When your friends are around 11870.com you find it a lot more fun and useful. You can share and comment on  what you have in common and discover thing through their pages, because we all know that a friend’s opinion can be a lot more reliable than a random service listing. You know the advantages in calling the same plumber that your buddy hires, for example, instead of just one you pulled out of the phone book.

11870.com is useful to meet and discover people that you have places in services in common with. It’s likely that following their own activities you’ll discover some interesting new places yourself.

If you click on “invite friends“, the option’s on the upper right-hand corner of the page, you’ll be able to :

• Find out if any of your e-mail contacts or people you know on other networks are on 11870.com too.
• Invite someone: if you know their e-mail address, you can send them an invitation through this page.

Another way of finding people is by searching for them in the search box, people with names similar to your search term will come up in the results.

As you explore 11870.com and check out other people’s profiles you’ll run into users you like or whose profiles interest you. You can that connection a step further, by following them. :-)

This is how you see an 11870.com user who’s not a contact:

By clicking on the star next the their name, or on “add as a contact” you’ll be prompted to choose your level of trust with this person (if you trust him or her, or you don’t know each other that much). You may also change a name for something your recognize easier (be aware that this’ll be public) or send them a message if you feel like saying something.

This is how you’ll see a user after you’ve added him or her as a contact:

Underneath their name you’ll also see how many others are following them and if you have any contacts in common. When you find someone that you have friends and services in common with, you’re likely to have a lot more… and their recommendations could be very useful.

Adding someone as a contact on 11870.com will allow you to keep up with their activity here: see the new places and services they’ve added or reviewed, people they’ve added as contacts that might interest you as well, changes in their profile…

To see what your contacts have been up to since the last time you logged in to 11870.com (apart from the mention on your home page) you can click on the “contacts” tab, and find this under “see what they’re doing”.

You can also subscribe to what your contacts are doing adding the feed from this page to your reader. Want to learn about feeds on 11870.com? Read this section.

You can easily view and organize your 11870.com contacts. Click on the tab for “contacts” and then on “organize contacts“. On this page you’ll be able to sort them according to the trust level you defined. You can also sort them by name and date added. At this page you can perform the following actions in bulk;

• Change the level of trust for one or many contacts.
• Change the nickname for one or several contacts, this way you can recognize them easier. Please keep in mind that whatever name you choose for them here will be public.
• Remove one or more contacts from your list.

You’ll also be able to do all of the above by clicking on the star next to a contact’s name, or at their page (under their user name, where it says “change”).

You can see all the users you follow by clicking on “contacts” and then on “view your contacts“. This page shows you a list of your contacts with their user name, profile picture, whatever they filled out in the “about me” space of their page, and stats like the number of services, pictures, videos, discoveries, contacts and followers they have, or cities they’ve saved places in.

If you have a feed reader, you can add your contacts’ 11870.com activity to your reader by clicking on “subscribe” or the icon next to it.

You can see who calls you a contact or follows your activity on 11870.com by clicking on “contacts” and then “followers”. On that page you’ll see their name, profile picture, what they had to say about themselves in their “about me” section, and stats for the number of services, pictures, videos, discovered services, contacts and followers they have and cities where they’ve saved services.

If you use a feed reader you can add your follower’s activity by clicking on the link to the right of the page.