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

I got one from a new member and she was actually being very friendly. Of course i accepted. Its just being nice. On Facebook or myspace, i usually ignore people i dont know. On a forum its a little different because i really dont have personal information on here.

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.

This is because people love you and want to get closer to you...yeah fwends are bad. Very very very bad.

I have people send me friend request and comments from time to time and it doesn't bother me at all. I don't see why it should? I even find myself sending friend request and visitor messages' to people of this forum who've never met me. Usually when I send random FR it's either because I've read a couple of that persons post and they make me laugh or we might have some of the same common interest. Theres nothing wrong with that...

Speaking of which everyone in this thread can send me a FR and VM because I love you allll!!!!

I usually click "yes", by default.

but if they post something creative like:

BE MY FRIEND OR I'M GOING TO ****ING SHOOT YOU THROUGH THE INTERNET RIGHT NOW.

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then I might reply back with a witty comment, funny picture, or even mildly offensive word.

When it comes to ZU friend requests, I don't accept all of them by default. Its really easy to shoot me a message saying hey and introducing yourself or just saying some random comment so that I actually have some idea of who you are. So as long as I can recall some sort of casual interaction with you, then I have no problem approving friending requests. If I see I have a request and I have absolutely no idea who the person is, I tend to reject them.

So I have some criteria, but it really isn't hard to fulfill.

As for facebook, it rarely happens that I get friend requests from people I either don't instantly recognize or manage to remember after looking at common friends and whatnot.

Actually, on ZU it only happened once, recently. I accepted do to the fact I'm newer here and I felt it appropriate to try and fill up my friends list. As for facebook I usually accept to see what they're all about, if they are up to no good I just remove them, I know it sounds harsh but if they don't know me, they shouldn't take it personally.

I usually say yes, unless I know they're some crazy person, or just some person I don't like.

Here and elsewhere (so basically everywhere except real life, because real life doesn't have lists) I'm rather picky. I only accept requests from people I at least somewhat know (and like), and tend not to request from others unless I have more than the one obvious reason.

So as you can probably tell, I don't accept friend requests from random people I don't know. I will however politely decline by telling them why.

It's happened to me once or twice, but I've never rejected a friend request. It feels far too rude to do so on here.

If it happened to me on Facebook, on the other hand...no, I wouldn't accept the request if I didn't know the person, since more information is being shared on Facebook than on ZU.

Originally Posted by Valhelm

Yrael

Who's Yrael?
That's the name I wanted to have when I first joined

Most of the people on my friend list are ones I hardly know, and raarely interact with. If ever. But I accept anyway, because I'm a nice guy. But you do whatever you want.

I consider online friendships to be of very little importance. Thus I only become friends with people who are deserving of that title.