Beware of Friend Requests: I'm sure you get the occasional Friend request on Facebook from an attractive young woman. She's probably foreign and has a basically blank FB page. I got...

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I'm sure you get the occasional Friend request on Facebook from an attractive young woman. She's probably foreign and has a basically blank FB page. I got one the other day from "Carol," and I declined. Today, I got a request from an old friend whom I friended on FB a long time ago. Clicking on his name, up popped Carol again. So, before you accept a request from an actual acquaintance of yours, make sure the request is actually coming from your friend.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Sometimes you even get a request from a "friend".
Their name/images were copied, spoofed, a mostly empty page.
If I get these, I always message my ORIGINAL friend to see if they created a new page.
I think they get the pages to spoof from people pages who's friends list is public...

Bmac Loc: Long Island, NY

jerryc41 wrote:

I'm sure you get the occasional Friend request on Facebook from an attractive young woman. She's probably foreign and has a basically blank FB page. I got one the other day from "Carol," and I declined. Today, I got a request from an old friend whom I friended on FB a long time ago. Clicking on his name, up popped Carol again. So, before you accept a request from an actual acquaintance of yours, make sure the request is actually coming from your friend.

I have the perfect solution. Don't bother with facebook. Yeah, you may not know where your friend had dinner last night....but do you really care?

kpmac Loc: Ragley, La

Ditto the no facebook. Never have, don't plan on ever using it. I call my friends on the phone if I want to talk to them. Or we visit. It's really tough but we manage.

AK Loc: Adelaide Hills, South Australia

Ditto NO FACEBOOK - have seen too much false news and too much family squabbles over silly little things

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Bmac wrote:

I have the perfect solution. Don't bother with facebook. Yeah, you may not know where your friend had dinner last night....but do you really care?

What I usually do with FB is look at pictures friends have posted.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

I do FB with family and close friends.
Works great for keeping in contact.
And look at pics posted in some groups.

Soul Dr. Loc: Beautiful Shenandoah Valley

kpmac wrote:

Ditto the no facebook. Never have, don't plan on ever using it. I call my friends on the phone if I want to talk to them. Or we visit. It's really tough but we manage.

Don't do FB or any other social sites. Don't have time for that stuff.
I don't care about what everyone else is doing.

sodapop Loc: Bel Air, MD

Found some old friends on facebook. Also keep in contact with family spread out around the country. Been on FB for years, never a problem.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

sodapop wrote:

Found some old friends on facebook. Also keep in contact with family spread out around the country. Been on FB for years, never a problem.

Dannj

I use FB to connect with “f&f” I don’t get to see very often. As for the rest of it, I treat it just like I treat UHH: if sonething interests me I check it out; if not I move on.

redlegfrog

I joined Facebook to get information on my 50th High school reunion because thats the only way things are done today.
I never realized how many young, beautiful, attractive women friends I had!!!
The final draw was seeing the name of some of my High school buddies attached to these young girls photos.
As soon as I was done with the reunion I was done with Facebook.

jerryc41 wrote:

I'm sure you get the occasional Friend request on Facebook from an attractive young woman. She's probably foreign and has a basically blank FB page. I got one the other day from "Carol," and I declined. Today, I got a request from an old friend whom I friended on FB a long time ago. Clicking on his name, up popped Carol again. So, before you accept a request from an actual acquaintance of yours, make sure the request is actually coming from your friend.

John_F Loc: Minneapolis, MN

Isn't there way to report FB abuse.

1Feathercrest Loc: NEPA

redlegfrog wrote:

I joined Facebook to get information on my 50th High school reunion because thats the only way things are done today.
I never realized how many young, beautiful, attractive women friends I had!!!
The final draw was seeing the name of some of my High school buddies attached to these young girls photos.
As soon as I was done with the reunion I was done with Facebook.

Facebook wasn't around at the time of my 60th HS reunion. I registered, went to the meet up and found all my friends were dead or no shows. The rest were all old people whom I barely recognized. I did get a nice portrait by the photographer, but didn't attend the dinner (that I had paid for). I keep in touch with a few college friends by email only. Went to a 50th college reunion but only recognized a few (from other studies than mine). All the girls that I had the hots for (back then) were married, fat and not nearly as good looking as remembered. Then again, they likely thought the same about me. Insipid Facebook? NO!

jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ

jerryc41 wrote:

I'm sure you get the occasional Friend request on Facebook from an attractive young woman. She's probably foreign and has a basically blank FB page. I got one the other day from "Carol," and I declined. Today, I got a request from an old friend whom I friended on FB a long time ago. Clicking on his name, up popped Carol again. So, before you accept a request from an actual acquaintance of yours, make sure the request is actually coming from your friend.

Good idea. I've had probably about 10 of these in the past. I don't like to clutter up my list of FB friends with people that I really don't know anyway. I have a few, but not many, and the only reason I allowed the friend request was because they were mutual friends of a fellow photographer or offroader or something like that.