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Facebook vs Orkut

Facebook and Orkut, the both social networking sites have turned themselves into true staples in the lives of many people. Facebook and Orkut are two of the most popular social networking sites in today’s society, both seemed to have captured the massive interest and liking of people around the world.

Facebook

Facebook is the brain child of a man named Mark Zuckerberg together with his college fellow computer science students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. Initially, membership was limited to only Harvard students but from that time this was made in the sturdy walls of Harvard University and was officially launched in February 2004, it ballooned into this massive social network service with 600 million users to date.

Orkut

Orkut was launched on February, 2004 when social networking site Friendster declined Google’s offer to be purchased in 2003. The site was originally hosted in the state of California but came August 2008, Google decided to have its’ management and operation be transferred to Brazil which undoubtedly has the largest number of members. According to Alexa Internet, Inc., Orkut currently have active members of more than 100 million worldwide.

Difference between Facebook and Orkut

Although in nature, both are social networking sites, there are quite a few differences between them. While Facebook has a lot of applications like games, Orkut does not. Facebook would not allow you to recognize those people who visit your profile; Orkut has capability to determine the ones checking your profile out. While Orkut allows its’ members to rate fellow users with ratings for sexiness and hotness; Facebook does not. Facebook is privacy-personified with many settings that can be set so the member can limit access to his profile. On the other hand, Orkut makes it members’ profiles open to everyone.

At face value, both websites seem like they have a lot in common but they do not. They both thrive on connecting different individuals, whether they know each other or not. But privacy and applications wise, they are very different. This in itself is an exciting prospect, because this will allow interested people to have variety.