No community is complete without a way to contact other people within the community privately.

Currently, there are no in built private messaging system. What this means is that people basically have two ways of messaging other users on this platform.

a) Directly commenting on a post/story that the other party writes(They might not check)

b) Using the memo when transferring STEEM or SBD to another user to convey a meaningful message.

Example:

Now, both of these methods are not PRIVATE AT ALL, nor are they efficient. Think about the potential that we are missing out here. The potential of a more tight knit community, and the potential of business deals being done in private, settled with STEEM or SBD.

I suggest that we have a "friending system" within the SteemIt platform. That way, two parties must mutually agree to accept messages from each other before they can actually privately message each other, for obvious reasons of spam mail.

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Steem should implement private messages between users

No community is complete without a way to contact other people within the community privately.

a) Directly commenting on a post/story that the other party writes(They might not check)

b) Using the memo when transferring STEEM or SBD to another user to convey a meaningful message.

I suggest that we have a "friending system" within the SteemIt platform. That way, two parties must mutually agree to accept messages from each other before they can actually privately message each other, for obvious reasons of spam mail.