Social networking site Orkut, and how it works.

Orkut is a social networking service which is run by Google and named after its creator,an employee of Google.The service states that it was designed to help users meet new friends and maintain existing relationships.Facebook,the second largest social network on the web with around 60 million members,is one of the fastest-growing and best-known sites on the Internet today.Users can join networks organized by city,workplace,school,and region to connect and interact with other people.People can also add friends and send them messages,and update their personal profile to notify friends about themselves.