A friend request from a stranger on Facebook

I would never put someone I don't know as my friend on facebook weather they knew every person I did or not. If I don't know them or remember them I'm not going to accepted their request. With me sending request I don't request people I don't know. I only ask those I know well and remember and that I know are close to me.

Hi Rekhum, I have a public profile and only keep family photos etc private for family as I also promote my business on their and play a lot of games so I will add a stranger, will check out profile to see why they have requested. I have also requested people where we have lots of mutual friends but not just one or two. Huggles. Ellie :D

Hello rekhum, Earlier I would never send or accept friend requests from strangers, but now I have started considering requests from strangers. I also send requests to strangers reading their profile. I read somewhere, "If we had not spoken to strangers we would not have had any friends at all!" Also my mylot experience taught me to accept strangers because I was once a stranger here and my friend requests were accepted by the veteran members here.

When I was still using Facebook I dont like to accept request from stranger, even if he/she has mutual friends with me but if I dont know the person in life then I would not approve the request. I was once getting a request from a stranger who has mutual friend with my friend and I sent message to the person who is he and if he knows me why he wants to add me as friend on facebook but the person never replied to my message so i ignore his request, it seems that he was only adding people to increase his friend list. I dont like to have completely stranger on my list, we dont know who they are who knows if they try to steal our info or use our picture for whatever his purposes.

I used to accept friend requests earlier when I was new to facebook and wanted more friends. But I don't do that any more if I don't know the person at all, and if we have mutual friends who are close friends to me, I might ask them if they know that person. Some people are just collecting friends, others are flirting, but I like to keep my account more personal and keep or add people I know personally.

I usually accept anyone especially if we have a mutual friend. The way I see it is if they are some creepy person, I can also delete or block them later which I have had to do. I also have sent requests to people I don't know because they looked interesting to talk to and well I have made quite a few good online friends. However on other social network sites I find I'm more likely to add people I don't know and I sometimes do this because I like to promote my referral links and the more people I have on the page, the more likely it might be seen. I know on Twitter I probably only know a select few of people I follow and that follow me. I know people say be careful who you connect with online which I still do that because if I do get a bad feeling that I shouldn't add someone I won't. There have been times when I felt the profile could be a hacker or it was fake which I find quite a few fake profiles on Facebook are hackers and will tag you in random pictures and send you links with viruses.

Back when Facebook was for college people only and not like it is now where anyone and everyone can join, I can remember when my college first got on there. Much like everyone else, I went through the "add every random person you see" craze that was going on. Six years later, I've long since gotten over that. I don't friend request anyone I haven't had some sort of interaction with. I still will get friend requests from people I don't know every once in a while. I don't accept them. Personally, I don't like having complete strangers I don't interact with whatsoever or even know on my Facebook. But that's me though. If I actually knew the person to some degree, that would be different.

i don't confirm friend requests of people i don't know. if it is a friend of my friend then i would usually put in the list of people who can not see my pictures. but just a few weeks ago, i added a person i don't even know LOL and we talk a lot right now, and i enjoy every bit of it. and yeah he is a total stranger, but we are getting to know each other.

I used to think like you, and I remember myself adding any person I considered interesting by their profile. I reached to have something like 500 friends, but then I realized it was no sense to add people without knowing them phisically. So I deleted them all and conserved only the ones I know phisically. Now I have a hundred friends and I feel that my facebook is good like that.

i use to accept friend request from strangers if they have some mutual friends,otherwise i wont accept their friend request. He i find them irritating,them i will delete their request too. If i find someone interesting,them i will send friend request too because it is not a bad idea and we can get many information from that person too.

On my case, I don't accept any friend request from a stranger on Facebook even if me and the person have a mutual friend or not. It is because I'm a private kind of a person and I don't want any stranger to view my pictures or my profile. There are cases I heard that there are people(strangers) who send a friend request and when you accept them, they will hacked your profile and use your account. They also use your pictures or your personal information to mislead other people. i have a friend who was a victim of it.I'm just being careful about it. If a stranger sends a friend request to me, I send them a message asking how they find me or why they want to make friends with me.If we have mutual friend/friends, I ask my friend if he'she knows that person.

I wouldn't accept do that. I'm not really used to accepting strangers on Facebook. Even if we have mutual friends or mutual interests, as long as I don't know that person, I would not accept it. Facebook is like a personal thing to me, and I'm being extra careful as to who I add and what I post. It has become one of my ways to safeguard myself from others whom I don't know.

I don't except people I don't know personally on my facebook page. Facebook isn't what I would call "Fort Knocks". I have had hackers break into my messages, I had to gut all the member on my page, I didn't know personally. Just as a precaution, I hate the thought that someone being able to pose as me. You should be careful if you continue to except people you don't know. You never know what might come of it.

Nah I wouldn't add them, mainly because you don't know who they are and what they're capable of, obviously not all the time they are murderers, rapists, some people actually do want to make friends, but why risk it? I mean it's. it that hard getting out of your house and meeting up with people if you wanna make friends, please dont accept strangers :) thanks

I suppose it would depend on who it is. Generally if someone adds me and we have quite a few mutual friends, and they look like they are a 'legit' sort of person, then I'll accept. Otherwise for people who randomly add me out of the blue with one or zero mutual friends, I tend to not add them - unless perhaps they are affiliated with the same international organisation that I am (or, more accurately at this point, was) involved with, in which case I may consider accepting and adding them to a certain group with certain viewing limitations. As for sending requests, generally speaking I tend to only send someone a friend request after I have met them personally. Even if we have a hundred mutual friends if I have never met them and been introduced in person, chances are I will not add them (although I would probably be quite curious about who this person was in that circumstance ).

Well, if I have to be honest, I'm on Facebook, do not go there very often. As a result rarely happens that someone makes me friend request. Normally, however, when this happens, I agree! Then begin to make knowledge with that person, if I see him or her if they write or post attitudes that have, in my opinion are not good at this point I delete them from my friends list. Instill to find out if a person is "good or bad," we must first to know.

i think i have also tried it with my account when i was new on Facebook, and it is not any wrong thing to send a mutual friend request to any one as it is social networking site

I produce rap/hip-hop beats so I accept every friend request to see if someone wants to buy or order a beat :)

I would do the same - check for mutual friends, then accept if there are any, unless the mutual friends are enemies in real life. But, if i have any doubts, i would just ignore it. What i don't like about accepting strangers on facebook is its such a clutter to see updates from people I don't know and don't care about. I even unfriend those whom I personally know but not interested in keeping them on my list.

I personally don't accept friend request from people I dont know. If we have mutual friends but I haven't met the person I wouldn't accept either. Facebook to me is more for friends and family, I don't want random people looking at all my things posted. To me its not like MySpace where I would accept anyone and just request people.