| Personally, i NEVER add ANYONE that i have never met face to face, unless a family memeber of mine tells me i am related to him/her in this/that way. On the other hand, i know one person who has over a thousand friends on facebook,the majority of which of course they dont know them. my friend justifies this by saying , you add them then talk to them to SOCIALISE with new people, thats the point of a SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE. Discuss |
| Man Created God in his Own Image : Intolerant, Sexist, Homophobic and Violent A Theory That Explains Everything Explains Nothing |
| My personal rule: When I actually used to use my MySpace, besides people that I know, I also added people I have in some capacity "met" online. Such as people from forums, from my Guild Wars guild, etc. As a rule I also never put any super-personal info, my exact location, or pictures of my friends onto it to protect my privacy accordingly. I put everything on Facebook. As such, I never add anyone whom I haven't met at least once. The exception would be to add someone my hubby knows, but I haven't had the opportunity to meet yet. (Long distance and all that.) The things is, people put every detail of their life on that thing: person they're dating, relatives, friends, photos, their plans for tomorrow...etc. It's easy for some creep to steal pic of a hot guy on photobucket, join the school network, and stalk teenage girls. >.> Especially if said girls have status updates like "Skippin' at lunch today" or "yay end early at 1:00 today" Maybe I'm paranoid, but like I said, I have too many personal things on there to add people I don't know. |
     I am the senpai that notices you. |
| Yeah I am the same way, you can't really call someone a friend if you don't know them or talk to them at all. Some people just like to add anyone to get their friend count higher. :/ |
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| I add people i have never met, such as people i have played online games with(Whether it be WoW, or CSS, or MW ect...) and people i converse with a lot of forums ect...But i try not to add people i have never even talked to before. |
| On Facebook, everyone and anyone. I don't hold respect for that site. But I make choices on the others, namely by asking who they are, where I met them and what they want from me. Except for bands, those I just accept without looking, poor things. |
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| I don't even bother adding people unless I've gotten to know them well enough. I hate it when people randomly add me. It's like, bro, I'm not your buddy, go away. |
| In the 90s I was quite the active ICQer and could easily have 250 contacts on my list. I was randomly searching out people that looked vaguely interesting, and then chatting with them. The hardest lesson to learn though, was most of the time most of the people on the internet don't actually give a fuck about you, they're merely bored and you are just a distraction. In that light, it's not social interaction, YOU ARE BEING USED. You're just a weird form of free form video game, and when they don't need you, they turn you off. |
| While not technically anime, currently I am a big fan of Hatsune Miku. At least I can go see her in concert. |
MidnightCheddar said: Some people just like to add anyone to get their friend count higher. :/ Much like post counts. |
| i wont add anyone that ive never met before. Its a bit weird otherwise. My fiance on the other hand, will add anyone and everyone. Just as the OP stated, to socialize. I think its mad! |
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Sukunai said: In the 90s I was quite the active ICQer and could easily have 250 contacts on my list. The hardest lesson to learn though, was most of the time most of the people on the internet don't actually give a fuck about you, they're merely bored and you are just a distraction. In that light, it's not social interaction, YOU ARE BEING USED. You're just a weird form of free form video game, and when they don't need you, they turn you off. That's a fascinating and probably depressingly accurate description of online socialising. I do wonder, however, to what extent your point is also valid in real life. I know I've certainly just rang people up or popped into their place because I was bored/lonely and wanted someone to talk to. What's the difference in the end? Funnily enough, I've just been writing an essay on Pascal's "Pensées " and one of his particularly depressing points is that all human activity essentially boils down to trying to avoid thinking about how we're just going to die. It certainly puts the respective merits of different kinds of social interaction into a grim perspective. |
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| "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." Douglas Adams |
| I'm not one of the people that adds anyone, but I usually accept all requests. But then if that person doesn't say hi and gives me a reason for adding me soon after, I sometimes delete them, because I don't want to be just part of a friend count. |
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| Sometimes I add people who I dont even know. |
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| I don't use myspace, i only have facebook but i never ever use it.. i don't like going on those sites because of cyber bullying which i have recently been the victem of..i found out my sister had been saying AWEFUL stuff about me to people from her school calling me a "cunt" saying that she would have nothing to do with me.. i choose to not talk to her again for that that's why i dont like social networking |
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| I hate social networking sites like Facebook etc. Most people join such sites to "find friends", to be "in" and to seek popularity. I don't think it's wise to add anyone on any websites, social networking or not. Before adding someone, you gotta at least have had spoken (in this case, typed) to them before. |
| I gave up on MySpace because I was sick of lame bands trying to friend me and get me to listen to their music. I am addicted to facebook though. I am not so good with remembering to email, and emailing 20 or so close friends every day/week would get tiring, so I just update a few times a day on facebook, which lets all my friends and family back home in the UK know how I am getting on in Japan, without the expense of long international phonecalls, stamps or the effort of writing the same email to several different recipients. I have managed to get back in touch with old school friends too. Though I have my profile and stuff set to friends only, and don't accept people I don't know. |
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| Yup. That's the point. To socialize. Stop being a social misfit is all I can say. |
