Oh boy, now I have two friends! I think this is my best day ever!
Room service!
Well, I just sent friend requests to everyone in this thread who wasn’t totally averse to it.
Don’t spoil this, Anaamika! 
Just “Friends”, not “FWB”?
Screw that.
The problem of too many “friend” requests is exceeded only by the hardships endured by those who are too pretty.
If you play your cards right…
If we’re playing Friends, I want to be Ross. Second season. After the monkey.
Some creepy stalker just sent me a friend request. As a bot, AI and/or misanthrope, I had to decline.
AFTER the monkey? What’s wrong with you?
I have one friend, who friended me because I was one of his fellow actuaries. How geeky is that?
You didn’t read the background material carefully. It has already been established that all of the advanced, interesting, and worthwhile friend functionality built into vBulletin, has been disabled on this board.
But… Is that a cause or a result of this board being full of bots, AIs, and misanthropes?
Looks under friend requests at the blank screen
listens to the crickets
C-c-cause and effect in one-one-one!
Not to be confused with The Barn Thread, frequented by nobody.
Huh. Other than the stealth brag, what is the issue? Someone reaches out to let you know that they think you’re an interesting person and would like to be connected.
That is a bummer alright. I should have noticed sooner. Oh wait. I couldn’t have. I have none of those. My SDMB friending has occurred via Facebook, which I admit I kinda hate (FB, not the people - the people rock).
I shall now friend everyone except that one guy whose name escapes me. And test the theory whether having friends within SDMB environment indeed sucks the proverbial hiney.
It doesn’t suck. It just doesn’t do anything useful. I have a couple friends via the bb, one of whom I’ve not seen in six years, and the other is inactive.
I use it because it helps me find posters I enjoy and like the posts of, like if I were to go “Hm, I haven’t heard from [poster] for awhile! I hope they’re okay. Let me see if they’ve been active lately and/or catch up their latest posts in case I may have missed any.”
I guess it’s partly because I treat it as a way of keeping up to date on posts with posters you actually are a fan of posts by. Sometimes I’ll periodically search those on my list to see if they’ve posted anything new that I hadn’t happen to see when it was active. Sometimes, too, I’ll add posters because I’ve agreed very strongly or emotionally with something (even just one thing) they wrote or because their personality is that where I feel them and I might get along well and actually be friends if we knew each other in real life. It can be any of those three reasons as to why I’ll add a person, mostly.
This tended to result in me having a ton of SDMB friends of course, but I’m okay with that.
Huh. What were the odds?