Friends

Friends are users which are added when two players mutually agree to friendship.

Making friends
To get a friend either have someone send a friend request or you can send one to them by going to their page and selecting Send Friend Request. You can also send someone a friend request by going on the in-game menu (press esc) and searching for their name, sending them a friend request. If you get over 20 friends, you get the Friendship Badge. If you have over 5,000 friends, it will say "All" instead of a number, though you can still check the number on your profile. Since February 2015, the amount of friends a user can have has been limited to 200.

Benefits of Friends
When you have friends, you don't just ignore them, unless you have over 150 friends. Spend time with friends. It is best to make friends you are confident in playing and communicating with often instead of friending everyone you see.

In February 2015, it got replaced with Followers and everyone's friends were converted into Followers. Roblox is thinking about giving the Friends name the name Best Friends back and a 900 friends limit. They can follow you, but they can get unlimited followers. If you delete all of your friends, your Friendship Badge will still remain in your profile.

Followers
A Follower is established when one person chooses to follow the activity of another user. Think of this like following someone you find interesting, such as a popular game creator, on a social network. It's an easy way to stay up to date on what your favorite developers are playing and making. You can follow an unlimited number of players.

Messaging
Messaging can get your relationship stronger. Try sending them chat messages or just plain old messages.

Place
Try getting your friends into a place. Find a fun one, or one that both of you enjoy and hang out in.

Friends Only Place
Put your place into a friends only place. Only friends are allowed, no guests or exploiters. Enjoy your friend-tastic day!

Parties/Chats
Parties and chats were ways of communicating with online friends, instead of having to message them or go in a place with them.

Chat
A chat will open up if you click on your friend and select chat with [username], or by selecting the name in the chat window. A glitch that let players curse in parties in 2011 was fixed on January 18, 2013. If one word is censored, the whole chat turns to hashtags, and therefore, making people mad.

Party
A party is a chat where the player can invite more than one person to chat with. If they go on a place, it will announce the place they're at, and anyone in the party can follow them, unless the server is full or if Roblox does not allow them to join. As of summer 2019, this was removed.

Changes to Homepage Display
In Summer of 2018, the Friends section on the Homepage was changed to only display the heads of friends' avatars as thumbnails (rather than their entire body). Users can also see the title of the game that their friends are currently playing underneath their avatar's thumbnail.

Limitation
As of February 2015, Roblox made it so that any user can have up to 200 friends instead of unlimited. Additionally, Roblox converted any best friends into friends. Many players were upset at this change, arguing that 200 was too low of a number and should be increased. Since the change's implementation, the amount of friends a user can have has never been increased.

Best Friends Removal
The best friend feature was added on July 30, 2009. Originally, you could set 10 users to be your best friends. When a user was set as a best friend, you could see their status updates via the status feed, which was originally on your profile. Sometime later, you could set more users as your best friends, and see all of your friends and best friends status updates.

On October 16, 2014, Roblox removed best friends. Best friends were converted into friends while existing friends were converted into followers.

Alias
In the summer of 2019, Roblox gave users the ability to add aliases to their friends. This feature, which was previously unannounced, allowed players to give their friends a nickname or personal description. These aliases can only be seen by the user that sets them.

Terminated Friends
See also: Ban

If a player sees a darker gray friend box, that means that the user is terminated for a varying period of time. The box cannot be clicked and the only thing to do is unfriend that terminated user.

The friend boxes of terminated users were changed in 2017. In 2017, Roblox modified the friend boxes of terminated users to display at a darker color, containing nothing but the player's username and avatar, and a setting that gives players the ability to unfriend the terminated player. Before this change, terminated users would be indicated by the message "User has been restricted." In 2019, it has been updated to show the profile avatar's top & more grayed out; additionally, terminated players now have an "Offline" label next to their icon; this was recently updated to display "Inactive" instead of Offline.

Trivia

 * There are multiple patents related to the Friends feature:
 * US20110307807A1, which relates to creating a Party to chat with friends and invite them to experiences.
 * US10728701B1, which relates to a method of establishing friendships with Roblox players that are physically near another Roblox player in real life by making request-based "proximity chirps" through the player's device(s).
 * US20170296929A1, which relates to adding friends to private server whitelists.
 * US20170291111A1, which relates to creating a Party with multiple users to launch the Roblox player to join the chat leader in experiences.
 * US9919220B2, which relates to a system that prioritizes connecting users to video game servers that their friends are in.
 * In 2021, Democratic candidate in the 2022 US Senate election in Florida Allen Ellison started a campaign to expand the friend limit after his Roblox account,, hit the aforementioned 200 user limit.