Outer Web Thought Log
January 25, 2004
Orkut spam

My favourite Googler invited me early-on into Orkut, and from what I saw, the Googlies had been prepopulating some networks so that newcomers would feel welcome. Orkut seems to be hitting some sweet spot for me: it's fast and easy (LinkedIn is very sluggish and overcomplicated compared to that), and less dating-centric as Friendster. So I joined and went hunting for other Orkutters - all the usual suspects were already there, of course.
Much to my dismal however, and quite different from what one would expect from Google, the system is open to hacking ATM. I saw Jesus signing up, sending mail to all registered users. While it's fun to have a direct line with God, I assume that wasn't the goal of Orkut, so they'll have to fix that - soon. Other than that: fun. Still finding out what more there is to it than just signing up - but I'm not the only one with that problem. :-)

Posted by stevenn at January 25, 2004 02:59 PM ()
Comments

How do you get invited to Orkut? I'm new to this blog/social networks. Thanks for your help.

Ryan

Posted by: Ryan at January 26, 2004 11:27 PM

hey invite me to orkut please!
thanks!
marcelohao@hotmail.com

Posted by: Marcelo at February 3, 2004 06:08 AM