<p>I've always been a skeptic when it comes to the internet/Facebook, and after the whole College-*******-making-college-groups-under-fake-high-school-aliases this winter, I guess I'm either just hyper-paranoid or am just picking up on something that I wouldn't have before.</p>
<p>Some students are adding other students in the UPenn 2013, which is totally normal and kind of exciting too, but one day I got two requests at the same time from these two kind of fishy profiles--they had just created their Facebooks two-ish months ago, seemed to have only added future Penn students, had no additional photos/groups/info or any non-Penn wall posts, and most importantly, had their birthday as spring '90 and were members of both UPenn 2012 and UPenn 2013.</p>
<p>I just feel like you can't really trust everyone who adds you... you know? Who knows who is trying to look at our Facebooks. I deleted the person as a friend but they aggressively added me back. I'll be embarrassed if these are indeed real students who have just been held back a year and have literally no interaction with their own schools or whatnot, but I still think we have some legitimate basis for being suspicious about these kinds of things.</p>
<p>Has anyone else been added by one of these suspicious "people"? I forgot to mention that one's account disappeared. I messaged the other one asking very casually if they are '12 or '13 and got no response. I just feel kind of sketched out... let me know if any of you guys have been noticing anything similar.</p>
<p>P.S. I find it hilarious that p-r-o-w-l-e-r is **'ed out...</p>
<p>Don’t add anyone you don’t know in real life, or haven’t met through the Penn-sanctioned site they run over the summer (it’s like a forum based on your hall, so you know all those people). Believe me, you’ll have plenty of friends if you stick to these.</p>
<p>also someone added me who i was a little cautious about at first, but i added them anyway. i just deleted them now after reading your post. i went back to look at their fb and they don’t have any wall posts, only have pics (which easily coulda been stolen from some other person’s profile), and the only group they are apart of is “find a upenn roommate 2013.” their high school education says class of 09, but the network is '11.</p>
<p>After housing decisions go out, Penn launches a site (once called “Pennster” I believe) that’s basically a message group for your hall. You’ll be able to contact your roommates that way, and then friend those people on facebook -those are people you’ll be meeting in person before too long.</p>
<p>It’s not that I’m uncomfortable blocking people, or that I’m overly desperate to friend future classmates/whatnot, it just makes me kind of angry and curious. Doesn’t anyone else want to know what this is all about?</p>
<p>Again… unless, that is, that these people are real but just put in really fishy info about themselves.</p>
<p>PM me their names if you’re really that curious</p>
<p>Don’t feel bad about rejecting someone’s friend request - especially if you’ve never met them in person or in other circumstances. You can always friend them again later, and you’ll come to realize that having people you don’t know connected to you on facebook is a liability, not a good thing.</p>
<p>Haha don’t worry I reject people from my own network… I just feel peeved that this is happening and no one seems to care or notice, because it’s pretty sketchy, especially in the wake of the “Facebook-gate” College P-rowler deal. I’ll PM you the names.</p>
<p>I just delete friend requests from people I haven’t met in some way. Keeps it simple.</p>
<p>Sometimes though people will add you because they know they’re part of your group/floor/whatever. Those, in my opinion, are fine.</p>
<p>It’s just the random Facebook-friend requests out of nowhere that are a bit strange (especially when you have virtually no friends in common, and there’s no accompanying message to give any hint as to who they are). Those are just creepy deletion fodder.</p>