Community Server 2008 introduced the concept of Social Networking to our platform. Users can register for your community, become friends with other members, and get status updates from their friends, but it’s lonely when you start out with no friends in a community. A bunch of sites have the concept that new users are “friended” by default to an existing community member. This tip will show you how to do this with Community Server.
Open the Community Server control panel as an administrator.
Click to enter “System Administration”
Under Membership Administration click “Account Settings”
Open the “Friendship Settings” tab.
Add one or more existing site members to the “Default New User Friend List”
Click Save
In this case Delia is in charge of Employee Relations at Telligent. So on our pre-beta Evolution intranet site (yes we are using this already) all new employees will be connected to her by default. This will give them a point of contact before they build up their colleague list on Evolution!