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Adding Friends

AndyRRobinson
AndyRRobinson Posts: 9 Member
in Getting Started
Hi everyone I'm hoping to add friends to help support & motivate each other.. I've trued adding people via their profiles, but it doesn't give me any options to add people as friends.. any ideas anyone, thank you!

Answers

  • Awegg05
    Awegg05 Posts: 148 Member
    Adding friends is a pain on here!
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,458 Member
    It's easy using the web version (browser, not mobile app.)

    Click their name in the forums, then on that page that comes up, click "View Profile" then at the top of that page click "Myfitnesspal Profile" and if their profile isn't set to PRIVATE, you'll see an "Add as friend" button. Click that.

    But wait - then the person has to Okay that. You may or may not have to deal with life-crushing rejection. (Don't worry, you won't get a REJECTED message. :lol: ) If they do accept, you'll see them in your Friend List on your own profile page.

    :flowerforyou:
  • MargaretYakoda
    MargaretYakoda Posts: 2,995 Member
    cmriverside wrote: »
    It's easy using the web version (browser, not mobile app.)

    Click their name in the forums, then on that page that comes up, click "View Profile" then at the top of that page click "Myfitnesspal Profile" and if their profile isn't set to PRIVATE, you'll see an "Add as friend" button. Click that.

    But wait - then the person has to Okay that. You may or may not have to deal with life-crushing rejection. (Don't worry, you won't get a REJECTED message. :lol: ) If they do accept, you'll see them in your Friend List on your own profile page.

    :flowerforyou:

    To be fair, considering the problems in the past with spammers pretending to be friends for various nefarious purposes, it’s probably best that adding friends means jumping through a few hoops.
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,063 Member
    edited March 2024
    Speaking for myself, I search the person requesting to be a friend. If they just joined a few hours ago, or have no meaningful posting history (ie no board posts at all, or post junky or generic rah rah posts) I’m probably going to decline.

    Too many faked profiles looking to strike up a convo and move to asking for money or bitcoin advice. At least the porn spammers disappeared when they removed the option to message someone who wasn’t already a friend.

    I’d rather be choosy and let the occasional potential
    Good “friend” fall thru the cracks than wind up with a bunch of the other.

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