular then, was because it was extremely user-friendly and above all fun to use. Sharing snaps and ideas became easier with Orkut. It was thought to be a very colorful site that had the magic to draw millions of users towards it. The first year of Orkut’s launch saw the largest number of users from the United States joining the website. But soon Brazil became the country which had the largest number of users in the website.

This colorful social networking site was so powerful and innovative that a large number of users lined up to join it. The concept of sharing became a common word with the coming of Orkut. But now when it is time for this social networking to shut down forever, this September 30, I do feel a bit nostalgic and fear losing my first platform where I was reunited with my classmates and friends. Its absence will always create a great loss in the minds of Orkut Users forever. Though FaceBook has tried its level best to beat this social media networking site, the credit for bringing everyone closer together will always to my dear old friend- Orkut. I definitely will miss you a lot!