Method and equipment for recommending friends

The embodiment of the invention provides a method for recommending friends. One of the methods comprises the following steps: acquiring a friend-making condition of a first user, and searching each second user with basic information meeting the friend-making condition; calculating the matching degree between each second user and the first user according to the basic information of the first user and the basic information of each second user; calculating the preference degree of the first user for each second user according to the basic information of each second user; according to the basic information and/or historical behavior of each second user, calculating the use characterization degree of each second user; and according to the matching degree, the preference degree and the use characterization degree, screening out at least one third user from the second users to recommend to the first user. Through the method provided by the embodiment of the invention, the recommended friendscan better conform to the