Orkut - My Another Online Addiction
yes its trueeeee... After Mouthshut, Orkut is my favourite place to spend my valuable time... I am in such a job hat I have to be online all the time... so there is need to have some nice place to enjoy and improve some knowledge...
Orkut - the best online community in affiliation with Google - the boss of all search engines, that connects people through a network of trusted friends and thus committed to providing an online meeting place where people can socialize, make
new acquaintances & find others who share their interests and likings. We can join orkut to expand the circumference of our social circle and we can beyond your expected region. Really all world seems to be so small when it comes on orkut. It is the best place to be touch with your friends, nears & dears and also speacial ones at the same time and very frequently...Nearly 16,257,340 already joined orkut as members and the list is continuosly increasing day by day...
One of its special feature is that if you would like to link your orkut account to a new or different Google Account, you can do it in very easy way. And another feature like there is no need to to have a Gmail address to log in to orkut or to create a Google Account. If you don't have or want a Gmail account, you can still create a Google Account. A Google Account is made up of an email address and password of your choosing. However, if you already have or want a Gmail account, it comes with a
built-in Google Account. You can use this to log in to orkut. Also your orkut account can easily be upgraded to a Google Account. Google Account username or password can easily be changed in the future.
What is a Google Account?
A Google Account functions as a master Google login, made up of an email address & password of your choosing. It gives you access to various Google services, including Google Groups, Google Alerts, Froogle Shopping List, Personalized Search, your Personalized Homepage, and Google Answers. If you've used any of these services before, you already have a Google Account. If you have a Gmail account, you can use your Gmail username and password to sign in to your Google Account. Google have no plans to charge for orkut and they continue to work every day to make sure orkut is a great and reliable service for our users. Google looks forward to making orkut an even better service for those who are looking for a better online meeting place where people can socialize, make new acquaintances and find others who share their interests. But once you delete your Google Account, it means that you will lose your orkut account, as well as any associated preferences for services like Google Groups and Google Alerts. If the account is also a Gmail account, you will no longer be able to access that email. Once you upgrade your orkut login to a Google Account, you should use your Google Account email and password to log in to orkut.
Why Google?
Google Accounts are better protected against fraud, impersonation, and abuse. In addition, by upgrading your orkut account to a Google Account, it will be easier to use other Google services like Google Groups, Google Alerts, Froogle Shopping List,
Personalized Search, your Personalized Homepage, Google Answers, and many future Google services. Thats why orkut is migrating to Google Accounts.
Some Special Features
One can have his/her personal profile on orkut for others to know about him/her.
We can easily maintain our personal album on orkut with some nice pictures and also share them with our friends.
We can customize our settings on orkut thru Settings feature.
We can maintain our very own Lists on orkut.
Scrapbook is nice way of being in touch with our friends frequently. this canbe used to leave messages to others, messages are kept here for ever and we can delete some messages whenever required. though scarpbook is pubic to all so have some
limitations of its own
Testimonials are the best way to express personal feelings about our friends, either met here at orkut or known previously.
In Friends links:
We can have details of our friendlist and also we can allot Legend to all of our friends as Fan, Trusty, Cool and Sexy- according to our relation and friendship...
There we will find some options as 'show me' where we can view our friends in various categories as 'all friends', 'Open friend requests', 'open orkut invites'.
We can also maintain our own Personal Friend Level as 'best Friend', 'Good Friend', 'Friends', 'Acquaintances' & 'haven't met'
Also 'friend groups' can be mainitained over here...
We can invite a friend to orkut with these details - 'first name', 'last name', 'email'.
We can also download our complete contacts in 'comma separated value' format [ easily open in excel].
Messages Link - messages will be recieved snet by a friend or any community... we find various options as 'Delete', 'Forward', 'Reply to' & 'Save messages'
Communities Link - We can choose communities according to our choice and categories available. Or even create new category as well...
Search Link - We can refine our Search Criteria according to -
photos - either only members with photos,
gender, location, age,
relationship status [single, married, committed, open marriage, open relationship]
interested in [friends, activity partners, business networking, dating - choose men & women, men, women]
ethnicity, sexual orientation, political view, Religion, smoking, drinking, pets, living, children, humor, fashion, education
eye color, hair color, build, body art, looks, best feature, turn ons
Media - We will find current happenings on orkut as well as around the world...
News - Two features Announcements & demographics have their own importance on orkut...Announcements will show important Announcements on orkut and demographics will show the status of orkut members in various forms like
age [age groups],
country,
here for [friends, activity partners, business networking, dating],
relationship status [no answer, single, married, committed, open marriage, open relationship]
all in percentage.
Conclusion & Its Mission
orkut is an online community website designed for friends. The main goal of its service is to make our social life, and that of our friends, more active and stimulating. It's social network can help us both maintain existing relationships and
establish new ones by reaching out to people we've never met before. Who we interact with is entirely up to us. Before getting to know an orkut member, we can even see how they're connecting to us through the friends network. Orkut makes it easy to find people who share our hobbies & interests, look for romantic connections or establish new business contacts. We can also create and join a wide variety of online communities to discuss current events, reconnect with old college buddies or even exchange cookies recipes. The mission is to help us create a closer, more intimate network of friends and hope to put us on the path to social bliss soon.
Orkut= 100 % Enjoyment
Am I right???
Akash Dwivedi
