Let me start by describing the purpose of these two

Friends

On RescueCentre you can join friends with another rescue or Rehabber. This allows you to be able to share records with this rescue.

Networks

These are groups, collections, collaborations of rescues or rehabbers that may be working together either for a single species or in a geographic region. For example Texas state rehabbers or Hedgehog Rescue Yorkshire. Coming together collectively also allows sharing of patient records to the group but also provides Network wide statistics based on the data from all the rescues.