Orkut blows
I finally got an invitation to orkut about a week ago. I was beginning to think I wasn’t cool. So, I’ve been looking around for a while now, and, frankly, it’s not very interesting, unless you’re dating. There are hundreds of thousands of people and thousands of “communities”. Sounds like it should be good, right?
Wrong. First, there’s the basic interface issues. The communities are basically forums, but they don’t have the basic forum features that make a forum usable. Most obviously missing is any way to track what you’ve already read. I mean, come on! Having to troll through all these posts looking for new ones you haven’t read is really a pain.
Then, the communities aren’t very active. Most of my communities have over a thousand people in them, but noone’s posting. Probably because of the previous gripe.
The actual links-to-other-people feature is pretty cool. That is, afterall, the point of orkut. However, I’m not really a people person, and so meeting people isn’t my dish.
So orkut, fix the forums, and people will be much more interactive.
Errr….what the hell is Orkut?
orkut.com. It’s one of these social/community things, where you’re supposed to network with other people. Very similar to Friendster, if you’ve heard of that. Of course, I’m not that social, so it’s not really my cup of tea.