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It's quite a fascinating feature. I can quite happily sit there passing the time for ten or twenty minutes looking at what friends Facebook suggests I add. If I was more of a friends whore I'm sure I'd add a lot of them, but it does seem to suggest a lot of people I know or know of so it's pretty useful.

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Most of the people I'm getting at the moment are people I tolerated at school and I never want to see again.

Haha, yeah same. It's like: "Look, you made my life a complete and utter misery at school, now why the heck would I want to add you on here?"

Alouette...deployer les ailes;

Alouette...plumerai les ailes.

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Most of the people I'm getting at the moment are people I tolerated at school and I never want to see again.

It's sometimes quite pleasing to add the low lifes and say 'hey, I'm more successful than you now'.

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Most of the people I'm getting at the moment are people I tolerated at school and I never want to see again.

Yes, exactly.

Now some of them are wanting to add me.

If I still consider someone a friend I would have remembered to add them. It is perhaps only useful for people on my course who I haven't yet added through oversight. Nearly all the people it comes up with are from school though.

'Forget happiness I'm fine, I'll forget everything in time'

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Some person who made 3 years of my school life a living hell decided to add me on Facebook a few weeks back. Strangely enough, I declined.

Seriously, I have no idea what he was thinking. That I'd be happy to see him? I hate him!

This girl 2 years below me at school tried to add me. Her Bebo page (no I don't use Bebo any more) used to read 'I like everyone except Lucinda, she's a b*tch' - I don't think I ever did anything to her. I don't really care what she thinks. She tried to add me on Facebook something like 5 times in 2 weeks before I blocked her and now she can't see me at all thankfully. I'll be happy to see her again.

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What is it with these people? They obviously have no real understanding or empathy for what they put people through. :cry:

I know. If it was the other way round, I wouldn't bother adding the people that I terrorised.

Alouette...deployer les ailes;

Alouette...plumerai les ailes.

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I have some family members lurking round facebook and bebo now and they are people I don't want to know anything about my life.

I can now understand why Scott finds these sites quite invasive, not had that feeling before and I don't like it :cry:

I agree, I had a facebook under my own name but it was impossible to avoid people I didn't want to talk to without causing offence. The great thing about MySpace is you can call yourself anything and you don't even have to give MySpace your name (though I notice they've started asking for it every time I log in now).

Of course it is possible to create an email address just for facebook and use a slightly altered version of your name. What really annoys me is you can't do people's quizzes and so on without adding applications which then don't work unless you pester friends to take them too. :x

UM is a nice place

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What really annoys me is you can't do people's quizzes and so on without adding applications which then don't work unless you pester friends to take them too. :x

Ditto! And then sometimes, you'll click on the wrong link and end up getting vouchers for Asda instead of your results.

Alouette...deployer les ailes;

Alouette...plumerai les ailes.

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Most of the people I'm getting at the moment are people I tolerated at school and I never want to see again.

I get that as well... but then when I turn them down they just keep on trying to add me. At least you can actually block people now though.

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What really annoys me is you can't do people's quizzes and so on without adding applications which then don't work unless you pester friends to take them too.

That's the main reason I abandoned FB I dread to think how many bloody app requests I now have.

Ditto! And then sometimes, you'll click on the wrong link and end up getting vouchers for Asda instead of your results.

*Taps back pocket* There's a credit crunch on ya know

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That's the main reason I abandoned FB I dread to think how many bloody app requests I now have.

You can block applications and block certain people sending you applications. Has cut it down considerably for me.

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It seems like Facebook, MySpace etc. have redefined the word 'friend'. It's sad. My friends are important to me and it seems to cheapen the concept to just anyone I vaguely know, or perhaps don't even know or like at all.

'Forget happiness I'm fine, I'll forget everything in time'

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It seems like Facebook, MySpace etc. have redefined the word 'friend'. It's sad. My friends are important to me and it seems to cheapen the concept to just anyone I vaguely know, or perhaps don't even know or like at all.

Hence why I don't add people I don't know/like.

Getting all nostalgic about going to uni, I want to stay in touch with all my friends, considering they're on the other side of the country to me, facebook is a good way to do that.

But you do get "friend collectors"... Can't help that much though.

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They've gone and added "Facebook Chat" now. I foresee more offices banning Facebook now.

Oh dear oh dear. Gmail chat is bad enough, people talking at me when I'm just trying to check my email.

Facebook want to take over the world. They are removing the need for email, instant messaging and all other forms of communication really. I'm not sure I like it.

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I hate the friends you may know section. There are a lot of people on there I know, but for a good reason, are not present on my "friends" list!

Fair enough... But if you've just joined facebook it'll probably help with the sifting through all the people you know.

It got really awkward once when 3 exs of mine were all together in that list.

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