Presenting Hello, a Social Network from the Creator of Orkut

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Presenting Hello, a social network from the creator of Orkut

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Contributed by Orkut Büyükkökten

by Guest Contributor November 21, 2017 Share Tweet

Back in my childhood, I truly believed that everything was much simpler. And if I have to give you my honest opinion as to why things were the way they were, it would be how people communicated with each other. There was always an element of human touch, which is losing its essence in today’s world.

Time has moved on and so have I. Getting older can be beautiful and scary at the same time. The feeling ﬁrst hit me when I lost my father. He was the kindest and most selﬂess person I knew, and I was devastated. My father taught me to be compassionate and hard working. He was a surgeon who spent his entire career caring for other people. He often would only charge patients for what they could afford or, if they couldn't pay, he wouldn't charge them at all. There was an aura about him from the moment you shook his hand or heard him speak that inspired your trust. I remember at his funeral, all the businesses and shops in the town where we were from in Turkey shut down for the procession. The residents carried his casket on their shoulders all the way from the town center to the grave site. My father showed me, by his example, what it means to leave a mark on other people.

As adults, we discuss the virtues of honesty, fairness, kindness, and compassion that we learned as kids. However how many of us really practice them in our day to day lives? When we grow older and develop into the human beings that we are today, we enter a world altogether different from the kind and liberal one that our parents taught us enter a world altogether different from the kind and liberal one that our parents taught us about- it’s one where trustworthiness is never guaranteed and truth-telling appears like a faraway ideal.

In a world that changes and moves faster and faster, we often feel like we aren’t good enough, that there is so much more we could be doing and accomplishing. We are ever striving for the ultimate in perfection that we believe others have achieved. What we fail to realize is that in the rush of becoming someone or something else and achieving the distant milestone we lose the pride in sensing who we are.

We were all born with an innate desire to share with other people. We are all social beings and connecting with other people is what makes us human. We have forgotten that the best way for us to ﬁnd joy in our own lives is to bring joy into the lives of others. Sharing your thoughts and life with others is what nurtures your being. Technology and social media have made it easier for us to meet and connect with each other but they also have become weapons of self-destruction. We spend so much time online that we have lost touch with what truly matters. We have started to measure ourselves not by how true we are to ourselves but by how many likes and comments we get on our newsfeeds.

Hello is a social network built on loves, not likes. There is so much competition, agony, jealousy and hatred in the world that you could be posting the cutest moments around you or appreciating a spectacular view and the next moment you know you could be termed a fraud. Overexposure of social media and its easy accessibility has made today’s generation dependent on it and as I mentioned before, I don’t blame it because it has indirectly become a part and parcel of our existence. But when I hear stories about school kids getting inﬂuenced through this platform to the point that they want to end their life just because they got hooked to a challenge, it tests my faith in humanity. How can there be so much wrong in a world ﬁlled with so much potential for doing what's right?

Hope starts with us. Every single one of us has the potential to be honest, kind, fair and compassionate. I believe with all my heart that technology and social media can help us make the world a better place. I have long dreamed of a place online that is more hopeful and kind, a place without ﬁlters, a place where we feel safe to express ourselves openly and honestly, where we truly care for and support each other, where we can be genuine and intimate and raw, a place where we don't need to be afraid—a place that would make my father proud.

We're making my dream a reality at hello. Hello is a social network built on loves, not likes. Hello is a celebration of love and friendship and togetherness and all the values that make us human. It's a culmination of my life's work, but I can't do this alone. If you want to create a kinder social network, join our community on hello.com. Invite your friends, and bring a neighbour and a stranger too. Together, we are stronger. Together, we can build a better world!

About Orkut Büyükkökten

Orkut Buyukkokten, is a well-known social pioneer and co-founder and CEO of hello, a new mobile social network available in 11 countries. After witnessing the evolution of social networking over the past 16 years, Orkut was inspired to help bring people together around their common passions -- a vision that changes how the world does social. Unlike other social networks, hello is a place where people can connect around what matters most to them and in a friendly and non-judgmental environment.

Orkut created and launched orkut.com, in 2004, a social network that gathered more than 300 million users worldwide and at its peak accounted for over 50% of Google’s page views and was the #1 website in India and Brazil.

He is a native of Turkey and received both a M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University where he launched the ﬁrst of his three successful social networks, Stanford University where he launched the ﬁrst of his three successful social networks, Club Nexus.

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