The friends feature is like an address book where you can maintain a list of your friends, family, co-workers, etc. with whom you go out often or plan events and outings.
Your friends also need to be members of ActiveCiti to use all the benefits that ActiveCiti has to offer.
Adding someone as a friend makes it easy to invite the person to some event the next time around.

"Friends Groups" is a new feature by which you can categorize your friends into various groups.
Thus you can have a School Friends Circle, a College Friends, Family, Co Workers, etc.
A single friend can be part of multiple groups.

The Friends groups feature makes it easier to invite a group of people to an event.
For e.g. If you are planning a movie outing with your co workers, you can directly add everyone from the co workers group and speed up the event creation process.

This is pretty simple.
Go to your friends page and after finding the friend you want to add to a particular group, check the checkbox next to his/her name.
After doing this, you can use the "Actions" drop down to add the friend to the group of your choice.

On the friends page, there is an option to search for users provided you know their name or email address.
The first section on the left hand side allows you to type in a name (max upto 3 words) or an email address (complete or incomplete) to search the database for that particular user.
Once you have zeroed in on a particular user, you can add him/her as your friend by clicking the "Add to friends" link next to the name of the particular person.

When you send someone a friends request, that person gets an email asking whether they would like to add you as a friend.
They are also sent a link to your public profile.
Once they authorize you, both of you get added to each others friends list.

When you remove someone as a friend, both of you get removed from each other's friends list.

You can report abuse using the Feedback Form.
Please also key in the details of your complaint and we will take the necessary action on investigating it.

ActiveCiti intends to be an extremely clean and people friendly website and therefore takes extremely strict measures to ensure that no untoward incidents take place here.

If you have a lot of friends you want to invite to ActiveCiti, you can use the bulk invite feature available on the friends page.
Make sure you separate all the emails with commas (,) and we will send them invitations to join ActiveCiti.
Checking the "Add to Friends" box below will add them to your friends group when they sign up on ActiveCiti.

If you use services such as GMail, Yahoo, Hotmail, Orkut, etc. which export address books in the CSV format, you can upload these files on ActiveCiti and we'll send out an email to all your friends inviting them.

If an email you entered is already you're friend, we just ignore it. So you do not have to worry about spamming your friends.

Friend requests are sent via email only as of now.
You can ask the person to check his spam folder incase the email found its way there.
If the email is not in the spam, you can try sending them a request again.

Please note that you can send friend requests to only those email addresses which are already registered on ActiveCiti.

No.
A friends group should be treated as a label instead of a directory.
Hence when you delete a particular friends group, the particular label gets removed from all the friends that were in the group, and these friends will continue to exist in your friends list.

When someone checks out your profile, the information that is definitely shown is:

Permission levels can be set on all the remaining fields from your "My Profile" page.
However, you cannot set the access level on fields like your blog, website and occupation.
If you would like to keep this information private, it is recommended that you do not fill up these fields.

Also, please be extremely careful while setting permissions on your address, phone number and email address.
It is recommended that you keep this information extremely private and allow only friends to see it.