As we know FaceBook is the worldwide phenomenon that has been engulfing the Internet in recent years. More and more people are using this social networking site. This site has become so lucrative that many companies such as Microsoft and Google are offering astronomical money to take over this golden egg. However, the company founder, Mark Zuckerberg has resisted all attempts over a takeover bid. This has certainly been frustrating for companies like Google who are trying to have a share of the pie in almost every industry.
Therefore they have came up with a "FaceBook" under Google. They have named the website "Orkut". This website was set up in USA in 2004 by Orkut Büyükkökten under Google. Since it was set up in USA, when the site was first up, the largest base of users came from USA. As time progressed on the user community shifted to users in Brazil and India. As of April 2010, 48.0% of Orkut's users are from Brazil, followed by India with 39.2% and United States with 2.2%.
Here is a video on how to use Orkut.
Certainly Orkut is no match to the social networking phenomenon that is FaceBook. However it caters to the groups specially in Brazil and India. There has been a lot of issues in FaceBook recently like spam and viruses. While FaceBook is easily the most popular social networking site around, but is it time to turn to a new site?
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