# FB friend request - who are you??

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fb-friend-request-who-are-you/746683>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 21, 2016, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fb-friend-request-who-are-you/746683 "2016-02-21T12:08:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2016, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fb-friend-request-who-are-you/746683/41 "2016-02-25T00:25:29Z")

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LinkedIn is awful for this. Some people clearly have a mission in life to accumulate as many LinkedIn connections as possible. If LinkedIn suggests somebody as a connection, even if they’ve never met them before in their life, they’ll send the connection request anyway. For the most part, I just ignore them.

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**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2016, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fb-friend-request-who-are-you/746683/42 "2016-02-25T00:41:53Z")

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Ah, LinkedIn - I keep getting notices when my brother makes a new connection. He’s a CFO/CEO/big shot executive and I’m an engineer. His connections have nothing to do with me, and vice-versa. Mostly I just ignore everything from LinkedIn.

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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2016, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fb-friend-request-who-are-you/746683/43 "2016-02-25T07:48:49Z")

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Ever since I removed the gender from my profile, I don’t get those automated “hottie” accounts, so I’m actually more likely to accept a request to give them a chance. That is, if checking their profile doesn’t make them look like a bot–being able to see their friends and where they come from is a pretty good indicator, as is just seeing if they have any real content.

I actually met this one woman from the Ukraine that way. And it was just before the Crimea troubles. So then I got a pretty nice insider’s look at all that stuff.

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**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2016, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fb-friend-request-who-are-you/746683/44 "2016-02-26T23:28:18Z")

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> [@ZipperJJ](#):
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> I decline requests sometimes from people I DO know. I keep my friend list highly curated to people I care about reading about…

Oh hells, I sometimes decline requests from people I know AND care about.

OK, this is because the request was from someone spoofing the real person (this has happened to two of my friends).

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