<p>I just got my roommate information for the fall and found him on facebook. Should I add him? What's the protocol on this... ?</p>
<p>I added my roommate and several people from my class who I won’t be living with. There’s really no protocol for it.
Sometimes you’ll find people you really connect with so it’s a good idea.</p>
<p>Sure, why not?</p>
<p>i did it for my three roomies, and now we are discussing everything. its great for planning what you need to get for the dorm and stuff</p>
<p>Go for it, assuming you identify who you are in your message (your roommate may not have received your information yet, after all). You’re eventually going to have to contact each other to figure out what to bring anyway.</p>
<p>I think a lot of people do that. I mean, why not? What’s on your facebook that your roommate ain’t gonna find out about anyway?</p>
<p>Yes, everyone does it. You can get to know each other a bit, and if you ever need to contact him (about refrigerator issues, space, decorating) Facebook would be a pretty efficient way to do it.</p>
<p>If you can’t even add him on Facebook, how do you plan on living with him? 
Have to contact him eventually anyways, find out whose bringing what, etc.</p>
<p>Yep. Add a short message in the box, telling who you are. You want his first impression of you to be good, and being friendly can’t hurt.</p>
<p>Yeah, go for it. But I’d say add a little message saying that you’re his roommate in the message thing. Just be like “Hey, looks like we’re gonna be roommates.” Or something so he knows why you friended him.</p>
<p>Yes - it’s best to get to know your roommate before you live with them.</p>
<p>I plan on it. I want to get an idea who I’m going to be spending the next year with so I can better prepare myself. lol</p>
<p>Of Course!!!</p>
<p>I’ve actually gotten advice that it’s better to call than to Facebook your roommate.</p>
<p>i’d be kind of weirded out by a phone call. i wouldn’t judge them or anything, but i’d be like whoa this is the 21st century wth.</p>
<p>i was going to add my roommate and then i got his info and cyberstalked him for a few minutes and realized he wasn’t very cool 
its a temp assignment, so i figured we’d just meet on day 1 or whatever and it’d all be good. no point planning to bring stuff if we’re just going to move out in a month.</p>
<p>I would! I’m friends not only with my roomie, but also with almost 100 people going to my school next year. it sounds like a lot, but I’ve met/talked to some really cool people, and there’s nothing wrong with practicing your social skills a bit before going somewhere where you’re going to have to do so on a much larger, much more intimidating scale haha</p>
<p>I’m going to go with you shouldn’t Facebook people you don’t actually know yet. Use email or a phone call to get in touch with your future roommates. Plus, you don’t know that s/he has Facebook, or if they use it frequently. If they don’t, you might feel slighted and have a negative impression going in, which can never be a good thing…</p>
<p>Grow up and contact the people you’ll be living with in a more personal, direct manner first before facebooking them.</p>
<p>I understand adding some people from your class, but a “large portion” of the class, why? Surely you haven’t talked with all these people enough to be anything close to friends, if you have at all. People from my high school are adding me almost every day, but it’s all people I never talked to, or didn’t know. Why would I want to be their friend? (I guess I’m one of those people who prefers having 54 friends that I know, as opposed to 400 friends, of whom only 54 I know)</p>
<p>Adding your roommate is perfectly acceptable. However, it becomes weird when you are “the kid” who everyone “knows” when you get to campus because you added EVERYONE on facebook. You will likely never talk or see most of those people. And when you do see them, it will be awkward because you have never spoken, but “know” each other. “Oh hi, aren’t we friends on facebook?” Awkward. Don’t do it.</p>
<p>Here’s a tougher question: Adding new roommate’s mother on facebook - advisable? She just requested me…I can’t freakin’ believe it.</p>