A couple of days ago, I was leaning towards giving up on Orkut. I didn't think the social network thing was for me and I had read some slanderous things about how much it sucked. I joined a couple of groups (or communities) that were mostly tech related. There wasn't much traffic on this groups which was one of the reasons why I thought, eh... it sucks.
Then, a couple of nights ago, I joined the Heinlein group, to which I recieved a couple of messages. And then tonight I joined the West Wing group and had a good time reading the rants and raves of other fans of the show.
I have come to a conclusion. Orkut is not for geeks. We have our own way of communicating with each other. It is called "the internet". We form our own groups and mailing lists and build friends through blogs and email. Communication between groups on the internet is dynamic and new groups spring up when something new comes along. Geeks don't need a site dedicated to community building, we do it already using the internet as our "server". Out of curiousity I checked Google to see who thought Orkut was bad. Every site that Google returned was owned by a geek.
So, Orkut is a server for non geeks to build communities and express themselves. Geeks need not apply.
Posted by carl at February 25, 2004 10:49 PM
Perhaps the geeks interested in that sort of thing had already registered on the earlier social networking sites. They're ahead of the curve afterall.
Posted by: Caoilte O'Connor at March 12, 2004 03:40 PM
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