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 Sending messages & introductions March 12, 2005 6:59 AM

If you want to contact someone you can send them a network message.

Just click on their profile, and to the right of their image it should say Send a Message at the very top.

But that is only if they are on your friends list. If not it will say: add this person as a friend.

You can only send Network Messages to your friends through profiles.

You can also send Network Messages by going here:
http://connect.care2.com/Mail/InBox.aspx

Or by clicking the My Care2 Connect tab at the top of your screen, and on the left hand side there is a link to Network Messaging.

Go to compose and you can send a message to all your friends or individual friends, or this way you can also send messages to friends of friends.

So if you need to send a message to someone not on your friends list, go to compose and select friends of friends and see if you can select them from your list.

Also alittle way I found around this is to check their profile to see if they have any groups they host. If so join one for a minute and usually (not always hosts choose to allow this shown or not) on the main page where it shows the host's pictures it will have a contact link under them.

Introductions

You can also send someone an introduction by going to thier profile and selecting it. This send a short little intro saying hello or asking to be friends.

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Personal Messaging August 29, 2006 12:56 PM

Hello, all!
Please note that the Personal Messaging feature accessed thru your 'My Connect' page is also refered to as PM, Network Messaging and NM.

Introductions:
Many people appear to believe that having a 'Friends' list is the only way to communicate one-to-one here. Well, the intro is a way around that. While the initial intro message is restricted to 250 characters [to discourage abuse], all following replies are not, and the edit and font features become available as well. So, you could send an introduction to someone from their profile page saying something like: 'I would like to privately discuss _____ with you. I am not adding to my friends list at this time. If this is ok, please use the reply feature.' However, i would suggest not over using this approach. It might be appropriate for carifying something that came up in a group. Inappropriate use of this will likely get you blocked from messaging the person.
As such, people not on each others' friends list can converse outside of groups. That is, at least for the time being; with all the new bugs - ah, I mean features being added one never knows from one day to the next how things will work around here! LOL

There is an unfortunate security issue involved with accepting friends invitations at this time. When you accept a friend invite, your default email will be revealed to the inviter, even though their email was not revealed to you. There is no notice or warning to you about this sharing of contact info. Requests have been made to c2 support to have this changed, and they say they are working on it.

Peace, Hope and Intoductions
Teilflock
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Security Update November 03, 2006 12:00 PM

The security issue mentiontioned above has been corrected. Your email addy is no longer revealed when you accept a friend request.

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 November 08, 2006 8:25 AM

I have a few question about friends.

Should you accept a request from someone who has more than 1000 friends? Are these people just collectors? How can they possibly keep in contact with all of the friends? I hate to deline the request;but, isn't a 1000 or even 2000 a bit too many friends?

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 November 08, 2006 11:16 AM

Hi Tammy! That's good question, and i suppose the answer depends on what kind of friends list you want to build. It is likely that you would receive a lot of alerts and notices from people who have built their list to such huge proportions.  If you and this person share similar groups and interests, it may not matter how many they have on their list. You can send them an intro and ask them why they want the friends link too.

Also, if you'd like to read more on a previous discussion about this click this link to "Making Friends". It includes my [unusual] view of the FoF network, and tips about conversing without the friends list.

Peace, Hope and Greetings
Teilflock


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 November 08, 2006 2:04 PM

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One other comment about "friends" November 12, 2006 5:14 AM

Many people, myself included will NOT accept a friend request that is just the link-up request.  This is a different environment than My Space and other Boards. Most people are not here to "collect" friends.

If you have seen someone in a group that you think you would like as a friend, write an introduction rather than just clicking the link  " + Add as Friend "

Tell the person why you think you two would be a good pair of friends, people like to know "Who, What & Where you two have met as well as why"  

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anonymous  August 22, 2007 3:54 AM

Kia Ora! (Greetings),

I'm new here and am looking forward to meeting, and sharing here at Care2. Already I have recieved some warm welcomes and made some cool friends! Thanks for all the great tips, and creating such a great community,

Love, light.... Peace
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i am here April 30, 2008 6:39 AM

ye gods I am so frustrated. I only get my group email notices on occasion so a lot of time i just run out of time to even check each group i am in
I am still here if you don't hear from me and yes i keep going to the tech site but don't seem to be getting any response from them. Maybe they don't really exist

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