21. GOSTARIA DE SABER SE ALGUEM PODERIA ME CONVIDAR PARA PARTICIPAR DO WORKUT

MEU EMAIL eh carloos@bol.com.br

Posted at 8:03PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Carlos

22. Por favor me convidem para o Orkut.

Posted at 8:03PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Antonio Luiz

23. Por favor me convidem para o Orkut.

Meu e-mail ? shevinho@hotmail.com

Posted at 8:03PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Antonio Luiz

24. Pow galera. Esse ORKUT nem e la essas coisas.

Posted at 8:03PM on Dec 18th 2005 by fabio

25. Excuse me brazilian personally I am insulted that you say the rest of the world does not speak portugese - I certainly do. And if there are so many brazilian users on Orkut, then maybe the rest of the world should learn too. After all, it was always numbers of americans which make the internet so english-centric.

Posted at 8:03PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Stephen Knox

26. defterwa.

Posted at 8:03PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Leandro

27. Parle vouz fran?s ? Habla espa?? Parla italiano ? Deutsch spr?en ? Nederlands ? Nihongo ? Tupi ?

Posted at 8:03PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Paulo

28. Ol?gostaria de ser convidada a participar do orkut.Tenho 50 anos ,sou empres?a ,sou casada e tenho 3 filhos.Adoro fazer amigos novos e gosto muito de navegar na net.Se fosse convidada iria ser muito grata .

Posted at 8:03PM on Dec 18th 2005 by M?a

29. gosteria ser convidado do orkut. Sou gringo (homen) simpatico, e nao qual 'e o problema das linguas do Orkut. Mas so brasileiros entendem o portuguese e poucos estrangeiros como eu. Entao tudo bem. Me convide... nao vou fazer baguncas e baianadas no Orkut.

Posted at 8:03PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Richard

30. Alguma alma caridosa por favor me convide p/ entrar no orkut, tenho certeza q vcs nao irao se arrepender....

Posted at 8:03PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Nilia

31. Gostaria de compartilhar minhas id?s com o mundo, para tanto quero fazer parte deste novo ve?lo de tr?go de informa?s chamado Orkut. Pe?que algu?me convide. Muito obrigado!
e-mail: leomig1@hotmail.com
Leonardo

Posted at 8:03PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Leonardo

32. wtf brazilian invasion?!
According to /. and Yahoo News/Reuters I'm not the only person wondering why there are so many brazilians on orkut.
no offense but for christs fucking sake, people are only going to get pissed off when you get brazilian messages in an English-speaking, moderated by an American community. Great that you like to speak/write/read that language, but Orkut is a community for all, not one or two. A post in English is probably going to be understood by more than one in Porgutuese, due to the fact that English is, unfortunately, one of the languages a lot of people know, and its sort of like one language for the world. It's just a way to get rid of the hassle of learning hundreds of languages, to communicate in one or two.
But honestly, the majority of Orkut people from other nations, and some Brazilians try to make an effort to include the other members who might not be fluent in x or y language. But others just seem to be full of hatred towards anyone who declares that Orkut is not a community for Brazilians, it is a community for others as well...ie http://www.orkut.com/CommMsgs.aspx?cmm=55202&tid=657064...full of offensive words and vulgar attacks on people...
I honestly dont care...it gives me a great opportunity to see Portuguese written, i actually went to portuguese club at my school a few times and the difference between the Spanish and Portuguese languages is quite unique and fascinating, but like really, at least they should have the courtesy of like doign one of the following for others who seem quite put off by this (ie the non portuguese speaking people of the WTF A CRAZY BRAZILIAN INVASION community on orkut, invitation required - you can email me @ applegoddess@gmail.com for one)
1. Post in both Portuguese and English. When the only English words in the message are "Sent to x community", yikes!
2. Maybe stop posting messages in Portuguese to English-speaking communities?
3. Or maybe forget this whole thing and create a Brazilian Orkut just for the Brazilians?

It's great to see Brazilians so intrigued and into the whole Orkut concept, but when a site like Orkut gets overpopulated with two competing languages, nothing but headaches ensue. Myself for one would like to see bilingual posts. After all you do need to understand English to sign up for Orkut in the first place.

Posted by jane at July 17, 2004 08:30 PM

Comments
i'm brazilian and i don't use the orkut: nothing against it, nothing in favor really. but yeah, i read in the newspaper here that we should be proud because we are a big number in this community, blablabla. nationalistic crap. i do agree that posts should be in english or maybe in 2 languages, in this case, but most people here don't really speak any other language than portuguese and unfortunally, have no manners either. just please don't think we are all the same.

Posted by: patricia at July 20, 2004 07:52 PM
Oh hell I'm not. I have a few Brazilian people in my friends list and in general they seem great, but there are a few rotten apples ie the ones that group the Americans on Orkut into one huge gigantic stereotype that we all hate brazilians and we think we're superior. And other miscellaneous stuff like that.

And wouldn't you start getting peeved if you were on something like Orkut, and all you really understand is Portuguese, but everything seems to be all English and a huge number of people were against the Brazilians?

Just my two cents, really.
Check out my /. post on this topic too -
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=114846&cid=9728919

jane

Posted by: Jane at July 23, 2004 10:33 PM
Just in the past week the percentage of Brazilians on Orkut has grown from 40% to 50%! That's freakin' crazy. At this point, it just seems like they need their own Orkut. The whole experience has changed dramatically due to the influx, and it feels very chaotic right now.

