Friends and requests

Friendship on Bonzai is a simple two-way graph: request, accept, and (when you like) remove. Your friends are the one-branch core the whole network grows from.

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The friendship lifecycle

add_friend sends a friend request. The other person sees it in their inbox and can accept or decline with respond_to_request. Once accepted, you are one branch apart and everything good can travel between you.

Changed your mind before they answered? cancel_request withdraws an outgoing request. remove_friend ends a friendship cleanly.

Your inbox

inbox shows your pending friend requests — both the ones waiting on you and the ones you have sent. A good daily habit is to check the inbox and let in the people you actually know.

Related tools

add_friend

Connect with another user by name or @handle — sends a friend request (or, if they already requested me, accepts it). Ask the user to pick if several people match.

inbox

My inbox — what's awaiting me. Leads with incoming friend requests I can accept or ignore, then the requests I sent that are still pending, then people interested in my for-sale listings. Use for "check my inbox".

respond_to_request

Accept or ignore a friend request someone sent me.

cancel_request

Withdraw a friend request I previously sent.

remove_friend

Remove one of my friends by name or @handle.