Facebook Question

People I know and want to keep in contact with. There're a couple that I've never met - but we've been in contact for ages and we've got mutal friends. Although most of the people on the net are normal and OK, there're nutters too. I don't want the risk of said nutters looking at my profile. I've also been known to cull people who aren't that close, or who haven't tried keeping in contact. I have fewer than 100 friends, and plan to keep it that way !

I think I have maybe 200 friends but they are all people I know and I can chat with them all if they are logged on. I don't see the need to have hundreds and hundreds of friends that people don't even know!

I only tend to add people I know or people I feel I know through Hitched. I've had two randoms try to add me as a friend in the last couple of week, one was a friend of a friend that i've never spoken to but know of, one is someone I don't know at all but knows a couple of my friends.

The first one I accepted, I felt bad not accepting her, just incase she has rejection issues lol! The other one I didn't accept.

I'd quite like to cull some of the old school friends I have on my friend list, they wouldn't speak to me in the street so I don't really feel like I should keep them.

I know what you mean about the culling, a girl from school added me a while back, I knew her so accepted her, then about a week later saw her in a shopping centre, said hi to her and she totally rudely blanked me. I removed her as soon as I got home haha.

I'm only "friends" on facebook with people who I have met in real life and I'm either already friends with them or have been in the past and wanted to get back in touch with them. I don't understand using Facebook to meet random people, that's what forums and dating/friendship sites are for surely?! There are nutters out there and I don't want them befriending me!

A few people have requested to be my friend who I've never met and I always ignore that, and there are some people I've culled as I've tried to be in touch with them and they obviously only wanted me on their list to bump up the numbers!

Apart from a couple of special exceptions everyone on my friends list is a friend in real, 3D life, and was a friend outside the interwebs before being friends on facebook. Just adding people "you like the look of" is very odd, and would be ignored by me.

I've only ever added two 'unknowns' on Facebook. One was a through a mutual friend - he added me because he mistakenly thought that he must have met me and forgotten, so didn't want to be rude - I accepted him for the very same reason ?

The second one was someone who friend requestd me when I'd just moved to where I live; he said he was in the same boat and was looking to make local friends. Turned out he was just a tiny, boring weirdo looking to cop off. Should've guessed, really.

I'm only friends with people I actually know and am friends with to chat to. I only have about 20 FB friends and don't see the point of collecting more just to bump the numbers up.

I occasionally see the names of people who are friends of friends turn up on the 'People you may know' thing, but as they're not people I've spent time with other than at weddings or parties, I haven't tried to add any of them.

I've had a couple of friend requests from randoms, and people I used to be at school with who wouldn't say hello to me if they saw me on the street, so I've ignored those.

Everyone I am friends with on FB is someone I know IRL.

In fact I rejected a Hitcher who added me via the Hitched FB group. It wasn't not someone I'd chatted with specially, but I still felt a bit mean. I'm a leetle worried about giving someone I've never met access to that much info about me....

For the same reason I'm not in any networks, so only friends see my profile.

Mostly I just don't want any patients/their relatives getting access to my profile!

I wouldn't add anyone I didn't know in real life. I have pictures of my kids up in FB.

I have a friend who actually meets and shags random men that befriend her on the strength of her (slightly slaggy) picture....she is younger than me, 25, and I guess is doing nothing wrong, she is single. Has several children and is suddenly having the young life she didn't have when she was having kids. But really, I cannot get my head round it. Not even.

I'd say about 90% of mine are friends and family. A few hitchers and people I've met a couple of times but don't know really well make up the rest. I've been guilty of adding a complete unknown- I sent a request to a girl I thought I knew and we have mutual friends. When she accepted I read her profile and realised she wasn't the person I was thinking of. We haven't deleted each other but we've never acknowledged each other and she probably thinks I'm very strange for adding her in the first place.

I have no idea how facebook works or what it looks like as Ive never been on it! I think Im the last one on the planet not to have seen it lol