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I didn't know that Google shut down Orkut. Why did they shut down a network with such a large userbase? Was it focused on dating?

Google don’t care about shutting down products with large user base. Like Google Reader.

iirc, lawsuits and people started to migrate to Facebook.

iirc, it was just a business decision to focus on Google+ and other efforts. A bad one in my opinion though.