People add you but never interact with you?

Malaysia
September 17, 2012 9:19pm CST
I believe most of you would have a Facebook account. For whatever reason it is, you must have been adding and being added as friends before. So what do you think about those people that add you as friend but never interact with you? they never message you, never supported anything you do in Facebook etc. My opinion is that they just want to add as many fancy looking friends as possible to show off in front of their friends how popular they are. Sometimes they would posta photo or something and ask people to like them thats all they do. What do you think?
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36 responses
• Philippines
18 Sep 12
I guess that's just normal in Facebook.I never ask any unknown person to add me. I added some friends before who I really didn't know.One day I checked my friends and deleted them. I have nothing to do with them and they have nothing to do with me either. I hate reading about their activities.I guess it's good to have many friends because they can help with your blogs or you can get them as your referrals in any earning sites if they are willing to sign up and earn money.Thanks for sharing. Happy mylotting.
• India
18 Sep 12
Even idos ort of profile cleaning once in a while in facebook. the problem is when we look at their mutual friends, we feel we know them. But later they turn out to be complete strangers. They would just be flooding our notifications with some senseless postings. It is always advisable to remove such people.
@ajithlal (14716)
• India
4 May 13
I think it is good for people to interact and communicate well.
• Malaysia
18 Sep 12
It is good if they are willing to sign up and help themselves and you make some money. But some of those with bad intention may just report you though. So need to be careful there friend.
@surekharathi (14146)
• India
18 Sep 12
You are absolutely right people add as a friend but not interact with each other. Because they add unknown persons and they feel if more friends in list means good thing but they not know if make a friend means interact should also with them. The one more reason is not facebook is boring so after joining mylot most of the persons not open facebook frequently.
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• Malaysia
18 Sep 12
Seriously I don't really get on my Facebook often when I know there is Mylot. In fact, I joined Facebook because my degree needs me to and my girlfriend is using it. Sometimes when I comment at the post by unknown people in my friend list, they would just ignore me. Makes me feel bad. Why are they adding me if we aren't going to have interaction at all?
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• India
18 Sep 12
Facebook is termed as a social network, but it appears to be a namesake thing. people usually post some irrelevant videos share it and like it. I really doubt where is the interaction going on. As you would be knowing, now a days it is contributing in violence spread across the world.
@williamjisir (22819)
• China
1 May 13
I do not have a facebook account, but here at mylot, there are some people who added me as their friends and when I accept and check their profiles, I find that they do not participate in discussions a lot. Some even have zero or just one response or discussion. I am wondering what they are doing here if they don't participate, but add many friends on their friendlist.
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@ajithlal (14716)
• India
1 May 13
I think you should try to create an account in Facebook and most probably you can get your old friends through Facebook.
@wittynet (4421)
• Philippines
15 Sep 15
I agree with you. That's also my purpose when I was younger. I wanted everyone to know that I have more friends than anyone of them.
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• Philippines
16 Sep 15
What are friends for? They lighten up our day!
• Philippines
18 Sep 12
I have my share of followers but never actually interacted with me. I think it's out of awkwardness, some are my highschool batchmates, which I have lost contact with but got reconnected via FB. I don't think we need to talk or greet each other every day but a simple hello would be the courteous way of acknowledging each other even at least once.
• India
18 Sep 12
This is what happens when we have near like strangers in our friends. even in our school days, we night not have interacted with these people much.Then how can we interact with them now. Its this inertia that fails to start a conversation with them
@lizrelox (144)
• Philippines
18 Sep 12
yeah that might be some of the reasons. For me i think they just want to know what is happening with you and might be shy to message you because it's been a long time since you really talked or maybe there are some kind of a hidden crush or special feelings so they enjoy to watch your profile :-)
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• India
18 Sep 12
This is sort of mental block that we have. many a time we want to talk with someone, but then we think why cant they initiate. sometimes our ego never let us initiate the talk and we end up never talking to that friend.
