Edited sentence: But in late 2005 Orkut changed it.Earlier if a fellow had to reply to the scrap he had to visit the persons profile then go to his scrapbook then scrap him.Here is the list of 1st 5 communities on orkut.Here you can post topics, inform users about an event, ask them questions or just play games.If you know the exact link of the message then you can visit read their messages.In 2007 it added a feature called "Polls" where in community users can be polled.In addition to this there is personal messages.It added a feature using which people were able to reply to the scrap from their scrapbook only.It is mainly  used by community owners to ask others to join their community.Orkut has a lot of cool features which most of it's rival sites lack.Orkut tricks.Scraping is a kind of offline chatting.The best feature of orkut is "Communities".The only problem with this is that any one is able to read the scraps.The person to whom the scrap is sent will be able to see it once he visits his scrapbook.There are more than a million communities on orkut on absolutely everything from pizza to pasta from Film star to superstar, from your pet to your teacher.These feaures include "Scrapbook","Community" in addition to nomal feature like "Album" & "Messages".This has one problem though; you cannot change the details of the poll once you have posted it.Those interested will join your community.Though the messages are meant to be personal they aren't.Users rarely use this feature.You can create a community on anything.You can either allow only the members of community to participate or any one to take part in the poll.You can scrap a fellow even if he is offline