Orkut shutting down September 30

Re:Orkut shutting down September 30 by JeremyBanks on Monday June 30, 2014 @11:27AM (#7965521)

How did you tell that it was a profile for you, and not for an actual 25-year-old woman from American Samoa who shared your name?

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Re:Orkut shutting down September 30 by jamesbritt on Monday June 30, 2014 @11:42AM (#7965613)

I discovered that Orkut had helpfully created one for me.

How do you know Orkut crreated it?

I've had accounts created "for me" on all sorts of sites.

Turns out I'm not the only person named James Britt. But I just happen to have a particular gmail account with that name, and there are some number of other people who mistakenly use that email address when signing up for things.

(This is one reason I'm a fan of Web sites sending out E-mail verification notices.)

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Re:Orkut shutting down September 30 by richardmjohn on Tuesday July 01, 2014 @04:32AM (#7969655)

I have about 5 Richard Johns using my Gmail address. No matter how many times I email their contacts back asking them to update their details, I still get a few emails a day for the wrong person!

I'm currently getting spammed by match.com for one of them.

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