<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Bettizens’s <strong>Friends</strong> component is a way for our members to identify that they know other members. Friendship is requested from one member and accepted by another. The Friends feature works best when other components are active:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Once the Activity Stream component is active, these relationships are logged to both members’ activity streams, allowing anyone to see the relationships other community members have made.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">With the Groups component active, it allows members to invite their friends to join groups they are members of.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">When the Settings component is active, members can choose to turn off new friendship notification emails.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">One common use case is to help identify which members of your community have met in person. Using the Friends component as a way to say “we’ve bowled together” or “I met you at a meeting against Big Money in Politics” is a great way for our members to keep track of everyone they’ve bumped into in the past.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">At Bettizens we don't put a cap on the number of friends each member can have, but we also don't encourage having a lot of friends just for the sake of saying we have a lot of friends. When you ask someone for a friendship or when you accept someone's friend request, let it be because both of you can do something for each other and for the causes we defend.</span></p>