How to add

jc4meandu
jc4meandu Posts: 275 Member
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can someone help me figure out how to add people? Everything’s changed

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  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 37,449 Community Helper

    The more apposite question might be why to add: With the changes, all that being MFP friends does is enable DMs and let a person see a friend's diary if the diary is open to friends.

    Better support is available these days through accountability/support/challenge threads in the Community these days, IMO.

    One answer is to click on the ID in a message here in the Community, then the "View Profile" button, then click the "MyFitnessPal Profile" button on the Community profile that appears. That will bring up their MFP profile, where you can click "Add as Friend" or the equivalent people-y looking icon, depending on whether you're in the web browser version or the app.

    That only works if both profiles, Community and MFP, aren't shut down as private. There are things you can do if they're private, but I'd be tempted to assume they don't want friend requests, if they've privatized all of that. A lot of people have stopped accepting FRs from anyone they don't already have a connection with via the Community, because of the high fraction of scammers, catfishers and creeps broadcasting FRs to dozens. (If you get any of those, report them to MFP. MFP's good about following up, unlike other social networks.)

    For example, in the MFP phone/tablet app, you can click on your profile pic on the dashboard, scroll down to "Add friends" then use the "Email" option with an MFP user ID instead of an email . . . in theory, because I haven't done it to make sure it works. It looks like you can send a message with the FR, but I believe you can't. The scammers were using that maliciously, too.

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