Users you've never heard of saying hi and friend requesting you.

I don't mind it. People send me VMs usually because of my avatars, sigs, or username (which usually have to do with music). So then we start talking about music. It's not like accepting a friend request here means much. I keep in touch with the people I want to, regardless if they're on that list or not.

Originally Posted by brokenjoker

I actually had a girl who I only saw on the bus ONCE, add me to Facebook. Of course I accepted, but it was funny.

I thought about inviting as many people as I possibly could from all over the world. Just to see how many would accept it.

I know that somebody must've done that already. Maybe even a lot of somebodies.

Originally Posted by Nyarlathotep

I thought about inviting as many people as I possibly could from all over the world. Just to see how many would accept it.

I know that somebody must've done that already. Maybe even a lot of somebodies.

Many, many somebodies do that

Nobody knows anybody until someone introduces themselves. Therefore I don't see what's so creepy about a stranger saying hello.

I agree with Evilsbane. It's this world where everyone seems to see outgoing friendliness as a bad thing.

Personally, I love when people randomly add me or talk to me. Who wouldn't want to make friends?

Originally Posted by LookOutSunshine

Personally, I love when people randomly add me or talk to me. Who wouldn't want to make friends?

Salutations Madame, vous voulez être amis!

Fwends forever! Bwahahaha

You caught me, I'm afraid to have friends.

It isn't like for the most part they even say anything interesting, they're always just like "HEY WHAT'S UP HOWRE YOU TODAY WAS LAME HOW WAS YOUR DAY"

It's like they have presets saved for uninteresting conversations. It'd be fine if they said ANYTHING of value.

In order for someone to add me to their friend list and not be considered creepy, they must have either had conversations with me on several occasions throughout the forum, or we must have shared some form of pm/vm conversation. If I haven't actually talked to you, I do not know you well enough to accept.

(And the situation described in this thread has happened to me several times. It's weird.)

I don't mind. I usually start becoming friendly with such users after having added me to their list. I have a pretty modest friend list, and I've never rejected anyone. I like it that way.

Evilsbane makes a really good point.. Stop the people who are rude... life is short you know so make the most out of it! That's all I really got to say.

Originally Posted by Tacheon Black

You caught me, I'm afraid to have friends.

In real life...I hate having friends. They are so annoying. Online I can friends with anyone without even talking to them! How cool is that!?

That is the ideal friendship I like. A friend who does not talk.

Originally Posted by Twilight Joker

Online I can friends with anyone without even talking to them! How cool is that!?

That is the ideal friendship I like. A friend who does not talk.

Yeah, same here.

It's happened to me a few times in the past. I don't know that I've ever declined a friendship, either. The more friends the merrier or whatever.

Originally Posted by Twilight Joker

In real life...I hate having friends. They are so annoying. Online I can friends with anyone without even talking to them! How cool is that!?

That is the ideal friendship I like. A friend who does not talk.

Haha well I was joking, I'm honestly annoyingly popular in real life (not to toot my own horn :<)

It seems the more comeoffish and jackass-like you are in real life the more people want to be your friends. How weird.

Originally Posted by Tacheon Black

Haha well I was joking, I'm honestly annoyingly popular in real life (not to toot my own horn :<)

It seems the more comeoffish and jackass-like you are in real life the more people want to be your friends. How weird.

I was joking too.

Kinda.

Originally Posted by Tacheon Black

You caught me, I'm afraid to have friends.

It isn't like for the most part they even say anything interesting, they're always just like "HEY WHAT'S UP HOWRE YOU TODAY WAS LAME HOW WAS YOUR DAY"

It's like they have presets saved for uninteresting conversations. It'd be fine if they said ANYTHING of value.

My random conversation began with her simply asking "How are you?". I ran with it, and managed to have a conversation about RPGs, and she informed me that Chrono Trigger was re-released on the DS. I didn't know that.

I subscribe to the theory that luck is an ability to create luck. Professor Richard Wiseman agrees...

In research he conducted, inviting 1,000 people who described themselves as either lucky or unlucky to participate, he demonstrated some interesting things:
In an experiment involving a newspaper, the volunteer was asked to flip through a newspaper, and count how many photographs there were. They were told to do it "quickly, but don't rush".

Typically, the people who had described themselves as unlucky took two minutes to arrive at the number "52". Those who had described themselves as lucky typically took just seconds... there was large advertisement on page 5 which read: "STOP COUNTING - THERE ARE 52 PHOTOS IN HERE". This demonstrates that lucky people tend to keep more of an eye out for opportunities, noticing things that might escape others. What's more, there was another advertisement further in, which read "WIN £100 BY TELLING THE EXPERIMENTER YOU HAVE SEEN THIS!"

In another experiment, both groups were interviewed. The unlucky ones tended to have very closed body language, folding their arms and such, while the lucky group tended to have open body language, and smiled about 3 times as much. Said Wiseman: "So not only were lucky people better at spotting opportunities, their body language was subconsciously attracting them".

Link to a video detailing the research

Originally Posted by Evilsbane

I subscribe to the theory that luck is an ability to create luck. Professor Richard Wiseman agrees...

In research he conducted, inviting 1,000 people who described themselves as either lucky or unlucky to participate, he demonstrated some interesting things:
In an experiment involving a newspaper, the volunteer was asked to flip through a newspaper, and count how many photographs there were. They were told to do it "quickly, but don't rush".

Typically, the people who had described themselves as unlucky took two minutes to arrive at the number "52". Those who had described themselves as lucky typically took just seconds... there was large advertisement on page 5 which read: "STOP COUNTING - THERE ARE 52 PHOTOS IN HERE". This demonstrates that lucky people tend to keep more of an eye out for opportunities, noticing things that might escape others. What's more, there was another advertisement further in, which read "WIN £100 BY TELLING THE EXPERIMENTER YOU HAVE SEEN THIS!"

In another experiment, both groups were interviewed. The unlucky ones tended to have very closed body language, folding their arms and such, while the lucky group tended to have open body language, and smiled about 3 times as much. Said Wiseman: "So not only were lucky people better at spotting opportunities, their body language was subconsciously attracting them".

Link to a video detailing the research

Well damned if that just doesn't have anything to do with the conversation at hand.

(it is interesting though)

I don't really care. Most of them are noobs, in awe that a person with two thousando posts left a message on their profile.


I rarely messge my freinds, with the exceptins of Ozzie, Yrael, and sometimes Forte.

Originally Posted by Tacheon Black

Well damned if that just doesn't have anything to do with the conversation at hand.

(it is interesting though)

Look at it this way - you're on an internet forum. Someone messages you and says "hello, are you?", in a quite friendly manner. Replying costs you nothing. If they wanted to hack you, they wouldn't need a friend request to accomplish it. There are no conceivable drawbacks to accepting the friend request, and clearly you're not short on time, or you wouldn't be killing time on a forum to begin with. What do you do? Ignore an opportunity or seize it?

A person who is lucky is a person who maximises their chances of having something lucky happen to them. In my case, I didn't gain much, but I DID gain a nice conversation with a person from Brazil and the knowledge that one of my favourite games from my youth has been remade with extra areas and an extra alternate ending. What did you gain from your rejection of the opportunity?

It happens, but I don't really mind it much. I really enjoy getting to know new people on the site, though I do prefer a little bit of Vistor Messaging before I accept or send a request.

I need to at least either talk to them or be in the same thread a few times. Really I don't get many friend requests on here. But I'm not around here all that much so it doesn't bug me too much.
*sniff sniff*