---
title: "POST /friendships/create.json"
method: POST
path: "/friendships/create.json"
---

# POST /friendships/create.json

`POST /friendships/create.json`

Allows the authenticating
users to follow the user specified in the ID parameter.

Returns the befriended user in the requested format when successful. Returns a string describing the
failure condition when unsuccessful. If you are already friends with the user a HTTP 403 may be
returned, though for performance reasons you may get a 200 OK message even if the friendship already
exists.

Actions taken in this method are asynchronous and changes will be eventually consistent.

## Response `200`

Successful Response

---

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