Strangers in your friends list.

i have accepted lots of invitation from people that i don't know. i think it is a good way to meet other people. if then i dont' like this person, i can always block him... and i also send invitation to people that i don't know, and lots of them accepted without any problems.

I was wondering what you meant by knowing someone who doesn't know you. I guess you mean that you have heard of them through other friends. That really isn't knowing them, it's more being acquainted with someone they know. I guess it depends on your definition of friend. As you said, they might reject a friend request from you, since they don't know you. Here's how you can break that ice though. First, on your Facebook settings, choose to have your info, wall and profile available to "Friends of friends". Then be sure to comment often on your friends' pictures, status messages and links. They will see the comments on their feed and if they want to know more about you, they can look at your profile. Another thing you can do is to ask your friends to tell their friends about you, and they may suggest adding you to their friends list. For some people, garnering a huge amount of friends on Facebook is a goal, others like to use it for just keeping up with people. Not everyone is going to be open to adding people they know only slightly, but some will. Try to be as engaged as possible on your friends' pages and people will get to know and like you, and then you can ask to be added.

hey sharksfin For my part I think that would ok. I accept their request most of the time. Although I don't know the people who I invited or someone invite me, but we're in the list now, we could know each other beter from the "discussions my friends started" part.