Facebook Etiquette- Introducing Yourself To Someone

Musicman408 · #1 04-07-2010, 07:05 AM

Just had a quick question to get an opinion from fellow Ledgies.

There is this girl I've seen around campus a couple of times this semester. Her page randomly was recommended on my FB (you know how FB recommends people), because we have 42 friends in common. I was wondering if it would be polite or not to introduce myself to her via FB- a lot of our mutual friends are choir people I went to high school with and stuff, so would it really be that terribly random? What do you all think?

Hope everyone has a great day!!

Ethan

ButterCookie · #2 04-07-2010, 07:10 AM

I'd say go for it!

I've never made a friend directly through facebook, but I have through Flickr, and I suppose that's even more random than FB because I'd never met her and we had no friends in common. She's now one of my best friends

Musicman408 · #3 04-07-2010, 11:30 AM

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I'd say go for it!

I've never made a friend directly through facebook, but I have through Flickr, and I suppose that's even more random than FB because I'd never met her and we had no friends in common. She's now one of my best friends

Yeah, it's one of those things that I could almost preface as though she looked familiar, and ask where she is from- since we have a lot of common friends. Maybe if she did choir or something.

The one potentially pseudo awkward thing may be what to say when/if I run into her in person. I sometimes have this feeling after sending someone a message, e-mail or something- but I need to get over that!

ButterCookie · #4 04-07-2010, 11:34 AM

I thought I'd get the awkward thing with my friend but as soon as we saw eachother, it was like we'd known eachother all our lives

Ooh, how sappy does that sound

You'll be fine! You should add her and drop a Hi on her wall, tell her you recognised her having seen her around then ask if she goes to Choir

BTFLCHLD · #5 04-07-2010, 11:42 AM

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I thought I'd get the awkward thing with my friend but as soon as we saw eachother, it was like we'd known eachother all our lives

Ooh, how sappy does that sound

You'll be fine! You should add her and drop a Hi on her wall, tell her you recognised her having seen her around then ask if she goes to Choir

err, I wouldn't drop her a wall post just yet.

ethan, you referenced you're not sure how to preface...how about the truth. You noticed the FB recommend, the mutual friends, and that you recognize her from HS.

ButterCookie · #6 04-07-2010, 11:49 AM

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err, I wouldn't drop her a wall post just yet.

But to just add her without saying anything would just look... creepy? If someone I kinda recognise adds me, then says nothing, I go to their wall and ask who they are, either that or delete them. Call me cautious, but if he was adding me I'd want an introduction

BTFLCHLD · #7 04-07-2010, 11:51 AM

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But to just add her without saying anything would just look... creepy?

pretty sure there is the note option with the add request, no? creepy is viewing someone's page overandover and not adding...not saying ethan is doing that. but still.

Musicman408 · #8 04-07-2010, 12:03 PM

I don't know this girl from high school or anything... I had seen her around campus a couple of times, and then FB recommended her and come to find out we have.. what is it, 45 friends in common or something. I'll probably add her and just leave her a message as I'm not too fond of writing on peoples' walls. I'll just say that FB recommended her and that "she looked familiar- since we have a lot of choir friends in common, had she sung at All-State" or something along those lines. She doesn't REALLY look familiar, but it's a decent basis to start off with, and she doesn't have to know that.

She'll probably say no about the choir thing, but then we just go from there. Sound like a plan?

BTFLCHLD · #9 04-07-2010, 12:15 PM

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She doesn't REALLY look familiar, but it's a decent basis to start off with, and she doesn't have to know that.

She'll probably say no about the choir thing, but then we just go from there. Sound like a plan?

oh yes 'smore fabricated stories seems like such a great plan.

whatevs.

carrie721 · #10 04-07-2010, 12:16 PM

i wasn't expecting another one of these threads for at least another 3 or 4 weeks.

Musicman408 · #11 04-07-2010, 12:17 PM

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i wasn't expecting another one of these threads for at least another 3 or 4 weeks.

Now Carrie, I was just asking a simple question- not ranting and raving about anything.

Musicman408 · #12 04-07-2010, 12:18 PM

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oh yes 'smore fabricated stories seems like such a great plan.

whatevs.

Well it's not so much that, as seeing how she knows all of my friends.

BTFLCHLD · #13 04-07-2010, 12:25 PM

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i wasn't expecting another one of these threads for at least another 3 or 4 weeks.

probably due to the soft tissue swelling of the wrist.

carrie721 · #14 04-07-2010, 12:29 PM

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probably due to the soft tissue swelling of the wrist.

ButterCookie · #15 04-07-2010, 12:33 PM

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I don't know this girl from high school or anything... I had seen her around campus a couple of times

She doesn't REALLY look familiar, but it's a decent basis to start off with, and she doesn't have to know that.

She'll probably say no about the choir thing, but then we just go from there. Sound like a plan?

Well then... I thought you actually did recognise her. *leaves thread regretting given advice*