Saturday, September 11, 2010

Is Orkut dying

I read an article some days ago that Facebook had taken over Orkut (in India) in terms of total number of users. At that time, I did not pay much attention to this article. However, I did notice the difference yesterday. I celebrated my b'day yesterday and, as expected, some friends wrote scraps for me on Orkut and others wrote on my wall on Facebook. Now, when Orkut was at its peak in India (I guess in 2006), I remember getting 100 odd b'day scraps on Orkut and hardly anything on Facebook ( I don't even remember if Facebook had the feature of wall posts!). The stats for yesterday - 50+ posts on Facebook and around 15 scraps on Orkut. I have many friends who are both on Orkut and Facebook and even among them, most posted on my Facebook wall and not on Orkut. For me, it is a strong indicator of the future - Facebook will keep up its growth and Orkut will have a really hard time adding new users.

11 comments:

Unknown said...

Yes, its true dear friend...Orkut is history and Facebook is fashion now..Anyway, Wish you a very happy belated birthday. Cheers!!

Anonymous said...

yeah...thats true Rahul...when I shifted to facebook from Orkut, first I thought Fb is boring...but now after 9 odd months on FB, I realise that FB is better in communication than Orkut.....
~Preeti S.

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Unknown said...

But genious are taking and talking over Twitter and i feel tweeting is gonna be a status Quo as its just not only a social networking site. So i feel the future is tweeting.

Unknown said...

Orkut is for Chirkuts :P

Anonymous said...

Letter to My Friends- 8 " Lead by Example" http://bit.ly/aIsR0m

Chirag said...

Yes It is!!
FB is the Future :)

matheus said...

i liked

Ravi said...

Facebook is more flexible than Orkut, and it is law of nature that the flexible survives.

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