The only issue with this would be that Compose Conversations won't work any more if you disable Friending.

I'm going to use Collegue and Collegues instead of Friend as the use of friend on my network is not appropriate. This means I have to create
Language Overrides for every instance of frien or friends.

Currently this isn't possible John as the friends is still a fundamental of a social network

There are two kinds of social network - symmetrical (with friending like Facebook) and asymmetrical (with following like Twitter). And obviously you can have hybrids between the two. I was just curious if ES allowed the option to switch back and forth.

Hello John,

AH, that's not really possible yet currently

Interesting point, Twitter is a huge example of this. I suppose for now you can use CSS over rides in your template. For example to hide the "add friends" button on the profile you would use:

.friendsAction {display: none !important;}

Thanks for sharing this Josh

I'm with removing friendship and heavily rely on following. Google plus, Instagram and Twitter use the following system.

2 different concepts here. With friendship, you know the person in a way or another. But you can follow a person even if you don't know him, that's why there is no approval for following someone.
If you remove friendship, then anyone can follow anyone, not good for a tightly integrated social network. This is more for a workplace or such.
With ES, you get the best of both world.

Agreed with checksum and he is actually having the same concerns as us. What we could do in the future is to allow users to completely remove friends or followers or have both work hand in hand together but it's a complicated process I would say and not something that can be done overnight

Personally I would not want to require people to be a "friend" to follow someone. This way if my users are fans of my work but do not know me personally they can still follow what I do.

Hello Josh,

Hm, currently this is not required if you want to follow someone

I know. I'm voicing that I want that aspect to remain if friends someday could be disabled.

Thanks Josh

Randall M wrote:

The only issue with this would be that Compose Conversations won't work any more if you disable Friending.

I'm going to use Collegue and Collegues instead of Friend as the use of friend on my network is not appropriate. This means I have to create
Language Overrides for every instance of frien or friends.

I will be doing the same as Randall and replacing the word "friend" as it does not fit for our site. I realize this will requires language overrides but I wish that the StackIdeas team would offer some means of altering this term via the admin panel as not everyone wants to use this term.

Thanks for the heads up on this Brandon