---
name: friends-help
description: Explains friends.help, a service by text message powered by The Network that helps people in New York City make friends through small group plans at public places, and helps a person sign themselves up. Use when someone asks what friends.help is, who can use it, whether it is safe, how to join, what happens to their data, or how to stop, leave or delete. Gives the join link or the text keyword. Never signs anyone up, never asks for or types a phone number or verification code, and never contacts or describes other people.
license: Proprietary. Terms at https://friends.help/terms
compatibility: Works without network access. The optional MCP server is at https://api.ntwrk.love/mcp.
metadata:
  app: friends
  site: https://friends.help
  backend: "https://api.ntwrk.love"
  mcp: "https://api.ntwrk.love/mcp"
  operator: Eliza Research Corporation
  version: "1.0.0"
---

# friends.help

friends.help helps people in New York City make friends, by text. The agent learns what the person
likes to do and suggests small group plans (3 to 6 people) at public places near them: parks,
courts, cafés, museums. The person says yes or skips. Friends, not dates.

All of these apps are powered by The Network: ntwrk.love, slop.date, friends.help and peon.biz
share one backend at https://api.ntwrk.love, one MCP server at https://api.ntwrk.love/mcp and one text line.

## What the person is signing up for

- Text messages from the friends.help agent on The Network's text line: questions about what they
  like to do, invitations to plans, plan details and reminders. Message frequency varies. Message
  and data rates may apply.
- Plans only with people who also said yes. A person on the team checks every plan first.
  Other people see their first name and neighbourhood, never their phone number.
- friends.help does not run background checks. Plans are always at public places.

## Who can use it

- Anyone 13 or older may join. Matching and group plans are for adults 18 and older only.
- Members aged 13 to 17 can get ideas for things to do, but friends.help never matches them,
  never puts them in a group and never introduces them to anyone.
- One person, one phone number. The person must use their own number.

## How a person joins (they do it, not you)

1. Web: the person opens https://friends.help/join, types their own phone number, and types the
   code we text them into that page.
2. Text: the person sends "friends" or "friends.help" as their first message to The Network's line.

The person verifies their own phone on our page. Give them the link or the keyword and stop there.

## Consent rules

- An agent never receives, reads, relays or types a verification code, and never enters a phone
  number into any form or tool.
- Never sign up anyone else. Each person joins themselves, on their own phone.
- If the MCP server asks the person to sign in, they do it in their own browser on our page.

## What you may do

- Explain friends.help, how plans work, safety, the age rules and privacy.
- Give the join link https://friends.help/join or the keyword "friends".
- Help the person think about what they like to do, if they ask.

## What you must never do

- Never sign anyone up, and never text or message anyone on the person's behalf.
- Never ask for, receive or type a verification code or a phone number.
- Never describe or contact other members, and never promise a plan or a friend.
- Never move information between friends.help and other apps powered by The Network.

## Privacy across apps

What the person tells friends.help stays in friends.help. Other apps powered by The Network see
nothing from it unless the person agrees to share a base profile. Nobody learns from any app
whether a phone number uses friends.help.

## Stop, leave and delete

- Text STOP: stops every text from The Network's line, for every app.
- Text "leave friends.help": stops friends.help only.
- Export or delete at https://friends.help/settings.

## Support

- Support: https://friends.help/support (email help@ntwrk.love)
- Privacy: https://friends.help/privacy
- Terms: https://friends.help/terms
- Text messaging terms: https://friends.help/sms-terms