LJ curiosity

[bladespark]

When someobdy you don't know adds you to their friends list, what do you do?

Do you:
1. Ignore them.
2. Read some of their journal, and friend them back if they look okay.
3. Friend them back automatically regardless.
4. Friend them back automatically unless they're somebody you already know of and don't like.
5. Ask them why they friended you, and then friend or not accordingly
6. Something else entirely.

For the sake of completeness and honesty, I shall say that I used to do #3. My journal was 100% friends only at one point to avoid two or three specific individuals, so unless you did something that upset me so badly I never wanted to speak to you again, I'd automatically add you, no matter who you were, because I'm pretty open about most of what I post, and I don't care who sees it.

Now, however, I tend to do #2. Mostly because my friends page was becoming a nightmare that I wasn't keeping up with properly. It's still pretty scary, but manageable, and I do at least skim everything my friends post, and read almost everything in detail. And as I post 90% of my content publicly, I don't feel I'm shutting anybody out by failing to friend them, they're still free to read my stuff and comment on it, so I only add to the list if they look like somebody very interesting.

I sometimes feel weird not friending people I know are perfectly nice, but.... dunno. They're nice, but they tend to lj about stuff I don't care about, is generally what it is.

Anyhow, answer me! What do you do?

Comments

[coyoty.livejournal.com]

If I recognize the name and know they're okay, I'll friend them back, otherwise 2.