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[vansmack]

When I was in Mallorca, I met this gorgeous 19 year old Dutch girl.  I really wanted to friend her on FB just to see pictures of her as she got older.  She said that she doesn't have a FB account because everyone in Holland uses Hyves.  I've never wanted a universal standard for something more in my life...

[nkotb]

Yeah, but 100 million non-American people.  Do they really count?

And by the way, Orkut isn't going anywhere.  It has a pretty sizable user base in Brazil and India, if not in the United States.

right, which is why i said "a fate similar to orkut" as a step up from the trash pile - marginalized, niche, and not particularly popular in the US.

I mean, 100 million people use Orkut...

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

When I was in Mallorca, I met this gorgeous 19 year old Dutch girl.  I really wanted to friend her on FB just to see pictures of her as she got older.  She said that she doesn't have a FB account because everyone in Holland uses Hyves.  I've never wanted a universal standard for something more in my life...

Was it her?

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

Yeah, but 100 million non-American people.  Do they really count?

several hundred million people use Baidu...

[thirsty moore]

Google Wave never made any sense to me. It seemed like a chat feature with real time email but I can check email when I want already and chatting is done through skype.

[vansmack]

I mean, 100 million people use Orkut...

Almost 80% of internet users in Brazil use Orkut, a social network owned by Google. As internet use rises in Brazil and reaches new social groups, better-off Brazilians are leaving Orkut for Facebook. That is partly because they have more friends abroad (with whom they link via Facebook) and partly snobbishness. Posh Brazilians have a new word: orkutificação, or becoming ?orkutised?. A place undergoing orkutificação is full of strangers, open to anyone. Brazilians are now the second biggest users of the micro-blogging site Twitter; but some wonder whether the dreaded o-word awaits that neighbourhood too.

http://www.economist.com/node/16943885

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

I mean, 100 million people use Orkut...

better-off Brazilians are leaving Orkut for Facebook.

http://www.economist.com/node/16943885

Facebook has reached this incredible critical mass where even if you don't particularly like it, there are some people you can only communicate with that way.  I keep wondering when something new is going to replace it.  It's a lot of power Mr. Zuckerberg holds in his clammy hands.

[walkonby]

anybody ever watch ghost in the shell stand alone complex series?  where they show these arcade looking like places where people just go and sit and jack into the endless lines of computers as they mindlessly waste their real lives away?  that is the future almost here.

[sweetcell]

A place undergoing orkutificação is full of strangers, open to anyone.

we went through the same thing here.  it was called myspace.

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

yuck...

http://gawker.com/5637234/gcreep-google-engineer-stalked-teens-spied-on-chats

[walkonby]

even more yuck . . . that some students are actually bitching, thinking that this is "torture" and they no way can survive.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100916/ap_on_re_us/us_social_media_blackout

[godsshoeshine]

so what youre saying is before the next world cup there's no need to sign up for orkut? duly noted

[vansmack]

so what youre saying is before the next world cup there's no need to sign up for orkut? duly noted

Only if you want to hang out with the poor people.

[vansmack]

even more yuck . . . that some students are actually bitching, thinking that this is "torture" and they no way can survive.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100916/ap_on_re_us/us_social_media_blackout

You realize that they're students, right? 

I can assure you that the university could give out gold bars to students and half of them would bitch that there's a more compelling reason to give out silver bars instead....

[sweetcell]

and the other half would complain that it wasn't platinum.