One of the most important aspect and most spoken topic when it comes to social networking is privacy. We have seen many issues in the past due to open nature of social networking site and that’s where Orkut is trying to take advantage by offering simplified Privacy settings.
Orkut took help of group to simplified privacy settings and you can share an update which meant for your family with all the members in Family and so on for Office friends and college friends.
Words from official orkut announcement:
Imagine Sarah, a 21 year old girl who just created an orkut profile. To get started, she adds her college friends to her friend list. They share photos, join communities, exchange scraps, discuss everything that’s hot on campus. A few days later Sarah finds out that some friends from high school are also on orkut and adds them: what’s better than keeping in touch with old friends?
Then Sarah gets her first job and adds her office colleagues to orkut: you can’t decline a friend request from your boss, can you? Sarah’s social network keeps growing. Even her parents, aunts, uncles and cousins are on orkut, and she adds them to her friend list.
The college gang, old friends from high school, office colleagues, family, everyone is in Sarah’s friend list now. Soon enough she will not be able to share anything with anyone anymore – after all, jokes and photos from the office party should be shared only with her work colleagues. Scraps and photos of her baby nephew at the family reunion should only be seen by members of her family. The plans for Saturday night and the photos of the parties she went to should be seen only by her party friends – Sarah does not want her boss or her young cousin to see those.
Simplified Group Management:
You can go to this page and quickly manage your Group. You can add or remove group with one click. Group management in Orkut is very simplified and you can quickly get started with this.
Not too forget, couple of days back Orkut simplified its design and trying to make it better with quick links.
Here is a nice video demo from Orkut team explaining this new Group privacy feature:
I’m impressed with the way Orkut team are working on adding new features and making Orkut better. It’s not hard to say that Orkut have to work a lot to get in the league of top social networking site now. Specially when Facebook is spreading virally. Do share your views about this new Orkut look and do login to say hi to your Orkut friends.
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How does one remove the automated group suggestions… the problem is that some unwanted group suggestion is featured on my home page as a tab and i cant find a way to remove it…