Anonymous Friend Requests

@tech40 (23136)
Philippines
March 10, 2013 8:08am CST
Hey Guys have you experience the times that someone will add you, Even if you don't have any mutual friends? C'mon!?how did you find me?seriously?!? LOL And some experience that someone will add you, with 1 mutual friend, but you really don't know who is he or she!? It is normally happen to me daily.. Someone will add me, without knowing who is he!? Share your experience with strangers facebook who add you!? With 0 mutual friends, but the stranger has a thousands added friends
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23 responses
@blackrusty (3519)
• Mexico
10 Mar 13
I call them a lot of things but friends they are not you just become a new number to there list for the longest time I have approved them but now I don't and I will be going though my face book and delete those that I don't talk to
@tech40 (23136)
• Philippines
11 Mar 13
I didn't do that LOL, I'm talking about those people who I accept, then after a week they will PM you, and asking favor
@tech40 (23136)
• Philippines
10 Mar 13
Agree, and there are also people who will add you, then after a week, they gonna ask you something like, "Please Like This Picture" LOL
• Mexico
10 Mar 13
and you do that and they never do yes I know I hate them kind or the other kind something to do with if you add this person something will be done lol
@pahak627 (4558)
• Philippines
10 Mar 13
I have several fb friends whom I really don't know. When I first joined fb I confirmed whatever friend requests that I had. Bt now, I don't anymore confirm friend requests from people unknown to me.
@tech40 (23136)
• Philippines
10 Mar 13
What is your purpose before? why did you keep accepting friend request from anonymous people who add you?
• Penrith, Australia
11 Mar 13
I think people never realized before the harm in being picky about who you accept as friends online. And in the past it used to be a self esteem booster yo have a lot of friends,
@o0jopak0o (6394)
• Philippines
10 Mar 13
I find nothing wrong in adding people I don't know as long as they don't do anything wrong.
@o0jopak0o (6394)
• Philippines
15 Mar 13
I have experienced the same, but I don't mind if it was just a pm and not in the chatbox.
@tiffnkeat (1673)
• Singapore
10 Mar 13
I am sure they have a motive. I do not have facebook, so I cannot verify if you can just simply email them back and ask who they are and what their business with you revolves around. The easier alternative is to just reject them. If they really know you, they have other means to contact you, somehow.
• Penrith, Australia
11 Mar 13
Wow, you really put an effort into knowing them. I dont really add the people i dont know either but if i dont know them, i neither approve nor reject but if they send a message to me, I'd respond to them. Some people just add random people for the sake of showing off that they have a lot of friends, thats not good,
• Indonesia
12 Mar 13
it happen to me till today. So many stranger send friend request but I choose now which one I should accept because sometimes they don't speak in common language like English or their profile picture and photos is too vulgar.
@tech40 (23136)
• Philippines
12 Mar 13
Well, we can't stop it, cos facebook is a social network, having a friend request to anonymous people, is also happens on friendster, if you have tried of used friendster before, and yeah there are some people who are using vulgar images, I dont know why LOL! and others will PM you in Brazilian Language, in Indo Language, or Whatever language do you know, and the Funny thing is, they will Share or Like an image, and the image was written on other language, that you didn't understand! hahaha!
@patnopy (721)
• Philippines
10 Mar 13
yes and if he/she are not and the same game that i play i ignore them
@tech40 (23136)
• Philippines
10 Mar 13
I remember myself on you LOL..cos before im accepting friend, im checking if he or she is also playing what im playing for some gifts, XD
@patnopy (721)
• Philippines
10 Mar 13
and that how i accept anonymous friends
@r0ck_r0ck (1952)
• India
10 Mar 13
A very important part of a social networking is making new friends. It isn't so bad if someone is willing to reach out to you, all you have to do is give them a shot and if you don't like them you can always un-friend them. :P
@tech40 (23136)
• Philippines
10 Mar 13
Agree! :) I usually accept those girl's that are pretty, or near on me, even if 0 mutual LOL
@quawertz (777)
• Philippines
10 Mar 13
I have two facebook accounts. I made a new one because the previous one always have anonymous pending friend requests. Even if I deny them, they still add on another day.
@tech40 (23136)
• Philippines
10 Mar 13
Is that you? On your pic? Because if that girl is you, then they gonna add you, XD because you're so pretty hehe
@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
5 Dec 15
I have deleted som e because i did not know them but they were friends with the real friends i had. Some that deleted were onl y there to try to sell me something so I chose to delete.
