Google announced this week that they will be closing down Orkut at the end of September. <\/p>\n
Most people reacted with “That thing still exists?” (Unless, of course, they are Brazilian.)<\/p>\n
I was an Orkut hipster; I joined before it was cool. (Specifically, I joined back when the network actually wasn’t ~fully connected; my roommate in college and I had different ‘friend graph’ sizes, IIRC.) <\/p>\n
Apparently, I used my crschmidt@livejournal.com email to join Orkut. I was able to login and see my profile, and see some of the testimonials that were left for me a decade ago, mostly from friends on LiveJournal.<\/p>\n
The one that gets me, is this one (left by an anonymous user):<\/p>\n
I would not push Chris Schmidt in to oncoming traffic. Normally when I say that about somebody, it has to do with my ethical code. In this case, though, it has a lot more to do with who Chris is as a human being.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
At the time, I’m pretty sure I figured out who left this testimonial, but the cultural context in which it was left has been lost to me now. So I’m left with a vaguely positive testimonial from an anonymous source from a social network I abandoned a decade ago.<\/p>\n
… Actually, that sounds about as positive as an end-of-life social networking experience can be. I’ll take it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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