<p>I'm a member of my future school's Class of 2014 Facebook group and I'm feeling a little awkward. I find it much easier to meet people and strike up a conversation in person vs. via a computer screen...</p>
<p>Anyway, everyone's adding everyone else. Cool. I want to meet people before school starts. I've gotten a handfull of random friend requests from future classmates, and didn't really think anything of it, but I'm having trouble clicking the request button myself. I feel like I'm being creepy and random by just requesting someone out of nowhere. So what's the normal protocal on adding people from FB groups? Is there any? Should I be slightly engaged in a conversation with them first?</p>
<p>Hahaha, I feel like such a geek for asking this.</p>
<p>Ha, I’d actually feel more comfortable talking with strangers through the computer than in person for the first time. </p>
<p>I don’t have a Facebook myself, but at my school there were a few “legends” (3-4) who attempted to friend every single person on campus in our class lol! And now we all know their names… including me, and I don’t even have Facebook lol. There’s nothing wrong with being forward yet friendly…just don’t be creepy about it :p.</p>
<p>Or you can just let people continue to randomly add you and you do nothing if you feel creepy about it. I never added anyone. I accepted friend requests, but half way through the semester when I realized I haven’t met anyone, I removed them from my list.</p>
<p>I’ve accepted and sent friend requests from/to people that would be going to my school before I met them in person. Some of the people I talked to, some I didn’t. It’s funny when you meet them in person and realize that you’re already facebook friends. You can meet a lot of cool people this way and maybe some will become close friends. If you are looking for roommates, this is standard protocol for my school. If you are planning on becoming Greek, accepting friend requests form rush chairs and people rushing the same organizations would probably be a good idea. Once in college, it’s a great way to see what events other people are going to.</p>
<p>eh, i think it’s kind of awkward/weird when you finally meet them face to face because facebook/texting/iming is so impersonal it’s like you know them but you really don’t. </p>
<p>As for the OP, I’d just post on the fb group wall and say “message me if you wanna talk” or whatever.</p>
<p>Personally, I feel awkward accepting people I don’t know, and I never accept requests from them. I did friend my roommate and peer advisor before I met them in real life, but I already “knew” them a little bit from e-mails.</p>
<p>1 Sky Pilot - It’s interesting that at your school, those 3-4 people are “legends.” At my school, the people who blindly request EVERYONE are viewed as desperate and annoying. :/</p>
<p>I don’t really accept friend requests from the people in my 2014 groups. I tend to keep my Facebook very small and private (though it’s also perfectly clean) because I prefer a tight-knit Facebook community. I guess it seems standoffish, but I will gladly friend people when I actually meet them.</p>
<p>^Ditto.</p>
<p>So you’re going to Stanford? Congrats!</p>
<p>I do it, I like it. It gives me a chance to find people somoloar to me that I migh have classes/ be in clubs with. I found a girl whose going to be skiing with me at school and that was cool. I found my roommate that way also</p>