<p>I've been in the UPenn network for about a week now, and no one has added me as a friend yet :(. I feel rejected and unloved. Maybe it's because I'm in SEAS and I'm not hot. But I'm still cool, promise!</p>
<p>Do something about it rather than complaining. Try and find incoming freshmen with similar interests in music or movies or something, and befriend them.</p>
<p>are you in a UPenn 2010 group? post in one and you'll get requests.</p>
<p>Could it possibly be that you don't have friends at UPenn yet?</p>
<p>Fact: You will not become "friends" with a majority of the facebook friends you meet on the site. I see some incoming freshmen with 200 friends, give me a break.</p>
<p>yeah just wait till actaul college for the real friends</p>
<p>Yeah wait until you can actually meet people.</p>
<p>The people who randomly added me last summer never really wound up getting to know me. I only got to know one of them out of about eight or so who randomly added me. Bigger schools will have more people randomly adding people (maybe 200, like that one person said). Of course, 1 out of 8 is probably pretty accurate as far as how many you actually meet in person.</p>
<p>I see this happening to some of my friends who will be freshmen in the fall. Never mind that some of them have never really even been to their campus, let alone know people from out of state already.</p>
<p>However, you should add people who friend you. If you find someone similar to you, perhaps you will eventually meet up with them. It also gives you a feel for what the people going to your school are like.</p>
<p>And if you feel lonely, go ahead and browse people/maybe add.</p>
<p>Do not feel bad. There are some people who have over 1,000 "friends", especially people in the Greek system. But how many of these "friends" do you see on a daily basis? Don't think it's a popularity contest, because people now realize that some of those friend requests are from random people. I see incoming freshmen with over 100 friends already, even when the school year has yet to start.......if you ask me it sort of ruins the point of facebook. When facebook first started, we were only adding "friends" from people who we actually know and have met. You might have heard of a kid at Missouri named Charlie Rosenbury....he had like 32,000 friends at one point until Facebook cut his friends list down significantly. I even got a friend request from him....of course I rejected it :).</p>
<p>it seems really insiginfincat for large universities too. i have 5000 other peers in my class. i think around 700 have facebook right now. thats what... 14% of the total class, and how many out of 5000 will eventaully be met.</p>
<p>someone from my new school added me and i rejected them...i hate people who "friend" someone just so that they seem like they know more people etc. i only add people who i'm actually friends with, since becoming friends with someone who you met on facebook seems a bit sketchy to me anyways haha...</p>