@wolfie34 (26771)
• United Kingdom
18 Sep 12
I am very dubious about adding people, especially people I don't know on Facebook, I have heard a lot of bad feedback from others through accepting people on Facebook, I have a very small group of friends on Facebook, most I know personally, others I have connected through playing Zynga games like Cityville, or through people on Mylot who I have connected with. I did a few months ago accept someone I didnt know but then they started to hound me and in the end I deleted their friendship. You have to be so careful. and yes some people do collect friends on Facebook like trophies.
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• India
18 Sep 12
Infact if you have too many people as friends, people really start doubting you. When i see anyone with hell lot of friends, i feel they are mostly non committal. How can you be maintaining so many friends unless you are a celebrity. this means that the person is not sincere to people around.
@chiyosan (30184)
• Philippines
18 Sep 12
haha it is really very common in facebook. imagine if all your friends all hundreds of them would just interact with you in facebook, our message inbox would really be so full we could not even handle it ourselves! :D ha ha but hey im sure our close friends do interact with us in facebook. :D
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• India
18 Sep 12
That is a good point you have put in. If everyone contacts everyone in their friends list, the data load for the servers would be too high. Facebook would have to invest a lot more money on maintaining their infrastructure.
• Philippines
19 Sep 12
I agree with your opinion. So far this sometimes happen to me, but the people who add me on Facebook are just looking for neighbors that is needed for the application games that they play on Facebook. Other people that know me may add me using their dummy account instead of their real one and spy on my Facebook updates. Boy, I'm really annoyed. I really prefer real friends with real accounts, not fake ones!
@GemmaR (8517)
18 Sep 12
I don't like it when people will add you as a friend and then they just never bother to speak to you at all. Most of the people who do this will be people from school and you just know that they're only adding you as a friend to either make their friend count higher or because they think that they want to be nosy about the things that you have done in your life and adding you would mean that they were able to do that. I have recently deleted all of the people from my account who have not spoken to me in a long time, because I have better things to do in my life than waste time seeing updates from people who I just don't care about in the slightest.
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• India
18 Sep 12
My friends list in facebook is large, but i know most of the people. i know in the sense i have either talked once or twice with them. Mostly those people sent a request to me. Since i know them somehow I cant reject them and so they become part of my friends list.
@nzalheart (2338)
• India
18 Sep 12
Hi squallming, I have a friend list of about 800. I know almost all of them, but there are only few with whom I interact on facebook. And others, atleast I know them through friends or through some organizations. You may never know when you will need to interact with them. And facebook is all about socializing. The close friends are already there and the addition of other people make you socialize, or atleast they feel,"oh this guy is in my facebook list. I remember him." I don't add people whom I don't know, but add people whom I know but never talked too. But like you said, although added to the list, we may never interact or rarely interact. From their posts, sometimes it give opportunity to expose to very important things in life. Happy mylotting...
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• India
18 Sep 12
I think this is the trend across facebook. Even I have a lot of passive friends and i rarely talk to them. they are there in the list because i just dont want to delete them. This is the case with most of the people.
@BigMoney25 (1286)
• Philippines
18 Sep 12
yeah some people do that they add you but they will not interact with you, maybe they are just shy or they want to spy on your photos and know something about your life. I know plenty of people who added me on facebook like some in our school but in school they do not even bother to say hi or greet me I don't know what's up with them but I cannot afford to be bothered by these things since I have a lot more important things to do so I just ignore it. Happy mylotting and goodluck
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• India
18 Sep 12
i dont think its about shy. its like they have added you because you sent a request. but they dont expect you to bother them. it sort of fake attachment people show these days. they want you in their friends list, but wont be communicating with you.
@Raine38 (12257)
• United States
18 Sep 12
Yes, that could be a reason. Another one I think is, they just want to look and see what you are up to. You know, there are some people who always want to know what's the latest in your life. Then they will either gossip about it, make fun about it, feel envious about it, etc.
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• India
18 Sep 12
I have heard such sort of sniffing occurs in facebook. People just sort of spy on your profile. Its easy to get a character sketch of yours from your facebook patterns.
