Orkut is a great site where users can network for business, romance, activities or hobbies--as long as users are 18 years or older.
That restriction apparently is not stopping thousands of youth for signing up onto the forums, as you can see from a quick search below.
Upon reading Google's terms of service, one discovers that Orkut was never intended for the youth.
(Terms of Service) eligibility and registration
You must be 18 years or older to use the orkut.com service. By registering for the orkut.com service, you represent and warrant that you are 18 or older and that you have the capacity to understand, agree to and comply with these Terms of Service.
The humorous part is that despite illegally using Orkut, many of the youth seem to be complying with the second part of the terms of service.
In addition, you must provide true, accurate and complete registration information to be an orkut.com member [...]
Although to my knowledge Orkut rejects users from registering who are under 18, it ironically allows users to adjust their age below 18 which makes them easy targets for child predators.
Google might be wise to either remove the age reduction below 18 or simply create an Orkut for kid's--otherwise they may find themselves in hot water again.
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