Why I left Orkut once and maybe would again

Orkut is great. Definitely a better functional platform than Facebook. That is if you can automatically filter SPAM. It is things happening like these that makes Orkut unbearable for me. It was getting better a while ago, but has flared up badly again.

Look at this community group, for example. It is the ever popular Apple community with 49000+ members.

Now look at some snapshots of the rest of that page:

It is a sad and sorry sight. Especially since I really like Orkut more than Facebook. Thing is, how long before others get fed up with this shit and leave too? GMail has got the most intense Spam filters I’ve seen in a long time. They should really look at ways applying it to Orkut to make it that much better!

Facebook is also not entirely Spam free… Although not NEARLY as bad as Orkut, it is starting to raise its ugly head. On this group’s wall:

You get a nice non-related wall post every so often. Don’t you just love it?

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Tags: Orkut, Facebook, spam

4 Comments to "Why I left Orkut once and maybe would again"

• Paul Jacobson said: On 10/26/2007 at 5:59 am

  I think it is worth sticking with Orkut until we know which direction Google is going to go with its social networking efforts. Orkut seems to be an intended focal point and the posts on the Orkut blog indicate they are very aware of spam on the service. I wouldn’t be surprised to see Orkut overhauled in the near future and a number of measures introduced to address all the crap on the service.

• Stii said: On 10/26/2007 at 7:59 am

  Paul, I hope you are right as it is critical. I love Orkut, but it would be hard to convince all my friends to move over and ditch Facebook.

• Tyler said: On 10/26/2007 at 10:05 am

  I have an Orkut account, I prefer Facebook, period.

• charl said: On 10/26/2007 at 11:05 am

  Orkut is big in Brazil and some eastern europeon countries.. and parts of Asia..

  I have never tried it out - the interface seems crappy

Spit it out!

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