Facebook and strangers

[snowman6251]

Well I'm going to be a freshman in college quite soon and recently we just got our community assignments. On facebook I'm a member of the class of 2014 group for my university and I had added some people from there to my facebook who I had spoken to on the discussion board, primarily from the thread I made about playing some PS3 with eachother. That made sense to me. Talk to people a little and get to know them by shooting each other up.

But now that we've gotten our community assignments and I've posted my community on the thing I get tons of friend requests from completely random people. I've never spoken to them about anything and they just add me. I accept them after a "they are going to my college right" check but it feels kind of weird since I really do have no idea who they are.

So what are your thoughts on accepting friends on facebook who aren't actually your friends? Personally it weirds me out and I don't really know why they'd add me in the first place. If we had discussed something over the forums that'd be one thing but I've had no interaction with most of these people. I only accept them because I probably will meet them soon enough and for some reason it seems like its rude not to.

 

[Marter]

I've added people who I don't really talk to, just because I used to be in their class.

If I haven't actually talked to them, I don't add them.

I really should purge my friend's list though. 90% of the people are those that I don't care about.

 

[DeadlyYellow]

Hey, if they want to hear me complain about how much I hate my college, more power to them.

 

[Fappy]

I will usually accept a request from someone I just met, but am not friends with but I never except friend requests from random people. I can see why this is probably happening though, everyone is worried they will be lonely when they come to a big new school and want to have some contacts ahead of time. I personally just made a few friends a orientation and went from there. Its worked that way for decades

 

[Pimppeter2]

I just add hot girls and my friends. SO when those skanky hoes add me I add them.

 

[snowman6251]

I will usually accept a request from someone I just met, but am not friends with but I never except friend requests from random people. I can see why this is probably happening though, everyone is worried they will be lonely when they come to a big new school and want to have some contacts ahead of time. I personally just made a few friends a orientation and went from there. Its worked that way for decades

See I understand that its just that no one discusses anything. The only "contact" we've had is add friend/accept friend. Not even so much as a "Hi I'm in your community" or something along those lines. Its weird for me because I have all these random names attached to random faces sitting in my friends list and appearing on my feed and I'm just kind of like "um who is that again?" But I can't even answer that because I never really knew in the first place.

I know some people are facebook whores who determine their value as a human being based on how many facebook friends they have, and I suspect some of these people are likely those, but come on I've never even had a conversation with them over the internet. I've spoken to you more than them and I don't even remember who I quoted.

Also I always check their profile to make sure that they are adding me due to college and while I'm there I take a quick peek around to see if they might actually be someone I would want to talk to, ie: referencing anime or video games or other interests of mine in their interests. Rarely is that actually the case. A lot of them say things like "Interests: Getting WASTED all day every day! I love Lady Gaga and Twilight" and I'm just like "why did you even add me, the nerd, who shares no common interests with you?"

 

[InnerRebellion]

I tend to add anyone I went to school with, then delete them once I get tired of the "I'm high as hell" statuses cluttering my feed.

 

[Fappy]

I will usually accept a request from someone I just met, but am not friends with but I never except friend requests from random people. I can see why this is probably happening though, everyone is worried they will be lonely when they come to a big new school and want to have some contacts ahead of time. I personally just made a few friends a orientation and went from there. Its worked that way for decades

See I understand that its just that no one discusses anything. The only "contact" we've had is add friend/accept friend. Not even so much as a "Hi I'm in your community" or something along those lines. Its weird for me because I have all these random names attached to random faces sitting in my friends list and appearing on my feed and I'm just kind of like "um who is that again?" But I can't even answer that because I never really knew in the first place.

I know some people are facebook whores who determine their value as a human being based on how many facebook friends they have, and I suspect some of these people are likely those, but come on I've never even had a conversation with them over the internet. I've spoken to you more than them and I don't even remember who I quoted.

Also I always check their profile to make sure that they are adding me due to college and while I'm there I take a quick peek around to see if they might actually be someone I would want to talk to, ie: referencing anime or video games or other interests of mine in their interests. Rarely is that actually the case. A lot of them say things like "Interests: Getting WASTED all day every day! I love Lady Gaga and Twilight" and I'm just like "why did you even add me, the nerd, who shares no common interests with you?"

Then I would suggest ignoring any future adds unless they make it a point that they're actually interested in getting to know you at school. Facebook is looking more and more like Myspace everyday it seems