Weird. Today I got an invitation from an Orkut member to join his circle of friend. Orku has completely fallen off my radar – I haven’t logged in for several months. But I recently read a couple of interesting factoids about Orkut:
- It’s popular in Brazil, which accounts for an amazing 63% of users(!)
- It’s attracting a weird circle of hate mongers (also in Brazil – maybe it has to do with all those Nazis who fled there after WWII)
Interestingly, the invitiation I received was from a member who puports to be from Iran. I declined the invitation because he didn’t explain why we should be “friends” or how he he found me. But in the process, I discovered that I have 81 messages in my inbox, many of them from some spammer wanting me to join his BMW community. At times the online world can be very surreal.
So anyway, after a quick look around, I see no reason to put Orkut back on my radar.