• United States
12 Mar 13
I think this has happened to pretty much all of us at some point or another. For me, it depends on whether or not i'll add them. First I'll check out their profile and see if it looks spammy. If we have mutual friends, I'll more than likely add then unless I have some suspicions about them. I've added people that I didn't really know before, and actually ended up becoming friends with a few. I just think that you have to follow your mind, and go with your gut feeling.
@Olleenz (3398)
• Indonesia
10 Mar 13
I Already had bad experience before about adding friend without knowing about that guy. So, If they not give me explanation why they add me, their request will gone (deleted)
@tech40 (23136)
• Philippines
10 Mar 13
Wew..somethings like scary, or creppy, to get ignore LOL and cancel the friend request haha! You know what, Some of my friend and I, are always competing about how many friend request does we have LOL XD
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@ayano678 (441)
20 Mar 13
I've never heard of and that event occurs. because I limit my facebook privacy. thank you.
• Germany
10 Mar 13
Through those online platform like fb, you can meet friends, but you just need to know what you want,is not everyone that had me that i accept.but i know what i want, likewise i don't deceive my self.
@tech40 (23136)
• Philippines
10 Mar 13
What about if, someone add you, 0 mutual, but pretty..nice body, and wants to know you cos she has crush on you,, ayiieieie hahahah XD
• Philippines
21 Mar 13
I've received some requests from people I don't know several times already. Sometimes I reject the friend request. Sometimes I just let them stay in the pending list, especially if we have mutual friends but I really don't know the person and don't want to be friends with him/her.
@ShyBear88 (59260)
• Sterling, Virginia
10 Mar 13
Yes to add people they don't have to you or have the same friends, you can do a search of someone's name or it could be pulled up on possible people they might know which can bring up people you know and don't know.
@doroffee (4222)
• Hungary
10 Mar 13
Oh, I have the same experience a lot. And I really don't know why these stuff are hapenning. I don't really enclose my full name anywhere else than Facebook, I don't have my usernames up there, I don't have my mail address and other info on my page, and they could not even be seen by ppl I don't know. So, it's weird that without any mutual friends people like this find me. For me, it's mostly random guys from all over the world... I think all they do is browsing Facebook and friend requesting every single girl who looks a level nicer than Bigfoot.
@missjahn (4574)
• Philippines
11 Mar 13
i experienced much of this situation in facebook. for now, if i am not familiar with the person of i do not like what i see, i will not add them or ignore them. i just leave it like that. but before yes, i was the one who added unfamiliar people because i am playing games in facebook. and i want them to help me send some stuffs which i needed in my game. but i am not playing much now. so i guess, i do not need lots of people as my friend in facebook more if i do not know them in person. what is the use of having lots of friends in your friend list when you do not interact with each one. not to be snobbish, i just refrain or control my friend's list, because i have almost thousands of friends in facebook but we are not talking with each one, so what is the purpose hehe
@devonavis (1854)
• Greece
11 Mar 13
Haha! It happens a lot! Most especially in facebook. Really funny but if you are the type of person that do not take this seriously then it's just fine.
• India
11 Mar 13
Well,i did receive anonymous friend requests in most of social media accounts.But i do not get it on daily basis rather it would be during a while around things.I do not take it seriously and perhaps think it happened due to some identity mistake.I think at times its normal.But daily basis, well that certainly not normal.I do add them but i have privacy policies well for them.If in case i see that they are not my type, i would not add them, which so far has not happened to me.Next,if the added people misbehave with me too,i would do the same.But that too has not happened luckily.But then i would be cautious with these guys and would limit sharing my personal things with these people.As my gender is male,i guess such requests are normally less.I think females should be more or less getting more anonymous friend requests. Atleast that has been trend so far as far as most are concerned.I need to check with these people on why and how they added me.And in your case, i would advice caution.May be they are adding the wrong person.Or there could be some motives and things like that behind such actions.It is always nice to be cautious.It helps many a time as well.Thanks!
@Nursefrai06 (2498)
• Penrith, Australia
11 Mar 13
It must mean that you have a very like able profile picture or they're just posers pretending to have lots of friends to appear as real people. Its best not to just agree being friends with them, they're just using you and you'll never be sure as to what else they are using you for. The Internet is not the safest place on earth.