A Turkish programmer who pioneered social networking wants to change the way people interact online
As a young boy, Orkut Buyukkokten was bullied. Some of his classmates made fun of his accented Turkish and pushed him around because he was thinner and shorter than rest of the kids. He was nine years old and his family had just moved to Turkey’s central Anatolian region of Konya from Germany. “I thought maybe I am short and nerdy. I could not figure out what was wrong.”“And he said that I always made school seem so easy, I always had good grades while they were struggling.
There, he and a friend, Tyler Ziemann, launched Club Nexus in late 2001. David Kirkpatrick, author of, says: “It was probably also the first real social network ever launched in the United States.” “I noticed that during their freshman year most undergraduates make friends in their immediate vicinity, which is the dorm or fraternity. And I thought that was such a narrow way to meet people.”
Buyukkokten wrote the entire code for the website and set up its servers, but left the company soon after to join Google as a programmer in 2002. “They said Orkut.com was easier to remember and I was the person who designed it. But I was really surprised,” he says. Teenagers around the world flocked to social networks as they made profiles, uploaded pictures, and searched for old classmates from the comfort of their bedrooms.
What drove youngsters in Brazil and India to Orkut instead of Facebook has remained a subject of debate for years. But there could be socio-economic reasons for it, says Danah Boyd, a technology scholar. Orkut’s failure in the US primarily had to do with the time it took to for the website to load. Buyukkokten wrote the website’s source code on programmes such as C Sharp and Windows that could handle only few hundred thousand users.
Despite having a website to his name that at its peak in 2009 had 300 million users, Buyukkokten didn’t come under the spotlight like creators of other networks - after all he was just a Google employee. Like other social networks, Orkut had its share of troubles over issues related to abusive and defamatory content posted by users.
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