No, I mean, “friends.” On the SD. Astonishing as it may be to some of you, I’ve been besieged by requests from Dopers for me to befriend them. (Okay, it’s seven people, but to me that feels like a lot.) I’m delighted to friend them–really, I love friends, even if I don’t actually, you know, speak to my friends for decades on end, but what can I DO with all these virtual friends? Is it just a self-esteem kind of thing, as in, “well, I may be living in a cardboard box on the street, in a rotten neighborhood, and I may have lost all four extremities and most of my torso, but goddammit I have friends!”? Or is there something specific I could do with this, outside of admiring the list of virtual friends as part of my worldly goods?
Funny thing is that I’m friends (as in “People I socialize with from time to time”) with several Dopers, none of whom happen to be on my “friends” list.
Also, if I’m misunderstanding the function entirely, and “friends” is something completely else, I think I should be “Ross.” I don’t have the chops to pull off “Joey.”
At this point they are of only limited use. There is a lot of functionality that was briefly on when the upgrade to vBulletin® Version 3.7.3 was first done. The Friends options played into this. At this point friends can be used to organize contacts or surf the users a bit.
Friends use to bring up a small pop-up window that would quickly show you which people on the list were on-line. This is no longer available and users now have an option of being in stealth mode. This list of friends was a one way option and actually the equivalent of the contacts list in this version.
If we ever get the extra functionality the friends options may prove a useful feature. But overall it does not provide a much of anything currently.
Sure it does. When someone like you, WE, asks to be my friend, it allows me to say, “Well, for damn sure, old buddy! We’re cool!” Contrariwise, I get to laugh and offer vicous, hopefully tear-inducing comments when someone approached by someone like
Oh, like I was really gonna name names. You think I’m some sort of monster?
Well, there you go. That’s what it means alright. . . for both meanings of the word dig. . . or whichever meaning seems more appropriate.
ETA: Oh, and I can think of a few more meanings of the word dig that might be appropriate. . .like digging someone out of a hole. But that’s another topic altogether now, isn’t it?
Hmm, so I’ve kinda been meaning to ask, but, seeing as how the ‘friends’ function was a bit glitchy lately and apparently decided to befriend random people, did you actually befriend me? Not that I’m not honoured – and not just because it’s the only friend invite I’ve gotten so far sniff – but it did come as a bit of a surprise, since I don’t think we’ve interacted all that much up to now…
