I'm not sure if this is possible, but it would be great to either see if someone who sends you a "friends Request" is also a friend of anyone on your current "friends list" OR if when you open up a profile, there is a section that immediately shows if you have any friends in common (sort of like the "FB" feature)
One of the things we do is ask people who merely send a "friends Request" without an introductory email a message asking them if we have met before or have friends in common as a way of screening who have access to our private pictures.
Anyway, just a thought!
One of the things we do is ask people who merely send a "friends Request" without an introductory email a message asking them if we have met before or have friends in common as a way of screening who have access to our private pictures.
Anyway, just a thought!
This would be a great feature!!!
Would be great, but would that not kind of interfere with peoples privacy? I know some couples for example that will not post comments to their site's because of that... I also have had somewhat of a strange experience where someone asked me questions about someone else, because they must found one of my comments on that other persons site... not such a good thing maybe if u are trying to remain somewhat private and don't want to give info about people you are friends with. Does that make sense? I would have mixed feelings about that...
I agree with the privacy factor, but it would be nice to have some sort of dialogue on here other than just in chatting...the profiles are helpful, but it is almost "too" private.
CANDEEME is right, it would open up too much that a lot of members would want to keep private. We are however going to be adding a feature called Entourage that you will be able to pick your closest friends that you always hang out with and it will display them on your profile. Of course, this feature is optional so if you wish for that info to remain private, that is your choice. The Entourage feature will then have the ability to link who has common Entourage friends.
We have a question, if you send a friend request then later realized you want to retract it, how is that done...
CANDEEME wrote:
Would be great, but would that not kind of interfere with peoples privacy? I know some couples for example that will not post comments to their site's because of that... I also have had somewhat of a strange experience where someone asked me questions about someone else, because they must found one of my comments on that other persons site... not such a good thing maybe if u are trying to remain somewhat private and don't want to give info about people you are friends with. Does that make sense? I would have mixed feelings about that...
I guess this might be an issue; however, we already have the ability to pick and choose which comments we want to publicize so I'm not getting how showing the friends you have in common with a "new friend request" would make this any more or less of a problem . . . I would hope the comments being posted (or approved for public view) were on the positive side rather than the negative. I do see the privacy aspect . . . people might not want everyone to know that they are friends with one couple but not another . . .
In any event, the compromise that the Administrators are working on makes better sense given your concerns.
SIMPLEPLEASURES wrote:
We have a question, if you send a friend request then later realized you want to retract it, how is that done...
SimplePleasures . . . when you are viewing your friends ("Managing friends" option on the "Mailbox" tab), when you click, "remove" - you essentially rescind your permission to be "friends" with the profile you "remove".
To compare...facebook has the "friends in common" feature and you can turn it off of your profile...so it could be done, just probably with a lot of work...I can see both sides of it, would be great to have but also a privacy thing...kisses...Naugh-Ty
I'm in agreement with SWINGSETS' initial posting of having the ability to see who mutual friends are.
As far as the privacy issue goes, it's a "NO BRAINER" - if someone asks you a question you're either uncomfortable answering, or choose to NOT answer, then don't answer it.
What could be more simple?
As far as the privacy issue goes, it's a "NO BRAINER" - if someone asks you a question you're either uncomfortable answering, or choose to NOT answer, then don't answer it.
What could be more simple?
We have 'friends' on our list that we've never met or even had conversations with. I'd hate for someone to see that we're friends and consider that vouching for them.