Creepy Facebook friend requests but no message or even just a hello

by yadda yadda 2 12 Replies latest jw friends

  • yadda yadda 2
    yadda yadda 2

    Does anyone else think its a bit rude and creepy for people from your way distant past or having only the tenuous of social connection with you to request being your friend on Facebook but then totally ignore you, not even say a simple hello?

    This annoys me and I have a policy of deleting them after a month if they don't make communicative contact because by not even sending a message to say "Hi, how are ya after all these years" they are not being friendly just apparently nosey bastards who wanna see my photos and what I've been up to in my life and then basically ignore me. Ive had this experience with a lot of JW's from my past. Actually I don't understand why Facebook doesn't force people to say something with their message request like any normal person would in real life.

  • Londo111
    Londo111

    So you gonna friend me or not?

  • I quit!
    I quit!

    I usually send a message to the person whenever I make a request. I don't add friends too often because I'm trying to keep it manageable. Maybe they have more people than they can pay attention to.

  • shamus100
    shamus100

    The no button works.

  • NewChapter
    NewChapter

    I always send a message with those kind of requests. I think it would be really weird for someone from my past to send a friend request without some kind of message. I have met up with and caught up with many friends this way. I even found my cousin after 20 years. But I gotta agree with you. Why be 'friends' if there is never any communication?

  • mrsjones5
    mrsjones5

    " Does anyone else think its a bit rude and creepy for people from your way distant past or having only the tenuous of social connection with you to request being your friend on Facebook..."

    Yes

  • NeonMadman
    NeonMadman

    Someone from my past I wouldn't have such a problem with; it's the total strangers who have no mutual friends with me that make me scratch my head.

  • kurtbethel
    kurtbethel

    I have done that a few times. I repented.

    dislike

  • yadda yadda 2
    yadda yadda 2

    lol@Kurtbethel

    ps - I would be happy to accept many of my dear jw-net comrades even slightly creepy FB (that's Facebook, not F*ckbuddy thanks) Friend requests.

  • JimmyPage
    JimmyPage

    Honestly it doesn't sound that weird to me. Depends on the person requesting. You can't compare Facebook to real life. You don't ask people in real life, "Hey will you be my friend?"- unless you're five years old.

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