You might have faced the situation where you try to send a scrap to some one and you get the error “You Cannot Create This Scrap“. It might be a bit annoying but there is a reason why it shows up.

Why “You Cannot Create This Scrap” Pops Up ?

If you’re unable to send scraps, messages, friend requests, or testimonials to another Orkut user, it’s likely that this person has added you to the ignore list either on purpose or by mistake.

How to Add Someone on the Ignore List ?

You can prevent another user from sending you scraps, messages, invitations, friend requests, and testimonials by adding that user to your ignore list. To do so, simply visit that user’s profile and click ignore user under their profile picture after clicking the more » . (See Below)

How to Remove Someone from Ignore List

If you’re not receiving scraps, messages, friend requests, or friend invitations from a particular user, this may be because you’ve accidentally added them to your ignore list.

You can remove someone from this ignore list by following these steps:

1. Visit your homepage and click lists on the left sidebar. (Link)
2. Click the ignore list tab.
3. Click delete next to the name of the person you’d like to remove from your ignore list.

When you remove an orkut member from your ignore list, this person will be able to send you scraps, messages, and invitations.

Solution to the “You Cannot Create This Scrap” Orkut Problem

In case the friend has added you in the ignore list by Mistake which is a bit impossible. Try to tell him/her to follow the steps above to remove you from the ignore list on orkut.

You must have noticed this widget on your orkut homepage ie, Friend Suggestions by Orkut . It shows all the friends who are related to you in the order of profile matchness or the no. of mutual friends. But If you need to remove the Friend Suggestions by Orkut feature read on…

Removing Friend Suggestions by Orkut on Homepage

The ‘friend suggestions by orkut’ feature picks up friend suggestions based on the number mutual friends you share with that person.

Its automatic suggested friend which are taken by Orkut system according to User Habits and Likes.

This is how you can disable the friend suggestion feature on homepage.

• From the Homepage, Click settings
• It will open My Settings Page
• Under the General Tab scroll down.
• Look for low bandwidth settings.
• Check the show the low bandwidth version of orkut option. Look below

A Tip on Friend Suggestions by Orkut

Friend Suggestion is an very good tool to find out some those orkut friends whom you know but can’t search because they don’t use a name or uses symbols in their name by font trick. This is also very useful when a friends joins orkut with whom you have lost touch. This actually helped me a lot of my school friends who joined orkut now in college.

But you would rather like to turn it off if you have lot of anonymous friends whom you don’t know personally as the friend suggestions would suggest more unknown people.

There is a Great News for Orkut Lovers. They have rolled out a new interface for orkut. According to the reviews, it seems that they have focused primarily on a clean simple interface, fewer pages, faster browsing and greater personalization.

A Look at the New Interface of Orkut

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Features on the New Orkut Interface Look

• Better "What are you up to ?" : If you are eating pancakes or watching tv, you can let all your friend know about it.
• Fewer pages, faster browsing : Making the homepage a one-stop-shop for nearly everything that you’d like to do.
• A clean, simple interface : Reorganized the most important activities on orkut so that they are easy to find and even easier to use.
• Greater personalization : Make your orkut profile and homepage truly your own by choosing the color that best fits your style.
• Video chat : In case if you are bored with text based chatting, video chat is now possible without any software.

Excited about the new version of the site? Then you’ll also be excited to know that they’re returning to orkut’s roots and granting access to it via invitations.

Video Ad of The New Orkut Experience

How to Get Invites for the New Orkut Interface ?

Starting today, there are 3 ways to get invites:

1. Join Poppy and Shashi on the official community (www.orkut.co.in/neworkut) for insights into the new version of orkut and participate in one of the many activities that will be taking place there. Be sure to check back often as the owners will be regularly announcing new ways to get access.
2. Find a friend who’s already using the new version of orkut and ask for an invite. You can see who’s already gotten access via your activity stream or by this icon that will appear on your friends’ profile pages, next to their names.
3. Gaurav Dua of OrkutPlus will be giving away 10 Invites (Check Here).

I’d like to think of this as the beginning of a new evolution for orkut though the updates make it look just like facebook. I like the older orkut though… what do you think ?

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• How to Disable Friend Suggestions by Orkut on Homepage
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