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Ten years ago, Orkut marked Google’s first foray into the social networking arena before people even knew what social media was. The problem is no one really knows what Orkut is either as the service never took off in the U.S. despite some success in India and Brazil. Google isn’t one to dwell in the past for too long, however. It has shown a tendency to shut down services with stagnant growth, like it’s closing of the Reader app and several others last year. Now Google plans to pull the chord on Orkut by shutting down the site come September 30, 2014.