Comments on: Why Brazil Loves Orkut!

By: Anonym

Anonym — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:55:41 +0000

So, you miss something out. Yogurt is a Turkish word (written like yoğurt in Turkey Turkish, pronounciation in other Turkish languages will be similar) and naturally, it’s a Turkish (elders) invention. I don’t really know what is Yakult but I think it’s a Japanese recreation of yogurt (probably child drink?!) I just wanted to share because it made me feel weired. And btw, Orkut’s founder is Orkut Büyükkökten (a product manager of Google) and also he is Turkish.

By: hotel di lusso verona

hotel di lusso verona — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 20:33:38 +0000

Brazilian are not all equals. As on all over in the world you have good brazilian and bad one.

By: aline

aline — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 19:13:16 +0000

there is not a ‘brazilian way’ for me. please, use this terms for a specific public in brazil. im proud to be brazilian and i dont think the class A/B do things by the easiest way.

By: victor

victor — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 23:26:11 +0000

Do not generalize, dude. There are a lot of bad people, sure. But I ask you: are all the people bad? No! There are bad people but most of we are good people. Sorry, but you were very unlucky. Everyone I know here in Brazil are good ones and they are very honest. Think about it!

By: josh

josh — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 19:24:29 +0000

after living in brazil for two years, I have meet a few people that were hard working and reliable, but sadly the majority are only interested in the jeito brasiliero, ¨brazilian way¨ which means taking sort cuts to get what you want, even if it means lying and stealing and hurting others, trust them to do something and you will be sorry, they are experts at tricky you out of your money and often you wont realize it until its to late, they think in short terms gains, take maximum advantage of a situation or person, because it may not be there tomorrow, after living in over thirty countries and going to all in south america i can say the brazil take the cake literally if they can, for being the king of con artists and if you, don´t agree, it only a matter of time, and you will find out the hard way. make sure you know someone for a very very long time before you trust them I have seen people who thought they where freinds with someone after a couple of months, get large amounts stolen from them, and i have not just seen this on one occasion but more times then what i like to remember, so all you newbies in brazil, watch out for your own good

By: MEURI

MEURI — Sun, 09 May 2010 21:17:01 +0000

Tenta traduzir isso aqui, mané, porque eu não vou escrever na sua língua, mesmo que eu saiba, uma coisa que voce não deve saber, só sabe falar esse ingles e falar dos brasileitos como se fosses estúpidos..Faz assim: usa o seu GOOGLE pra traduzir isso aqui então. Os brasileiros, mesmo que com seus defeitos, são muuito mais inteligentes que muitas noções, nas quais se acham tão superiores. Vá estudar e conhecer antes de querer falar alguma coisa sobre esse povo! Vá ficar obeso ai nesse seu país, e se dane.

By: MEURI

MEURI — Sun, 09 May 2010 16:17:01 +0000

By: Caroline

Caroline — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:11:55 +0000

Orkut is simple and has no advertising. And It was the first decent network website that came around that time. It soon has a portuguese version and made it even easier. That is all about it, and I never ever have seen so much rubbish about social psychology as in this comment, it makes me laugh! Its not that “Orkut ” does not sound like “Yogurt and Yakult” in english as well! Also only brazilians move from town to town and want to know about their old friends.
Now this is the worst: “… users can prequalify the new friends they make by judging their ability to access the Internet, write and read correctly…” Is Orkut a new IQ TESTING WEBSITE????? Why do we need ENEM in Brazil, let’s check our teenagers orkut profiles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Mobilty? ORKUT IS THE ONLY SOCIAL WEBSITE THAT CAN BE ACESSED FROM INTERNET CAFES! AMAZING! and ill stop here because i’ve got better things to do than read this kind of article from ANTHROPOLOGISTs WANNABEs …

By: kingvithor

kingvithor — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 01:18:41 +0000

In 2009 the Twitter social network was the most visited in Brazil.

By: Enzo

Enzo — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:51:44 +0000

Hey,

good article.

I have to say that “futbol” and “differencia social” are not Portuguese. ;)

The pronunciation of “Google” should have been more like “goo-goal” (the “L” not pronounced)…

Not sure pronunciation really is one of the factors that make it popular, neither what makes it easy to spell. Hotmail, Yahoo and others are just as easy to spell once you see the words…