[melkissa2004]

Please answer the poll honestly and explain if you feel it's necessary. You can (obviously) choose multiple answers. I am just curious.

[Irish_Wristwatch]

apparently il be almost anyone's friend, if i know who they are from their name or photo then i will accept their friend invitation, if i dont know who they are i wont

[Gina1978]

I dont do facebook..I dont see the point of it when there are messengers and online photoalbums.
I had a facebook account for about a week and sent out lots of messages and all I got in return was "so and so has added you to their friend list".BIG WHOOP!
I have yahoo for that.

The only people I add to my contact list are my closest friends and family (my sister and my dad to be exact).
I also have skype and that rocks!!!

[frgsonmysox]

Pretty much anyone I've ever met personally or spoken to frequently online. I don't add people I have no idea who they are - and I have deleted people because of language and such.

[Quantum_Leap]

As a general rule of thumb I will only add people if I have actually met them in person. That's why I don't have any JM ladies on my Facebook right now. (No offense to you all). I've just seen my husband and others one too many times say "Someone left a comment on my wall, do you know who that is?" He friended them but didn't really know who they were!

As for my former teachers, and my former students for that matter, I make it a rule not to solicit them for friend requests but if they request from me I will generally accept. I DON'T accept my students to be my Facebook friends while they are still my students. I think that crosses some boundaries. But after they have graduated, or after I have left the school, I will accept them. I have many of my former students on my Friends List.

[KrazE]

I have a pretty.. normal friends list I think. I have different groups though with different privacy settings and people are placed into a group depending on what I want to allow them to have access to.
For example, I let my mother see pictures of the kids when I add them, and she can see things like Farmville updates and such, but she can't post on my wall

[swade66]

The only people I accept are family, people I know in real life and are currently friends with, friends from high school that I lost contact with but would like to reconnect with and friends from my message board. There may be a few exceptions but not many.

If I don't know you I don't accept. I hate getting requests from people who just want to be 'friends' to play a game. I hate getting requests from people who use that friend finder and clearly there is no way that I know you and on top of that we have ZERO in common.

Yeah, I'd apparently friend pretty much anyone. Just recently I friended my best friend's sister who I've never once met. But she requested, and since I'm friends with her oldest kid, I figured it would be polite to add her just so she knows I'm not a pedophile or something (her son is 15). If I know who they are, I don't mind adding them. I don't post anything especially private on Facebook.

Originally Posted by swade66

The only people I accept are family, people I know in real life and are currently friends with, friends from high school that I lost contact with but would like to reconnect with and friends from my message board. There may be a few exceptions but not many.

If I don't know you I don't accept. I hate getting requests from people who just want to be 'friends' to play a game. I hate getting requests from people who use that friend finder and clearly there is no way that I know you and on top of that we have ZERO in common.

I agree with this. I do have a few "friends" that are purely for game purposes, but they are on a private list.

[**Badfish**]

As a general rule, I only accept people I know personally, and pretty well. I have a handful of "online" friends, who I don't think of differently than any other friend. I also have a few authors on my friends list whom I've never met in person, but accepted/requested for networking purposes.

[WineKeepsMeSane]

My test is this: If I don't mind you seeing my kid's pictures, then I will be fb friends.. If I don't know you well enough to be comfortable with that, then no. I don't have to have met you in person, but I need to know enough about you to be comfortable that you are who you say you are, ie. the moms in my PR who I've known online for nearly 3 years.

[Banned-Mommiex2]

Originally Posted by amegra

My test is this: If I don't mind you seeing my kid's pictures, then I will be fb friends.. If I don't know you well enough to be comfortable with that, then no. I don't have to have met you in person, but I need to know enough about you to be comfortable that you are who you say you are, ie. the moms in my PR who I've known online for nearly 3 years.

This is about right for me. My friends mostly consist of family, friends, and some of DHs friends that I don't know as well (he does), but they friend me because he doesn't ever post pics.. I do. I have a few people that are *online* friends, but that is not the majority for sure.

[Nekinna2402]

I have pretty much all, if i dont know or dont have any friends in common i sometimes leave a messege asking if i know them or just ignore it

Here is some of my almost done sorted list

Justmommies (pr, teen moms, single moms etc)

VF (I talk to Many mothers from there and run a parenting cult there)

THS (travis high school)

Tananger people (from this area, school, old classmates etc)

Family (pretty obv.)

I think those are all... I have more people that im unsure where to place lol

[Mikasa]

The only people on my FB are people I know IRL If I have to look you up in a yearbook to even see who the heck you are, I'm not gonna add you I have family, friends and people I knew in HS that's pretty much it.

[Kalia20]

I used to only have people I know IRL, but then I discovered games. Now I have three lists, two of them being private. I have over 600 people and deleted about 200. I still add everyday.

[Mom2Froggy]

I have 2 old teachers on mine that I was VERY close with, it's really fun to talk to them about me going to school to be a teacher too. I have some old acquaintances from school that I haven't seen in years but was friends with in school. I also have my Mom and sisters.

I don't accept adds from everyone, I have to at least know them somewhat. I also do not add any person that is in any way tied to my daughters "father." I would be SOL if he found out where I lived or school schedule or where I hang out, so if they know him and still talk to him, then no way, they will not be allowed to be on my facebook or myspace. It sucks sometimes, like I have one friend that I was friends with before I even met my daughters father. But he is friends with my ex and all of his friends, and I just can't risk posting something on his wall or something where my ex can see. So he got rejected, I did send him my email and a message explaining why which he understood, but I am careful to tell him certain things.

[mayandsofiasmommy]

I have some people from JM and another site I visit, but they are all people who I communicate with pretty regularly.

I have some not close family members on it so they can see pics I post. We live very far from all our family. I have a few HS friends- a couple who I was never close to, but knew, and a couple who were my best friends but we lost contact after HS.

I would not add a random person who I met at a party though, unless we formed an actual friendship.

Oh and I put I would add a teacher. I might, but it made me laugh since I recently friended an old student of mine I taught her in 7th grade and she is now a senior in HS!

[Eowyn]

only people I know personally-or someone " referred" by someone I know personally- for example, a friend of a friend who thinks we'd hit it off etc.
Very few exceptions. I have one or two online friends that i have known 5+ years I have on my facebook page and have used it to connect with some really old friends but I am quick to delete friends that make no effort to communicate at all with me-why add me as your friend if you dont even say HI once!?

FB for me is a way to keep in contact with people i ALREADY know-not to meet new people

[foxfire_ga79]

For the most part the only people on my FB are people I know in real life or who are related to me. There are however 3 people on there I've never met in person and aren't related to me, 1 from JM and 2 just from having known for a few years on other internet sites that I finally trusted to my FB.
I s'pose I'd be alright being friends with some of ya from the heated debates but I've just never gotten around to asking. lol

[Fluga]

I have added all of 2 JM ladies and am not planning to add more (feel special chicas!).

I started FB so I could spy on my old classmates and family as I moved countries a decade ago. That somehow spiraled into being being that plus coworkers of past and present. I will approve spouse requests and schoolmates I barely remember but that is about as far as I'll go. I dont approve anyone I dont know either from rl or online.