Question:

Arun asks: Most of my acquaintances are on Orkut and Facebook, so i simply don’t have time to follow up on my Friendster profile any more. Can you help me deleting my Friendster web page?

Answer:

Thanks Arun for the question. With the plethora of social networks available online, it’s hard to be able to manage more than 2-3 web profiles. Luckily, social networks such as Friendster for instance, have put in place relatively simple procedures for canceling an account with them. Follow the below steps to effectively delete your Friendster account.

1. Login to your Friendster Account.
2. Select Settings from the upper right hand corner of the main page.
3. On the Settings page, scroll down to the bottom and click Cancel Account.
4. The cancel account page will load, now go ahead and scroll to the middle of the page where the Cancellation form is located.
5. Fill in the required details such as the e-mail address of your Friendster account and current password.
6. Check the confirmation box, “Yes, I want to cancel my Friendster account”.
7. Select proceed and you will then successfully deleted your Friendster profile account.

Changing your profile picture on Hi5

Question:

Didier asks: Hey guys – Do you know how can i change my profile pic on Hi5?

Answer:

Thanks for your question, Didier. Click on the profile link on your homepage. Below your default photo, you will find a link called “Edit my basic info”. Click on it. Then you’ll see a link called “Photo”, click on it, then click on “browse”. Now go ahead and choose your profile picture, open it and hit the upload button. Hit the “save” button once the picture is uploaded. That’s pretty much it.

Not sure as to how to add or change your profile picture on Orkut? Here is a quick guide to help you do it lightning fast!
1) First, go ahead and login to your Orkut account. Towards the left margin of your profile page, you would find a link named “profile”, click on the “edit” link that appears next to it.
2) Just below your profile picture icon you would see two options, “Change photo” and Remove photo.
3) To change the profile picture click on the “Change photo” link. You would get a pop up prompting you to upload your picture from your personal computer, select the destination address of the picture that you want to upload. You would get a pop up window for cropping the picture.
4) Crop the picture or use the original picture and that’s the end of it

Enjoy your new Orkut profile picture

Question:

Diego asks: I have an Hi5 layout, and i would like to make an Hi5 custom background. I am not proficient with html and CSS codes, so i’ll need a sort of code generator for this. Can you help?

Answer:

Thanks Diego for your question. If you would like to create a quick background that you can use in Layouts for Hi5, i would recommend you visit our Hi5 backgrounds and layouts generator. You’ll need to just input your image URL as stored in your Image Hosting Service of choice (like Flickr, Photobucket and so forth) and hit Generate. Enjoy

Question:

Here’s another question on Hi5 profile customization, this time from Alice: I am after some codes that will allow me to hide the Hi5 last login date. Can you publish those in your web site?

Answer:

Sure Alice. Please go ahead and copy the following CSS codes and then hit Edit Profile, then Customize your Profile and paste the codes at the end of the Lifestyle section (I’d Like to meet):

<style>.box_profile_connections {display: none;}</style>

Question:

Here’s one from Heidi: I am looking for some codes for my Hi5 profile. More specifically, i am after codes in order to hide hi5 comments. can you help?

Answer:

Thanks for asking. Please go ahead and paste the following code at the end of the the Lifestyle section:

<style>.comment {display: none;}</style>

Enjoy

Question:

Here’s one from Danny – Hey nice codes over there. I was wondering whether you can provide us with the CSS codes needed to hide the Hi5 friends section?

Answer:

Thanks for the question Danny. All you’ll need to do is to grab the code from below, then login to Hi5, hit Edit Profile and Personalize Profile and paste the codes in the Style section:

<style>#friends {display: none;}</style>

Enjoy

Question:

Here’s a question i got from Rosarito from Argentina (for my english speaking readers convenience i will translate from spanish): I am trying to access Hi5 from school and unfortunately that isn’t possible. Can you suggest how to unblock Hi5?

Answer:

Unblocking Hi5 is no different that unblocking other similar social networks. This is done mainly using free proxy web sites. I have written quite a few posts on this topic, take a look at my tutorial on accessing MySpace , it has the information you need in order to unblock Hi5.

Question:

I am looking for an easy way to customize my Hi5 profile background. Can you point me to an Hi5 Backgrounds generator?

Answer:

Absolutely. Making a free Hi5 custom background is very easy. Just go ahead and visit our Hi5 backgrounds and layouts generator, and follow the steps outline there. Enjoy Hi5

Question:

I have a linkedin profile in which i specified all my personal and professional details i would like to publish over the web. Now, i am interested to publish my linkedin page over the web, so every time someone googles my name he/she will have my profile listed in the search engine results. How to make it happen?

Answer:

A well crafted Linkedin profile can by all means make a great business card. By default, your profile is hidden and won’t appear in web engine searches unless you change its settings. That means that only LinkedIn members can view your details and not the entire world.

Note that before you go on and publish your Linkedin profile on the web, you might want make sure that you allow only relevant parts of your profile to show up in a web search.

• First login to LinkedIn
• Then open the My Profiletab
• Now hit Edit My Public Profile
• Check the Full View (recommended) button.
• Now comes the important part – uncheck all profile sections (picturem current positions, Interests, groups etc’) that you don’t want to make public.
• Hit Save all changes. Voila your Linked profile is now public. Please allow a day or so to appear in Google’s and Yahoo’s search engine results.