When members find your Facebook profile

[Katrina]

How do you react when a member finds your Facebook profile and either 1) Friend Requests you or 2) Messages you?

 

[Joshua Farrell]

If I know the person well enough from interactions on the forum, I generally will accept requests to communicate. Though in the last 3 years, I have had requests from people who I can only figure that wanted the contact, because they believed I potentially could help them if somehow they could show that they were "friends". Hate those types of people.

 

[Al]

I'm notoriously difficult to locate.

 

[Shortie_]

Unless I give out my social media, most people can not find me from the details they know from forums.

With Facebook that tends to be personal and not something I add just anyone to so a lot of the time, I keep that pretty quiet unless I know someone well enough.

If I were to get a random friend request from someone I know on forums, it would depend on how well I know them before I choose to accept or not.

 

[Katrina]

Unless I give out my social media, most people can not find me from the details they know from forums.

With Facebook that tends to be personal and not something I add just anyone to so a lot of the time, I keep that pretty quiet unless I know someone well enough.

If I were to get a random friend request from someone I know on forums, it would depend on how well I know them before I choose to accept or not.

Someone found me because of my photo. The weird thing is that he was considered a creeper on another forum and gleaned information on people to intimidate them. When he found me, he actually asked if it was okay that he wrote to me, and I told him I wasn't afraid of him. We've been friends ever since...but not "Facebook friends" because my friends there are afraid of him. Sometimes people just need someone nice to talk to.

 

[Page]

Easy to find me even though my username is different and I also do not use my real name hahaha, but I'm not a fully personal active person anyway that would use it.

 

[Intellectual Paragon]

I stopped using Facebook some time ago because I was tired of how much information it collects about its users, so I'm not worried about this anymore.

 

[Mike30]

I really don't mind, I actually have the same username everywhere. But I rarely accept friends on Facebook nor I send friend request to people. I normally have to know them personally.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

I don't use Facebook to post personal things or share personal information.

Because of that, I added every real person requesting to be added.

I also do it to help with my job (local people adding that is). I work in an investigative environment. When conducting an investigation, social media provides a perfect opensource intel outlet. If you accept every request, it's easier to find social media information about people in an investigative scenario. 🙂

 

[Krissycakes09]

I would have to know them well enough to add them. I might add them if they have friends in common. (just depends)

Just reminded me I need to do some clean up of my fb.

 

[saoussen5765]

Facebook got rude with people who just want to waste some time with you without giving more details. For them, they have a ready perspective just to establish friendship and send unrespectful messages that could not be labeled there. There is more professional tools like google talk to establish commercial discussions.

 

[Heatman]

Unfortunately, it's going to be impossible for anyone on forum to locate any of my social media handles. This is because I don't put that information on forums. But let's assume that I have my Facebook details on a forum, I'm the one who asked for it. I wouldn't have any problems accepting their friend's request or replying their DMs.