Up until last night, I'd remained stoically unconvinced by the whole social networking / friend-of-a-friend phenomenon. Those cunning chaps at Google have managed to change my mind with the launch of Orkut.
I got my invitation yesterday evening. Apparently 12,000 invitations had been sent out earlier that day. I joined right away, and sent invitations to a few friends. Within about an hour, two of them had joined. This thing is going to grow exponentially, for sure. It's scary to see how quickly this thing is growing.
I really hope the Orkut people are planning on making statistics available, kind of like the Google Zeitgeist. I'd love to see how many people have joined, how fast they are joining, average number of friends, most connected person, and things like that.
Posted by savs at January 24, 2004 2:14 PMHey, just read your comment about Orkut. Id love to try it because Im sick of friendster with its slow links and stalls...Its kind of funnny how Orkuts awareness has spread, its exclusivity is fascinating for a web tool, goes against the grain but in a way that could pan out good....
So if you feel so inclined could you send me an invite? Ill throw in a bonus too...I know some cute girls Ill invite on. ;)
Sky..
Posted by: Skyler at January 27, 2004 7:55 AM