Hide and Keep your Email ID Secure on Orkut

Leaving your email ID unprotected on Orkut might lead to so many unpleasant things like Orkut profile hacking, unsolicited friend requests, junk mails etc. Though it was possible to know any Orkut user’s email address earlier, Orkut has tightened it’s security system and no one can know anyone’s email ID if the user has not set his/her settings otherwise. You can also keep your email ID secure on orkut by not allowing anyone to view your email address from the privacy settings page.

Hide Email Address from Everyone on Orkut

1. Login to your Orkut account.

2. Navigate to Settings and click on Privacy tab

3. Look for an option called “allow people to find me through my email address“, select the second sub-option and check “Don’t allow people to find me“.

4. Just below the above option, you can find another privacy option that says, “friend requests are allowed to be sent by“, select the second sub-option “anyone who fits one of the following selected options” and tick the first settings option, “people who know my email address (required default)“. Check or uncheck the below two options according to your wish

5. Click on Save to save the changes you have made and you are Done.

Now no one can search your profile by email address. Even if they search using your actual email address, Orkut won’t show them your profile in their search results. And in step-4 we have made it sure that no one can add you as friend without knowing your email address. It’s possible to know email address from pending friend requests, but since we have restricted to friend requests by email only, no one can misuse that feature to get your email address.

This is a must do for those Orkut users who are serious about their privacy. If you want to be more secure on this social network, you can read how to be more secure on orkut.

4.Orkut is getting secure, in other words ’stricter’ day by day.To control spam activities,it has limited the number of scraps, messages, testimonials

Many of us don’t like adding unknown people to our friends list on Orkut. However there are people who keep sending friend requests to every other person just to increase their friends count. Personally speaking, each day I get 20+ requests on Orkut, but my friends list is limited to 112 only at this moment. I really don’t like adding unknown people to my list and that’s why I manually decline their pending requests everyday. However, you can use a filter to automatically block friend requests from unknown people.

Orkut has a privacy settings from where you can filter incoming friend requests. You can choose to get friend requests from unknown people or from people from your country only or from the people who are in your friend’s list. To set these filters, navigate to Settings >> Privacy >> Friend requests are allowed to sent by

Here you will notice few options. For an easy explanation I’ve marked the options as 1, 2 and 3.

1. Select the second option that says “Anyone who fits one of the following options” to start filtering
2. First sub-option gets activated automatically once you select the above option. This will ask people to enter your email address in order to send friend requests. Persons who don’t know your email address won’t be able to send requests to you. (Tip : How to find anyone’s email address)
3. Second sub-option will make the privacy settings more stronger by allowing friend requests from those persons who are in at least one of your friend’s list
4. Orkut is available worldwide and hence if you want to receive requests from people of selected countries only, tick the third sub-option

Click on Save to save the changes you have made. Now no one who does not meet above requirements won’t be able to send friend requests to you. This is the best way to avoid unwanted friend requests on Orkut.