Aspects of the disclosure provide a method for adding a target contact to a user's friend list in a social network. A target image of a human body part of the target contact can be received from a user terminal. A target biological feature can be extracted from the target image. Whether the target biological feature matches a reference biological feature of a plurality of prestored reference biological features can be determined. A social account associated with the determined reference biological feature that matches the target biological feature may be determined, and added to the user's friend list.