Welcome to Plurk

One of Plurk’s early design philosophy is to create a safe social networking environment where users can protect themselves and have full control over their own privacy setting. This is being reflected in many of our core features. On a micro level, each plurk can be customized so that only certain people can see it, should you ever wish to do so. You can also edit or delete your own plurk. On a higher level, you can also choose who can see your timeline, with 4 different options to choose from.

But sometimes we can only do so much. The gray line between verbal harassment and freedom of speech is thin enough to give us daily headaches when dealing with different situations reported by our users. The best solution seems to be to give our users enough ammo to protect themselves and at the same time, help us police plurkiverse. Here are some of the available options:

How to restrict your timeline so that it’s only viewable to your friends?
You can choose to restrict your timeline so that it is only viewable to you, or your friends, or your friends of friends. Click ‘My Account’ from the top right of your timeline, follow by ‘Privacy’. Choosing the ‘friends only’ option will also prevent people from becoming your fan.

How to hide your date of birth and location?
For extra privacy, you can choose to hide your date of birth and location from the ‘My Profile’ panel. To hide your date of birth, simply choose ‘Month’, ‘Day’, ‘Year’ for each of the drop downs.

To hide your location, un-select the check box that says ‘Show my location to others’.

How to unfollow your annoying friends without them knowing?
Another cool feature that allows you to un-follow your talkative friend’s plurk without actually removing them as friend is the ‘Timeline follow’ feature. From ‘My Friends’ panel, you can see a list of your friends and on the right side of each friend, you can see a couple of toggle buttons. Click on the Timeline Follow button to switch on or off your friend follow status. Both of you will still remain friends and he/she doesn’t even know you have stopped following their plurks . Save the awkward moment for later.

How to block bad plurker?
Sometimes when people gets really, really bad, you might have to use the ultimate weapon – block. Blocked user will not be able to see your timeline or your plurks, or request friendship or become your fan and will remain so until you unblock them. You can block a plurker from a couple of places: by hovering over a nickname in your timeline.

or by going to their profile page dashboard. Look for the block button on top right hand side.