Best Practices - Friendship

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Social networks have refined the concept of friendship to an unrecognizable clarity.

Clearly, these are not all friendships. Developers use the term friend because it's short and describes an association.

We give people the power to identify their true relationship with the "friends" they make on this system by:

  • Allowing them to "tag" their relationships with the relationships field. See Friend List doc.
  • Allowing them to "hide" their friends, by simply not reporting them via the friend-list.
  • Allowing them to subscribe to people they don't know personally, but want to know about. See Subscription Request.

These are great tools, which, when combined with a simple interface, can allow users to separate true friends from "Elementary School Friends".

Or not.

A nice way to do it

A quick option on signup: 

When I make a friend:
[ ] Let others see them.
[x] Let no one see them unless I choose to make them public.
[ ] Always ask.

When I subscribe to someone's newsfeed:
[x] Let others see them.
[ ] Let no one see them unless I choose to make them public.
[ ] Always ask.

Etc...
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