This plugin provides you the best tools to increase user-base and friendships on your social network. Your users get effective tools to expand their social graphs. The features are very similar to the ones on Facebook and allow for quick growth in your site's user-base and connections. Users can also suggest friends to their other friends, and these trusted suggestions can lead to a chain of friend additions. The algorithms behind the friends recommendation engine are based on user relevance, and highlight people that the users might actually be interested in.
Expand your user-base and increase the social graph of your users.
This plugin provides you the best tools to increase user-base and friendships on your social network. Your users get effective tools to expand their social graphs. It enables your site to give sound recommendations to users for adding friends, just like Facebook does. The algorithms behind the friends recommendation engine are based on user relevance, and highlight people that the users might actually be interested in.
Users can also suggest friends to their other friends, and these trusted suggestions can lead to a chain of friend additions. Users can securely import their contact lists / address books from popular email services and applications to invite their contacts on the site, or to see which of their contacts are site members, and add them as friends.
These features are very similar to the ones on Facebook and allow for quick growth in your site's user-base and connections.
- Viral features similar to the ones on Facebook, to grow friend connections on your site, and the user-base.
- Friend Recommendations (People you may know) widget, which also enables users to see mutual friends. Friend recommendation algorithm based on user relevance shows recommendations which the users are likely to be interested in.
- "Suggest to Friends" links on Friends' Profiles enabling users to suggest their friends to other friends.
- Friend Suggestion popups:
- Popup after "Add as Friend": After a user sends a friend request to someone, he is shown a popup to suggest that member to his other friends who might know that member. The selected friends for the suggestion will receive the Friend suggestion and its update.
- Popup after clicking on "Suggest to Friends": Clicking on the Suggest to Friends link on a friend's profile enables user to suggest this friend to other friends.
- Popup after Accepting Friend Request: After a user accepts a friend request, he is shown a popup suggesting to him friends of the added friend which he might be interested to add.
- "Find Friends" page listing more friend recommendations for the user than the "People you may know" widget. This page also allows users to search for friends on the site.
- Users can remove / reject suggestions which they do not find useful. These suggestions are replaced by new suggestions via ajax.
- Import & Invite functionality: Users can import their contact lists / address books from the below mentioned services to see which of their contacts are present on the site and add them as friends. Users can also send invites to their contacts who are not on the site.
- Popular Webmail services supported: Gmail, Yahoo, Windows Live (Hotmail), AOL.
- New! Popular Social Networking services supported: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn.
- Contact Lists in CSV & TXT formats can be uploaded and imported. Some services supported are: LinkedIn, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Outlook Express, Mozilla Thunderbird, Windows Address Book, Mac OS X Address Book, Palm Desktop, Windows Mail.
- Email queuing mechanism for sending out invite emails.
- Users can see and act upon friend suggestions received from friends on the Requests page, and the suggestions listing page.
- Seamlessly integrated with the SocialEngine Notification updates and Requests systems.
- Ajax based features for good user experience.
- Seamless integration with SocialEngine's theme system.
- Choose settings for the "People You May Know" and "Suggest Friends" widgets.
- Enable / disable the friend suggestion popups triggered while adding a friend and approving a friend request.
- Configure settings for the contact importer.
