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Keep orkut beautiful
orkut is an online community designed to help people connect, build relationships and create engaging communities around common interests. Since its inception in 2004, orkut has seen incredible growth around the world; we often hear users tell us how much orkut has come to mean in their lives (and if you’re one of them, we encourage you to share your own story).

We love orkut just as much as you do, and we want to keep it fun and clean – or, as we like to call it, beautiful. Some of the attention orkut has received in the Brazilian media recently has given the impression that our community is rife with illegal activity and discontented users. Any active orkut user realizes that this characterization is simply false, that our site’s very success has always been driven by our members’ ability to create the engaging content and communities which comprise the bulk of orkut’s population and content. In fact, orkut's top 50 communities, with more than 37 million total members and nearly 1.3 million daily visitors, have no illegal content whatsoever.

In recent months, we’ve built a variety of tools to help us more efficiently conduct such reviews. Since April alone, we’ve seen a 10x increase in how quickly we review and respond to user-reported instances of illegal or inappropriate content, and we continue to work on improving these tools and building new ones.