Random Facebook friend requests

I get quite a lot of random friend requests. People from school who I can't remember. I tend to just ignore them. I'm got a few that I have absolutely no idea where they've come from because there's no friends in common. Mine's the only name of Facebook as well so it's not like they've got me mixed up with someone. It just annoys me to be honest. Send a message with the friend request - it's polite!!!

Randoms who might be mates with a mate, that happens to me quite often.

Complete randoms who just see my picture, no, but that will be because I have set my privacy settings quite high.

Definitely get randoms, I had one guy sending a friend request although he did mail also saying he had seen my face around, perhaps working in Marks & Spencer(I don't), now either the guy is stalking me or somehow stumbled across me on Facebook but I dont have a very common name, funnily enough I didnt add him.

My sister gets lots, she has the same name as a porn star so often gets requests from randoms, she looks at their lists of friends and they are all big busted topless women so not people she knows ?

I thought I had my privacy settings as high as I could, so I was a bit surprised that people can see my photo... I might have to try and fix that.

I have 3 friends requests. One is from somebody who knows 2 other people I know. One is from a woman with a similar surname to mine and the 3rd is from a man with the same surname. I don't have a clue who he is and he hasn't requested my H to be his friend which I feel is a bit creepy. Plus when the children were googling their names there was a link about man with the same name (both first name and surname quite unusual) who was convicted of a racist attack. Obviously it could be a completly diferent man but I shall be avoiding. I don't like to request friends incase they don't want to be my friend but they might be thinking the same ?

If you've got a photo on your profile people will be able to see that when they search for your name. If you're in a network I think they can see more. The security settings on Facebook are rubbish. You can google "Hack Facebook" and get zillions of hits.

Well I don't have any personal information on there. A few of my friends have tagged me in photos but that's not such a big deal.

I get some completely random ones which I accept if the person looks interesting, but most of the time I just ignore them.

I do have a lot of "friends" who I've never met but we're all in the same job/industry so all part of the same community. It's nice to hook up with those people though!

I've started to use FB quite a bit recently, but I'm completely baffled as to what the etiquette is.

I've received friend requests from people I went to school with who, while "bullied" is too harsh a term, certainly made my time there less than pleasant and contributed to the issues about my personal appearance I had historically and currently. I've also received friend requests from people that I haven't a clue who they are, the only connection I can see is that we have friends in common.

I've been browsing the friend lists of people I am friends with and some have literally hundreds! Are you suppsed to talk to all these people? I am a bit confused by the whole thing really.

From what I can figure out, some people seem to 'collect' friends, and are strangely proud of how many friends they have on FB as if this means they must be really popular...

I have about 20 friends, and they're all people I'm friends with in real life, or was friends with at University and had lost touch with and was really pleased to be able to contact again.

I have quite a few 'random' friend requests - we have no friends in common so goodness knows why they add me.

I just ignore them ?

I joined a group on FB last week and one of the other members sent me a friend request. Why?! I don't know you from Adam!! Why would I want to be friends with you?! I find this really weird and not a little scary ...

I had a friend request from someone with the same name as me! I saw it in my inbox ... Peaches X wants to be friends with you. At first I thought FB was playing up and they'd got my name instead of the real person who was requesting friendship, but then I saw the picture and it was some random! How very odd!

Facefuck is odd anyway. most of the "updates" make my skin crawl, but it seems with the new one theyre impossible to turn off.

I like the updates! Apart from one couple who are too lovely-dovey for my liking ? Mind you, some of their friends commented and now they've cut back, thank goodness.

When you say comments make your skin crawl .. can you give an example? I just hope mine don't offend like that!

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I cant give specific examples because some have been posted by people i know from here ?

its just the sheer randomness of it all. "xyz is looking forward to going home tonight", "xyz cant wait to see swan lake", "xyz will be stopping at the butcher on the way home". i mean WHO CARES?!

the worst are the ones to husbands/wives/partners, and then they start replying. those really make me want to take up self harm.

I did a friend request to someone who I thought was someone I knew (I have been searching for her, we lost touch and I'd like to get back in contact - there was no photo). Along with the request I said are you XXXXX XXXXX who used to be <old surname> and went to XXXXX school. She added me as a friend so I got all excited thinking I'd found who I was looking for, and now I have access to her profile, it's not her at all!!! And I don't know her at all. Why would you accept a request when it's quite clear you're not the person the requester thought you were, and you don't even know them?

Very odd.

And why does it let you see photos on your page of friends of friends? i m really not interested.

i hate facebook.

Just out of interest, what proportion of your Facebook friends have you actually met in real life before the request was made?

In my case it's 95%, but something tells me that's unusually high...

Why are you on it them Mr Miserable?

Me? All of them. I only have FB friends who I'm actually friends with in real life.

Going off tangent, I had an email from Friends Reunited saying Blah Blah, want to be friends with you and has left you a message. I logged into friends reunited which I haven't used for years and the said person had sent me a message saying "I have been thinking about you alot recently, you were my first love LOL." LOL, I think not stalker alert. This is a guy I went to school with pre age 13. I am 34 now FFS. Move on.

FB friends, I like to have a cull every now and then.

I have quite an unusual surname and have had several request from weirdies with the same surname wanting to be friends with me.

A man from Egypt also contacted me recently saying that he was looking for a wife and what did I think. I did not reply.

I get the odd random friend request too and never quite figured out why (I just ignore)

I love updates on fb although I'm guilty of being shockingly dull. ?

I have all my stuff set to friends only, I don't want friends of friends or randoms in my network seeing my photos etc!

'Merry' seems quite pleasantly usual to me.

But who on earth thought 'Shrunken' would make a good first name?

emailing friends, thats it. all the other functions can function-off.

Why don't you just use normal email? ?

Do you realise your old Facebook profile is still visable?

Who indeed - registration at school was a nightmare for me ?