The online support group Friends International was created in 2001 by two women that met in cyberspace. It was a joint effort by the American Linda Jones and the Norwegian Mosken Bergh. In 2008 the group was officially registered in Norway as an international volunteer organization. The group is run by a team of six experienced moderators from Norway, USA and the UK.

Friends International is based on the pillars of self help. The board has 4 million visits, average 6,000 visits a day including 10,000 views a day, more than 190,000 posts since its founding and average 700 new posts a week. The group is connecting people living with disabling chronic pain around the world, that otherwise would have lived an isolated life. Together they have raised awareness for chronic pain and especially sitting disability that used to be an unrecognized disability.