How to Find Friends Who Are Already Members of Yelp

Importing Friends from Your Email or Other Social Services

Visit the Yelp webpage in your web browser.

Click the "Find Friends" link from the top of the webpage's toolbar to access the link to finding friends.

Determine your email client. Knowing your email clients name, will determine if you will be able to use Yelp's importation service that can easily import them as friends. Yelp's importation service works with both Yahoo and Gmail without much help. However, this service used to be able to pull in data from Hotmail and AOL too, but no longer does.

Realize that if a Facebook friend creates a Yelp account after you join, you'll be asked whether or not you'd like to friend them back, though the friendship is already set up to know that there may be a positive friendship here that may lead to other friends for the user. Yelp will give you an "add as Friend" option, after you connect your Facebook account to Yelp.

Click the correct button that corresponds to your email address.

Log in to your email client with your login credentials, following the same login procedure as if you were trying to login off the official website while still keeping on that particular server.

Figure out which friends (who already have Yelp accounts), you'd like to allow. The first box you'll receive is the box containing those members who already have Yelp accounts. Uncheck the checkboxes for those friends you'd rather not allow to be used on your Yelp account, had they of accepted your invite, but leave those friends who you'd appreciate seeing checked.

Click the white button with red lettering called "Send Friend Requests". This will send the invite to these friends who have accounts already.

Figure out which friends you may allow of those who don't have accounts already created. Uncheck the checkboxes for those friends you'd rather not allow to be used on your Yelp account, had they of accepted your invite, but leave those friends who you'd appreciate seeing checked.

Click the white button with red lettering called "Send Friend Requests". This will send the invite to these friends who have accounts already.

Wait for the confirmation box to appear, that states that invites have been sent to these people.

Invite more than just those friends, if you'd like, or if your account isn't of the supported type used here. The "Invite Friends to Yelp" tab is the tab you must use to complete this task, so these people can receive invites, even when they aren't in your email address book just yet.

Wait for the confirmation box to appear, that states that invites have been sent to these people.

Find and Friend Other Yelp Users Who Don't Appear on Your Email Contact List

Visit the Yelp website in your web browser.

Search for the business that contains the individual's review or picture, or written form of communication.

Click the username of the person who you'd like to friend. This will send this search to the given individual's user page.

Locate and click the "Add as a Friend" button that exists over on the left hand side of the page.

Provide a personal note, if you'd like. Type your in-site note's text box.

Click the "Send" button on the in-site popup that is displayed.