I've had a lot of people ask me about how you add people, so I decided to put together a tutorial, with pictures.

First, find the person you want to add- Either click on their user name, or find a post that they have written*. 

If you clicked on their user name, you will be taken to their profile (Elesia, if you want me to change the images let me know).

See the arrow? It is pointing to the symbol that means "add this user as a friend." If you want to add this user, Click on it.

A dialogue box should appear, like this:

If you do indeed want to add the user to your friends (this may be expanded later), Click the button that says send. (the arrow is about to click it!) If not, you can always click "Cancel!"

After you click send, a yellow box should appear at the top of the profile, like this:

Ta-Da, Mozel Tov, Congrats! You've added a Friend!

But what happens when someone else is the one sending a request to you?

You should receive an email in your inbox from awn@autismwomensnetwork.org that looks something like this:

http://autismwomensnetwork.org and see your pending relationship requests at http://autismwomensnetwork.org/user/{requested user's user number}/relationships/requests . Regards, Autism Women's Network team {also a blurb about why you are receiving this email}" over the link to the requested user's relationship requests, a Red arrow hovers." title="What should the email requesting my friendship look like?" width="500" height="273">

(yours would lack the green blocks I've added to protect my privacy. Pattis2boys, I seem to have missed blocking out your name. let me know if you want me to edit this out.)

If you are receiving this this email, the red [person being requested]'s would be your user name, and the red [requester]'s would be the user name of the person who would like to friend you. You are provided a link to that user's profile, so that you can see who the person requesting that you be friends is. 

However, if you want to add that person back/confirm your friendship, you will want to click the link that leads to your pending relationship requests. In the image above, I've put my red arrow so that it can click this link. 

If you click the link and are logged into the AWN site already, you will bee brought to a page that looks something like this:

(If any of the users listed here would like a privacy block over his or her user name, let me know.)

There are two categories on the Pending friends page: Sent Requests and Received Requests.

Sent Requests are the requests that you have sent; as you can see, I have three users who I have requested as my friends who have not answered yet. (Including our director for PA! Sandy, add your Asst back!)  If I were to decided that I did not want to request a user's friendship any more, I could click the link that says "cancel", and it would remove them from my Sent Requests and my from their Received Requests.

Received Requests are the requests that others have sent you; in my example, I have two users who had requested to be my friends who I had not responded to yet. If I had wanted to, I could have clicked "disapprove" and that would have denied that user's request to be my friend. However, I decided that I wanted to be friends with both of these people, and clicked "approve"

And adding a friend back is as simple as that! 

One more thing: If you decide to add a user whose post you are reading, but don't want to leave that post or thread, you can click on the add friend button under their user image next to the post:

If I wanted to add this user, I would click the button that the red arrow points to, and a similar process to that outlined above would occur, but I would not have to leave the post!

If you have any questions or comments about this Tutorial, please reply to this post. If you are using a screen reader, please let me know if the image descriptions are any good, as I do not use one myself.