Sweet Willie is correct.

The Friendship, Social Group, Facebook-style stuff was started a couple years ago here at FT. But it never caught on and is, in effect, dead IMHO.

One of the unusual features of FlyerTalk is that we have personal get-togethers called "DO's" and we hold a LOT of them annually. I know of no other website who so actively encourages these personal meetings.

In many, many ways we trump Twitter, Facebook and many other social sites in that we encourage and promote face-to-face meetings with our fellow, like-minded members,

I've attended dozens of such DO's worldwide and am happy to say that I have made several dozen close personal friends as a result.

Hope to see you one or more, JerryFF !