Why do people that I barely knew in high school and haven't talked to since, want to be my friend...

[Cant trust em]

on Facebook?

So weird.

[Shell Beau]

1. Maybe they want to reconnect or connect.

I have had people friend me that I don't even remember from high school, and I went to a VERY small school. Only 400+ from kindergarten to twelfth grade. I friended some, and then de-friended them because we aren't friends. We aren't enemies or anything, but... It is weird how some people will friend you. Some just want to have lots of friends. :shrug:

[Cant trust em]

4. I had to dig pretty deep in the memory bank to remember this person.

Maybe that's not a good sign, since I only graduated 12 years ago.

:(

[Shell Beau]

5. You're about my age then. I graudated in 1996.

[MorningGlow]

2. It is weird, isn't it?

I've got FB friends who HATED me in high school (or didn't deem me worthy to be spoken to); at first I thought they were having me on, but I've come to realize that most people have forgotten what they thought of others years ago and how they treated them. It's like everyone's starting with a clean slate or something. I still think it's odd and feel more comfortable chatting with my FB friends who were my real friends in high school.

[Blue-Jay]

3. Some people are friend collectors.

The only FB friends I accept are folks that I actually want to stay in contact with.

[kentauros]

6. That's the way it should be for anything

and a big reason why I'm not on facebook. If they really want to contact me, I'm in the phonebook. I screen my calls and will usually answer the non-toll numbers. Doesn't mean I won't hang up on them but will give them the chance for me not to do so ;)

[pitohui]

7. they want to borrow money

been there done that they're hoping to play you like a fish

[Skittles]

8. this is why I want nothing to do with Facebook

[Ptah]

9. I just sent you a friend request!

[zonkers]

13. Agree.

[Moondog]

10. Here's a cynical possibility -

you were a late bloomer. You're hot now when you weren't so much before, and now people want to know you who didn't know you were alive before. It's been known to happen ....

[Maiden England]

11. I've contacted people from school long ago - here's why...

I'm the kind of person that occasionally likes to wonder how people I used to know are doing. Hope they are doing well, etc. Not that we were ever close, or would want to talk, or anything. Facebook is perfect for that. You only post the information you don't mind sharing, I don't have to contact you, unless I want to, and to be honest its really nice when you get a comment from someone from way back saying your kids are cute or congrats on whatever. Why not give a shit about your fellow human especially ones that have crossed paths with you in the past. I also have friends I've reconnected with that I was close to, and friends I see every day. Heck I've also got a bunch of friends from Mafia Wars, some of whom I've started to get to know through the game. Its whatever you want it to be.

[Cant trust em]

17. I'd be willing to bet that Carolyn Arendes never gave me a thought before she saw my name

on someone else's friend list. I just consider that to be a whole other life ago.

[Dangerously Amused]

12. Aren't some of those invites automatic?

Like, everyone who is on fb who went to your high school and graduated in your class gets a friend request from you unless you set it to be otherwise in your preferences? Maybe that's what is happening.

[I Have A Dream]

14. I've not had that happen.

I've had suggestions for friends, but they're not official requests. Maybe there's something else though.

[XemaSab]

15. I had a weird thing happen a few minutes ago

I friended a friend from Santa Barbara.

The friend has a brother in Washington state.

The brother has a friend I used to know 14 years ago in Sacramento.

Odd. :shrug:

[LynzM]

16. Small world, isn't it?

I've had a couple things like that happen, in real life and online...

[hippywife]

18. Maybe they would either

like to take the opportunity to know you better, or maybe even make amends for feeling that they had slighted or ignored you way back then. Maybe they've changed and grown, and are hoping you have done the same.

I'm sure that doesn't include everyone who requests an invite, but I would say that withholding contact from them based on the criteria of barely knowing them way back then says more about you than them.

You might even be surprised at the new friendships that might grow out of the experience. You'll never know unless you give them the opportunity.

I think what's weird is not to even give them that opportunity and reject them out of hand.

[Cant trust em]

23. I'm sure that it does say something about me.

I'm a person who keeps to himself and doesn't need to make friends for the sake of making friends.

It says that I have no nostalgia for meaningless past experiences.

[Frank Cannon]

19. They want to sell you stuff, or they want you to join their church

The ones that get me are the people with whom I was not only NOT friends, but we were pretty much enemies.

[DarkTirade]

20. Yeah, there's one who has sent two friend requests.

Nothing personal, he's not a bad guy... but A) I have nothing in common with him other than a few classes we had together in high school, and B) he's got to be one of the dumbest non-republicans I've ever met. And since I haven't talked to him in 10 years, he might have gone republican since then, so I guess he might be just one of the dumbest people I've met. :P

[Jeep789]

21. Got me. Then again, I'm still trying to figure out why people

want Facebook accounts.

[BreweryYardRat]

22. Got you beat.

I've been pestered by people from MIDDLE SCHOOL.