do you ignore friend invitations in facebook

Philippines
January 23, 2010 8:01pm CST
do you accept all friend invitations in facebook even if you do not know them? how about when you know them but are not close? i have a cousin who accepts all friend request . he has thousands of them , just for the sake of having a lot of neighbors in games
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15 responses
• Philippines
24 Jan 10
Hi thebestmom :D You know what I have two different accounts on Facebook.. one is only for my close circle of friends/ acquaintances and the other is for game purposes.. I'm a person who both wanted to keep my personal life but would have wanted to know other cultures as well. :( i believe that was the reason why i just got tired of Facebook.. probably because of its friend suggestions. I just got tired accepting new friend requests whom i don't really know personally.. and it's somewhat depressing to see your facebook friends who are strangers in real life after all. :( plus i don't want to expose my private life to others.. maybe i would have wanted for us to be friends first before he becomes my facebook friend.. facebook exposes a lot about yourself and i honestly don't want others, especially strangers stepping so much into my private life.. plus i got tired with all the facebook games.. interactive as it may be, i just don't like the fact being always responsible for your facebook game characters as if it's really your duty to update them from time to time. :( however, twitter worked better for me.. and fits more my personality.. but that's a different story ;D take care thebestmom and God bless ;)
• Philippines
24 Jan 10
haha! that's why i dont add them either. i accept friend requests from classmates of my children. but when they are just plain acquantances i have to think of them. because i post pictures and they will know about my life. im just afraid that they may think im ignoring them for not accepting their friend request.
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• Philippines
24 Jan 10
you can always adjust your privacy settings.. but it requires effort to block a number of facebook friends.. so i'd rather not accept their friend requests I guess ;D
@kyel_11 (1069)
• Philippines
24 Jan 10
yes i do ignore friend invitations especially the people i don't really know or no connection with any of my friends.
@glaiz_9 (366)
• Philippines
24 Jan 10
Well, I just accepted every friend invitations that come in my way. That would be additional people for my house in games that I'm playing in facebook. :D That is why I got a thousands of friends :D
@KrauseHome (36448)
• United States
24 Jan 10
Personally I have quite a few friends. I would never consider having 1000s as it would really be impossible to keep up with them all. I have friends from High School on my list, and then I have Co-workers, other friends, my Internet Business friends, and then I have people I know from church, and then my catagory of people who I only play games with. I am not one who adds just anyone, but a lot of times I find some of the better friends you meet you may not really know them that well either. Look at your friends list here? Do you know any of them in person unless they are your family, or personal referrals?
@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
25 Jan 10
I accept friend's invitations even if I think I know them. I remember faces, but not names unless I have been to their place a few times so often I will assume that I knew that person and we talked together even if we never met. That would mean those whom I am not that close with, but not because I do not like them, but that I have only seen them on special events. For instant, I went to a Mass Choir at Edmonton a few years ago, and I am sure I put in a couple of people as friends on Facebook when they asked, because I may have had said hi to them or they were in the next aisle over in the Soprano section. I am not a game player though.
@indahfth (11161)
• Indonesia
24 Jan 10
I have two facebook accounts, a special one for gaming and one for friends and relatives that I know.
• Philippines
24 Jan 10
hmm. i think a lot of facebook members do this..
@rleankus (113)
• India
24 Jan 10
I always accept all the invitations in facebook.Because it doesnt feel good when my invitations got rejected or unanswered.
@hirumon (90)
• India
24 Jan 10
I usually accept all friend request..The requests I used to get is mainly friends of friends for Mafia Wars game as I am a very active player in Mafia Wars.. I accept them right away if there is mutual friends for the requesting person or if they states they are requesting for Mafia wars in personal message..I have close to 700 friend now i think..
@jugsjugs (12967)
24 Jan 10
A friend of mine also excepts alot of people on her face book as well as my husband excepts them as he also plays on the games.I do not go on the games at all not unless one of my children wants me to send them a gift.I think there are alot of people that add for the sake of adding as well as alot of people except other people who they do not know.I am soo fed up of face book as it is getting boring now that i do not go on it.
@danitykane (3183)
• Philippines
24 Jan 10
hi thebestmom! Before, I used to accept any friend request that I have on facebook. But lately, I really don't accept any friend request especially if I don't know the person sending it. If I know them, yes I may accept their invitation but if we are not close, ummmm? I will definitely think about it first. As much as possible I want my real friends in facebook. happy lotting!
@Torunn (8609)
• Norway
24 Jan 10
No, farmville and farkle aren't that important to me! :-) I usually only say yes to people I more or less know, or am interesting in knowing more about. I get some friend requests from people I've maybe met once and wouldn't recognize if I walked straight into in real life, and for me I can't se the point with being friends with them on facebook.
@iharidh (308)
• Indonesia
24 Jan 10
In accordance with your cousin, I know some people that accepts almost all friend request just to increase 'friend'. So I notice that he/she now has lots of friend list even if he/she goes college far behind me. This simply not rational, because the higher people attending education, the higher the possibilities to get new mates on reality. I have done some minor research that surrounding me, if someone is still in college, with friend list more than five hundreds people, the known people from that list is about one-third. I myself don't receive much invitation back then, until my girlfriend told me to change my profile picture. At that time, my profile picture is nothing but something like graffity. So, no one will know me when they see my profile picture. And then I changed it. And it's proven. Everyone starts inviting me, although I'm not like other person which has an average 10 people request per day. I realize I haven't maximize my friend out there, but friend list amount up to three hundreds is rational. I don't often accept people I don't know, because I have encountered people with bad attitude if we don't them. According to me, this is simply just a way to communicate between known friends which separated by far.
@junrapmian (2169)
• Philippines
24 Jan 10
No, if I don't really know who's inviting, I don't accept and just ignor the friendship. I don't play any game in facebook so I don't mind it at all.
• United States
24 Jan 10
I usually accept the requests that I receive because I am playing some of the games there and it is nice to have extra people playing with you.
@emine08 (1551)
• Indonesia
24 Jan 10
The first thing I will do is: If I know the person, I will accept the frind invitation, but if I don't know the person I will ignore it.
@ckyera (17332)
• Philippines
24 Jan 10
hello thebestmom... well, i am like your cousin before! haha but i don't have thousand of friends, i think i just have more that 200 but less than 300. and just like your cousin i just add people just to have neighbors in my games...actually i met most of them on games. but right now, i am no longer adding friends that i do not know. but i also don't ignore people, i just don't accept & don't ignore! lol! right now i do have 6 pending requests and still thinking if im gonna accept or not. i also accept people that i know even if i am not that close to them, like those of my batch mates in school...