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After you become a member of the MySpace community, you might run into all kinds of MySpacers while going about your business. Whether you find them or they find you, sooner or later, you'll be making some friends. When it comes to friending, you have two ways to begin to process of becoming someone's official friend:
- You send a fellow MySpacer a Friend Request. If you find someone you admire enough to link yourself to through the social network of MySpace, send that person a Friend Request.
- A fellow MySpacer sends you a Friend Request. You're a likeable person, and people want to get to know you better. It's up to you to decide if the requester is someone worthy of being your friend.
Sending a Friend Request
Sending a Friend Request is the most important step in the overall friending process on MySpace. Although you have many different ways to search out and find users on MySpace, you can initiate the sending of a Friend Request in only one place — the Add to Friends link in any user's Contact Box.
Follow these steps to send a Friend Request:
1. Locate the user's Contact Box on his or her profile page.
Normally, the user's Contact Box is located directly under the user's profile photo on the profile page.
2. Click the Add to Friends link in the Contact Box.
The Add to Friends link is located on the left hand side of the Contact Box, second link from the top. After you click the link, the Confirm Add Friend screen appears. This is MySpace's way of asking you, "Are you sure you want to send a Friend Request to this user?"
3. Click the Add to Friends button on the Confirm Add Friend screen to send the Friend Request.
When you click the Add to Friends button, the Friend Request is sent. A message then appears, letting you know that a request has been sent to the user.
 | Wondering whether or not your sent Friend Request ever went through? Having second thoughts about that last Friend Request that you sent off? By clicking the Pending Requests link in your Mail Center menu, you open the Pending Friend Requests window, where you can see the status of every Friend Request that's still pending. From this window, you can click the Send Message button to send a reminder to the pending friend to ask what the hold up is. Or, if you want to cancel the pending Friend Request, simply click the Cancel Request button. |
Accepting a Friend Request
You never know when you might be the user that shows up in someone's search. And you might be getting a Friend Request sent your way.
As with many of the other alerts within MySpace, the fact that you have pending Friend Requests waiting is communicated loud and clear after you log in. A New Friend Requests! alert appears in your My Mail section whenever you have Friend Requests that you haven't viewed.
| If you receive a Friend Request while you're in the middle of MySpacing, a red NEW! alert appears to the right of Friend Requests link in your Mail Center menu. |
To begin accepting those friends that are anxiously awaiting your approval, follow these steps:
1. Click the New Friend Requests! alert or the Friend Requests link in your MySpace Mail Center menu.
This step takes you directly to the Friend Request Manager window, where the fate of these pending friendships are in your hands.
2. In the Friends Request Manager window, you have three choices — choose one and go with it.
Here are your three choices:
• Accept: You can make the user's day and accept him or her as your friend by clicking the Accept button. After you click the Accept button, the user is removed from the Friend Request Manager window and appears in your Friends List.
• Deny: Don't think that the pending friend deserves to be in your short list of who's who in MySpace friends? Click the Deny button to remove the user from the Friend Request Manager window without adding him or her to your Friends List.
• Send Message: This is MySpace's way of letting you find out a little more info on this so-called pending friend. Just send off a message to get to know a bit more about your potential friend.
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