Facebook Etiquette

[renewed]

I put the person making the request, however, most of the time the person who request to add me says hi first AS WELL as the person I request to be friends with. Guess people like to say hi to me. 😛

 

[MacDawg]

I put the person making the request, however, most of the time the person who request to add me says hi first AS WELL as the person I request to be friends with. Guess people like to say hi to me. 😛

Hi there
How you doin?

 

[renewed]

Hi there
How you doin?

 

[theITGuy]

I think when they make the request they can add a little note and should say hello right there...but if I get a request from someone I haven't seen or talked to in a while I'll accept the request and then send a PM "hey it's been a long time blah, blah blah..."

-J.-

 

[Surely]

When I add friends or accept friends on FB neither of us usually says anything, unless we actually have something to say. You don't need to say "hello", just accept them.

I just think it's weird when someone that you haven't had any contact with for 10+ years finds you and adds you as a friend, and then doesn't say: "Hi, how are you? What are you up to? It's been so long..."

To me it seems like the reconnection was made for the sake of the connection/friend count. If I take the time to seek someone out, or to ask them to be my fb friend, once they accept the first thing I do is acknowledge the connection with a "Hi, etc..." Isn't that the point? (or at least, that's what it should be....)

What a shock

Ha!

 

[Freis968]

I think whoever initiates the request should say Hello, otherwise they are just asking to be a friend to bring their friend tally up or who knows what.

Facebook really doesn't cut it for me. Out of the 90 friends I had at one time I noticed that only about 5 of them would actually update their day to day goings on and when I would post something only my aunt or one other friend would comment on it...the rest of the so called friends would more than likely not read it. I was very active in saying Hi to my friends and posting comments on their pics/videos/etc but once I saw a pattern emerging I got irritated and deleted all but 9 friends.

Facebook is sort of an ok social book, just very basic, there should be something better and a better way to managing friends. When I figure it out I will create it, just cannot put my finger on it at the moment.