Friends?

[fzappa13]

I'm not a newbie by any stretch of the imagination but it has been some time since I posted here and I don't understand the "friends" feature of the user interface and I am concerned I might be committing some sort of faux pas as a result.

What's this thing for?

 

[Spitfire]

It shows you which of your officially marked friends are online from the main screen.

Other than that I have no idea how it makes any difference to have added someone as a friend. Well, they show up on the list of friends on your userpage, too.

 

[Nathon Detroit]

I'm not a newbie by any stretch of the imagination but it has been some time since I posted here and I don't understand the "friends" feature of the user interface and I am concerned I might be committing some sort of faux pas as a result.

What's this thing for?

It's kind of a poor man's version of having friends in Facebook or on Twitter.

 

[fzappa13]

Having never done facebook or twitter I'm still in the dark ... it's not that I'm a ludite it's just that at a certain point I seem to have lost the inclination to follow every innovation.

In any event ... I'm all for friends ...