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I never add people I don't know/have never known etc... you know what I mean anyway. Though the odd one does slip through when I accept without thinking.... I'm not interested in boosting my friends list to 5 billion and only knowing who a handful of the cunts on there are

Anyway, how often do you get these? How/why do these random people you have no friends in common with even FIND you and decide to add you?

I typically, mail the person asking if I know them, because I have been known to be thick, reject a friend request then think Ah fuck...

Anyway

I just got an invite, so I mailed asking do I know you? The reply was simpy 'Not yet :-)'

Yeah, rejected.
 
I don't actively add people and go from page to page adding people, even with people I know. I think that if they like me they'd have added me anyway, and if I add them I'd only be rejected and made to feel like a fool. I think that's another one of my little things I need to get out of. :sad2:

But I accept every friend request. This isn't so much of a "get thousands of friends and become Mr. Facebook" attitude, but the attitude where I'm willing to let people get connected with me if they want to. Any potential friend is good, and I won't want to ignore them if they want to get to know me. I know most of the time the likelihood is that they won't even contact you, and they'll just lay dormant on your friendslist and their identity forever a mystery, but I just accept them just in case they wanted anything as it doesn't harm me.

Plus there's the whole "I might know them / crap I've forgotten / am such a bad person" issue if I deny them and find out that they had known me and wanted to keep connected with me and I'd denied them. So I tend not to deny anyone.
 
Nope I only add people I know either on here or from my past/present in real life.

I've only had 1 or 2 random adds, but then of course I've only been on it for less than a year.

Now Myspace is another story.. every damn band/porn star/whatever else tries to add me.
 
I don't get that many adds at all tbh. I strictly keep Facebook for my irl friends, with one exception that I can think of.

Come to think of it, I don't think I've ever had any random people add me who I don't know although on that Owned thing, there was a 51 year old woman from Manchester who kept buying me called Carol West which was creepy.
 
I used to add anyone who added me, but now I have like 500 friends and I'm kinda regretting it... I might just purge some of the people I dont know....hmmmmm...
 
I think only a few random people have slipped through onto my friend list, I've got a few that I don't really know but I've met at parties and such like. Personally I find it weird adding random people, it makes you look like a bit of a weirdo really, and it having more friends doesn't make you look popular if you don't know them. :mokken: There's some person on my friend list with 900+ people (although I personally know her) and she lives in the same area which isn't particularly big do there's not a chance in hell she knows that many people >.>
 
Thats the best Ive heard Kel XD I get the odd one, so I reject them. I usually only accept people if they know someone I know. Bugs me when random foreign people try and add me, I dont come from Poland, how the fuck do I know you???
 
I know what you mean, the other day I went on Facebook for the first time in weeks, and had about 40 friend requests. I only knew about 5 people and rejected all the rest x_x

It bothers me when I get added by someone for something like "I know your cousin!" and I have no idea who the hell they are. xD I'm really picky with who I accept, I need to know them reasonably well and talk to them often, otherwise, I just don't bother >_>
 
I accept anyone who adds me. But mind you, so far there has only been one situation where someone completely random has added me (but at least she lives in the same city as me, not some mystic foreign land). I've only had facebook for a few months anyway, so I guess I am pretty inexperienced with random friend requests.

I only really add people who I know. But I do tend to add people who I otherwise wouldn't talk to (high school acquaintances and such). I'm not the type to add people if I meet them for a few hours at a party for example. But I did add someone who lives somewhere in Europe because he has the exact same name as me, he doesn't seem to speak English so I have no idea where he's from. But I thought I'd let him know that he's not alone in the world :monster:
 
I get random invites every few weeks, but I tend to generally ignore them. Can't be bothered when most of my "friends" on Facebook don't even bother when I've added them after getting an invite from them specifically. Methinks they're generally nosey. :hmmm:
 
I don't use Facebook (nobody around here does), but I use a kinda similar site which is quite popular in the Netherlands. I usually just accept everyone who sends a request. I don't really care about those online profiles, so I just click yes unless the invite is from someone or something really stupid. As long as I know my real life friends, I don't care who's my "friend" on some website. You can always ban or block someone, so no problem.
 
I think I added everyone from my highschool year because I'm hoping one of them will organise a reunion one day and will let me know about it. >.<

Though I don't add anyone I honestly don't know.

I rarely use facebook, so when I log in I'll have people from different countries even trying to add me. 0_o

I don't know why they would want to have people on their friends list that aren't really they're friends.
 
Hm.

I've just pruned out my friends list not too long ago. Most of my friend lists were actually invited purposefully to involve them in a game on Facebook. Well, since those games emphasized on 'the more the merrier', I decided I would go along with it to boost my experience in game.

This resulted in a terribly large list of friends, with almost half that I didn't know in reality. Later on, I got sick of those games, so I deleted away those 'friends' I 'made'. Not that I seriously cared anyway, actually. They could still be friends, but that would almost be the same as being deleted away.

When they were friends, I made sure they had no access to my posts, my pictures or whatsoever. :P

Anyway, right now, I'm not so frequent on Facebook, and can scarcely care. There're not many people that spams invites on me anyway. And I'm less likely to add them unless I know them now.
 
I've gotten a few these past few weeks. One girl added me last week who's a friend of two of my cousins that live in Cyprus now. I asked her first if we knew each other since she knew both my cousins (I thought maybe she's one of my cousins since I do have some cousins on my mom's side that I haven't met yet) and she said 'im her friend here in the phil.! well nice to know you..tc^^'

Nice to know me? Sure. I added her anyway for the heck of it. But she's the only random one. There were a few guys that wanted to add me who were mutual friends with friends and family members, but when I asked one if we knew each other, he said 'no' with a creepy smiley face so I ignored the request.

But other than that, people that do add me are 95% of the time valid. I try to keep my friends list clean.
 
Shu said:
Nope I only add people I know either on here or from my past/present in real life.
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I agree. :l I hate random adds and they're so annoying. Sometimes these guys will add me and be like, "Be my girlfriend?". Seriously, wtf?
 
Everyone in my school wants to add me. And I am not popular in the least. Its kind of weird. People that I see in the hallway that I detest want to add me there and I feel obkiged to say yes. I have like 20 friends that I hate on facebook.
 
well to be honest I don't care that much who has access to my facebook so long as I've met the person in real life or have known them online for a fair amount of time or something. I'm pretty cynical sometimes, but odds are if I've seen the person interacting with people I know on facebook or something then I would accept their request...
 
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