Why I'm an Orkuteer

Posted by Alexandre Luis Vignado, orkuteer*

*orkuteers are orkut members (outside of Google) who have shown incredible dedication and helpfulness in our orkut Help Group. Alexandre has provided us with his story and permission to share it with you here. Here's more - about the Help Group and orkuteers.

I've been an orkut user since the early beginning and what has most impressed me is the ability to reconnect with old friends whom I hadn't met for ages. Recently, I found Thainá, my high school platonic love. Six years ago, I had to move from our city and we lost contact. However, recently, we found each other on orkut and started talking again.

Without orkut, it would have been impossible to contact her or meet up, which we did last month, in the same town where we used to live. Since then, we've found that we had many common interests that we didn't notice when we used to live in the same town. Now we have a much stronger connection because of orkut.

That's why I love orkut, and I'm always willing to help other users in the Help Group: so more and more people can have a similar experience, which is extremely important to me, and is changing my life.