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103 lines
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Making Friends
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* [Home](help)
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Friendship in Friendica can take on a great many different meanings.
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But let's keep it simple, you want to be friends with somebody.
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How do you do it?
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The Directories
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Friendica has two different kinds of "addressbook":
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The directory of the Friendica server you are registered on and the global directory that collects account information across all Friendica instances.
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The first thing you can do is look at the **Directory**.
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The directory is split up into two parts.
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If you click the directory button, you will be presented with a list of all members (who chose to be listed) on your server.
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You'll also see a link to the **Global Directory**.
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If you click through to the global directory, you will be presented with a list of everybody who chose to be listed across all instances of Friendica.
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You will also see a "Show Community Forums" link, which will direct you to Groups, Forums and Fanpages.
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You connect to people, groups and forums in the same way, except groups and forums will automatically accept your introduction request, whereas a human will approve you manually.
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Connect to other Friendica users
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Visit their profile.
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Just beneath their profile picture will be the word 'Connect' (we're assuming this is an English language profile).
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Click that 'Connect' button.
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It will take you to a 'Connect' form.
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The form is going to ask you for your Identity Address.
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This is necessary so that this person's website can find yours.
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What do you put in the box?
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If your Friendica site is called "demo.friendica.com" and your username/nickname on that site is "bob", you would put in "bob@demo.friendica.com".
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Notice this looks just like an email address.
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It was meant to be that way.
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It's easy for people to remember.
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You *could* also put in the URL of your "home" page, such as "http://demo.friendica.com/profile/bob", but the email-style address is certainly easier.
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When you've submitted the connection page, it will take you back to your own site where you must then login (if necessary) and verify the connection request on *your* site.
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Once you've done this, the two websites can communicate with each other to complete the process (after your new friend has approved the request).
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If you already know somebody's Identity Address, you can enter it in the "connect" box on your "Contacts" page.
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This will take you through a similar process.
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Connect to users of alternate networks
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###GNU Social, Twitter, Diaspora
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You can also use your Identity Address or other people's Identity Addresses to become friends across networks.
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The list of possible networks is growing all the time.
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If you know (for instance) "bob" on gnusocial.de (a GNU Social site) you could put bob@gnusocial.de into your Contact page and become friends across networks.
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(Or you can put in the URL to Bob's gnusocial.de page if you wish).
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You can do the same for Twitter accounts and Diaspora accounts.
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In fact, you can "follow" almost anybody or any website that produces a syndication feed (RSS/Atom,etc.).
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If we can find an information stream and a name to attach to the contact, we'll try to connect with them.
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###Email
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If you have supplied your mailbox connection information on your Settings page, you can enter the email address of anybody that has sent you a message recently and have their email messages show up in your social stream.
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You can also reply to them from within Friendica.
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People can also become friends with you from other networks.
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If a friend of yours has an GNU Social account, they can become friends with you by putting your Friendica Identity Address into their GNU Social subscription dialog box.
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A similar mechanism is available for Diaspora members, by putting your identity address into their search bar.
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Note: Some versions of GNU Social software may require the full URL to your profile and may not work with the identity address.
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Notification
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When somebody requests friendship you will receive a notification.
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You will need to approve this before the friendship is complete.
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Approval
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Some networks allow people to send you messages without being friends and without your approval.
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Friendica does not allow this by default, as it would open a gateway for spam.
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Unilateral or bilateral friendships
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When you receive a friendship notification from another Friendica member, you will have the option of allowing them as a "fan" or as a "friend".
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If they are a fan, they can see what you have to say, including private communications that you send to them, but not vice versa.
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As a friend, you can both communicate with each other.
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Diaspora uses a different terminology, and you are given the option of allowing them to "share with you", or being full friends.
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Ignoring, blocking and deleting contacts
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Once you have become friends, if you find the person constantly sends you spam or worthless information, you can "Ignore" them - without breaking off the friendship or even alerting them to the fact that you aren't interested in anything they are saying.
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In many ways they are like a "fan" - but they don't know this.
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They think they are a friend.
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You can also "block" a person.
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This completely blocks communications with that person.
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They may still be able to see your public posts, as can anybody in the world, but they cannot communicate with you directly.
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You can also delete a friend no matter what the friendship status - which completely removes everything relating to that person from your website.
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