orkut is the best website for communication....put your views here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

yes. orkut is a very good site for meeting old friends and for making new friends.

well it can be and cannot be the best, that depends on the person only and the fact remains some people just use it for chat only where as there is a vast resource of information in it .

Yes Amit, I agree with you. But there are some negative effects also.
#Like there was one case where a guy created a fake profile of his classmate and posted indecent scraps to everyone in orkut saying that she's a bad gal and all.
# some of the Brazilians making a mess in some of the communities.
# there are some communities where they are posting topics which evoke communal hatred.
# Some communities such as "I hate Pakistan", "I hate India","I hate America" and so on...
But there are more positive points than negative ...
# meet old friends and meet new ones
# update your album and profile so that everyone gets to know what kind of a person you are
# Join communities where there are useful discussions
# chatting with friends
Well I agree it's a good website for communication but not the best. There are other sites also better than orkut.com.

orkut is a good site 4 meeting old friends... i met my scoolmates with whom i havent been in touch 4 years... it feels great... i was very shy in school so never interacted much with my classmates then.. but i've grown up now and wish i could talk 2 them now.. orkut has given me dat opportunity.. thanks 2 orkut

Orkut is an Internet social network service run by Google and named after its creator, Google employee Orkut Büyükkökten. It claims to be designed to help users meet new friends and maintain existing relationships. Similar to Friendster and MySpace, Orkut goes a step further by permitting the creation of easy-to-setup simple forums (called "communities") of users. Until October 2006, Orkut was an invitation-only site, but it now permits users to create accounts without an invitation.Users have options to rate their friends in the order of "Best Friends", "Good Friends", "Friends", "Acquaintances" and "Haven't met". Further, each member can become fans of any of the friends in his/her list and can also evaluate whether his/her friend is "Trustworthy", "Cool", "Sexy" on a scale of 1 to 3 (marked by icons) and is aggregated in terms of a percentage. Unlike Facebook where a member can view profile details of people only on his/her network, Orkut allows anyone to visit anyone's profile, unless a potential visitor is on your "Ignore List". Importantly, each member can also customize his/her profile preferences and can restrict information that appear on their profile from their friends and/or others (not on the friends list). The highlight feature is where any member can add any other member on Orkut to his/her "Crush List" and both of them will be informed only when both parties have added each other to their "Crush List".

If person A deletes person B from his friends' list, person A will be deleted from person B's friends' list also.

Orkut has many other competitors like MySpace, Facebook and hi5.There has recently been controversy revolving around the use of Orkut by various hate groups. Virulent racists allegedly have a solid following there. Several hate communities focused on racism, Nazism, and white supremacy have been deleted due to guideline violation. However the number of these communities and profiles has not stopped growing because they can be very easily created and it is hard for Orkut to check them.

In 2005, various cases of racism were denounced to police and reported in the Brazilian media. [3] [4] In 2006, a judicial measure was opened by the Brazil federal justice denouncing a 20-year-old student accused of racism against Black people and spreading defamatory content on Orkut. [5]. Brazilian Federal Justice subpoenaed Google [6] on March 2006 to explain the crimes that had occurred in Orkut.

Anti-religion, anti-national, and anti-ethnic hate groups have also been spotted. Recently an Indian court has issued notices to Google on some of the groups. Groups denigrating various political leaders and celebrities have also emerged.