Is That Orkut On Your Face?

In a very surprising turn of events, the Orkut Machine has been exposed and the wizard exposed:

Orkut.com, a popular social networking Website which has attracted the attention of the some of the Internet’s biggest names, was revealed today by its creators to be an elaborate “reality Internet” project to form the basis of a master’s thesis.

“We figured we couldn’t keep it secret much longer anyway,” said Orkut Buyukkokten, after whom the distinctive blue-colored meet-and-match site was named. “I didn’t think we could do it this long in the first place, actually.”

Source: Todd Boyle via Many 2 Many

As Orkut seems to expect, a great deal of attrition is expected as a result of everyone joining the "Circe De Orkut" under false pretenses I am very interested in finding out why people would leave, in reality. It seems that many people were quite fond of the service and saw potential in it -- I'd assume Google did as well though they might not launch the "real" service just yet (wait for the backlash to end). I'm sort of curious if, now understanding the Terms of Service better, this news might not almost be an inducement to enter the fray since there's "less" to worry about.

Of course, on the other hand, as Orkut notes, the servers are paid up till "the end of March" but if I was holding Orkut social stock, I'd say that ship was about to tank BIG TIME

Good thing I didn't know anyone to invite me to the inaugural sailing of the Titanic Orkut ;)

UPDATE:Thanks to Andy for pointing out to me that I have been hact. This seems to be a prank that was circulating.. So yes, there is Orkut on my face ;) Damned this Internet thing.