Hint: This article is a bit on the funny side, and may be classified under “humour and funny stuff by Patrick Carpen.”
I know some of you out there have sent me friend requests which I haven’t yet accepted. Here’s the deal: If I don’t recognize your profile, I’m most likely not going to accept your friend request.
For example, if your Facebook name is something like “Honda Kawasaki” and your Facebook Profile Picture is a motorcyle, then chances are, I won’t know who you are or how we’re connected, so I won’t accept your Facebook Friend Request.
Sometimes, you may be using your real name and photo, but for some reason, I don’t recognize it, perhaps because it was such a long time ago that we’ve seen each other. In this case, I’m not going to accept your request because I don’t know who you are, or I can’t recognize you.
If you send me a Facebook Friend request from a profile with no photo, no mutual friends and a name I can’t recognize, then I’m not going to accept it.
Then there are cases of actual people whom I’ve known in the past but whose request I didn’t accept as yet. There are several possible reasons for this. One of the reasons is that, while we’ve met and known each other in the past, I believe there’s not a strong enough bond or mutual interest that binds us together so as to compel me to accept you as a Facebook Friend.
That being said, I’m not saying I have not accepted perfect strangers into my Facebook Account. When I first opened a Facebook Account, I was busy filling it up with perfect strangers. I presently have over 1000 persons whom I’ve never met in real life, and that’s the cap. I don’t think it’s wise to make it any worse.
Also, if your Facebook Profile is fake, I won’t accept it. I’ve got quite a few fake Facebook requests to which I haven’t yet responded. I just left there for the musing.
Related: How to recognize a Fake Facebook Profile.
And finally, if you’re someone who has screwed up really badly in the past, and you send me a Facebook friend request, I’m not going to accept it. It’s not that I’m holding grudges or I don’t forgive you, it’s like, as the saying goes, “It’s human to a make a mistake, but to make the same mistake twice is stupid.”
Given all of the above, if you’re someone whom I’ve known in the past with a genuine profile who has sent me a friend request which I have not accepted as yet, here are some tips on how to woo me into accepting your request:
- Send me an inbox to remind me of who you are and the connection between us.
- Perhaps your friend request has been burried among the hundreds of pending friend requests so I can’t see it. So once, again, hit me up with an inbox message and remind me if your friend request.
- If you’ve sent me a friend request which I haven’t responded to, that means you’re following me and can see my posts. You can go ahead and like my posts and photos, and when I see that you’re liking my posts and photos even when I didn’t accept your request, I’ll realize that you’re a genuine person, and you’ll win my heart. That way, I’ll go right over and click the “confirm” button. And trust me, this worked like a charm for quite a few people.
OK, so that being said, if by now you’re not like “dude, who the f**K are you? Go F**K yourself,” you might want to read my next article “when not to send me a Facebook Friend Request.”