What is The Friends Cafe?
The Friends Cafe is an online first-degree friendship building social network that helps connect people for friendship and/or business purposes and/or dating, using our advanced online software, which is strategically built for this purpose.

How does The Friends Cafe work?
Here at The Friends Cafe, we allow you as a member to create a personalized private networking community where you can network through friends, family, their friends etc… worldwide using a set of specialized tools developed specially for this purpose.

How can I use The Friends Cafe?
Using The Friends Cafe is easy! You just have to create a quick profile and add your friends to a personalized and private networking community just for you. By doing this you will be able to see your friends, the friends of your friends as well.
Our tools allow you to browse and search through all of the people connected to you through your network of friends and you can view their photos, profiles, contact and see how you are connected to them. As a member you will be able to invite friends, ask for introductions, send messages, or suggest possible matches between people.

As a member of The Friends Cafe, how many people can I meet?
As a member of The Friends Cafe you have the opportunity to meet a lot of people. However this will depend on how you and your friends use The Friends Cafe. The possibilities are unlimited with us. You can meet thousands!
Any new friend added by your friend or by you can result in hundreds of other friends.

How much does it cost to use The Friends Cafe?
At The Friends Cafe, you can set up a FREE account and you will be able to use certain features. Premium Upgrades are available.

What functions does the The Friends Cafe have?

Affilite Program

• Unique affiliate link for each member
• Tier 1 and tier 2 payout
• Recurring commissions
• Members can withdraw affiliate earnings via paypal
• and more...

Member Functions

• Email Importer
• Members can create their unique username during registration for their personal profile URL (eg, http://thefriendscafe.net/?username)
• Ability to edit personal profile, upload photos to the photo albums, change account settings and many more!
• Security image code during registration to prevent automated signups
• Display site statistics including total members in the social networking site and number of members who are online
• Ability to upgrade membership plans using paypal payments
• Recurring billing for paid membership plans and member can view transactions by date range and next billing period
• Members can see who has view their profiles
• Member voting system
• 5 most recently updated member profiles will be listed on main page
• Members can edit and customize their profile layout
• Members can upload multimedia content in their profile which can be broadcast through online windows streaming
• Allow members to cancel their account
• Members can upload multiple photos to their account
• Members can create a member ignore list
• Ability to bookmark a Group, listing or a member
• Write a testimonial for a friend
• Email notification which will send an email to the member when there is a new action to be taken (i.e invitations, new friend request, new testimonial and more)
• Members can now view who rated them
• View History - Members are able to view the history of member profiles or groups they have visited.

Messages

• Compose new messages just like any ordinary emails and send them to the member's network of friends
• View inbox/sent/saved messages
• Bulletin Board: Bulletin board messages created by a member will be broadcast to al friends

Audio

• Members can create unlimited audio albums
• Ability to upload mp3 files to the albums
• Each member profile will have a customizable mp3 audio player and they are able to host their own audio files

Search

• Search for new friends and increase the member's network of friends
• Basic Search: search by first name, last name, email, distance and degrees
• Advance Search: enhance search functions where members can search for friends by age, schools, gender, occupation, interest, company and many more! Members have the ability to display only friends with photos and sort search results.

Listings

• Members can create listings which will be posting in the Listings Directory
• Members can select the category where their listings will be posted and have the ability to upload photos, select the period of the listing (up to 30 days), make the listing anonymous. Members also have the ability to publish a listing to their groups (which only group members can view) or selected network of friends
• Ability to search listings by keywords, category and subcategory, distance and degrees
• Members can notify friends through email about their new listings

Groups

• Groups draw together individuals who share a common interest. These groups can be focused on any subject, affiliation, or activity. Book clubs, soccer teams, and alumni groups can form their own Groups, as well as family members, hobbyists, or professionals
• Members can create groups which will be listed in Groups Directory
• Group Events - Members can create a group event
• Discussion Board - Enable members to post messages in a group
• File sharing system
• Manage Group - This feature allows a member to manage the group type (public, moderated or private) and change other settings such as group URL, title, description and category
• View the most popular and newest groups in the directory
• Ability to search for groups by keywords

Invite

• Member can invite friends to join their network
• Support for multiple invitation
• Members can view the invitations they have sent to their friends and its status (whether their friends have signed up)
• Member can now use tags to display either normal invite or affiliate URL

Blog

• Members can start their own online blog with a unique blog URL
• Blog search function
• Ability to create blog categories
• Ability to edit/delete blog entires
• Allows customization of blog layout such as custom header/css, background settings including music/image, blog font, color, time format
• Built-in HTML editor for blog entries
• RSS 2.0 support

Articles

• Members can post articles for fellow members to read
• Built-in WYSIWYG editor for article posting and members can upload an image for each article
• Members can leave a comment on each article
• Ability to search for articles by keywords and date published

Forums

• Members can view all topics and forum stats (number of post/ topics and last post)
• Member can search for forum posts
• Members can now be set as forum moderators by admin and have additional privileges to edit/delete existing postings
• Ability to create new forum topics and post replies

Events

• Ability to browse event categories
• Members can search for an event by keywords, category, dates degrees and distance.
• Ability to create new public/private events
• Event creator can specify the max number of guests each member can bring and allow comments by members
• Built-in RSVP for each event: participating members can reply with yes/no/maybe and specify number of guest they are bringing
• Event creator can invite friends in existing network or enter the email addresses for non-members to join event
• Members can now add events to their calendar
• Event creator can export guest list in excel. The details include name, username, number of guest attending, status, ticket ID
• Option for generating a unique ticket ID for attendees
• Event creator can have the option to charge members a fee for attending their event. The profits will be credited to the member's account
• Event creator can also have option to allow attendees to print ticket after payment [view screenshot]
• Event creator can set the event created as "Featured" and admin can set the amount for the featured listing fee
• Unique event URL (i.e yoursite.com/friends/events/?username)
• Members now have the option to view events posted by them as well as events they are attending

Chat

• Ability to chat with other members
• Members can select chat rooms to talk to other members
• Members can send private message or chat invitation to selected members
• Ability to configure chat rooms (set display layout and sound controls)

Calendar

• Members can have their own personal online calendar
• Ability to view/add new events

Instant Messenger

• Members can send/reply IM to friends and view who is online
• Members can block friends
• Ability to view recent chats
• Configure advance IM settings such as auto-accept IM request, set time zone and select language preference

Hot -or- Not

• Image rating system where images of members are randomly displayed
• Show top 25 men and women
• Show most rated men and women
• Show men and women by age