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social networking site

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(Communications & Information) a website that allows subscribers to interact, typically by requesting that others add them to their visible list of contacts, by forming or joining sub-groups based around shared interests, or publishing content so that a specified group of subscribers can access it
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Not only it gobbled down other similar services such as Orkut, but became to be the only service people trusted to use.
Reports said the couple met in 2012 on the social networking site Orkut. And while the site shut down two years later, the romance blossomed.
AOL, MSN Messenger, Friendster, MySpace, and Orkut all rose to great heights and then rapidly declined, while Facebook, Snap, WhatsApp, Line, and others quickly rose.
In addition, performance of the proposed method was compared with that of AH-KSC and KSC using real life social network data with a ground-truth, which are the LiveJournal and Orkut network.
O orkut, predecessor do Facebook na preferencia dos brasileiros, aparece logo em seguida, com 58,8% (lembrando que o cerne da questao e: voce usa ou ja utilizou determinado servico, o que justifica a presenca do site mesmo apos a sua desativacao).
Google slowly came out of the shadows with Orkut, Myspace was rampant at one time, Facebook was born, and LinkedIn and Twitter all amassed millions of users worldwide.
From Orkut to Google+, it has been one long journey of experiments and failures.
The laws also apply to corporate social media accounts, with Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Orkut and LinkedIn content all subject to archiving laws.
Cybercrime against women is defined as follows: "Crimes targeted against women with a motive to intentionally harm the victim, using modern telecommunication networks and social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Orkut, chat rooms, emails and mobile phones (SMS/MMS)."
It included nonparticipant observation of Brazilian pirate audiences' practices and their interactions with each other in online communities on Orkut and Facebook related to television show downloading and fansubbing.
Google's original social network Orkut was bigger than Facebook in emerging markets such as Brazil and India just a couple of years ago.
Rumors of a ban on Facebook outspread due to ban on Orkut.com, a social network site same like to Facebook.