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AlexisSolitaire said: I hate social networking sites like Facebook etc. Most people join such sites to "find friends", to be "in" and to seek popularity. I don't think it's wise to add anyone on any websites, social networking or not. Before adding someone, you gotta at least have had spoken (in this case, typed) to them before. Depends on the person using them, i find it very useful to talk to friends on especially the ones who i havent seen in a while. Facebook is worse than myspace if you just add anyone, a lot of people constantly put u pictures everyone can see. Theres nothing wrong with these social networking sites, as long as you dont just add anyone, or if you are the kind of person to do that dont put any personal info on the site, especially pictures of you/friends/ where you live. As a reply to vipey, social misfit? People do socialise outside of social networking sites you know, and just dont like the fact that so much personal data can end up on them. |
| Man Created God in his Own Image : Intolerant, Sexist, Homophobic and Violent A Theory That Explains Everything Explains Nothing |
rebekah said: But now because of social networking you know her true nature, if it weren't for that she would be saying things behind your back and lying to your face. Someone I thought was a friend did a somewhat similar thing, which you really need to be pretty dumb to say something on a myspace comment and think that someone won't find out.i found out my sister had been saying AWEFUL stuff about me to people from her school calling me a "cunt" saying that she would have nothing to do with me.. i choose to not talk to her again for that that's why i dont like social networking Back on topic, I'm pretty much done with Myspace, and on Facebook I only add people I know. If someone I don't know friend requests me I add them, if they don't say anything in two days I delete them. |
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| On facebook I only add people that A) I know personally or B) Go to my school and is a friend of a friend, or something like that. I don't like letting hundreds of people know personal stuff about me I guess.. |
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| Glad to see MAL still has some not-dumb people left. |
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| I used to do that, but not so much anymore. I'll have to talk to them first and see if I could be friends before I do that. When I was like 13 years old, I used to add random people, then when I was like 15, I removed most because they were really more so there. I am glad that I did do this because I managed to meet my two best friends this way. I've known them for 5 years (for the record, we do live in the same town, just never knew it at the time..lol). So, had I never done that, I wouldn't have met them. As I got older though, I stopped doing it so much for obvious reasons. Now I want to talk with the person before adding people. |
 L2 Search - http://fc04.deviantart.com/fs48/f/2009/236/3/9/L2_Search_by_Siya_Akuma.jpg We're all getting trolled by Mayans. They probably thought "Fuck this shit, let's end the calendar and say shit's gonna go down." |
| I only add people I know on social networking sites. The real reason I started up facebook was so I could communicate with some of my friends from my old school and such. I will sometimes get random requests from people who are a 'friend of a friend of a friend' but my rule is that if I haven't met you personally, then I won't add you. |
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GeorgeMoshington said: rebekah said: But now because of social networking you know her true nature, if it weren't for that she would be saying things behind your back and lying to your face. Someone I thought was a friend did a somewhat similar thing, which you really need to be pretty dumb to say something on a myspace comment and think that someone won't find out.i found out my sister had been saying AWEFUL stuff about me to people from her school calling me a "cunt" saying that she would have nothing to do with me.. i choose to not talk to her again for that that's why i dont like social networking Back on topic, I'm pretty much done with Myspace, and on Facebook I only add people I know. If someone I don't know friend requests me I add them, if they don't say anything in two days I delete them. I guess that's true, now I know what she is like so I don't say anything to her..because she will tell her "cool" friends everything I say to her. |
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| I've only added people I actually know and most of them were from school. But still I won't add all the bastards from school who try to add me. But I find Facebook very annoying when they suggest people I don't even know nor do I have any mutal friends with. This one middle-aged woman keeps appearing on my suggestion list when she has only 1 friend who is not mutal. |
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| Even if i did add anyone, it would be a pain in the arse to read all their status updates....guess id just clik the pretty Hide button, ive been using that a lt lately since i realised its use, especially people who keep saying stupid things like good morning, good night, constantly posting long annoying quotes that no one gives a crap about etc. |
| Man Created God in his Own Image : Intolerant, Sexist, Homophobic and Violent A Theory That Explains Everything Explains Nothing |
marisalexia said: Cool rant, bro.All of the major social networking sites have been hacked in order to spread malware and many malware authors put up profiles on them in an attempt to drive visitors to infected sites. The sites have done a poor job of combing their content for malware links and insecurities and this is one of the principal reasons that they are so often blocked, even on college networks that generally have very liberal access policies. |
Psajdak said: I have yet to open my first Facebook account. Dont. It'll impregnate you then eat you alive whether you're male or female. |
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| the bad thing is that here on mal there are still people like that who sent friend invites just because you have some anime in common or smth like that |
| I actually add anyone on Facebook just to play games. And I really had to add anyone because I have no real life friends... |
| meh, i don't add anyone, everyone adds me. ....But it feels kind of weird when there is this guy who i have seen, but not actually talked to. Not even on FB. |
| Trolls. Can't live with them, can't live without them. Because they barge in to every thread YOU can find, that's why. |
| I only add/accept requests off of people I know IRL and people I met on games and have known them for a long time. |
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| I don't use social networking sites (well, besides MAL) and I don't care about what others do there. But personally I wouldn't go around, adding random people just to look famous and popular. I don't do that in 'real life' either. There are other ways to get attention. On MAL that would be: - having seen tons of anime (or manga) - join every club you encounter - spam - troll - be a genius like Kaiserpingvin, Khorven, rTz, Baman etc. and participate in forum discussions None of these apply to me though :/ |
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