Connections between community members

One of the most important purposes of the ARM Community is connecting to members. It provides a number of features that facilitate connection across the site, including:

• Private messages - Members can send private messages via email, activity stream, or profile.
• Following - Members can track others' activities without requesting friendship.
• Friendship - Members designate others in the community as friends. Friends have multiple capabilities with each other, such as private messaging and chat. By default, the friend relationship also includes following, but you can unfollow a friend to stop activity updates.
• Status messages - Members can create brief messages or in the activity stream on their dashboards (or site or group home pages) to communicate activities, ideas, reactions, or status message replies.