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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.
- There is an option in the New user experience to automatically make new users friends with certain community members, such as the CEO.
- 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.
- From the activity stream, a content page, status message, comment, search result, or profile, hover over the user's avatar.
- Click Request friendship.
- Type a message in the request window.
- Click Send request.
Cancel a friendship request
- Click your user avatar.
- Click Profile.
- Click Friends.
- Click the Friends drop-down list.
- Click Your requests.
- Locate the user's avatar.
- Click Edit.
- 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.
- Click your user avatar.
- Click Profile.
- Click Friends.
- Click the Friends drop-down list.
- Click Requests to review.
- Click Accept.
- Click Accept friend request.
Remove a friend
- Click your user avatar.
- Click Profile.
- Click Friends.
- Locate the user's avatar.
- Click Connect.
- Click Unfriend.
Telligent Community Server provides a way to default certain users (such as forum moderators) as friends for any new user in a community. However, this setting only applies to new users whose IDs are established from that moment on. It does not automatically apply to pre-existing ones. For example: If you join a community when "EJohnson" is the forum moderator and he subsequently leaves the group, the new moderator - "HSimpson" - would not automatically assume the same friendship with you. This relationship needs to be added retroactively by running a SQL Server script. Please contact Support for assistance with a script.