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> Do people randomly accept these requests knowing nothing about the other person than what is on their profile? Yes, most people don't have a million friends
by heavyset_go 3y ago
> Do people randomly accept these requests knowing nothing about the other person than what is on their profile?
Yes, most people don't have a million friends on social media and will take what they can get, and the age-old honeypot tactic will never not work. If an attractive person shows interest in someone, they'll probably take it.
- MiddleEndian 3y agoThat's really odd to me. My Facebook friends are people I know from real life. Every so often I get random accounts (usually attractive women in random locations with no mutual friends) trying to add me and I will report them as spammers.
- heavyset_go 3y agoI'm the same way, but the platforms incentivize the collecting of friends and have like a decade+ of gameification features to promote it.
- MiddleEndian 3y agoPerhaps Twitter or Instagram, which seem to involve people mixing their personal lives with strangers (idk never really used them), but regular Facebook doesn't seem to be used that way by anyone I know.