Do I know you????

So who here is a bit offended, at the very least, at strangers thinking they can intrude on your facebook time?? I dont have strangers trying to add me or requesting that I add them etc but I figure thats because of my privacy settings on my account....As for you not being on FB to make friends...neither am I BUT truth be told there are alot of ppl on there who are and much like in here or anywhere else online where you can add ppl, out to have (for whatever insane reason) as many friends on their list as possible..I PERSONALLY DONT GET IT whether its here, FB, Myspace or whatever..Best bet IMO is to change your settings..

Getting what you mean.. for myself, I add gaming friends and they add me too. And the best part about Facebook is that after adding them to my Facebook games, I can delete some of them off my friends list. So that leaves them totally as gaming friends. I have no qualms about making new friends but if there are too many strangers, it would definitely defeat the purpose. It's great to catch up with friends and I found so many familiar faces on Fb..

To be honest, I think its pretty boring to only get friend requests from people you already know.I have tried to contact people from my school days etc but, most of them will have changed their names and i wouldn't recognise them from their profile pictures anyway. Consequently, I dont use it much. I just email my friends directly. They'll get any messages straight to their inbox that way.

i have almost 400 friends in facebook, i know about half of them but the other half of that number i added purposely to monetize my account by sending referral links to all of my added friends, but i usually cluster them to groups, i keep the once i know personally in a single friend list and who ever doesn't belong to that group i use to expand my referrals.. i don't spam their accounts, i actually send personal message to each one of them.

Hi warmweatherwoman, I fully understand what you mean and how you might feel about this! It happened to me too and as you said I also arranged my settings for private friends only. But then again I believe that we are the ones who should fix boundaries or limitations on our own profiles! Each person uses his account as he/she thinks is best for him/herself... and some people do use these sites to make new friends or promote something, so they would need to have more people on their accounts. It's up to us to decide who to accept or not. Actually I also had another weird experience with facebook...a person I knew who had invited my daughter to her son's party, then decided to splash all kids photos on facebook, and was later offended when I said that at least she should have asked before!!!

Ahahaha, i was once guilty for the crime of adding indiscriminately. Not now though... i do select my friend-to-be's. However, if they are amusing enough (e.g. putting up a good debate on sensitive topics), i do add strangers.

Actually, I'm new to Facebook and...I'm one of those ppl your talking about. I've made friends on there and I do send friend requests to ppl I don't know...HOWEVER they are ppl that play the same games on there that I do. I really have no desire to see ppl from my past...that's why their in "the past". I do however like the games and enjoy playing them. I don't chit chat with the other ppl on there and I don't look to make "friends" with them...I just enjoy playing the games with them. I have had ppl come back and ask if they know me and tell me they only add ppl they know...that's cool...everyone does their own thing. I've had ppl do the same with me and as long as we share games, I'll add them. To me thats part of what Facebook is all about. [b]~~AT PEACE WITHIN~~ **STAND STRONG IN YOUR BELIEFS**[/b]

I agree that I use FaceBook to keep up with people I know. Now I don't mind adding friends from place like here and other social networking sites. But for FB, I would rather keep it that way. Though I know there are people on Facebook that have friends they don't even know so they can have bigger Mafias and for other game playing reasons.

warmweatherwoman, Since you are basically wanting to be in touch with old and familiar friends, then I suppose you would have no choice but to make your social networking account private and inaccessible to the public. However, having said that, I suppose there will be another group out there that are and will be looking out for a new friend to befriend and another group that is willing to accommodate. As for me, I am not really active with my account due to my hectic work schedule which involves quite a bit of traveling, so I am on private as far as accessibility is concern.

This is exactly what I was talking about in your other discussion though. I will not accept you on my Facebook page if we don't know one another, are family are acquaintances. Period. I don't care if you need help in Mafia Wars, or Farmville or whatever. If I don't know you I will not accept you and I have accepted people who I know just a little or that I knew from school even if we never spoke before but there must still be some type of personal connection for me to add you. I have about 300 friends on facebook (I might be wrong) but I assure you, I know every single one of them.... Oh wait I met two new people on Facebook while I've been there (about three years too) and they were the exceptions. Met them both through mutual groups we were in and they are both nice young ladies. Not trying to holla a them but we do talk on there from time to time. In all that time I've only let my guard down twice then, and it was for the ladies Lol. Still 99.999% of the time, I WOULD NEVER DO THIS ON FB. Now Myspace is a different story. I started a myspace page in 2004 I believe with the purpose of promoting our (my bro and I) record label. I produce music and perform as well. On Myspace I have over 10000 friends, most of whom I do not know. And while I have my family up there too, I could never find them on there as I have to look thru 130 pages of friends and they no longer allow me the luxury of the alphabetical listings (after 2000 friends, thats out the window). But I would like to add as many people as possible to that page as it furthers promotes my music. Though I have never actually sold any on myspace, at least people can hear some of my work. And I have met hundreds of people on Myspace as well, but they are mostly music industry connections or people who were sending me music. I have collaborated with other artists on Myspace as well.. But myspace has always been a tool for promotion for me. I tried to start a personal page on Myspace, but didn't see a reason for it so I scrapped it. Whew. Thats a mouthful. Great post though...

I dont use myspace but i have facebook,if i want to contact i use gmail or yahoo.

hi warmweatherwoman, well that's the consequence of having joined those sites because everybody can see you. the only thing you can do is to ignore them if you don't want them to be one of your friends. you see my mom had a friend just in letter writing (penpal) no email at that time and they had communicated thru letters only and they saw each other after 42 years of letter writing when my mom had the opportunity to go to USA. well, it's a matter of choice. you only can decide for that. it's also nice to have friends all over the world. if it annoys you you can delete those people seems to be irritating to you. have a nice day.

I don't care of the requests of unknown people.I just don't need unknown people in my facebook as far as I am concerned this is a profile made to connect me with my friends and not with my friends' friends.I just give them ignore and forget of all the requests that are of no interest to me.I got inough friends and don't look for new ones in the Internet.