<p>Since signing up with Facebook under my college email address, I've listed all my friends from high school that are either already in college or are going next year and have an account already.</p>
<p>However, on two separate occasions I got these random friend invitations from people I didn't even know. They were friends of friends (and not even that close of friends) that I had never seen in person, much less ever talked to. I confirmed the request and looked at their page to make sure I wasn't just forgetting who they were temporarily, but I definitely didn't know either of them.</p>
<p>What's up with this? Don't people have better things to do than play the popularity contest of the Facebook friends list? I thought this what was Myspace was for, which is one of the main reasons I never got one.</p>
<p>I get those too, but it doesn't bother me. The only problem comes when I'll never ever meet someone. Like you said, but when this friend of a friend (who will go to the same college) is a junior in a different state. When that first happened, I had no clue what to do, because I didn't just want to be like "no," so I just said that they could only see a limited profile. But if they go to the same college or school, then it doesn't bother me.</p>
<p>I'm going to a college next year where I know no one, so I got really active on the two incoming freshman groups and became the Atlanta rep for summer meetups... so I get random invites all the time. I talk to many of them on AIM or MSN, but the rest I talk to through the message boards. It's really not all that odd to me.</p>
<p>i get random invites from people that are going to the same school as me next year all the time but i have never gotten one from someone at another school that i will never meet. that would be weird.</p>
<p>Yeah...it was weird. I spent like 3 hours wondering what to do about it. Well...I was doing other stuff too, but it took like 3 hours from when I got it, to when I decided what to do. I really get no point of it...the guy doesn't even talk to me anyways, and he must have over 600 friends to begin with. And he seemed extremely cocky to begin with.</p>
<p>Yeah, that was the weird thing...neither of them went to my same high school or were going to my same college. I ended up removing both of them from my list.</p>
<p>If you don't know them, you can always reject them. Watch out on MySpace--sometimes you'll get these girls sending you messages and they send them in groups of three. They want you to check out their webcam or something. I usually report these folks.</p>
<p>If you get random invites from folks at your school, though, accept them! This way you have a general idea of who the person is when you meet them at orientation. It really helps to break the ice.</p>
<p>yeah, random friend requests from people who will be at your school in the fall are normal practice these days. Orientation is awkward enough, it's nice to know some people going into it. People from other schools I would reject.</p>
<p>Before I accept/reject them I send them a message asking their intentions considering I don't even know them. I even do this for kids that go to my school. Most respond with coments like "Whoa, I was just trying to get more friends." and I respond along with rejecting their request with "Sorry, I don't friend people who I don't know. Thanks and good luck."</p>
<p>I definitely friended some people I didn't know the summer before freshman year, mostly people who would be in my classes or who were living in my dorm. I wouldn't friend or accept friend requests from random people who didn't even go to my school though. I accepted invites from random people who went to my school though.</p>
<p>Yeah, I've gotten random friend requests before. One person even messaged me talking about they hadn't seen me since bio 1a.. and I wrote them back telling them I have never taken a biology class in college so they were mistaken. I reject people I don't know. Only people I've actually talked to before make my friends list.</p>
<p>i've gotten friend requests from people from other schools... very strange. am i the only one who always accepts friend requests, because i would feel bad rejecting one??</p>
<p>i also got a message from one random person who friended me ... and when i looked, we had NO mutual friends. that one kind of freaked me out. :confused:</p>
<p>Yeah you tend to get lots of random friends requests early on. I accepted most of them, and the ones I got to know I kept. The ones that had no interest other than to add another 'friend' to their profile I removed eventually.</p>
<p>I have a pretty unusual first name, so I've gotten several friend requests from people with the same name. I don't know them and they don't go to my school so I usually just deny them.</p>