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Friends Groups

Friends groups lets you assign your OD friends to different groups, each of which can have different access to your entries.   Friends groups are an OD Plus only feature - you must have an OD Plus subscription to use groups.

When you first add a person to your Friends list, they are not assigned to a group.  Please note: friends who are not in a group can view all of your friends-only entries.

Adding a new group

To add a new group, you must go to your Friends Groups screen by clicking the "edit groups" link in the upper left corner of your Friends list.   To add a new group, click the "add a friends group" link in the upper left of the Friends Groups screen.  Then, fill out the group name and group description and click "Save".  Please note that there is a limit of three (3) Friends groups for OD Plus members or nine (9) for Lifetime members.

Assigning a friend to a group

Once you have set up a friends group, you can add friends to it from your Friends list.  Go to the Friends list and find the friend you want to put in a group.  At the right end of the friend's place on the list, there is a dropdown box with "move to:" at the top.  Clicking this will show you all your Friends groups, and selecting the group from the list will move the person into that group.

Display order

You can change the order that your groups are displayed by going to the Friends Groups screen and clicking "move up" or "move down" next to the group that you want to change.

Deleting a group

To delete a friends group, go to the Friends Groups screen and click the "delete" link next to the group you want to delete, and then click "OK" to confirm.  Please note that deleting a group will not remove the friends in that group from your Friends list, they will just be changed to being unassigned to a group.