Adding "friends". Without permission?

Questionable.
So, it would be wise not to look like a loner. I could add just anybody as my friend. Right?
Tell me, who's the coolest? I only want to be friends with the coolest.

Three people have added me as their friend without my consent. This makes me angry. Very angry. Angry enough to spam the boards about getting friends added without consent.

MisterSatan is the coolest but he's not even my 'friend' and I've put blood, sweat and tears into this place n00b...if he 'friend's you before me then I'll get medieval on your ass...I swear...

Yes, you can add just anybody. But I think it'd be better (and less creepy) to have few friends than a bunch who don't know you. Try interacting with people a bit (read and comment on their journals, participate in a thread, etc).

I don't think of the friends list as a "who's cooler than who" list - it's a way to stay in touch with friends on the site. The friends list enables you to use one of the site's cooler features, the "friend's journals" feature.

trilo

i like it when people ad me

but it's a little weird when people who've never even left a comment in my journal show up on my 'friends of' list... if you like me *that* much say hi damn it!

Totally, freckle. Add me as a friend, fine. But fucking say hi, so I know!

And I also do the same thing as Lacey.

I just find it creepy when I go say hi to people who've added me without so much as a hello and they don't even respond to that. Jeez!

consider that a challenge, kid. no doubt mister satan loves to intimidate people. i will become his favorite person to intimidate.

no friends? what a looser!!!! only dorks have no one on thier friends list.

just kidding. i don't either.

All I know is that if you start your conversations with: "have you ever noticed that when you take a really solid shit you only have to wipe you butt-hole, but if you have a really juicy shit you have to wipe the entire inside of you butt-cheeks?"
Nobody will add you as a friend. Counter-intutitive I know, but that is how it works on this site for some reason.

but lacey, you're a cute girl, so you get to do that sort of thing. i'm not trying to be stalkeresque. ...hmm. but perhaps if i get a "who the fuck are you?" i could wiggle my way into winning their affection. i'll tell them it was my pet lion. and perhaps it was.

um. wait a minute! where the fuck did lion go?!

when i take a solid shit i don't have to wipe at all

Now I'm relatively new here, but I've already decided that it would be in my best interest to only add friends after I've actually talked to them. If you're soliciting my advice that's what I'd suggest to you.

Rich_Valco: Yes, sir. thank you for your seriousness. come on! i didn't really ask for anyone's advice.. i just said <b>tell me who's the coolest! i only want to be friends with the coolest!</b>

i added a bunch of people as my friends whose journals i want to read, but that i don't talk to on the site ever because i'm too lazy/busy. i hope they don't think i'm a creepy weirdo.

Oh, in that case the choice is simple: Me.

Just kidding, I'm a fucking loser.

Same here. I never thought it creepy, nor do I care. It is a matter of convenience, that is all.

i've got all kinds of people on my friend of list that i don't know. it used to really bother me, especially since my journal isn't all that exciting that they would want to read it.
i don't care anymore. it's kind of cute.

edited because i do not know how to spell...


[Edited on Nov 16, 2003 by ava]

I've added people as friends before saying anything to them because I found them or their journals interesting and didn't feel like constantly doing a search for them on hookup. If I can't think of anything interesting/witty/helpful to say in someone's journal, I won't.

djk29a, I added you because I found your profile interesting and a few of your diary entries interesting from a technical standpoint - was not trying to schmooze you and did not want a vein to stick out of your forehead.

I didn't think there was anything wrong with adding these people as friends, because I'm not about to start stalking anybody. Except for seanbaby.

Ditto, except for the fact that I am a creepy weirdo.

i'm on blacksea's list and we have never talked. now that i know he is a creepy weirdo i'm scared.... =/

I don't mind if people add me without knowing me. I figure they want to read my journal for some reason. I do the same thing once in a while. Actually, I think all but one person are actually people I DO talk to, but I found a journal I just like to read, so I added her. I think of my list more of a place to bookmark journals, not some delcaration that I feel a certain way about the people on it.

i think the whole concept is rather stupid, so i never bothered with it. but people have added me as a friend without mentioning anything about it- which is fine by me. whatevs.