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[ SECRET POST #2806 ]

⌈ Secret Post #2806 ⌋

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[Five Nights at Freddy's]

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[Star Trek, MCU, Batman Begins]

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[Twilight Saga]

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[Xenosaga]

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[Doctor Who]

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[Great British Bake Off]

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[Law & Order: Criminal Intent]

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[Minecraft]

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[Macklemore]

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So, F!S, I have a question for you: on whatever social media platforms you use, are you a friender/follower, or do you wait to be friended/followed? And if you are a friender/follower, how long do you have know someone before you connect with them? I'm asking because a friend (who is quite popular) recently told me she has a blanket 'never friend anyone first' policy on facebook, and it made me think about whether other people approach this kind of thing strategically.

If you don't use social media at all, feel free to post pictures of cats.

Don't really do social media. I read some blogs, but I don't post my own content. Twitter seems to be the most self-important, narcissistic platform of them all. Especially when used in conjunction with instagram.

There are a few people who are interesting to read occasionally (Commander Hadfield, NASA), or make me laugh (Shatner), but other than that, meh.

It depends.

On Facebook, I have two different lists. Because I have a lot of friends who I just play games with. Because Facebook games require lots of friends playing. But I have my close friends list that only includes people I know well.

On Twitter, I only follow a couple of accounts that I find interesting. I don't follow individual people.

If someone friends me and I know them, I'll most likely friend them back.

On facebook, I rarely reach out to friend people we've hung out/talk consistently and I like them, but I'll accept requests from anyone I vaguely know if they request me unless I hate their guts.

On FB, I never friend anyone myself. (Except when I started the acc and added some family/relatives.)

On twitter/tumblr, I follow a lot of people. I follow them because I like what they post/reblog/tweet about or they have the same interests/canons/ships/etc as me and want to see it on my TL/Dash. I don't go "connecting" with people or talking to them first though. I'm just really shy so I just talk to myself and watch my dash/tl.

Same, except I no longer use facebook and when I did I never friended a lot of people. I kept it pretty private and only talked to a couple people I was close to in fandom and IRL.

On tumblr I follow whoever has stuff I want to see on my dash and don't mind if they don't follow me back. I don't do discussion well on tumblr though (as well as being shy about asks), so I mostly only comment if someone reaches out.

Same. And really, I'm on Twitter to follow J-rockers because it's pretty popular with them as a way to keep in touch with people/fans. >.>;;

I friend people I have met irl. I don't friend anyone else UNLESS it's a mutual add.

I usually don't friend back for people I don't know. I just think it's kind of stupid since I'm almost guaranteed to never talk to them.

Facebook: interact with people I used to interact with on LJ, plus family.

Twitter: interact with people I used to interact with on LJ, plus follow a few celebrity/public accounts (like the one for the Mars Rover).

Tumblr: I run a fandom-related blog and only post/reblog content related to that fandom, but I follow a wider variety of blogs, and some friends. I have a personal Tumblr too, but I keep forgetting about it.

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With all of these, I honestly have no recollection of who friended who first when it comes to friends and family.

No blanket policy, but I don't friend unless I'm interested in maintaining some kind of relationship and I don't accept unless we've had a face to face conversation.

FB is for a few friends and family members only. Occasionally I'll get a random cousin here and there that finds me, I'll either ignore it or say ok since my brother friended them, maybe I will too. Note: I primarily use FB just for lurking and catching up on how my brother is doing. I don't actively look for anyone to friend since it's far more personal for me.

When I first signed into FB (at the persistence of my best friend) I had classmates from nearly 10 years prior wanted to be my 'friend'. And I'm like, I didn't know you in high school, why would I friend you now? I ignored a ton of friends requests and now rarely get them. I am happy with that.

I use twitter but primarily as a lurker with the occasional random tweet or gee if I tweet this maybe I'll win that blender. I follow more people than who follows me, and I'm fine with that. Usually food blogs or news. I'm trying got find local ones too. The ones that follow me are just those that want a high number of followers. I see through their game.

Pinterest is the one platform I still don't understand. Tons of pins from people and you see duplicates because other people have pinned them too. I get more followers on that one even though I don't pin that often. If I'm going to pin a recipe I want it to be one that I've actually made rather than wishful thinking. (Note, that doesn't always happen, the actually made part.) Those that follow I'll check them out and see if they are legitimate or just some random spam person.

So since I sort of use social media but nowhere near to the extent of others, here is link to some cat stuff: http://www.pleated-jeans.com/2014/09/08/cat-owners-will-understand-21-pics/

I think that is a weird question, but then I think your friend has a weird stance on it. And it kinda sounds like it's a way to stroke her ego. :/

I friend people if I want to. Sometimes they friend me first. I've never actually thought about this. :|a

I'm a friender/followerb, though on Facebook it sort of goes both ways.

And it depends on the medium. On FB I only add people I've met in real life, on things like tumblr I just follow blogs with content I like.

I really don't have a set policy. If I find someone interesting I'm happy to follow them first, if I get followed first and then find them interesting I'm happy to follow back, and if I get followed by someone I don't know at all and/or don't find interesting, I'm happy to just have a bit more attention. :P

Unless I really know the person IRL, I never add anyone as a friend, I feel like I personally am being a bit presumptuous if I do.

I rarely friend someone first. At the beginning, I friended a handful. Since then, about three years, I get friends' request nearly every time I tag my more popular brother or I comment on a co-worker's post, and I only accept about a third of those requests. In three years, I've only sent one friend request out.

It's not a strategy I'm employing tho, I'm just a very passive person. I've always waited for the other person to make the first move. And most times, I never wanted to know anyone well enough to go out of my way and friend them.

On FB my friends are only my family and close friends so I don't follow anyone that I don't know or have never met and I typically don't follow people first.

On tumblr though I just follow whoever really, if their blog has stuff I like on it I'll follow them and I'm not fussed about them following me first or whatever.

I have two fbs--one under my birth name that is mostly family, close friends and a few folks from HS. Usually others friend me first, simply cuts I'm not on fb a lot. My other fb, which is under my current legal name is work people only. It exists because I was too dumb to lie to my principal when she asked if I had fb. I do not want her on my other fb.

On Tumblr, I have more who follow me than I follow. I try to keep the number of blogs I follow under 100. That said, I will follow some one if they post interesting stuff.

On twitter, I mostly follow celebs and online folk.

In any of my social media, I won't knowingly follow anyone under 18. I work in education and while the chances of someonebeing a student of mine is quite low--it just doesn't feel right to follow younger kids.

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