Some Annoying Friend Requests
I am friendly, congenial, amiable and bordering (sometimes) on huggable. I like to add friends and be added as friends just as much as the guy/girl next door (I don’t mean my neighbor; he’s a real grouch-potato).
But what I don’t like is when people force you to add them. In general, I hate running errands, especially for people that are not related to me by blood. Sometimes I receive messages that go like:
Add me.
My name is (blank) add me please thank you. <– without punctuation marks
Then they would post e-mail addy that sometimes are just plain ridiculous. For the benefit of all humankind I will refrain myself from posting those ultra-cheesy, squirm inducing e-mails.
Why do I hate it when people do this? Because first, they probably got attracted (for some reasons) to my profile. If they do read my profile, they would bear in mind that I travel places and thus, know probably more people than I’m willing to admit. If I just add people indiscriminately, how can I tell a person from others? Is friendster all about adding people whom you will not remember anything about? Is friendster just a popularity contest? If it is, I beg to be excluded.
This would be cool if they give me a short introduction of themselves. Most of them do not. Yet instead of just typing my e-mail (which is posted in my profile) they would send some manner-lacking and grammar-unabiding messages COMMANDING me to add them. Then, if by chance I did indeed get to see their profile, nothing spectacular is written in it. There’s no substantial description of the self, and favorites are just the typical, sometimes smarmy ones. How would I even know WHO or WHAT kind of people I am adding?
Others who do just type my e-mail and request to be added fail to reply when I send them message asking who they are/give description of themselves.
A particularly perplexing situation even occured: One girl messaged me, asking me to add her. After about a few weeks, I DID add her, then replied to her messaged in my other account saying I have just added her. Then she said she doesn’t even know me, even if i repeatedly stated that I am on her other account! Would it really have hurt that she view her list of friends and see who are the people she’s adding?
Once again, as much as I want to accomodate some friend’s request, I can’t help but feel beleaguered by people who don’t observe basic mannerisms/etiquette when sending friend requests. But who am I to speak: the internet is populated with people who lack netiquette. Any word of protest to it is like fighting dogfights with the world.
I’ll just say it once again: if friendster is a popularity contest, count me out.
