Am I the Only One Who Hates Orkut’s New Third-rate Look?
Posted on by Vivek Krishnan in Internet Entrepreneurs
I recently logged into my Orkut account, it had almost been a fortnight. With Facebook around Orkut is really useless. Once in my account, what I have before me is an amateurish mix of Facebook and Twitter. It disgusted me. The new layout of Orkut and the color theme were absolutely horrendous. I could not believe that Orkut has started to looks so cheap. Orkut seems like a spammy community when you log into it.
Instead of Farmville and Mafia Family of Facebook, all Orkut could manage was a low-engagement flash game -
TURBO SPIRIT XT GOLD. The game was depressing to say the least.
The new Orkut also gives you a cheesy color palette to modify the primary colors in your dashboard. Instead of names of your recent visitors in your profile, now you will have their thumbnails shown. All these stupid new features kind of bleached my enthusiasm that Orkut will get more interesting. Orkut can be a social network for kids under 13, but not for mature people.
Or so I thought.
Because when I looked around,the world seemed to function properly. All people were normal about this change and went about scrapping and orkut-”ting”. So I decided to ask all you guys, were you not shocked at the new look of Orkut?
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IndianCashMaker
06. Dec, 2009
no dude…me too hate it….infact i have start hating orkut
Vivek
06. Dec, 2009
ICM, definitely Orkut was better earlier!
Vikas Gupta
06. Dec, 2009
I hate Orkut’s new looks! Even otherwise orkut sucks!
I guess you can change to the default looks if you did not like it! That is what i did.
Vivek
06. Dec, 2009
hi vikas,
long time no see on my blog. Yeah you are right we can revert but after FB, i am really not feeling like shifting to Orkut!
Vikas Gupta
09. Dec, 2009
Vivek, I am a bit busy these days. I keep an eye in the feed reader though. Why not install a comment reply subscription plugin?
Please tell me which is a good plugin for
AdSense insertion? Thanks.
.-= Vikas Gupta´s last blog ..Nominate your blog for the avant-garde bloggies awards 2009 =-.
Abhishek
30. Dec, 2009
Totally agree with you on the looks & games department; looks were never the motto of google, so this kind of explains the failure(pun intended). However, the power of orkut lies in its communities, facebook can’t beat that.
That being said, orkut is becoming increasingly stupid these days, perfectly legitimate posts are getting deleted while spammers are roaming freely! Admins are not even removing them upon frequent complaints.
Vivek
31. Dec, 2009
Well FB does have its “Fan groups” so that is supposed to be a sub for Orkut’s communites!