Add more friends on Orkut from Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail or AOL
Orkut has recently enhanced the find friends functionality on the profile page. Now you can add friends using email contacts in your external email accounts. Currently Hotmail and AOL email accounts can be used. Just choose the email provider (Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail or AOL) from the drop down, and enter the user name and password for your email account.
Orkut will then show you the contacts from your address book and denote those who are already on orkut, so you can add them to your (ever growing) list of friends. For contacts who aren’t on orkut yet, you can invite them in bulk.
For adding contacts from external email accounts, you need to give your account id and password. If your contacts are using gmail and they are on orkut, you can directly add them after importing them. For contacts who are not on Orkut, you can send an invitation asking them to join Orkut.
The email provider list is not country specific, so find your friends no matter where you are, or where they are. For example, if you have a hotmail.com.in email address, simply select “hotmail” from the drop down. Remember, orkut values your privacy and security and will never store your password nor transmit it over non-secure channels.
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