• India
18 Sep 12
Yeah I am agree with your point. And there could be some other possibilities as well. Like many people in the facebook are just internet marketers or lead generators they open an account on facebook and add thousands of friends to it. Then when they are all set up, starts sending out like and join proposals. They make a lot of I.Ds on facebook to cover hundred of thousands of people and by doing this they make a living for themselves. That is not as bad as just adding friends to show off or any of such cr*ps.
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• India
18 Sep 12
I have had this nasty experience in orkut. i added one of the strangers. later what happened was it turned out to be a spammer and my account got flooded with it. i think many people would have faced this issue in orkut. So once in facebook, i am very careful whom i am adding in facebook.
• India
18 Sep 12
I have had this bitter experience in Facebook. A hell number of people including my school juniors have added me. i have almost 750 friends. but none of them interact with me or I try to. Since I dont know them much I dont try to initiate also. There are a few set of people with whom i always interact and others just remain as strangers.
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@TazRes (827)
• United States
18 Sep 12
Hi Squallming, I agree, to be honest most of the people on my friends list do not interact with me, I have deleted quite a few people but I realize that I shouldn't do that; So I stopped reason being I share the good news of the Gospel and I figure at least if the don't interact they will get Gods word.
• India
18 Sep 12
I dont think there is anything in what you have done. Being not in touch means they dont serve any purpose in your friends list. the less number of friends we have, the more we interact with them. its always nice to have some closely connected friends rather than not connected folks.
@TazRes (827)
• United States
20 Sep 12
I agree, I have 121 friends and all but about 5 or 6 I truly know they are family and Co-workers.
@romzee (937)
• Philippines
18 Sep 12
I totally agree not to delete any friends in any social sites. In FB I have more than 3k of friends and as far as I can remember I only deleted only one or two and never bother to do it again unless they request for it. Cheers!
• United Kingdom
18 Sep 12
I think that this happens a lot on My Lot. It's not the same for everyone but there are those that will only add you as they want you to join something of there's perhaps a website or service or something like that. The other thing is when you have so many friends on your list it's quite difficult to stay in touch with everyone and I definitely find this to be the case. Andrew
• India
18 Sep 12
There might be such people i mylot, but i would say they are comparatively less. i have a number of friends in mylot. None of them have ever tried to spam. they have never asked me to join any site or things like that. So I trust mylot more than facebook.
• Portugal
18 Sep 12
i like to interact with my friends in facebook^^ actually i have more than 400 facebook friends bcs i usually dont refuse invitations^^ when people ask me to add them i always usually give them a chance. i love to have friends from different cultures so anyone can interact with me there. i have many friends not to show off but bcs i like to meet all kinds of people.
• India
18 Sep 12
if you are ready to interact then there is no harm in doing that. even you have a very noble motive and so i would support your point. But most of the people just add you and never bother to respond. even if you talk, its like we are talking to a wall as they never bother replying.
@flapiz (22402)
• United Kingdom
19 Sep 12
I have lots of friends like that in facebook. But I don't mind though. It's not like they could force me to like their photos if I really don't want to. Plus I prefer them being silent than those that harasses me.
• Malaysia
11 Mar 13
Haha, but if that's the case, what is the use of having them as friend anyway? I mean adding them just for the sake of having a bigger number of friends doesn't seems to be doing anything. Although some people take pride in doing so.
@meowchie (992)
• Philippines
17 Oct 12
Hahaha true :D But I've always filtered my friends. Those who never even talk,like,comment,greet once a week or lets say once a month, I rather delete them. I don't accept immediately too. As of the moment I've declined a lot and still has pending subscribers. Facebook-I can't say everyone on my list are friends personally but I wanted it that even If i just met some here on internet, we build nice online relationship and yeah interactive.If they can't do that with me,..
• Malaysia
4 Dec 12
It's wise to delete those that has never interacted with you. And it is also wise to not accept just anyone. It is necessary for one to know that some of these people who add you are actually virus. I heard adding them would bring you virus and at the same time your private information may be stolen. so it is good to be aware of this and use Facebook with caution. Online network and relationship can be helpful but we need to manage it well.