does it mean they just want to be 'friendly'?


does it mean they want to open up the flood gates of communication
and you are about to be hit by the tidal wave?


does it mean they are a collector and want to see how many they can get?

I don't know I never get friend request... but I do get a lot of friends with benefits request.....lol.. perhaps it's just the same... they are just dipping there toe in the water.. to see if it's safe to swim out further..lol..
. Maybe it's like High School I'm not going to actually send you a message.. but I will sit in the back of the classroom and throw wadded up. Pieces of paper at you..lol

If they've never contacted me before then to me it means:
- they're a scammer.
- they're too lazy to send an email.
- they're too jaded to send an email.
- they're too nervous, scared, or trepidatious to send an email.
- they're too stupid to know how to start a conversation.
- they're looking to shift responsibility for actual contact to me.

i.e. Nothing really positive.

It means different things. If it is from someone you don't know, it is a "collector" or someone who doesn't know what they are doing.

If if comes from someone you have interacted with off and on through the forums, it just means they want to be your friend. I have quite a few.

I have many people that I consider friends from the forums that I have either sent a friend request to or accepted one from

but they are all female


now why would that be I wonder?

see this gets kinda tricky when it's a guy

does he just want permission to start messaging me
but does not have the ballz to do it?

what if he is funny on the forum but a drag in his messages
and it all 'woes me' I had a tv dinner and sat in front of tv and now I am drinking beer and feeling sorry for myself


what if...he gets all needy and whines if I do not respond to him fast enough?

what if by friending him he gets some odd ball sense of entitlement and gets all silly and jealous if I am joking around with a guy on forums?

now I have to de-friend him

I am a bit picky
I get to know them first.
I don't accept anyone. Those who are my friends I treasure the friendship but I am not the type the stalks, you gross.
I am here if they want to chat.

What's said privately stays between us.

I see it as people showing interest in me or reaching out to me in a non threatening way

Only ones so far to contact me are girls in there 20s and never married and they are catholic all are scammers lol

What a friend request means to me is most likely on of two things:
A) It's a scam,
B) They accidentally hit something other than no.

I get a lot of them. But like Metal wing said, they don't know what they're doing or collectors. I like the people I have as friends. So I think the system works fine.

I take it as they like my comments on the forums and are just being friendly.

I really never thought about it and frankly I don't mind it too. I have full control of adding or deleting the friend list and managing people who can chat with me or not so I accept all friend request. I am a "Yes man"