How to Complete the Friend Process on DIGG

Most people figure out how to add friends quickly enough, but did you realize that friendship on Digg is a two-step process? Whenever someone adds you *their* list as a friend, you need to add them to *your* list to complete the friendship. Here's how to do that...

Step 1 ~
Log yourself into DIGG.

Step 2 ~
Put your own DIGG ID into this address, and then copy it into your browser's URL box - http://digg.com/users/PUT_YOUR_DIGG_ID_HERE/friends/befriended

Step 3 ~
Now you should see a list of all the people that have befriended you. Look for people who have a green 'ADD FRIEND' rectangle under their picture/icon. These are people that you haven't completed the friendship with yet! (The ones that don't have a green box are ones you *have* completed a friendship circle with. You don't have to do anything else about those.)

Step 4 ~
Click on one of those green rectangles.

Step 5 ~
Wait for the confirmation message to come up.

Step 6 ~
Click your browser's 'back' button, to return to the previous screen.

Step 7 ~
Refresh your screen. The person who's green box you clicked on should no longer have a green box. Your friendship circle with that person is complete!

Step 8 ~
Now pick a different person, (someone who still has a green rectangle), and REPEAT steps 5, 6 and 7 until there are no more green boxes under anyone's pictures/icons on that page.

Don't be surprised if DIGG tells you that you're 'adding friends too fast' after about four of those green boxes. That message is part of a security feature to keep people from setting up bots to add people automatically. Just go back to the screen with the pictures/icons, refresh your screen, and leave it open for 5-10 minutes before you try again. Then you should be able to add about four more.

If you've never gone through this list before, you may find a pretty big list waiting for you the first time. Don't worry, it won't always be like that. Once you get that first backlog of people befriended, it should never be that overwhelming again.

You might want to just check that list every week for a while, until you get a sense of how often you get new people to befriend.