Afraid of social net work sites - facebook

Hi Jo! Your apprehensions are understandable. Facebook and mylot are different kind of social networking sites. On Facebook we have our relatives, close friends and others and we keep uploading pictures and some of our updates, which our near or dear ones may be interested. We do not want to share everything with 'others' (e.g. friend's friends) as they are out of our close circle. It is, therefore, appropriate on your part not to accept requests from unknown souls FB. I also decline requests which are received from unknown sources, as far as FB is concerned.

I think you need to be careful when accepting new friends. I always check out their profile and try to figure out where I now them from. I think the most annoying thing is accepting a new friend, and they play farmville all day, so your newsfeed is filled with pointless updates. If you are using FB for networking, it may be better to set up a separate account from your personal account.

For me it depends on if I have friends in common with the person that has requested to be my friend. If we do have friends in common, then I will accept the friendship request. However, there are times that we don't have any friends in common and I'm not looking for friends to help me with my games and in those situations I will not accept someone to be my facebook friend because you never know if they are a spammer.

when i was new in facebook at that time i send friend request and accept request to any one.at that time it did not matter for me who it was because i wanted to add more and more friend with my profile.but after some time i removed all those people who are unknown to me and from then i add only known person to me because now i think it is not cool to share your things with outsiders.

making friends all start from meeting a nobody to getting a friend. though accepting people you don't know has its own problem but remember, the friends you have today, you never knew them. open up dear, but be cautious.

I usually do not add people in Facebook unless I recognize their profile picture. If not, I just simply denied the request.

I do add people I don't know who want to be my friends on Facebook. I have never had anybody who has written anything bad or nasty. If that happened I would simply delete them as friends. _Derek

I do add friends after looking at their profile I make it sure that I knew them before and if we have common friends. Sometime if we have common friends but I don't know them either I do not add them also. I just be careful adding people I don't recognise.

I am not a great fan of FB nor do i visit the site very often.I do have a lot of friends and relatives in it but these are people whom i really knew and met.Sometimes i am approached by strangers with a friends request.I always try to find out if they are known to the people who i know.If they are then i accept them otherwise i just ignore the request.

I dont particularly like that site, but I do have quite a few friends out there. :) And I dont hesitate in making friends anywhere. :)

I don't know some of my friends in facebook, i just like the idea that I have friends in there.. silly huh:) but anyways, having real friends in the real world is mre important than those having lots of friends in social sites but you really don't get to see them.. that's more worse

Hi Jo, Good morning! In fact I am not addicted to facebook, and may be whateve resons, I hardly getting friend requestes. There are a lot of people from my office in my facebook page and few family and known frineds. Apart from this list, I don't have much of people in my list. However, if someone asking for a friend request, I am happy and I always accept their request. Thank-s

Hi, added people I didn't know as friends on facebook but I don't do it anymore... even if they are "just there" I don't like to get tons of requests from applications I don't want to use... so I started to delete those people that I don't know.

My facebook page is set to private, only friends and family I add can access my page. I dont like the idea of some complete nutters out there looking through my friends and families photos ect. I had bad experience a few years ago through a social networking site, had a stalker, police were involved ect. I am very careful and wary about such sites. Don't let strangers into your private world, only accept friends and family that you actually know in the real world. Then there should be no worries.

Hello, How are you? Well that's an interesting topic and Yes, social networking does have its own share of advantages and disadvantages. If we aren't careful, especially regarding our personal information and friends, it would become pretty dangerous for us. I don't usually use face book, but yes, i try to be careful in my choice of picking friends and also my associations on social networking sites. I have a very useful link to share with you, regarding the internet and how to avoid the dangers of it, keep checking it and soon it would update a very good topic about social networking also. Take care and bye... http://www.watchtower.org/e/20041208a/article_01.htm

I don't like to add friends I don't know because its a sick world out there you don't know who you may be chatting with. But I do play games on facebook so I do add some friends from the gaming site so i have neighbors but i don't talk to them in chat or anything and if i do its about the game only. Have to be picky of who you talk too.

I never Add friends i don't know. In online i like to add friends in other sites but in facebook i consider the Profile and he is already known by me then only i accept the request. But i also recieved quit annoying friendship requests always. Not afraid of them i am maintain my facebook contact my closer ones only that's the reason for avoiding.

In a way I am like you. I don't add people I don't know if facebook. But I am not afraid. I am just thinking of the things I might jeopardize. I mean, I have my pictures there, my work information, my family members are listed, etc. It is such a great risk to let strangers in. It's just like letting anybody enter your home..

I use facebook but I only have friends and family added there. I do receive many friends request from people I don't know and I decline these requests right away as I am not interested in these unknown people and I use facebook only for interacting and communicating with friends and family. I don't want to add unknown new friends as I know nothing about them and there are so many frauds out there...

When i first started using facebook i didnt add no one but the people i already new. But then later when i started playing all the games and stuff i decided to start adding people that i didnt now. Alot of the games you have to have surtin amount of neghbors before you can do somethings.