Facebook....

[daisy2jae]

My sister keeps bugging me about this question and wondering how everyone else does this....
Facebook users...Do you collect friends on facebook or do you only accept people you are close with? My DH is friends with only people he's close with or would talk to. I'm friends with anyone who wants to be (with in reason). Example: high school classmates I'll be friends with but my DH will not unless he liked them. I guess now that we're out of school over 10 yrs I'd like to get to know them. Over the years maybe they have changed. I know I have.

 

[Golf4food]

I play a number of FB games for fun and many of them require having multitudes of friends (which is annoying, but waddyagonnado?) I have over 5,000 friends, I think. I'm very, very popular, haha.

 

[dislaney]

I will say anyone with reason but I do have to know them. I get some people that I don't know and have never known requesting to be my friend. They get an ignore.

 

[daisy2jae]

I have to at least know them but I can't figure out why anyone would ask you to be friends if they don't know you. I get requests once a month from people I've never heard of and they live states away.

 

[kafitty]

if i will say hello to them if i see them in real life, then i will be their friend on facebook.

 

[daisy2jae]

if i will say hello to them if i see them in real life, then i will be their friend on facebook.

I wonder if I could get my DH to agree with me on this one? I would have to agree.

 

[Mrs.Toad]

if i will say hello to them if i see them in real life, then i will be their friend on facebook.

This is mostly how I am. I know very few people that I truly don't like, and may ignore a friend request from them (though it hasn't happened yet), even though I'd probably say hi to them if I ran into them IRL. (harder to ignore someone IRL )

I only friend request people I actually want to keep in touch with on FB, but I'll accept more than that.

I also get random friend requests from people I've never heard of on there, and always ignore them. I think that is so wierd, why on earth do you want to be my friend? When I ignore them, a little button pops up to "mark this friend request as from someone you don't know at all." I always click that. I have no idea what it does, but I do it, because I think maybe that will send them a message.

 

[Becky2005]

It really depends. I ended up finding a whole family line that I wouldn't have known about except for Facebook. I added them to my friend list.

I just have seperate lists for different groups with different privacy settings. I won't accept everyone & anyone though.

 

[pigletgirl]

Everyone that I've had physical contact with (meaning talking face to face) gets to be my friend. If I haven't met them in RL, then no.

 

[hereyago]

When Classmates came out, all the trifiling people that I knew from my past who knew I didn't like them, would contact me through that site. Facebook has been the same, always some hooch-u know the girl who was alike a door knob, is still the same way today and wants to be friends again.

Um,nope. I really don't want to live the high school days or after of her introducing me to a guy, then the guy would like me, then she would stalk us.

So I am a very selective friends only facebook user. And I have ignored a few.

 

[Soarin08]

Pretty much, anyone within reason. Alot of my friends on FB I've met via online sites such as here, deviantART, and the various Beatles message boards I visit, and they always tell me who they are. Then I accept them. If there is no message saying "Hey, this is _______ from ________," then I reject them.

 

[RyeCrimsonMoon]

I'll accepted anyone (within reason). If I can figure out where you're from, I'll accept you. If we don't have any friends in common, Ill let them sit there until I make my decision.

 

[disykat]

I wonder "why in the heck do they want to be my friend?" and then I accept them. (if I know them) I wish I had the nerve to only accept the people that I truly am friends with IRL, but I don't want to come off as snotty. So I accept them and then put them on hide.

 

[Silent1CB]

Only people I have met in real life. That means classmates & people related to a hobby we have. I also use Friend Lists and sort who can see what so I have some additional privacy. My high school class never had a 25th reunion. Many of us have been finding each other on FB lately, and we've begun having monthly dinners out. The group is getting bigger & bigger and we are all having a blast! I was on Classmates.com for years and never reconnected with anyone.

No DISers or and I don't play the online games either.

 

[lacrosse_lady72]

I don't have that much time to waste to be on Facebook. I only have enough time for one site on a regular basis and it's DIS.

 

[SunnyP4Disney]

I try to be careful about who I pick. I have pictures and other stuff I wouldn't want some random stranger having access to. I have alot of friends on FB, but being a military wife, I meet alot of people and have alot of connections and contacts I like to keep in touch with.

 

[Katy Belle]

I have 93 Facebook friends. I try to limit it. I did not include my High School in my info. I did not include my maiden name. I have ignored several requests and I have requested only a handful of my friends...I wait for people to come to me. If we were not actually 'friends' in real life, past or present, the NO, I will not be your friend. I don't play the games that require you to get stuff from people, so I don't have a need to have so many friends. I have 'unfriended' some people too. If I find your updates offensive, or if I feel after several months that there is no reason to keep you, I might disappear from your list. It is fun to keep in touch with my real friends!

 

[tekoa]

I wonder "why in the heck do they want to be my friend?" and then I accept them. (if I know them) I wish I had the nerve to only accept the people that I truly am friends with IRL, but I don't want to come off as snotty. So I accept them and then put them on hide.

How do you put someone on "hide" ?

 

[Disneyland1084]

When I first joined FB two years ago, I went a little overboard with adding people. However, it was only people I knew or had some type of connection with. My list got to over 200, and I realized how ridiculous that was. In the past two days I've deleted almost 40. These are people who NEVER comment on my wall, photos, etc, when I've said hi and made comments to them. I was surprised at how many of those had between 500 to over 1000 friends. They sure won't notice I'm not on their list anymore. When people send requests to me, I'll add them if I know who they are.

 

[dizneygurl007]

I accept friends within reason. If the person and I have friends in common or the person has explained how they know me, then I will add them. Otherwise, I won't usually add someone.