Deleting unknown people

It's good to make friends with new people. But nowadays, it is not safe anymore. A girl in the news was killed after meeting with her new friend in facebook personally. It is horrifying. In my experience, a few weeks ago, someone unknown has added me on facebook. I just found out that she is my ex's girlfriend. And she's trying to stalk me. Haha..

I have many friends on facebook too known and unknown to me. There were a few whom i deleted also. Yes i agree with you that there is risks on adding people whom we don't really know but how sure are we if we can trust people known to us. Risks are everywhere.

I used to do that too, but then I got updates from people I do not now and it was covering up the updates of people I do know, so I just deleted them. They are mostly friends from playing games anyway, and I don't play that much now.

Hi Tess! I don't add people right away if they send me a request. All of the members in my Facebook are my friends that I know personally. Even though there are games that require a lot of neighbor, I don't add a lot of people nor accept request.

I know that some people want to have a lot of "friends" even if they do not know them.How can you call them friends? I only accept requests from people that I know and I want to be in touch with.

No because i'm really paranoid about people finding out stuff about me.I actually have 30 people wanting me to add them but since i dont know them i dont add them.The only people i add are people i know.Internet is a dangerous place and by adding strangers on your facebook is putting yourself on risk.Be careful who you add.Think of the consequences of adding strangers

I think it's kind of odd to just add people to your friend list. I don't okay a friend request unless I recognize the person's name. And even then I don't always add them because I know them. Some people I have known in the past that I consider negative have requested my friendship on Facebook. But I don't want to have anything to do with them. I'm not on Facebook hardly ever. And when I am on there it's not to collect friends.

I don't accept friends' requests right away in facebook. I make sure first that I know this person or if he/she is related to my husband or if we have met before even if we are not close that is okay with me (schoolmate, neighbor, etc.). I don't want my news feed to be dominated by posts of people that I don't know. I also don't want them to access my information and pictures.

For me yes it is really important so be good only to your friends whom you known more.

In my gaming account I do. In my personal account I screen everyone. I only add people I know AND I want to share information with. Then again I'm not really into social networking sites other that to share pictures and videos with friends and families who want to keep in touch. It is indeed risky, you will never know what information they could get and use against you. Best to be careful right?

I had deleted some FB friends whom I really don't know and unnecessary to add.

I am proud in having friends on facebook and I assure that all of them are known to me! I agree it risk to add unknown ones and to answer your question, no I never add those that are unknown! I recall that I was receiving lots of requests from people I don't know. That was to the fact my profile was avaible to all! Since I change my profile using privacy Settings such as status update, upload pictures and viewing my friend to only "friends", it makes a difference! If I got a request from people that I am not entirely sure, then I always check their picture and friends in common including "likes" then I usually add them! I am here using alsmost same concept here at mylot, I only add those who are taking of my discussion or takinng part of doscussions that I responsed to!

I prefer to add those whom are known to me though i get a lot of friend request from unknown or through a third party. It is important with whom we are in touch and maintain a healthy friendship / relation in our contact list rather adding on unknown friends. At times it is irritating when they keep on sending requests in spite of ignoring. Now i'm very glad that i'm here at MyLot... wished I was here much earlier.

Hi tess_quinain i agree with you.Socialising doesn't necesarilly mean we should share everything with each other specially with unknown persons.There are certain boundaries where we should restrict persons we don't know.We can't expect from people we don't know and whom we have never met in life to comment posts on us.Deleteing is also upsetting and sometimes rude to do so after you have added the person.So i think it is always wiser to decide or think before adding anybody to your list,than to regret and take unnessary risk.

I never add people in my facebook who I never knew. I only have few people in my account,most are my relatives and close friends. I don't accept any request from a person who I never had any inter-action or no one among my friends knows. I am not also an active user of facebook. I only keep my account for my loved ones updates and check sometime for their messages. have a great weekend jaiho®

I usually only add people who I know, so I don't really have so many contacts in Facebook -I don't like using the word "friend" for that, as I consider friendship something more serious than just being internet buddies, or people you have just met once or twice-. I have received friend requests from people I didn't know and added them just in case, thinking that I might know them. After finding out that we really didn't have anything in common, I ended up deleting them, as I don't see the point on growing my contacts list with a lot of strangers.

No not all.Initially when i was in facebook i used to accept all the request of people of whom even i don't knwo at all.But now i am really annoyed to see those people,i have deleted all the people from my friends list whom i even i don't knwo at all..because many such profile will be a fake profile and it is always good to have in the friends list of people only whom we know..

Nope. I got lots of facebook friends and i know all of them. Dont like adding up strangers at all and when somebody invites me with no pic, i simply ignore it. If the name is unfamiliar i ignore it. So sorry for those friends who are using crazy names and not informing me about that, i simply ignore.

hi tess I am very cautious to add new friend. When some one request me to add. first of all i used to visit the person profile . Looking for similarity if any. After that, I am taking dis ion. For safety point we must cautious about adding new friend

I did the same too...because it was just a waste of space having a lot of people in your facebook account without even knowing them. and sometime others will make fool out of it. The good thing about it is that you got a chance to find old friend you haven't seen for so long.