<p>What's your opinion on making friends via facebook and other social media before college starts? The way I feel is that I want to meet people as soon as possible, since I'm really excited, but on the other hand, I feel like people are very different online than in real life, and so it might be weird meeting them.</p>
<p>Opinions?</p>
<p>I would strongly recommend NOT doing this. Many people from my college added me as fb friends before we came here and I rarely, if ever, run into them on campus. Also even though these people requested ME, a lot of them seemed to find it creepy if I immed them something as simple as “hey what’s up?”. Don’t im people from your dorm building before you meet them, every time i did this it just ended awkwardly. The ONLY time I think it would be okay to meet people online before real life is if they post in your class’s fb page asking if anyone wants to be roommates and posting a little paragraph about themselves that seems similar to you. I kind of wish I would have responded to one of those people instead of going random and ending up with a roommate that I have nothing in common and no friendship with.</p>
<p>In conclusion, maybe people from my college are just mostly stuck up, maybe people from your college will actually be more friendly, but I would advise not to talk to people online if it’s anything like my school.</p>
<p>Parent here. My daughter made some friends at her college on FB before her first semester. I see nothing wrong with it. You can definitely use it as a tool to get to know people. Sounds like katrocious had a negative experience, but it doesn’t have to always be that way.</p>
<p>All of the kids I know who found their roommates on FB before starting ended up not really getting along with them. I think you should stick to the FB group for the entering class and just follow what happens on there (usually lots of talk about orientation, move in days, etc.)</p>