I remember a bunch of us joining Orkut when it was pretty new. There was a sense of: well, now what? We were already socialising in real life, so an online soci

I remember a bunch of us joining Orkut when it was pretty new. There was a sense of: well, now what? We were already socialising in real life, so an online social network added nothing. In retrospect we didn't understand the point of online social networks at all. Nowadays social (for us) means WhatsApp and Signal chat groups. The idea of curating a personal site, a la Orkut or more successfully Facebook, has faded away. Maybe it was always a bad idea.