what do you look for when accepting someone as a friend?

It is good to be cautious when selecting friends. Looking at their profile certainly helps to give a first impression of a potential friend. However, I choose friends for who they are and not what they are. Even if they do not respond to my post, they will still be my friends. My advice is that we accept friends because we want them to be our friends and not using them to fulfill our intentions.

When I request someone as a friend, I do the same thing you do when you get a request. :) I want people who are going to give an imput and add to my discussion, not someone who gives 3 words and expects payment. I do understand sometimes you want to say something but can't really come up with a long answer, as long as it's not every post thats fine, I also look for people with similer intrest, you have to have something to talk about right?

I accept everyone, I think they may be beneficial to me later. Plus it builds my friends up in my list so I have discussions to respond to and people who will respond to mine I hope. It is a community and you choose to build yours any way you see fit. I want a large friend base so I can utilize the system better for me. It also helps me make more money to have someone to respond to.

When I get a request from someone to by my friend, I look at their profile to see what discussions they have started and whether or not they read the responses in the discussions and leave comments appropriately. If someone does not start any discussions that are of interest to me, or if they start them and the "disappear" and fail to moderate the discussion, I will not accept them. I also look at the discussions they have responded to and the best responses that they have received. If they post with good quality, intelligent responses, I will add them. I don't' really care about the star rating, because as we have all found out that is a very subjective and inaccurate reflection of the user's work. Once someone is on my friends list, I will delete them if the are cheating, copy/pasting other people's discussions, spamming, or answering with 1 or 2 words. I request people to be my friends based on the quality of their discussions and responses, also. I would rather have fewer quality friends than hundreds of people who don't even bother to post to my discussions.

I don't think of those, when requesting/approving friends. I don't worry on how much I would earn money here, I want to have friends and mingle with others. I like to learn more ideas and share some also in this community.

I am quite new (four days) and I have had two Friends requests. I didn't realise that you could check so much about a person before accepting them. In future I will check them out a bit more. If they have crazy view that I can agree with then I think I don't want them as friends. The tqo I've got seem pretty hatrmless but if they don't keep up wioth the postings and discussions I may delete them soon.