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I agree with the majority of answers so far to the effect that the feature is pretty meaningless. The only C-D poster I have ever met in person is not my C-D "friend" because neither one of us has bothered to send a friend request.
The only advantage might conceivably be seeing the profile pages which are set to "friends only", but I have noticed that I am most curious to see the profiles of people whom I consider weird and with whom, naturally, I don't want to be identified as a "friend".
Why so many profiles are restricted to friends only I don't understand either, but that is really another question. I omitted from my profile any stuff that I didn't want people seeing and just left it accessible to all.
I don't see much value in it myself..... I have a few friends in my list.... LOL, whatever, I guess....
I made the mistake of accepting "friends" prior to "knowing" them.... I now don't accept friends requests unless I've interacted directly with the person and they seem as normal as someone can seem online.
I actually have been denying friend requests as of late.....
I agree with the majority of answers so far to the effect that the feature is pretty meaningless. The only C-D poster I have ever met in person is not my C-D "friend" because neither one of us has bothered to send a friend request.
The only advantage might conceivably be seeing the profile pages which are set to "friends only", but I have noticed that I am most curious to see the profiles of people whom I consider weird and with whom, naturally, I don't want to be identified as a "friend".
Why so many profiles are restricted to friends only I don't understand either, but that is really another question. I omitted from my profile any stuff that I didn't want people seeing and just left it accessible to all.
Your second paragraph answers your third, actually. There are some creepy people and stalker types out there. Some folks like to share photos, but don't want just anyone having access to them.
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I don't see much value in it myself..... I have a few friends in my list.... LOL, whatever, I guess....
I don't see much value in "friending" someone. If I get a request by someone who has several exchanges on the forum, I will friend them, but I really only DM a couple of people at any length.
I think there is more value in reading all of the opinions in the threads. Some opinions I agree with, some I don't. Some are just sort of stupid, some are well-thought out. Some folks say what they have to say, others try to beat the OP with their words. A person needs to keep what they think will work for them and disgard what won't work, but at the same time be open to try a new idea.
Whatever the discussion is, we get insight into how another person thinks, which can lead to an ah-ha moment. Or it can just be darned entertaining.
Sometimes I get friend requests. Today I got such a request from a member whose tag line is "1000 friends and counting." I have a few "friends" but so what??? Am I missing something as far as this feature, I don't get it.
As far as that individual, you are always going to find people that somehow get a charge out of having the "most" friends. It is like Facebook, there are people who love having a ton of friends just so they can say they have "this" many.
Your second paragraph answers your third, actually. There are some creepy people and stalker types out there. Some folks like to share photos, but don't want just anyone having access to them.
LOL, you know I have the love for the flora........
Your second paragraph answers your third, actually. There are some creepy people and stalker types out there. Some folks like to share photos, but don't want just anyone having access to them.
Excellent point. If I were going to post pictures of myself, I would set my profile to "friends only" for sure, and I would be very careful which friend requests I accepted.
I have a few photos of myself that only friends can see. I only accept friend requests from people I interact with regularly. I don't see the point of collecting friends on CD, but some people do the same thing on FB.
I have a few photos of myself that only friends can see. I only accept friend requests from people I interact with regularly. I don't see the point of collecting friends on CD, but some people do the same thing on FB.
I don't see the point of collecting "friends" on either CD or FB... the whole idea of collecting friends seems so friggin high school....
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