# Let's be Facebook friends! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 10, 2010, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-be-facebook-friends/553329 "2010-09-10T20:14:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-be-facebook-friends/553329/41 "2010-09-13T16:17:56Z")
> [@nyctea scandiaca](#): > > Here is a Facebook group for members of the SDMB: [Straight Dopers](http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2408464343) I’ll look that up tonight or tomorrow. Thanks for the info, **Birdgirl**. My profile is restricted to refuse friend requests from anybody who isn’t a FB-friend of my FB-friends. I set this up after I got one too many friendspams. Naturally, **Opal** is on my friends list. (I think she was the third Doper I friended.) ---
**Author:** ![Shecky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@Shecky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shecky)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-be-facebook-friends/553329/42 "2010-09-13T16:45:18Z")
[FUN!](http://www.facebook.com/BryMcG) ---
**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-be-facebook-friends/553329/43 "2010-09-14T06:20:36Z")
[Yeah…:D…](http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1379204240) ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-be-facebook-friends/553329/44 "2010-09-14T09:17:03Z")
> [@dhkendall](#): > > > [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](#): > > > > This is [me.](http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=750170990) > > > > Dhkendall your page doesn’t let me add you. > > Strange! Anyone else having that problem? > > I went and added you instead, hopefully solving your problem. > > [del]Another person to bug to buy me Farmville crap! Excellent! My plan for world domination is falling into place nicely![/del] Nice try, I don’t play that. I will however send you a billion invites to see bands, hell you are only 8 hours away whats a full day drive to see some indie punk gig, especially since most of the shows play in Winnipeg the next day, or the day before. ha ha ha ha ha No, seriously if its a tour, I would let you know of Winnipeg dates. Otherwise, not so much. ---
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-be-facebook-friends/553329/45 "2010-09-14T17:49:58Z")
Awesome - I went to friend anyone I missed and already had them all. My laziness is showing. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-be-facebook-friends/553329/46 "2010-09-14T21:02:30Z")
I have like 10 new friends now 😃 And in the straight dopers group, my secret identity was discovered! 😮 ---
**Author:** ![dhkendall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9adbd/32.png) [@dhkendall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dhkendall)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-be-facebook-friends/553329/47 "2010-09-15T16:13:15Z")
It is a bit odd to see new friend requests from names that essentially you don’t know (as most of us are on FB with our real name, not our Doper name (my real name is close enough to my Doper name though, that I doubt there’s much confusion). At least I can sort through my new requests by if they have other Dopers friended. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-be-facebook-friends/553329/48 "2010-09-16T02:22:08Z")
Just “friended”/messaged everyone! Once you all accept, I’ll have 300 friends! ---
**Author:** ![MoodIndigo1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@MoodIndigo1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoodIndigo1)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-be-facebook-friends/553329/49 "2010-09-16T04:02:58Z")
I added most if not all of the names listed on this thread, but neglected to add my own link here: [ME](http://www.facebook.com/#!/margaret.buckley) ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-be-facebook-friends/553329/50 "2010-09-16T07:14:35Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > Just “friended”/messaged everyone! Once you all accept, I’ll have 300 friends! It’s not a competition! Time to figure out how to get 202 more friends FAST. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-be-facebook-friends/553329/51 "2010-09-16T11:55:51Z")
> [@ShelliBean](#): > > But… Then I’ll be outed as someone who steals ideas from the Dope to post about!!! > > [It’s me!](http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/profile.php?id=668286050) You beat me to it! My friends think I am smart whereas I really steal everything from here. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-be-facebook-friends/553329/52 "2010-09-16T12:12:53Z")
Okay- I sent out a million friend requests. [Here I am.](http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=lf#!/profile.php?id=1507005330) ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-be-facebook-friends/553329/53 "2010-09-16T15:49:08Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > Okay- I sent out a million friend requests. > > [Here I am.](http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=lf#!/profile.php?id=1507005330) There’s no friend request icon on your page. I don’t know how to make my link pretty. > **[Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1315827988)** ---
**Author:** ![rostfrei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7bcc69/32.png) [@rostfrei](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rostfrei)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-be-facebook-friends/553329/54 "2010-09-16T17:18:42Z")
[http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/ewmoyer](http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/ewmoyer) could always use more friends. ---
**Author:** ![Bloody\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bloody\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bloody_L)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-be-facebook-friends/553329/55 "2010-09-16T19:50:12Z")
[Me](http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1286484802)!! add me! I’m into foreign languages, fitness (p90x!), history, military (Air Force), hoop dancing, belly dancing, fire hooping, writing, and philosophy. I’d love to chat and meet new people . I don’t play the games anymore so don’t add me if you only want me to send back farmville stuff and what not. ---
**Author:** ![Tethered\_Kite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@Tethered\_Kite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tethered_Kite)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-be-facebook-friends/553329/56 "2010-09-16T19:56:58Z")
No! Just no. If you all don’t try to sell me sumpin at the least old friends will come out of the woodwork and expect me to take care of farm animals. Once burned, twice shy. ---
**Author:** ![Bloody\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bloody\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bloody_L)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-be-facebook-friends/553329/57 "2010-09-16T21:58:30Z")
> [@Tethered\_Kite](#): > > No! Just no. > > If you all don’t try to sell me sumpin at the least old friends will come out of the woodwork and expect me to take care of farm animals. > > Once burned, twice shy. Just block the applications, it’s extremely easy. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-be-facebook-friends/553329/58 "2010-09-16T23:31:32Z")
> [@Rushgeekgirl](#): > > > [@Cicero](#): > > > > Okay- I sent out a million friend requests. > > > > [Here I am.](http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=lf#!/profile.php?id=1507005330) > > There’s no friend request icon on your page. > > I don’t know how to make my link pretty. > [http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1315827988](http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1315827988) So now you know how challenged I am on Facebook 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-be-facebook-friends/553329/59 "2010-09-16T23:45:50Z")
I was friends with a lot of dopers on my old account, but it was disabled about half a year ago (why, I have no idea) and I just never got around to adding a lot of them back. Here’s the one I made and have been using since Jan: > **[Chris Nealon](https://www.facebook.com/ChrisLeeNeal/?show_switched_toast=0&show_invite_to_follow=0&show_switched_tooltip=0&show_podcast_settings=0&show_community_review_changes=0&show_community_rollback=0&show_follower_visibility_disclosure=0)** > > Chris Nealon. 1,606 likes · 113 talking about this. Writer Sent out friend requests to everyone in here so far (well, those I wasn’t already friends with). ---
**Author:** ![dhkendall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9adbd/32.png) [@dhkendall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dhkendall)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2010, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-be-facebook-friends/553329/60 "2010-09-17T04:27:29Z")
It would be a good idea, by the way, to send a quick message with any new friend request that you are Doper name so-and-so, I assume (I’m hoping) there are others like me that view friend requests from names they don’t know quite suspiciously, and since most of us don’t use our real names on the Dope … (So far, all my new Doper (I assume) friend requests come from people that have at least one other confirmed Doper as a friend, so I assume it is a Doper, although it could very well be just a non-Doper friend of a Doper.) After seeing a news article today about police, in an effort to demonstrate to kids the dangers of the Internet, creating profiles of fake teenagers and all but two kids in the class friended them, does make me view non-RL friend requests suspiciously. Not like I don’t want to be friends with y’all, I do have my request here, don’t I? Still stands. But, maybe when you’re sending out a friend request to another Doper let them know who you are. (This should apply whether you’re sending the request to me or anyone). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-be-facebook-friends/553329.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-be-facebook-friends/553329.md?page=4)