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I mean, other than being on my side forever more.

What does befriending a PF member do?

Whcih leads to another question: is there a Help section for PF?
 
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Say DaveC426913, are you drunk? If not, don't bother my post


Looks like you're waiting for ONE specific PF member to reply :biggrin:
 
Am I your friend?
 
Who loves you Dave? We do!
 
hypatia said:
Who loves you Dave? We do!

:rolleyes: In case this isn’t a sarcasm...are you playing big mama? :P
 
Integral said:
Now bribing mentors, that can get you somewhere!

Any official price list?
 
I'd like to know what the difference is in a "contact" and a "friend".
I like the contacts feature because I can restrict the ability to leave visitor messages on my profile to contacts, but I am not sure what the meaning is of making a friend a contact or vice versa.
 
Math Is Hard said:
I like the contacts feature because I can restrict the ability to leave visitor messages on my profile to contacts, but I am not sure what the meaning is of making a friend a contact or vice versa.
In some cases, the "r" seems superfluous.
 
drizzle said:
Looks like you're waiting for ONE specific PF member to reply :biggrin:

Heh. No. But ladies are half-price on days ending in a 'y'.

It's just that, every once in a while a PF member friends me, and I don't know the purpose of it.

Judging from this this thread, I'm starting to get the impression I'm not alone in my ignorance.


OK, here's another way of asking the question: some members are friending other members. Why?
 
DaveC426913 said:
Heh. No. But ladies are half-price on days ending in a 'y'.


Haha. Not even for free! :wink:

OK, here's another way of asking the question: some members are friending other members. Why?

Have you not ask one member before to be your friend?!
 
DaveC426913 said:
Heh. No. But ladies are half-price on days ending in a 'y'.

It's just that, every once in a while a PF member friends me, and I don't know the purpose of it.

Judging from this this thread, I'm starting to get the impression I'm not alone in my ignorance.


OK, here's another way of asking the question: some members are friending other members. Why?

Well, hrm. I asked the same question when the feature first happened. I don't entirely understand it either, but it's an easy way to find comments in threads by people who you enjoying reading or discussing things with. So I guess there's that advantage. Otherwise, it's just sort of a friendly (hah!) thing, is it not?
 
GeorginaS said:
Well, hrm. I asked the same question when the feature first happened. I don't entirely understand it either, but it's an easy way to find comments in threads by people who you enjoying reading or discussing things with. So I guess there's that advantage. Otherwise, it's just sort of a friendly (hah!) thing, is it not?

I agree


Ps. Hehe, nice avatar GeorginaS!
 
drizzle said:
I agree


Ps. Hehe, nice avatar GeorginaS!

*curtsy* :smile:
 
Math Is Hard said:
I'd like to know what the difference is in a "contact" and a "friend".
I like the contacts feature because I can restrict the ability to leave visitor messages on my profile to contacts, but I am not sure what the meaning is of making a friend a contact or vice versa.

Sounds like there's no difference since I tried to add 1 of my friends to my contacts and it said that person is already in your friend list:confused:

BTW, why can't we ignore mentors and admins?:devil:

<runs and hides>:rolleyes: