Why ORKUT is so Popular ?

What drives people to Orkut?

To answer this we have to first see what kind of people you find on orkut. Mainly you find 5 categories of people on orkut,they are people looking for old friends , people looking to make new friends ,people trying to find information about some thing,advertisers, porn mongers.

One major thing about orkut is that no one has seen any advertisement from Orkut asking them to join. One joins orkut only and only because some asks you to join and usually this some is a close friend so people tend to relate orkut to close friend thus, building a bond with orkut and also the related trust.

But, is orkut safe? No, its not. Like any other social place, there are all kinds of people so, you have to take all precautions that you take at any public place on orkut also. Would you print thousands of copies of your personal photos and give to every person you see on the road? I don't think so. So don't do that on orkut either, simple. We all know how to keep ourselves safe in other public places and orkut is as safe as any other public place. The fact that the administrators of orkut treat it as a public place is another reason why orkut is so popular, people don't like being told what to and what not to do. Orkut has a TOS, but it does no policing. This relative freedom attracts a lot of users to orkut.

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