New Orkut Vs Old Orkut and Facebook.

Well well well..Orkut finally has gone for a huge makeover. It had to do  no option with even the Orkut loyalists moving to Facebook. The spice out of Orkut had fizzled out so what did Orkut do? It has re-invented itself. And it is cleverly trying to maintain an exclusivity about the new version-meaning allowing only people with invitations to access the new version. Nice aura. I personally was going loony, bleating about desperately for an invitation until a helpful friend took pity on me and sent it :)

The good points first. It's never been easy to look for your friends in the friend's list. One just needs to scroll to find the friend and the same for the communities too. One can now comment on the updates, à la Facebook. Loading hardly takes up any time now and yes it is faster and more jazzed up. And the best thing is that Orkut has left the option to revert back to the old version if need be.

The bad points- It's too too cluttered now.

The hype about the new Orkut will probably stem the flow from Orkut to Facebook but steadfast devotees of  Facebook are most likely to give the new Orkut a pass. One tends to think about the old Orkut with nostalgia. It was new then, there was excitement about using it, one never knew which old friend one would meet, there was the delight of reading the scraps, the sleepless nights thinking who will scrap you next et al.

 Let's see now whether revamping creates the same buzz for Orkut again.