Posted by: Laura at July 28, 2004 05:58 PM
your argument makes no sense...
Eventhough Orkut is written in English, there is nothing in the rules that states people should only post in English.... because the website is meant for everyone and not exclusive to English speaking people.
Now some brasilians also complain that they get mail from friends of friends that are in English and they dont understand them.. This is the same problem in the reverse direction.
I think the solution lays in the hands of Orkut... change a couple of settings and that can solve a lot of problems..
Roland

Posted by: roland at August 2, 2004 06:31 AM
thank god for settings eh? i have all of my Orkut mail going to an account that gets purged every week. Forget the notifications, forget the invitations...I am so fucking tired of my Orkut inbox being spammed with idiots who do not understand how messages to communities and friends of friends work. I mean wtf you send a message to a community saying "Hi im new" uh nobody cares, omfg! you're new? thats great! leave us the FUCK alone and stop spamming us you tard...

right, orkut isnt entirely american or anything, but it goes against the whole point of Orkut to have what's
going on right now - two large feuding groups, the brazilians against the americans, et cetera.
And if it wasnt evident from the beginning when you first signed up for Orkut, the site was meant for people who UNDERSTOOD english. there has to be one or two common languages between everyone so we can all communicate freely. That language is English. Otherwise the signup stuff would be in multiple languages.

And using your same logic, you can say that OMFG THE INTARWEB WAS MEANT FOR THE WORLD, NOT JUST FOR ENGLISH SPEAKERS, change a few settings so we can all have a truly international Internet...really...an english person invented it, doesnt mean english is the only language that is acceptable, but some things are just so evidently in english because the person who came up with the whole idea is English (not American, but still), Sir Tim Berners-Lee. For example webaddresses, email, et cetera.

When there needs to be a website for the international community it would sensibly have to be in either the UN's working or official languages eh? English, Chinese, Russian, French, Spanish, Arabic...not just English or not just Chinese. What you suggest with the `choose the language you want and post with it` will alienate a large number of others. That's just not right. Orkut was meant to be one large community. We have one language in common, or should, which is English judging from the way Orkut was made. If you dont like it, leave. Honestly. I won't mind posting in multiple languages and learning Portuguese, but if the others, namely Brazilians, are so stubborn as to refuse to post in two languages, even if it be perfect Portuguese and broken English, then hell, why should I do anything? Why should any American do anything? We have to work together to come to an agreement about something, even if it means Orkut is split into two separate communities. Everyone's clashing way too much.

Posted by: Jane at August 2, 2004 10:53 AM
Well, it seemswe brazilians have been causing a lot of trouble :) !
The thing is, I really think brazilians are wrong in entering community forums that were initiated by english-speaking people and "hijacking" it by filling it with portuguese posts. The founder of a community usually expects to be able to understand what is discussed in its forums :).
But, I don't think there is anything wrong about having tons of brazilian communities out there. Since there're many brazilians using the service, it is natural that many of the communities are brazilian.
Now, concerning brazilian ranting, wrathful declarations and other stuff like that, there are two points to be understood: although brazilians are BIG consumers of american products and culture, there is great resentment in relation to United States for many historical (like US supporting millitary dictatorships during th

Posted at 8:03PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Kevin Kazan

33. A big number of brasilian speak 3 or 4 languages... Many of these people hates english... Many of these people loves english. However there is a big number of brasilian that just speak portuguese, like many USA people just speak english. The common sense in Brasil is that United States people want just find a bitch in Brasil and show how much rich they are. However a big number of brasilians don't see the USA people in this way, however knows this idea. The ""orkut invasion"" is the vociferation that english is spoken widely, but don't is the unique language in the world, open your mind and see a big new world. [these post belongs to "olheiras" magazine, and freely shareable. I'm the owner/writer of magazine and artcile... ]

Posted at 8:03PM on Dec 18th 2005 by zoeirapura

34. CONVITES PARA O ORKUT AKI!!!
MANDE: NOME, SOBRENOME E ENDERE? DE E-MAIL
AGUARDE UMA SEMANA PARA A CHEGADA DO CONVITE DE INGRESSO.
E-MAIL: criatividade_0@yahoo.com.br

PORTUGUESE-BRAZIL

Posted at 8:03PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Ana Carolina

35. Gostaria de receber um convite para fazer parte do workut..adoro fazer amizades e conhecer pessoas descoladas.Obrigado meu e-mail birrugaum@hotmail.com

Posted at 8:03PM on Dec 18th 2005 by CARLOS EDUARDO

36. Por favor, me convidem para entrar no ORKUT!Obrigada!

Posted at 8:03PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Patr?a M.F.Mascarenhas

37. Please help me to get in to Orkut....
Invite me Pleaseeeee

Posted at 8:03PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Keila

38. Gostaria de entrar no orkut, mas preciso de alguem que me convide!!!!

Posted at 8:03PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Keila

39. Me ajudem emu e-mail eh kdomingues@charter.net

Posted at 8:03PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Keila

40. Hi everyone, i would like to receive one invitation to join orkut. Can someone here help me?

Thank you so much!!

Virginia
virginisa@uol.com.br

Posted at 8:03PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Virginia Araujo