What's the deal with friend requests here?

[klone]

I've been here for seven years, and have never received a friend request. Now all of a sudden, I've received four of them in the past month. I've friended everyone who has requested, because I'm generally a genial, likable person (contrary to how ornery I may appear here at times), but I'm not really sure on what purpose "friending" someone here serves?

Anyone know?

[OCNRN63, RN]

Aww, that just makes me feel all warm and tingly inside.... :redpinkhe

I'm gonna have to find myself some friends, kinda feels like Kindergarten all over again.

Dude. Tell me about it. I only have two friends. And Mom didn't even let me go to kindergarten.

[ebear, BSN, RN]

HA! How do you do the "friend" thing on here?? :cheers:

[Crux1024]

I have no "friends", but thats ok! Im not that interesting anyways.

I like reading, long walks on the beach, trying to remember what 2nd degree Type II heart block looks like, and spending loong, loong nights, reorienting the gently senile population that seem to flock to my rooms.

[leslie :-D]

HA! How do you do the "friend" thing on here?? :cheers:

you click on the poster's profile page (blue circle) and on the right, it gives you an option to "befriend".

i've sent friend requests to people who either i've known for awhile (and obviously like), and/or appreciate a person's posts/input.

it's an olive branch, if you will.

after that, i feel no further obligations.:)

leslie

[MikeyMul]

I would be happy to get a friend request on any site or forum that is not a spammer or a scammer, been getting way too many of the latter two for awhile now!

[ebear, BSN, RN]

Thanks, Leslie!:)

[AtomicWoman]

I just got my first friend request. It was from someone I never heard of, who has posted 1 time since joining today. What I don't like about the friend request feature is that I *must* accept or reject it. Why can't I click something like "ignore" and have the request go away? I don't want to be rude and outright reject friend requests, but really, I don't come to AN to socialize.

[mochamonster]

It's my understanding that if you reject them it doesn't send them a message or anything. So in that respect it is like "ignore". I may however be mistaken.

[Katie5]

I just got my first friend request. It was from someone I never heard of, who has posted 1 time since joining today. What I don't like about the friend request feature is that I *must* accept or reject it. Why can't I click something like "ignore" and have the request go away? I don't want to be rude and outright reject friend requests, but really, I don't come to AN to socialize.

One friend request? Only? and all these long talk:lol2:

[hiddencatRN, BSN, RN]

I just got my first friend request. It was from someone I never heard of, who has posted 1 time since joining today. What I don't like about the friend request feature is that I *must* accept or reject it. Why can't I click something like "ignore" and have the request go away? I don't want to be rude and outright reject friend requests, but really, I don't come to AN to socialize.

I've had two friend requests floating up on my screen for a loooooong time that I just ignore.

It's not a feature I'm really interested in either....there are posters whose screen names I recognize, folks I have had regular conversations with via pm, but what I don't like about the friends list is that it is public, so is not really just for me, but for everyone who visits my profile to see. That's a little facebook-y for my taste (and I love facebook for certain things). So, I just opt out of that feature.