Brazilians Dominate Orkut, By The Numbers

taslimarif · 10-15-2005, 09:46 AM

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While guest blogging for me Peter Caputa wrote—SNAM @ Orkut, wherein he ruminates about the preponderance of Portugese language messages in his Orkut mailbox. Yesterday, Alberto Alerigi, for Reuters, Sao Paulo, wrote an article—Brazil Internet Craze Angers English Speakers.

Alberto states that “23.5 percent of the [Orkut] users are from the United States, while another 41.2 percent are Brazilians.” Wow, I haven’t been on Orkut lately. But, I just checked my account and the 837,806 people that I am connected to through my 146 friends there have only generated 20 mail messages in my absence—and none in Portugese. (But then I have my settings tweaked to ‘not’ receive messages sent to my communities or beyond my ‘friends of friends’.)

Friendster also counts Brazilians in the millions among its members—according to their spokeswoman, Lisa Kopp. And, according to this Reuter article, “Brazilians account for nearly 211,000 of the 453,600 users of Fotolog (http://www.fotolog.net), which allows people to post a visual diary of their lives.”

According to Beth Saad, a communications professor at University of Sao Paulo, this is just a fad for Brazilian Internet enthusiasts. What will keep folks coming back to Orkut? I use it as a picture gallery, as I’ve mentioned here before. How do you use Orkut, if at all?

Source: http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.j...toryID=5696742

Andylkl edit: Don't forget the quote tags!

geekerati · 11-17-2005, 06:32 AM

What angers the English speakers is the lack of respect for the other members in the community.
Example: A forum is setup for English speaking only and they continue to post in their native tongue. Everytime you look at the board for recent posts 7/10 are in another language , which completely undermines the entire group. If you look around the folks from Brasil will also have the exact same topic/group where only Portugese is allowed to be written. It has gotten so bad that a few of the Brasilians are speaking out against such inappropriate behaviour. My problem is with the offenders, I embrace every race the same, and have friends from all parts of the globe.

Aírmanareiks Þiudareiks · 11-17-2005, 08:46 AM

Mmmmm, I don't really have a problem and I don't really care since I can speak Portuguese.

Trikinomitry101 · 11-17-2005, 11:14 AM

Those bastards only post porn O_O lol, free porn^_^ XD

r3dc3ll · 11-25-2005, 08:30 AM

There are lots and lots of them, and the problem is they are in every community, If there was a forum named "Only people who can't speak Portuguese" there would be a lot of Portuguese post's saying who knows what.

Svymjs · 11-26-2005, 09:09 AM

I´M BRAZILIAN AND NEVER GIVE UP...

SOU BRASILEIRO E NÃO DESISTO NUNCA...

geekerati · 11-27-2005, 02:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Svymjs

I´M BRAZILIAN AND NEVER GIVE UP...

SOU BRASILEIRO E NÃO DESISTO NUNCA...

What is your opinion about the lack of respect for other members in the Orkut Community? Do you think it's right? Are you saying that you don't want other members to give up on the Brasilians, or are you saying that you will never give up on the bad behaviour exhibited by some of the Brasilian members?
Why does normal conversation have to turn into threatening machismo crap. Are you that insecure?

Please do not type in all caps.

Rules

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Don't type in ALL CAPS
This represents shouting and in many cases is not necessary.

Trikinomitry101 · 11-30-2005, 07:26 PM

Didn't the ToS make you agree to not post porn?

nope... it doesn't V_V Damn... I was hoping to be the one to shut down all the damn Brazillians sex scheemes that keep me looking O_O J/K, I actualy don't really like Orkut as much as I thought I would... o_O It really isn't too good looking, most groups aren't in English, or German... And, I know it is sad to say, but, unless some major changes are made, MySpace may just be quite a bit better... I used to use Snowboard.com, for the community aspect, but, it changed, and now sucks... Besides, they deleted my 3000+ posts in their forum...

Anyways, back to Orkut, I thought I would enjoy it, but, I don't... most groups are porn, and most aren't in a language I understand... Anyway's, I think I might not be using Orkut for a while... o_O sorry to ramble V_V

geekerati · 12-04-2005, 04:14 AM

There are just a few people screwing it up for everyone, most of the Brasilians are cool.

Trikinomitry101 · 12-08-2005, 11:06 AM

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Originally Posted by geekerati

There are just a few people screwing it up for everyone, most of the Brasilians are cool.

I can't understand them well enough to know... o_O

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11-17-2005, 06:32 AM	#2 (permalink)
geekerati Google Guru Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Deep in the heart. Posts: 2,443 Thanks: 0 Thanked 3 Times in 3 Posts	What angers the English speakers is the lack of respect for the other members in the community. Example: A forum is setup for English speaking only and they continue to post in their native tongue. Everytime you look at the board for recent posts 7/10 are in another language , which completely undermines the entire group. If you look around the folks from Brasil will also have the exact same topic/group where only Portugese is allowed to be written. It has gotten so bad that a few of the Brasilians are speaking out against such inappropriate behaviour. My problem is with the offenders, I embrace every race the same, and have friends from all parts of the globe.

11-17-2005, 08:46 AM	#3 (permalink)
Aírmanareiks Þiudareiks Elite Googler Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Posts: 1,279 Thanks: 0 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	Mmmmm, I don't really have a problem and I don't really care since I can speak Portuguese.

11-17-2005, 11:14 AM	#4 (permalink)
Trikinomitry101 Googler Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Christmas Island Posts: 70 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Those bastards only post porn O_O lol, free porn^_^ XD

11-25-2005, 08:30 AM	#5 (permalink)
r3dc3ll Noogle Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: mexico Posts: 8 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	There are lots and lots of them, and the problem is they are in every community, If there was a forum named "Only people who can't speak Portuguese" there would be a lot of Portuguese post's saying who knows what.

11-26-2005, 09:09 AM	#6 (permalink)
Svymjs Noogle Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 1 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	I´M BRAZILIAN AND NEVER GIVE UP... SOU BRASILEIRO E NÃO DESISTO NUNCA...

11-30-2005, 07:26 PM	#8 (permalink)
Trikinomitry101 Googler Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Christmas Island Posts: 70 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Didn't the ToS make you agree to not post porn? nope... it doesn't V_V Damn... I was hoping to be the one to shut down all the damn Brazillians sex scheemes that keep me looking O_O J/K, I actualy don't really like Orkut as much as I thought I would... o_O It really isn't too good looking, most groups aren't in English, or German... And, I know it is sad to say, but, unless some major changes are made, MySpace may just be quite a bit better... I used to use Snowboard.com, for the community aspect, but, it changed, and now sucks... Besides, they deleted my 3000+ posts in their forum... Anyways, back to Orkut, I thought I would enjoy it, but, I don't... most groups are porn, and most aren't in a language I understand... Anyway's, I think I might not be using Orkut for a while... o_O sorry to ramble V_V

12-04-2005, 04:14 AM	#9 (permalink)
geekerati Google Guru Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Deep in the heart. Posts: 2,443 Thanks: 0 Thanked 3 Times in 3 Posts	There are just a few people screwing it up for everyone, most of the Brasilians are cool.

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