Friends and sharing

Share parts of your network with people you trust, and search what they share with you.

Friends are other people using O whom you trust. For each friend you choose what they can see of yours, and they choose what you can see of theirs.

When you would use it

You and a co-founder, a partner or a close colleague each know different people. When you share your networks, each of you can search the other’s before asking for an introduction, and a person’s profile shows which of your friends also know them.

Where to find it

Select Network in the sidebar, then the Friends tab. The address is /network/friends. You can also open Friend requests from Open workspace tools (···) in the top bar.

#	Element	What it does
1	Friends	The Friends page, beside Network Map in Network.
2	Friends, Requests, Find Friends, Groups	Your friends; friend requests waiting for you; people who already use O; and groups of friends you can give access to at once.
3	View profile	Opens your friend’s profile. The arrow beside it opens or closes their access settings.
4	Access for your friend	What this friend can see of yours, one switch per area.
5	Network	Lets this friend search your network. Circles and Notes share those areas the same way. Workspaces and Missions do the same for those areas.
6	Shared with you	What this friend shares with you. It reads Not shared until they turn sharing on for you.

How to

1. Add a friend

   Open Find Friends to see people who already use O, and choose Add Friend. The request shows as Pending until they accept it.

2. Answer a request

   Requests sent to you appear under Requests. Accept the ones from people you trust.

3. Choose what a friend can see

   On the Friends tab, open a friend’s access settings with the arrow beside View profile. Turn on only the areas you want to share, for example Network.

4. Search a friend's network

   Open Open workspace tools (···) in the top bar and choose which networks to include: yours, a friend’s shared network, or both. Your searches then include the networks you selected.

5. Give several friends the same access

   On Groups, choose New Group, add friends, and set the group’s access once.

6. Stop sharing

   Turn a switch off when you no longer want to share that area with that friend.

Open workspace tools: choose which networks to include

What O does behind it

• Per friend, per area, one way. Each switch covers what one friend can see of yours. What they share with you is their choice, shown under Shared with you.
• Search, with permission. When you share Network with a friend, they can search your network. Nothing is shared until you turn a switch on.
• Mutual connections. Once you are friends, a person’s profile shows which of your friends also connect to that person, under Mutual connections. It helps you see who could give you an introduction.
• Friends count as paths. On Network Health, Connection Paths counts your active O friends as one of the paths beyond your direct network.

Shared data belongs to the person who shared it. Use it to decide who to ask for an introduction, and do not pass it on without their permission.

Related

Search and review members

Search your network, and a friend’s when they share it.

Network Health

See how your paths beyond your direct network add up.

Circles

Keep groups of people together for one purpose.

Search O and use the header

Universal search and the workspace tools in the top bar.