7 Reasons Why Orkut Will Be Missed!

Before we bid a heartbreaking farewell to the witness to our so many precious memories, let's recall why we used to love Orkut so much.

Orkut means the beginning of an era – the era of social networking. When Orkut started on 24 January, 2004, there was no Facebook, and that's why every teenager and college pass-outs, with Internet access, used to have a super-active profile on Orkut, full of scraps, photographs, testimonials and status updates. Then Facebook entered the social networking market and business figures as well as prospects continued running downwards, without any hope of revival. That's when Google decided to shut down this store and the day has come today.



So before we bid a heartbreaking farewell to the witness to our so many precious memories, let's recall why we used to love Orkut so much. What are those features we'll miss about Orkut. Let's walk together down the Orkut lane and relive all the special moments we have left backwards.

1. Orkut as a communication tool:

Orkut led to a new way to communicate with our near-and-dear ones who are far away. A new communication language emerged from Orkut communication like 'cool' became 'kewl', 'my' became 'mah', 'fine' became 'f9' and 'how are you' became 'hwz u'.

2. Orkut Scraps:

Orkut had a scrapbook, which was later adopted by Facebook as Facebook Wall. Orkut scrapbooks used to be colourful enough to add fun to our boring lives.

3. Recent Visitors on Orkut Profiles:

Orkut had a feature through which we could check who are visiting our profiles. And if there was your crush's name in the list, your day couldn't have been better ever. This feature also used to let us know who are web-stalking us. This is a feature which is still untouched in all other social networking sites till date.

4. Orkut Testimonials:

We used to request our best buddies to write down some awesome words about us in the testimonial section. It used to work as an exchange offer – if you write mine, I'll write your's. The best part about this section was that, after reading up on it years later, it would definitely make you smile.

5. Orkut Themes:

Orkut pages could be personalised using all the colourful mood-based, festivals-based and season-based themes. But Facebook is boring all the time with its white and blue one. Themes are really missed in present social networking platforms which lack colours and youthful vibrancy.

6. Orkut Communities:

It was again a unique feature which allowed you to get connected to lots of communities of your interests and likes – cuisines, sports, celebrities, world leaders, ice-creams and so on. The more Orkut communities, the more you were a socialite.

7. Orkut Fans List:

Orkut had one more unique feature – its Fans list. With this feature you used to feel like a celebrity as the list kept on expanding. Orkut offered you a celebrity status, nonetheless.

These are some of the best reasons why Orkut will be missed from today onwards, 30 September, its closing day. As the clock is ticking and you still have not got your Orkut albums in your Google+ account then hurry up. But yes don't forget to send this message to Orkut as you log in for the last time: Orkut We'll miss you. Thank you for everything.