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Saturday, June 26, 2010

Indian Users Slowing Moving to Facebook!

If you check recent trends.... orkut users of India are gradually moving to facebook. facebook is going to be face of India's social networking. ( i am not considering twitter , and other Indian SNSs like zapak, bigadda, ibibo, indyarocks etc)Why ? I asked myself and my friends and find out following points in favor of facebook:

1. Facebook has differential approach to pc users, mobile users, sms users (specially for 3rd world countries), different mobile handset users (specific handset settings like iPhone)
2. community of orkut can be accessed via m.orkut.com while m.facebook.com is more advanced
3. as fb offers devilery of sms updates to most of Indian carriers it gains more popularity than orkut.
4. new orkut theme - that sucks completely/
6. people get bored with orkut.

7. fb apps like farmville, mafia wars are better than orkut apps
8. u can manage fb via sms - not paying Rs 3/SMS !
9. u can reply, upload photos via mail to fb
10. Indian carriers like fb - RCOM and Videocon offering free fb access via 0.facebook.com; Tata Docomo offering free fb BuddyNet users; Uninor also offering free fb access without any pack.
11. most handsets ranging from Nokia to local Micromax, Lava etc have dedicated fb button of special app for easy access.
12. u can update status which remains live even if u update new status, and people can comment on it!


Add more points why Orkut users migrating to Facebook! Comment on guys!

1 comment:

rdb said...

Debayan Sinharoy commented on this post:

"Another reason is that some of us have friends and relatives abroad who are most likely users of Facebook so we have no option but to use FB in order to stay connected.

Apart from that, FB looks way cooler than the childish brightly colored shit that is Orkut.

One more thing, part of the reason I left Orkut was that it was too crowded by people I didn't give a shit about. And I'm sure I'll be bored with FB pretty soon as well.

(Actually Blogger is not letting me post the comment there.)"