Do you know everybody you have in your Friends list?
By HornedDemoN
@HornedDemoN (117)
Bulgaria
September 15, 2011 1:55pm CST
Or do you go by the principle "oh, I've seen this guy on the street, I think I'll add him"? Personally, I'm a little ashamed of it, but I do that sometimes. That, and I NEVER reject friend invites, regardless from who it is. But I know most people on my friends list.
What about you, guys?
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@hardworkinggurl (37063)
• United States
16 Sep 11
I have well over 400 listed friends and family members in my facebook account and I know each and everyone of them. I do not accept anyone in my primary Facebook account that I do not know. I do not wish to be popular in anyway and do not see the point of adding anyone I do not know there. I only use it to communicate with people I do know. It is much more convenient at times to do so on Facebook then it is to say via a telephone as many of them are not in the same state and or country.
@hardworkinggurl (37063)
• United States
16 Sep 11
Yes and probably more then this but this is what I have listed on Facebook. Some date back to my grammar school years and or family members, cause you see everyone is connected these days. lol
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@HornedDemoN (117)
• Bulgaria
18 Sep 11
Nice to hear you can connect with old friends. I am yet to find some of mine from kindergarten... ha ha.
@lologirl2021 (5542)
• United States
16 Sep 11
Sad thing is that i have pages and friends and they add up to over 700 but not more than 800 and i dont know the exact number as i dont look at it everyday. Everyone on my page i personally know and i do have alot of family members on there and no i dont talk to everyone on there but i do know everyone on there and i do ask people to be my friends id ont know because i dont accept friend requets from people i dont know and i find it weird to send a friend request to someone i dont know. I would like to only add people i know because i dont need anyone i dont know looking at my photos.
@HornedDemoN (117)
• Bulgaria
18 Sep 11
It's not that weird adding someone you don't know. If you're from the same city, same school/workplace/whatever, I don't see a problem. That's how new friendships are formed. Now if you're from the USA and the other person is from Afghanistan, then it may be a bit weird.
@ravinskye (8237)
• United States
16 Sep 11
I know everyone on my friends list. Some I know better than others, but because I have pictures of my kids on there, I refuse to add strangers. I know some people that will add tons of people just to have more people to send them gifts on the games they play. I think it could be dangerous to have so many people that you don't know having access to your information.
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@HornedDemoN (117)
• Bulgaria
18 Sep 11
I fully agree. Though I think you can make your pictures private only for certain people.
@JodeneB (177)
• United States
15 Sep 11
I think I know about 90-95% of my friend list - or have at least met them! I used to be super strict & only allow people i knew, but then I found it boring! I wanted to see what other people are up to, how they live. etc. so, I have added a bunch of Jodene's (@ the time, I thought my name was uncommon), and now i have friends all over the globe. I comment & connect with almost all of them. I do have a few people who requested me that are total strangers, but I accept almost everyone!
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@HornedDemoN (117)
• Bulgaria
18 Sep 11
So, you like adding people with your name? That's actually nice thinking, because you'd have something in common that way.
@beaniefanatic13 (5076)
• Grand Junction, Colorado
16 Sep 11
I know all the people on my friends list personally but one. The one I don't know is a close personal friend of my dad and we interact together by posting on each others walls. Since I post lots of personal information and pictures of my kids s that family can see and stay in touch I won't add random people to my Facebook or my MySpace accounts. Plus I see no reason to have a ton of people I don't know there. Is don't care what people I don't know are doing. Plus I hear all the time about people being rude to others for things they don't agree with. My family and friends no where I stand on issues so if I post I don't have to worry about someone getting rude on my page. Random requests are promptly denied.
I'm cautious here now also. I don't accept all friends requests, but I don't deny them right away either. I got tired of getting spammed by people here. Now I wait to see there activity before accepting.
@tash01 (2030)
• Jamaica
15 Sep 11
We ll half of the people on my life , i don't know them personally.And most of the people that i add must be a a common friend on my list then i will add that person.I have know a few of the persons on my list, some is my family and some i went to school together with while some live in my community.
I even have a lot friend because i play the game farville too, an i get a lot of request.
@HornedDemoN (117)
• Bulgaria
18 Sep 11
Ah, farmville requests. I hate those. I don't play the game, but people constantly spam me with invites.
Anyway, I don't think you have to know personally everyone. Chatting with someone once is enough for me to add them as a friend on Facebook.
@cream97 (29087)
• United States
18 Sep 11
Hi, HornedDemoN. Yes, I pretty much know everyone that is on my friends list on Facebook. I have about five to six people that I don't really know that is on my friends list. They are friends with my other friends though. These people are guys and not girls at all. Most of the people that are on my friends list are family members, friends or acquaintance from any school that I used to attend many years ago.
@dheckerz (473)
• Philippines
16 Sep 11
It depends. Here in mylot i only know few people from my friendlist. But when it comes to social network accounts, i choose who I add and accept. The reason for that is security and privacy. We normally put our personal details in there, our emotions and our whereabouts. There are people who care less and others have bad intention and can screw us up. So, that's the very reason why we need to know the people in our friends list.
@chiwasaki (4694)
• Philippines
18 Sep 11
I know everyone that is on my Facebook friends list. Those are my real friends that I met in person already. Mostly school mates, colleagues, co workers, neighbors and family members.
@bagarad (14283)
• Paso Robles, California
16 Sep 11
Facebook is messy. When I started, I only accepted friends I knew in the non-virtual world -- family, old school mates, old friends and neighbors, now separated by counties, states, and countries. Then I joined a group of bereaved parents, and after we had shared our stories, we felt pretty close to each other and accepted each other's friend requests. Then the requests started coming from people I considered friends at SQuidoo, but I'd only known them on line, though I had talked to one on Skype a couple of times when she was helping me with a Wordpress problem. If that isn't a friend, what is? But then the friends of friends started asking and I didn't know where to draw the line.
Same thing happened with other online booksellers. Some I had met at a physical annual meeting in Chicago in 2000, so I did know them. Others I only knew online from a booksellers email discussion list I'm on, and I accepted a few requests from those who posted regularly that I felt I knew, but then the list lurkers who never posted started making friend requests and I didn't recognize their names, just the names of our mutual friends. Some I accepted and some I didn't and they are still sitting in limbo because I don't want to hurt their feelings, but I'm tired of seeing so many names I don't recognize on my wall that I don't want to add anymore. I think some of these may be friends of friends who have stated that friends of friends can see their posts. It's enough to make one crazy.
When I joined I didn't realize you could have two accounts. Were I to do it over I would have one account for just my friends and a different one for those I don't really know and who don't need to know my personal business.
@nasapiyush (147)
• India
16 Sep 11
Hi horned demon
I do not know all of my friends in my friend list . But i know some of them I enjoy talking to strangers knowing them. Sometimes it is very interesting to know them but sometimes some sounds very boring. Rough example i know 400 people who are in my account on a total of 780. Some are also there whom I had never talked .
Rest in my opinion I would say I love making friends ..