What is Orkut ?

 What is Orkut ?

Orkut is an Internet social network service run by Google. It claims to be designed to help users meet new friends and maintain existing relationships. It is also invitation-only: Users must be invited to join the community by someone already there.

It providing an online meeting place where people can socialize makes new acquaintances and finds others who share their interests. Orkut's use as a social tool is complex, because various people frequently try to add strangers to their own pool of friends, more often than not just to increase the number indicating their number of friends next to their name in their profile. Many "add-me" communities exist, solely for this purpose. A large number of bogus, cloned, fake, invisible and "orphaned" profiles also exist.

According to statistics orkut has also become popular in the Eastern-European country of Estonia where greater than 3% (June 2005) of the population are registered orkut users. This is the highest percentage of any single country's population using the service. Brazil holds the second place with about 2.5% of the population using Orkut. All the other countries in top 10 lists have users amounting to less than 0.5% of each given country.