Confirm Friend Request!

Philippines
May 26, 2011 8:32pm CST
Hello! Today, I open my facebook account and I see a friend request. Some of them is not familiar with me. So since I don't know them, I don't confirm them and declined their request. It is my attitude. I don't confirm a friend which is not familiar with me. Else, I don't even add someone which is not familiar. However, in adding a friend or confirming them, I see if we have MUTUAL friends. You, are we the same? Do you confirm or add friends even you don't know them? Is mutual friend a factor when you add or confirm a friend request?
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17 responses
• Pasig, Philippines
27 May 11
I also do not confirm a friend request in Facebook if I don't know the person. I might know the person and confirm it, but I put them on a list which they have limited access to my account. It is better for me to create list of my officemates and separate them from my group of friends. It is also easy for me to turn on and off the chat of the group for the group that I don't want to talk to.
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• Pasig, Philippines
27 May 11
Yes, you can. You can edit your friends and create list. After that, you can go to privacy settings, you can select "Custom" and then you can hide your photos, wall and everything to a group of friends that you don't want to have access to your account. Thank you for choosing me as best response. :)
• Philippines
27 May 11
Yeah right. I like the way you confirm a friend request. I don't know that it is possible to put a people in a list that has a limited access to your facebook.com.
@ekoytyas (4679)
• Indonesia
27 May 11
while doing my friendship confirmation, first saw him my friend or not. if not, I will ignore the request.
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• Philippines
27 May 11
We are the same in confirming a friend request. We should look first if he is a friend of mine.
@ekoytyas (4679)
• Indonesia
28 May 11
yes you are right, bro
@besthope44 (12123)
• India
24 Jul 11
Hi Princejhaizee, I always add only friends and accepts only those are familiar to me. I would say its advisable not to add strangers as there are lots of mischievers and problems happening with the strangers on FB.
• Portugal
29 May 11
i usually add everyone pretty much. not always but almost always. because even those that i dont know if they want to add me is bcs maybe i seemed nice to them or something. so i would like to just be their friend^^ thats why i usually add everyone that invites me^^ i think that is always good to give a chance to those that want to meet us to meet us^^ besides we can lose the chance of finding a good friend if we just refuse. we should meet them first and then if they are rude or if we dont like them then take them off of our friend's list^^
@tiina05 (2317)
• Philippines
28 May 11
hello, Okay? we don't have the same attitude. I just confirm friends even I don't really know them because they add me up but I actually don't add those people who I don't know but there are times that I actually don't confirm friends if I don't really know them.
• Indonesia
28 May 11
hi friend. I am so agree with your attitude. they add us to be a our friend. it's great if there is people want to be a our friend. a lot of fiends is a lot of lucky.
@jameygc (452)
• United States
27 May 11
I only accept family and real friends due to I put a lot of personal stuff like pictures in my Facebook page. But I have seen people with hundreds or thousands of friends. Do you think a person have so many friends? No they don't.
• United States
27 May 11
I have a friend that has a ton of friends on Facebook. She friends people that can be neighbors for the games she plays. A lot of the games you can't level up until you have a certain number of friends. That's why I don't play the games. I'm not willing to add strangers just to get farther in a game.
@cream97 (29087)
• United States
27 May 11
Hi. princejhaizee. I usually will review their profile to see what kind of person that they are. I also look to see if they are a mutual friend of any of my friend's too. When I see that they are, I will confirm their friend request. But from now on, I am going to not accept any friend request from people that I do not know.
• United States
28 May 11
No I never confirm people I dont know. I have even stopped confirming people that I know from years ago, but dont socialie with them today. i feel like if FB isnt going to help us start a friendship outside of FB then I dont want to even accept their friend requests. I feel like the only reason someone who hasnt talked to you in years or since high school accepts your friendship they are just trying to be nosy. Especially those people who you know you didnt even get along with in school. Then all of a sudden they are trying to befriend you on FB. Suspicious.
@yspmyl (3435)
• Malaysia
27 May 11
Hi! That is what I will do too if I got a friend request from a stranger. I will never accept someone who I never know in my facebook. Unless it is recommended by my firend. Why let the stranger come in to your house?
@cmang83 (285)
• Malaysia
27 May 11
Hi Princejhaizee, for me, i will still confirm those friend who is not close with me. Even though they are my friend's friend and i only see them for 1 or 2 times. But for those i really don't know who are they, then i will not confirm them.
• India
27 May 11
even i dont confirm neither i send request to the unknown person.in case if i get any friend request from unknown and we have mutual friends then first i ask that mutual friend about that unknown person that how does that person know me,because sometimes it happens that we do tell about our friend to other friends.so chances are there that my mutual friend may have suggested him/her to add me.so i take this precaution.otherwise if my friends says no then i ignore the request. keep mylotting. regards. :D
• United States
27 May 11
I only confirm people I know personally. If I don't know them, it doesn't matter how many mutual friends we have they still get declined. There was only person I don't know personally that I accepted. I know her husband and we are friends. I thought it a bit rude if I didn't friend her when I'm talking to her husband through Facebook.
@nezavisima (7408)
• Bulgaria
27 May 11
And I do not acknowledge anyone who wants my friendship many times giving up.Because I do not know a person that even if we have mutual friends still refuse. Since I know nothing about this man.Sometimes it is quite cheeky and began to write my message and let me handle block an individual. I want peace and to write with friends. I just want my friends to be friends on Facebook. Have a nice day!
• Indonesia
28 May 11
Hi friend I see your point I am disagree with you. I think althoght their is not familiar for you. it's not wrong if you confirm them. because they want to be a your friend.
@brew2x (3094)
• Philippines
27 May 11
I do also confirm only people I know or people that I have might mingled with before like previous schoolmates or officemates. The very reason I joined facebook is to connect with friends and acquaintances and not to gain more, it is also dangerous to add people you don't know since facebook reveals lots of informations about the users.
@manubla (472)
• Philippines
27 May 11
I only confirm friend requests from people that I personally know. I don't confirm people even though we have mutual friends. I will only do that if they message me and introduce themselves. Otherwise, they stay unconfirmed.
• Philippines
27 May 11
I also don't confirm friend requests from people whom I do not know coz Im afraid someone will get informations about me and use it somewhere.. but i also see if we have a lot of mutual friends..if we do then ill confirm him/her.