# Presence

> Learn how presence works in the Friends service to show players’ online status and activity.

Presence refers to both the availability and activity of a user.

A user's **presence availability** is the status of a user. The status can be `ONLINE`, `BUSY`, `AWAY`, `INVISIBLE`, `OFFLINE`, or `UNKNOWN`.

A user's **presence activity** is an object you can use to store user metadata. An example of a user's presence activity might include any recent actions the user performed in your application, such as starting a game match.