orkut

[gusl]

What did orkut ever do for you?

Through it, I found bondage_and_tea, but that's it. I've used it for more than a year, and I'm the moderator of a community with 17k people.

How do you approach someone you'd like to get to know on Orkut?

Often I don't have anything to say to someone, except "you seem interesting", which is, of course, boring. I'm sure we'd have enough to talk about IRL, though. Maybe I should invite them for a hike rightaway?

I think orkut is a great "yearbook" sort of thing, with tons of interesting people in it (and almost every Brazilian I know), but I just don't see the "networking" thing happening: I, at least, tend to just browse silently, far and wide. I'm a geek voyeur (in both senses).

At the moment, I'm looking for an interesting IT job. Can my orkut friends help? If so, should I send one of those mass messages? I'm not sure, but I think most people stopped reading their Orkut messages when they started getting friend-of-friend spam.

Comments

[bram.livejournal.com]

I've had fun with the communities on Orkut, although no, I haven't met anyone through the service.

Check out some of the communities I have listed.

People had a lot of fun about a year ago with a fad of communities for people with icons that had lasers coming out of their eyes. It was a lot of fun. I wrote some funny things for "Autodidacts with Lasers" some time ago.

It was a little bit like Usenet in the old days--though LiveJournal is like that too.

[altamira16.livejournal.com]

A lot of the original orkut community was a bunch of tech geeks so sending them messages may be good. Can you still send Friend-of-a-friend email? Can people opt not to receive it? I don't see any anymore.

[peamasii.livejournal.com]

I have a friend who's really into these social net. sites and at some point he got really negative about orkut. Therefore I stopped trying to find out more about orkut. For searching jobs I think monsterboard is better anyway.

[breyten.livejournal.com]

What did orkut ever do for you?

Well, nothing, which is why I deleted my profile a while ago.

If you want an IT job, look around on the paper adverts in the euclides building. Lots of jobs these days.