Just to know the Opinion of the Tweeps. Which is better, Orkut or Facebook?

I had to put it like Orkut vs Facebook.It was about Orkut and Facebook but at last it turned into Orkut vs Facebook. Well this is coming from a series of discussion which took place in my facebook profile after I putted a status update as shown in the below image. After that It got 62 comments and amount of information about social networking came from those comments are immense.So I thought that I should not waste those information in facebook and I should blog it here.

I am sharing that not to run down anybody who participated there in that healthy discussion. Kuntal Gupta:1 Fact I know is that facebook and myspace were way before orkut. Bibhas Ch Debnath: Actually FB launched 13 days after Orkut launched.

So, I don't think it took the ideas from Orkut(it ‘s not possible for someone to build FB in 13days). Anyone thinking that is thinking crap. Aritra Sen:This is info- facebooks 1st named was facemash which was invented by mark zuckerberg on 28th oct 2003,then facebook named as thefacebook after that the final name is facebook and orkut launched on 22nd jan 2004.

Bibhas: Tell SUMAN, that they of course knew how to create a centralized website. FaceMash was a college project. They perfected it into Facebook.

Aritra Sen: and speaking about UI do we get this b-e-a-utifull dropdown comment section in that New orkut which tried to copy facebook but forgot to copy the like button thingy? Nikhil Wad: I have used Orkut before but as my most of contacts use Facebook, am on FB now. Orkut I feel is used by max students also but on FB I feel its social and business networking too.

Bibhas: Actually FB is more Pro than Orkut. If I were to compare, I’d do FB to a Community hall and Orkut to a Open Street. Jayeeta Sil:for me orkut +1………photo album privacy much better….. most of da time it fails….

Sum weird thng…it fails to work…. I hv myself seen pics frm albums who claim to hv kept under locked settings…it dsn’t happen wid orkut…. Aritra: opsiii in facebook you can do friend specific updates and I hope you know the recent facebook privacy policy and activated that.

Aritra: Btw its not about facebook vs orkut (in that case facebook will anyday n always) its about is it true- facebook came later after getting the idea from orkut? And whose UI is better? Nishant Vora: UI is always supposed to be judged by the simplicity and elegancy of it.

That’s why MySpace fails at times, because of all that bloated HTML on user’s profile. Orkut maybe better at ‘looks’ with all those themes. Facebook has better features.

Right now, if I favorite a video on Youtube, Digg a page, add something to delicious, update my blog, …upload new photos to flickr/photobucket, rate something on my last.fm, start using a new application on my PC (tracked via Wakoopa), and several other instances… All this is automatically shown on my FB profile. Also, I update my Twitter from anywhere.. my PC, mobile web, txt and the updates go to FB. There’s an app on Orkut ‘twitkut’ but afaik it does not automatically update on its own.

Nothing of that sort on Orkut. Orkut is simply.. 1 scrapbook. Fill ‘er up with absolutely no thread facility to keep different conversations separately grouped.

All Orkut could do to improve is allow comments on status updates in the ‘new Orkut’. That still sucks, if you compare it to Facebook. Nishant: But then again it goes down to how you use them.

In my opinion, I do prefer the communities on Orkut better than FB, or maybe because I don’t even visit any groups here. Or if people do not wish to keep this complexity of threaded messages, they can stick to Orkut for an all-in-one scrapbook. 1) Narrow mindedness.

Refusing to migrate to something new. It takes time to adjust, but it will only work out for you if you actively take interest in it…. 2) They’re ok with the simple features of Orkut as I said above.. Photos, 1 Scrapbook (to boast of that uber scrapcount which you can’t on FB), and Communities.

3) They’re dumb at everything Facebook has got to offer, they’re an average Internet user, with no need of collaboration or resource sharing, what is easily done via Twitter and FB now, and not really feasible on Orkut. And since they don’t get all this ‘complicated stuff’, they start to rant and complain at how it sucks and cloned and blah blah. Nishant: I don’t understand as to why you’re adamant on sticking to arguing over who copied whom (even though it’s pointless).