Orkut Privacy: Hide Your Scrapbooks, Feeds From Strangers Too?

(Hat Tip: Jerry from Orkut Plus)

After previously allowing users to hide their albums, video's and testimonials from strangers, Google is now allowing users to hide their Orkut scrapbooks as well.

Users can access this by visiting the privacy tab or by clicking on the link below...

http://www.orkut.com/PrivacySettings.aspx

...which will bring you to this page.



You can then select to have your scrapbook and feeds to be viewed by either just your friends--or the entire orkutsphere.

This is definitely good news for users (especially girls) although this may signal the death of software scrap programs as Google seems to be taking more aggressive measures to remove any excuse for users to log into non-Google properties.

Note: With Google finally wrapping up the last major security concern (at least privacy wise) I wonder if they will consider legally opening up Orkut to kids under 18?

New: Hide Your Orkut Albums, Video's And Testimonies From Public View

(Hat Tip: Jerry from Orkut Plus)

Google has recently given users the ability to hide their Orkut albums, videos and even testimonies from public view. This is great news, especially for girls as it will help prevent morons from stealing their images and cloning them on Orkut.

In order to activate this users will have to visit the "Privacy Tab" which can be accessed by visiting this link:

http://www.orkut.com/PrivacySettings.aspx

Next, scroll down towards the bottom of the page until you see the "allow content to be viewed by" text.



You will notice two columns, one with drop menu's and the other simply listing the features you can hide from public view.

Simply select whether you want your albums, video's and testimonies to be viewed by friends or to the world.

This move should help keep down "image theft" on Orkut, and teamed up with the scrapbook privacy settings should make Orkut a much safer place online.

Note: I would HIGHLY recommend ladies on Orkut to make your albums, video's and testimonies private, as the last thing you want is some creep trying to figure out your fashion tastes are, not to mention what your friends say about you.