Ok so you’ve downloaded Friends Around and are all set; your pictures uploaded to your profile and your privacy is set to your personal options.
All of the sudden you have five people requesting to be your friend, some are trying to chat with you, and for sure you’ve received some winks. Great way to meet new people isn’t it? But, how do you find your real friends?
Here’s how I do it:
1. Add friends from Facebook, Twitter and your address book.
Go to your friends section and click on the + sign over there at the top right. Friends Around will scan the database to find which of your friends on Facebook, Twitter, and your address book are already using it, and send a request to friend you.
2. Check-In and share.
Next time you’re at your favorite hangout spot check-in and share with Facebook, Twitter and foursquare!
BUT WAIT…THERE’S MORE TO IT.
Yesterday I went to a new ceviche restaurant (yes, we’re in Miami). I checked in and shared it on Facebook and foursquare. Once you do that, the next screen is a confirmation of your check-in and…voilà…an invite button! I was able to invite my friend to join me.
It’s such a neat feature, not only do Friends Around check-ins let your friends know where you are, you can actually interact with them directly.
See my conversation from the invite screen once I checked in:
“Come over! There’s a 10 minute wait so you still have a chance to make it on time.”
“Ok, ok I’m almost there.”
3. Scan for friends again.
We are experiencing incredible surges of new user signups. It still fascinates me to tell the story of our first month after launch. We launched in April and expected 30K users to sign on that month. What did we get? Well, 4 months later we are very close to 300K.
So, because of this, I constantly scan for friends…you never know who just installed the app today.
Well, those are my tips on getting started. Keep adding friends to your community! It’s quite a handy thing to use when you’re out and about.
