Introduction
Orkut is a site founded by someone from Google. This is one of the many Social Networking Sites. The concept works something like this, unlike other sites, you can not just register yourself and join the site. You have to get an invitation from an existing rout member, then you join the site through the link, fill up an extensive registration form (some of the fields are not necessary bit does help built a powerful profile page) and then join the site. Then you refer more friends to the site and make friends, join communities, scrap users (Something like Scrap book which we all had in school days) and generally increase your social network
Best Aspect
It?s a very addictive site and once you start making friends, writing scraps, testimonials about others, joining communities(there is a community of mouthshut.com users as well) it tends to grow. The good thing about this site is that you will never get spam mails from the site, there are no flashy pages that pop up. Its just a very simple site.
Worst Aspect
Now here is the bad news, the privacy and confidentiality terms and agreement of this site is quite weird. They have a clause which states that google has the right to use your data. This doesn?t make any difference as long as you don?t have information that you would like to share with the world. Another thing is that since it?s a site which has been badly tested, more often then not you will have a page which states that ?Bad donut. Page could not be found? error.
This becomes very frustrating when you have managed to type lot of data and it does not get saved. Sometimes you get this error after writing something, then you go back and write data again and still you get the error. Then when you login from some other computer you get to see your data written twice. Weird error which shouldn?t come by someone who has designed this site. They definitely need to fully test this site. There are also times when you will get this error but the person sitting next to you wont. This is a regular occurrence in peak hour.
Online Experience
More or less, this site is quite nice and as I have said earlier, very addictive. If anyone of you wants to become a member of the site and do not know anyone who is a member, please feel free to email me your name and email address so that I can add you to the site.