Friends

Friends give you a way to find and message people you know on Glob Social. Visits are a separate permission: becoming friends does not automatically let someone into your dimension.

Open People from the home bar. The Friends tab has three pages: Friends, Requests and Blocked. The separate Invite links tab holds invitations for visits.

Add a friend#

1. Open People → Friends.
2. Enter the person's username in Add by username.
3. Choose Add.

After a successful request, the confirmation says it waits under Requests until the other person answers. Sending a request does not immediately make you friends.

For example, after meeting someone in a shared node, ask for their username and enter it here. Use the username itself rather than the title of their node.

You cannot send a request to yourself, an existing friend or someone with whom a request is already pending. Blocking also prevents requests between the two people. Access and safety rules can refuse a request even when the username is correct.

If the form says That request didn’t go through. Check the username and try again., check the spelling and look under Requests before trying again. If a name-menu action asks you to slow down, wait before repeating it.

Answer or withdraw requests#

Open Requests within the Friends tab. Its badge counts the requests waiting on you.

• Requests to you lists people asking to become friends. Choose the accept or decline icon beside a person.
• Requests you sent lists unanswered requests. Choose Withdraw to cancel one.

The incoming icons are labelled Accept or Decline followed by the person's name. A withdrawn request no longer waits for the other person. Either person can end an accepted friendship later.

When neither list has an outstanding request, the page says No pending friend requests. Return to the Friends page to see accepted friends.

Read a friend's row#

A friend's row shows their name and identity mark or avatar. Under the name you may see:

• Online, or In followed by a node title;
• Active just now, a time since their last activity, or Offline;
• a count of mutual nodes when there are any.

A node title appears only when it can be shown to you. Online alone does not say which node the person is in. The mutual-node count concerns live places you both hold pins in that you can read.

Choose the message icon to open a direct message. If the dock says Messages aren’t available for this person right now., the message did not open. See messages and group chats for messaging controls and preferences.

The three-dot button opens more controls. Visits lets you change the visit permission you grant that friend. End friendship removes the friendship. Block opens a confirmation before blocking. Beside an avatar, Report picture can also appear.

Open a person's name menu#

In chat or on a wall, right-click a person's name or picture. On a touch screen, press and hold. With the name focused, Enter, Space, the context-menu key or Shift+F10 opens the same menu. Use the arrow keys to move between its actions and Escape to close it.

The friendship action follows your relationship:

The menu also offers Message, Invite home, Block or Unblock, Report and View profile. Some actions can be refused after you choose them. Read the message left in the menu before trying again.

Invite home creates and copies a one-use invitation with Read and chat permission for one day. It gives you the link to send; it does not send a message to that person. If the browser refuses to copy it, the menu displays the address for you to copy yourself.

Your own name opens your name-colour picker and View profile. It does not offer a friend request to yourself.

Visits and invitations#

Under a friend's three-dot button, You let them: … · They let you: … shows each direction separately. Choose Visits, select a level and choose Save visits. No visits removes the permission you grant them.

For the controls shown during a visit, invitation expiry, creating or revoking a link and ending a current visit, read invitations and visits.

End a friendship or unblock someone#

Choose End friendship in the friend's expanded row, or Unfriend in their name menu. This also ends permissions given through that friendship. Review separate invitations and active visitors if you want to stop those as well.

Choose Block to read its confirmation. Blocking ends a friendship, prevents new friend requests and messages between you, and hides the person's chat lines and wall posts from your view. Public work already shared remains public. See blocking for the full controls.

Open People → Friends → Blocked and choose Unblock to remove a block. The same list is in Settings → Privacy & security → Blocked people. Unblocking does not restore a friendship; send and accept a new request if you want to become friends again.

If the blocked list cannot load, choose Try again. If the People dock says Couldn’t load your friends just now., check your connection and reopen it.