Do you add random people as friends on Facebook???

Hi, Yes I add random people, as I use facebook and twitter only to promote stuffs. I don't have pictures uploaded there, except of course my profile picture. Even if I upload pictures, its not about me, rather, its about the things I like. If anyone has any intention of putting your picture in some fake account, there is no possible way you can prevent that, except of course you remain entirely anonymous in that site. Thanks God bless you

I am receiving some friendly invitation to complete strangers and to some that are in extended friends but like you I don't accept them. I approve friend request only if I know them personally. I don't care if i have few friend lists... Yeah it is for security safe as well...

hi tangeryne I am having enough trouble with the huge amount of ' riends I have here in mylot, I do not want to enter facebook 'too much but I have three dear friends who have sort of requested'I join Facebook. I have not the slightest idea of how to join so will have'my son help me with that as he is on Facebook.but no random friends, too much likelihood of someone I do not want there that way.

Nah, I am sorry but I won't add you in myLot in my friends list because I don't know you. Unless and until I trust the person, I never add them in facebook!

Yes I also add random people before. I did it to increase my mafia in Mafia Wars. That's the only reason I add them. Good thing Facebook allows me to group my friends so I can easily hide their posts in their walls.

I don't. And I did learn something from adding friend that I knew was from my high school and I thought should be fine to add him. I also have over 400 pictures on my facebook since I don't really see my family often and they can just browse my update there to see where I've been and what I've done. The next day I accepted the guy's friend request, I received a message on my gmail saying I was tagged by him in a photo. So I went to facebook and checked out what the photo was and it was just a payment proof slip of making money online using facebook. I was so pissed because it was all over my wall. All my friends and family thought I was doing it. So I removed my name from the photo. OK, it solved! but the next day, I got message again saying I was tagged by him. I went to check again and bloody hell! it was one of my picture with my partner was edited using photo editor or whatsoever. It even got like a conversation between us in that photo. Remember, this guy is from my old school. So I sent him a message through wall, not private. I warned him publicly for not doing something like that to other people's photo. He actually got like over 700 friends on his list, so I wanted everybody to know what he was doing as well. I also told him that I was going to complaint what he did to Facebook admin so he will gets block. He did apologize to me and he said he was just joking (but come on, that wasn't his photo..and even the made up conversation was gross), and I did make a complaint, and I also blocked him after that. I dunno what happens to him nowadays..but I feel safer without that kind of user

I didn't used to add anyone but the people who I know personally but, I have added some people for games. I never search anyone and send requests to people I don't know but, have accepted requests from some people for the games. If they are mutual friends with people I am friends with, I will add them. I have 3 requests pending from people who aren't friends with any of my friends. I will probably ignore them to be safe. If I hadn't accepted some of the requests from people I don't know, I would have missed out on getting to know some great people. I am pretty good at monitoring my profile and my friend's profiles. I can block those who I don't know very well, from seeing my photos and any other info I don't want them to see. But, I also don't post anything I wouldn't want the public to see.

Previously I used to add lot people's friends request when I joined face book. Now after hearing a lot of threats and other stuffs, I have stopped adding anonymous requests in facebook.

I never added a stranger on facebook. My girlfriend adds them because of petwille and such games and i guess that's pretty safe. But i do accept users that add me if they seem real because i don't want to ignore someone i might know but forgot about him. i feel bad sometimes because i only have 110 friends but i know every one of them and even if one wants to chat how can you chat with say 20 at the same time. If you have too much friends you don't like it either so i guess i should be happy the way it is.

nope!i just add someone who i know or have the same interest with me.like you im more careful now about adding friends.i had an experience before with other social networking(not facebook) whereby a bunch of different guys from nowhere, i do not even know anyone of them and they keep sending me friend requests everyday.eventually, i just say bye-bye to that site and promised to myself that i wont back to that site ever! :)

No, I only add people I know and want to add. I basically apply the Golden Rule here: "Do unto others what you want others to do unto you."

Yup... I never add strangers to my friends list. There's been these videos that goes around facebook saying that if you're not too careful, then you might end up in some psychos victim. :D

Never. I never accept poeple who I don't understand,because I don't know them and what they want to do.Even if you add them,you have misgivings and can't speak out freely.

Nope! Who knows who I might be adding! I might regret adding some random people in the future. I only add those I know.

I have no problem accepting friend requests from people I don't know and I also do the same with other people. I do it for a number of reasons, They have the same interests as me and have commented on a Facebook group about the thing we both love. I have also added a few people who I don't know personally but are basically contacts for a Music Promotion Business I am involved in with a Friend so I add the people who we have had perform at our gigs etc.

Nope. I online send invitations to people I know.

No, I have just added some friends that I knew. But there are instances that some people making friend request so I always accept them.

I don't accept strangers as my friends, since there are many wrong things going through the net. As you had mentioned, I too just accept my friends request to get connected with them. But there is no further interaction on facebook too, and there too I feel groupism is taking place and some people only post only for their groups. I am just a name in the list and there is nothing for me. I don't know why they ever send me a request to be connected with them, when they have nothing to share with me. Is it just to have more and more friends under their list?

I would never add random people to my facebook account. You never know what they will do with that. Remember, if you add strangers, they will see your feed, your friends, and all of that. This is really bad because a stranger could be stalking you or whatever, and they can post to your wall. You don't want a stranger posting random stuff to your wall. I am very protective about my privacy so I would say that I would not let random people be my friends. The more friends you have, the less protected you are. You should have a maximum of about 100-150 friends.