Facebook Friend Requests

I go through periods on Facebook where I receive a good many friend requests.  Not hundreds, mind you, but enough to make me expand my friends list.  Now, I use to be one of those people that wanted lots of FB friends just because the numbers looked good.  But now that I am more careful and discerning on FB, I do actually take the time to look at profiles before I accept a friend request.

Generally, if a request comes from someone I actually know, I will not look too carefully at the profile before accepting.  And by this I mean someone I've met in real time...a family member, someone from college, a friend from my childhood in Monroe.  I already have some sort of past with this person, so I'm a little more lenient about it.

When I get a request from someone I don't know, I do take the time to look at his/her page.  Usually we have mutual friends and that's how I get the request to begin with.  If most of our mutual friends are people I actually know, that helps in my decision making process.  But if most of our friends are simply online acquaintances, then I look a little more closely.

My profile is private in that unless we're friends already, you can't see much of what I post.  If I come across a profile such as this in my requests, I will most likely take a chance on someone.  Hey, it's all about getting to know other people, right?  Sometimes it works out, sometimes not. 

My biggest hangup with friend requests is politics.  I don't want politics on my page and I want as little as possible in my feed.  And I mean politics of any kind...Democrat, Republican...doesn't matter which to me.  If I look at someone's profile and 9 out of 10 posts are about politics, then I will deny the friend request.  This is not a reflection of that person, per say, it's just that I don't want all of that crap on my feed.  And if that is what that person is all about on social media, that is certainly fine but just not for me.  They are probably a good person, but since we don't know each other, I'm totally ok with not being online friends.  I use to feel very guilty about that, but not any more.  I don't want to accept someone's request and then immediately unfollow them because of their posts.  What's the point of that?

I also get irritated when I accept a friend request and automatically the person starts asking questions that are answered already on my page.  It shows me that they didn't even bother looking and their request is based on my profile picture.  Granted, it's usually a good picture so I can't blame them there LOL  But I'm so like "Did you even look at my page?"  but I don't ever say it because I don't want to be rude.  Maybe I should be haha  And this goes for all of my profile pages on other sites too.  It just irks me when people don't pay attention.  Ah, well.

So, that's my thought for this morning.  I guess I need to check out my friend requests and see who I want to get to know!

That is all.