Google is Shutting Down Orkut social network: how and why?

Now it’s final, Google is going to shut down the Orkut Social Network on 30^th September of this year.Orkut is the 10 year old social network site of google. Orkut was introduced in the year 2004. Once upon a time, this service was very popular specifically in Brazil, India and Pakistan, but, by the year 2012, it was taken over by Facebook. It was also competing directly with Google’s another product Google+ which was launched during 2011. Google is planning to maintain the data of Orkut, till the year 2016. One cannot migrate data from Orkut to Google+. The Orkut Social Network users can connect their data to Google+ and they can transfer their photos to Google+ Photos but, they cannot transfer other Orkut  data to Google+. The Orkut mobile app will be removed from Google play and from Apple’s app store. People, who have already downloaded the app, can use its service up to three months, till the service closes.

The initial concept ad growth of Orkut was very stunning.  The video below underlines the concept / reason why Orkut was there.

Orkut never disclosed about the actual number of users world-wide, but published data suggests that about 50.6% of its users were from Brazil, 20.44% came from India, 17.78% were from the United States and 0.86% were from Pakistan.