Good Bye Orkut - Must Known Fact About Orkut

ORKUT- The most loved social networking site by Indians and Brazilians is about to shut down. Yes, Google officially stated that services of Orkut will be stopped by this september 30.

So, before saying good bye to Orkut, it will be interesting to know some cool facts about it. Let's check it out...

• Both Orkut and Facebook were started in the same year i.e.,2004.
• In 2008 there were 13 million unique visitors for Orkut from India alone which was nearly 3 times than that of the members of facebook that year.
• Orkut was even designed to work with slow internet speed connections.
• Google's new baby Google+ is now with 300 million active users.
• Orkut was named after a Turkish software engineer Orkut Buyukkokten, who was a former product manager at Google.
• Even today 19% of Orkut's active users reside in India.
• Orkut users are known as 'Orkutians'. 
• Orkut's competitor Facebook that was launched in 2004 now has 1.30 billion active users and is the No.1 social networking site in the world.
• Compared to Facebook, Orkut profiles are more honest and genuine.(There are no fake profiles).
• Orkut's app is also removed form PlayStore.
• You can even share your Google+ posts with your Orkut's friends.
• The emoticons which we use now are so called as 'Vibes' in Orkut.
• Hashtags are even there in Orkut.
• Orkut's android app was released in 2012 January 06.
• There's a 'popularity counter' in Orkut that counts the number of times each photo has been viewed. It gets refreshed once in a minute.
• In Orkut 'like' feature was introduced in 2011 whereas in Facebook it is there since 2009.
• Orkut lauched 'Orkut badges' which were given to the orkut graduates. Some of them are "Trendsetter" badge which is given to the user who has got most number of comments and also "Promoter" badge for those who made most successful promotions.
• On January 3rd 2011,after New Years, users viewed 1.6 billion photos, which is almost 19,000 photo views a second.
• You can even edit your photos in Orkut with a feature called "Picnik".
• File transfer in Orkut was introduced in 2010.
• The top contributors and super users of Orkut are also known as 'Orkuteers'.
• Orkut's largest community is Eu amo a minha MÃE with over 39lakhs members followed by Nike and David Beckham.
• You can even view the recent visitors of your profile in Orkut.
• Orkut was made available in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Telugu and Marathi from 2007.
•  Orkut was awarded as the 'Best Social Networking Site' in the year 2007. 

The list goes on, these are only some of the important facts about Orkut.
Orkut has had the most brightest times and even suffered the hardest times. Its the ever-growing and exponentially increasing popularity of Youtube , Blogger and Google+ that has dethroned Orkut and now it is about to get extinct. 

No doubt, Orkut has paved the way for social networking but unfortunately, it failed to sustain the competition from its siblings and Facebook. Having seen the downgrading of Orkut, Google decided to bid a farewell for Orkut this year. Though their services will be stopped, Google said that the archive of all the public communities are preserved.

It will be a sad news for all those avtive users, but there's no other way except going with other online communities. 

The Wiki Tech heartfully wishes " Thank you Orkut and Good-Bye...."