Friending a member

Table of Contents

• Request friendship
• Cancel a friendship request
• Accept a friend
• Remove a friend

With the friend feature:

• Friending someone creates a relationship between you so that you can keep up with each other's activities (following) and communicate.
• The friend relationship ("x is now friends with y") is shown in activity stories such as the site Activity Story Stream.
• When you become friends with another user, you receive a message about this.
• Your friends are listed on your profile > friends tab. Any incoming or outgoing friendship requests are also shown in your notifications.
• Friends see each other's activities in a group.
• You can unfriend someone at any time. They will not receive a message about this action.
• You can retroactively add friends.

Request friendship

To become friends with another community member, send the user a friend request from a hover-over on his/her username.

1. From the activity stream, a content page, status message, comment, search result, or profile, hover over the user's avatar.
2. Click Request friendship.
   
   
3. Type a message in the request window.
4. Click Send request.

Cancel a friendship request

1. Click your avatar.
2. Click Profile.
3. Click Friends.
4. Click the Friends drop-down list.
5. Click Your requests.
6. Locate the user's avatar.
7. Click Edit.
8. Click Cancel friendship request.

Accept a friend

To become friends with another community member, send the user a request from a hover-over on his/her username or from his/her user profile.

1. Click your avatar.
2. Click Profile.
3. Click Friends.
4. Click the Friends drop-down list.
5. Click Requests to review.
6. Click Accept.
7. Click Accept friend request.

Remove a friend

1. Click your avatar.
2. Click Profile.
3. Click Friends.
4. Locate the user's avatar.
5. Click Connect.
6. Click Unfriend.