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You can also create and join a wide variety of online communities to discuss current events, reconnect with old school mates or even exchange your favorite recipes. Who you interact with is entirely up to you. Before getting to know a friends club member, you can read their profile and even see how they’re connected to you through the friend’s network.

To join friends club, simply sign in with your email id and you can begin to create your own profile right away.

How do I join friendsclub.com?

To join friendsclub.com, visit.www.netkushi.com/friendsclub and click the JOIN NOW link.

Don’t forget your username and password; you’ll need them to sign in to friends club whenever you visit.

Scrap Book

The scrap book feature is another way for you to add tidbits of information to your profile. Share a funny story or reveal a little known fact about yourself. Click the formatting tips button to learn how to change the color of the text or add a smiley face. You can also add messages to other members' scrapbooks. Just visit their profile and click view scrapbook. Enter your message in the box and click post scrap. Our entry will appear in their profile instantly. If you change your mind about what you've written, you can always return to their scrapbook and click delete next to your scrap.

Messages

To send a message to an friends club member

•    Visit the profile of the member

Photos

How do I add pictures to my albums?

Friends club has upgraded the photo limit and now you can add upto 1000 photos to your albums. To do so follow these steps:

•    Click photos on the left side bar of your profile.

Groups

How can I create a group?

Groups help tie friendsclub.com members together, so we’re excited that you’re adding to our list of groups.

Before creating a group, first search for a group to see if there’s an existing group dedicated to your topic of interest. With thousands of groups up and running, it never hurts to double check.

Follow these steps to create a new group.

•    Click create in the bottom right corner

To invite friends to join your group, click invite friends, under your group photo.

Videos

To add a home video to your profile, the first step is simply to upload that video to Google video or you tube. Then in the views section of your profile, click the link for either Google video or you tube video to upload your video to the site. Once your video has been uploaded, copy and paste the link into the Video URL field in your orkut profile.

Forums

Forum is a place for people virtually to meet online where they can post messages and respond to each other. These are usually to discuss a specific topic. To create their own forums, because of the wide availability of free forums and low cost forums, we suggest looking at what is available on the internet before taking the big step in trying to create your own.

Blogs

A blog is a website where entries are commonly displayed in chronological order. Blog is also used to maintain or add content.

Profile Views

Your profile views found on your home page shows you the number of times friends club members have viewed your profile and lists ten members who viewed recently. This number doesn't increase when you view your own profile but counts every visit from other users, regardless of whether they've viewed it before. If another friends club member visits your profile multiple times, their name will appear in your list only once. It's not currently possible to view more than ten recent visitors to your profile.

Profile Privacy Features

We understand that many users are interested in maintaining privacy in their friendsclub.com profiles. We have several options for protecting your privacy. First and foremost, you don’t post any personal information you don’t want anyone else to see.

Profile Avatars

Changing the profile photo

If you’ve come across a more flattering picture of yourself for your profile, here’s how you can swap it for the old one.

•    From your friends club home page or profile page, click edit profile under your photo.

        •    Select the general tab

        •    Under your profile photo click change photo.

        •    Select the desired photo by entering the file name or using the Browse button.

Profile Editing

To add or remove information from your friends club profile:

•    Visit your home page and click edit profile under your photo.

        •    Click the tab that describes the section of your profile that you’d like to change

        •    Click update at the bottom of each page when you make changes.

        If you don't click update before changing the tab or exiting, your changes will be lost.

        Ability to block other users

You can block another user from sending you scraps, messages, invitations, friends requests, and testimonials by adding that user to your ignore list. The ignore list is visible to you and other users will not know who is on your ignore list.

        To ignore a user, visit their profile. Over the more link in the left side bar and click ignore user. To ignore members from you profile the following steps are to be taken:

        •    Visit your home page and click lists on the left sidebar.

        •    Click the ignore-list tab.

        •    Click delete next to the name of the person you'd like to remove from your ignore list.

        New Scrap Alerts

 When you receive a new scrap the pop up alerts will appear on your scrapbook. The alerts appear at the bottom of your browser on the right side of the window.

        Updates from your friends

 The updates from your friends section on your home page shows updates when your friends perform the following actions on friends club.

•    Make changes to their profile

        •    Make changes to their photo albums

        •    Make changes to their video favorites

        •    Join a group

When you make these changes to your own profile, your friends will see your updates on their homepages.

Managing Friends

Searching for people on friends club

To search for people on friends club, you can enter their name in the search box at the top of the each page. People don’t always use their real names on their friends club profiles, and you’ll only find results if you search from their friends club display name. More...