# Friends

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends/475584>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [December 3, 2008, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends/475584 "2008-12-03T23:03:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends/475584/1 "2008-12-03T23:03:11Z")

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What’s this feature do?

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**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends/475584/2 "2008-12-04T02:28:51Z")

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Not much yet, but as the board stabilizes and they begin trying out improvements and new features it might form part of the social networking backbone of the SDMB. Groups would be another big piece of the puzzle.

I am still hoping that tags come back.