If you're as much of an orkut addict as I am, you probably spend a decent amount of time visiting friends' profiles and seeing what they're up to. While browsing, I'm often surprised to find people that I know (friends of friends), who I didn't even realize had orkut profiles. While I often use the search feature to find specific friends I want to add, up until now, there hasn't been an easy way to find those friends of mine I wouldn't think to search for.
We on the orkut team figured we could make things easier on everyone by offering suggestions of people you might want to be friends with on your orkut home page. With the new orkut friend suggestions feature, we use an algorithm to automatically create a list of people on orkut who you might know, and display it right below your birthday reminders.
Not only does the friend suggestions feature make it easy to find new friends, it also lets you add them to your friends list and send them a short message without ever leaving your home page. Just click the "add as friend" link below your friend's photo, customize the message you want to send (or use the predefined message we've created for you), and click "send invite."
We originally developed this feature to help people who were new to orkut to quickly and easily find all of their friends who had already joined, but soon realized that it could be just as useful to any orkut user, regardless of how many friends they have. As such, we've decided to make it available to all of you. We're currently in the process of rolling it out, so if you haven't seen it yet, don't worry, we'll be sure to get to you soon.
Have feedback about orkut friend suggestions? Visit the orkut Help Forum and let us know.
Hope this new feature helps you make even more orkut friends!
Posted by Eduardo Tejada, software engineer
We on the orkut team figured we could make things easier on everyone by offering suggestions of people you might want to be friends with on your orkut home page. With the new orkut friend suggestions feature, we use an algorithm to automatically create a list of people on orkut who you might know, and display it right below your birthday reminders.
Not only does the friend suggestions feature make it easy to find new friends, it also lets you add them to your friends list and send them a short message without ever leaving your home page. Just click the "add as friend" link below your friend's photo, customize the message you want to send (or use the predefined message we've created for you), and click "send invite."
We originally developed this feature to help people who were new to orkut to quickly and easily find all of their friends who had already joined, but soon realized that it could be just as useful to any orkut user, regardless of how many friends they have. As such, we've decided to make it available to all of you. We're currently in the process of rolling it out, so if you haven't seen it yet, don't worry, we'll be sure to get to you soon.
Have feedback about orkut friend suggestions? Visit the orkut Help Forum and let us know.
Hope this new feature helps you make even more orkut friends!
Posted by Eduardo Tejada, software engineer
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