Well, if you accuse us of not researching then I doubt we would have been able to come up with the stats of orkut.co.in and the Brazil extension. Yes, the direction of the post might have been a little outta the way at first but everything we reported was right.

What intrigued us about this post is the idea of questioning the very concept of social networking that we have been following, for the past 5 years or so. Do we really care to be in touch with our friends, so much, even today? Everywhere I look around, I see my friends adding their friends up, thinking “kya pata kab isski zaroorat padh jaye”!

If you notice more closely, “what are our friends up to” has become more interesting for us as compared to “want to be friendship with me”. This is the age of Twitter and FriendFeed that catches our fancy. This theory gets more prominent by the fact that Facebook has today divided the types of feeds into multiple categories.

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Talking about revenues, with the amount of advertisements getting infused into the social networking sites and with more and more targetted advertising, do you really believe that these sites shall fail to generate revenues? Yes, as for actual stats, we shall have to work on it.

I think what gets FaceBook much ahead of Orkut is the fact that it’s “neat”, especially after launching the new skin. It was great to see them realizing that profile pages were getting bigger and uglier by the day. This made them come up with “partial profiles” and then finally the revamp.

We must remember, the very reason why Orkut became most widely used, today, was because of its simplistic and cleanly shaved look. And of course, it was just one single feature of scrapping that got it to the level it enjoys today. Somehow, I personally feel Orkut is strangling itself gradually. Of course, it all sounds great, with the new feature of getting sms notification for scraps. Truthfully, do you really care about it?

Nah, I’m no Orkut hater. But looking at a social netwrking platform’s perspective, I shall rank LinkedIn at the top most because it does what it promises and that’s networking.

Talking about Rupesh’s point of Gacebook being launched in 21 languages, I really don’t think that particular aspect matters a lot to orkut since it hardly has any presence outside brazil, portugal and the sub-continent.

The Chat feature on Facebook… yes, that definitely has a lot of potential. A lot of opportunities and ideas can be tapped riding on the messenger engine.

On the whole, Orkut needs to revamp the way users access and use the site and social networking, in itself, needs to be infused with fresh and crisp ideas.

It’s time… for a change!!

Also, to remind you it is the same period when Facebook launched Facebook chat and availibility in 21 languages including Portuguese language. Haven’t these factors affected orkut??