LESSON 3. Friends

In this lesson you’ll learn all about finding, adding, and managing friends. This isn’t just about finding people to connect with either, because you must always keep your privacy, safety, and security in mind as well.

Resources for Locating Friends

As you might have gathered from Lesson 2, the folks at Foursquare know that you won’t get a lot out of the service unless you have friends to share it with—so they encourage you to start adding friends right away. It’s a good plan, but let’s say you skipped that step or you want to add more friends later. How can you add friends to your network? There are a few basic ways to pull it off:

• Adding from Facebook

• Adding from Twitter

• Adding from Gmail contacts

• Inviting by email ...

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