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Find Email Address Of Orkut Friends

admin — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:52:39 +0000

Orkut has no such options which allow you to see any of yours friends email address in there profile as well as in yours friends contact list due to some privacy policy, so it creates problem for a new orkut user to see the email address of his friends in orkut .But now we are able to retrieve all ours friends email address simply by following few steps mention as under :-

1. Retrieve orkut email address of your friends by navigating to Show Friend page by clicking Friends Link which is at the top of the page.

2. At the rightside of that page, which is just below Manage Contacts click Export Contacts which enables you to download all yours friends email address in .csv format directly to your computer.

3 .This Process enables you view all your friends details on your Desktop with excel.

Find e-mail id of any orkut user

admin — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:58:59 +0000

Go to any orkut user’s profile page.
Click on More option, it’s there just below Add as a friend option.
From the more options select the Ignore User option and ignore him.
Now open Gtalk and click on Settings.
Now click on Blocked users.
This will show you all your blocked contacts. And from this contacts you will get the email ID of that orkut user.

Now you can get any Orkut user’s email ID eventhough he is not in your friends list. This Orkut trick will show you anyone’s email ID that was invisible to your previously. But don’t forget to remove him from your blocked contact list after getting his email address.

5 Tips to Protect Your Privacy on Orkut

admin — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:48:10 +0000

Top 5 Tips to Protect Your Privacy on Orkut

1. Remove your profile from Google search results

Most Orkut users are unaware of this fact that Google can index your Orkut profile and show in it’s search results. Now the whole world can see your profile on Google search results by just entering few of your details. Allowing Google to do this means you are exposing yourself before whole world.

You should restrict Google from indexing and following your profile. To remove your profile from Google search results, navigate to Settings >> Privacy and select Hide Information. You are done.

2. Allow friend requests from selected people only

Orkut is for developing relationships and hence many people join here to make new friends. Since not all are with good intentions, you should not allow unknown people to add you and view your personal informations such as scraps, photos, videos etc.

You can restrict unknown people from sending friend requests by selecting one of three available options. You can either select to receive friend requests from friends of your friends, or from a selected region or from those people who is having your email ID. Select the best option for you.

3. Disable photo tagging option

If your friend is having one of your photos in his album, any of his friends can add a short identification batch AKA tag to that picture. Adding a tag to a picture means identifying a person from that photo and giving a link to his/her profile. When someone clicks on that tag, he will get redirected to your profile. This will expose your photos, even if you have locked your own photo album.

You can always disable photo tagging option by un ticking the Yes option under Privacy section. Doing this will keep your identity secure and protected.

4. Limit access to your profile

Would you like to share your personal photos, videos, scraps, testimonials with everyone? Showing your photos to everyone might lead to creating an another profile with your photos. Keeping scrapbook open to all will allow anyone to know your interactions with your friends. So, it’s better to keep them locked.

Under Privacy section, you can allow selected people to view your scrapbook, send scraps, view photos, watch videos, see testimonials, read events. You can even hide photos from your friends. Take advantage of these security features.

5. Protect your Email address

Last but not the least. Our Email address is the key to our Orkut profile. People can send you friend requests if they know your email address. Email address is something very persoal and should not go public. hackers can hack your Orkut accounts by knowing your email address. So, protecting your Orkut account should be a must-must decession.

You can find a option in the privacy section where you can select if you want to allow people to make a search with your email address and find your Orkut profile. Select “Don’t allow people to find me” option.

Following above 5 tips will make your Orkut account more secure. If you are really serious about your privacy and don’t want others to interfer in this, follow all above steps.