Fo' realz.
I have IRL friends as Facebook friends, a couple coworkers, and a few random "what the heck happened to" people as friends, but over all, I rarely get any "friend" requests.
And here is where I over think it waaaay to much.
I'll scroll through a few people's friends and say:
Hey, I know them...we were cool back in the day....why haven't they asked me to be their friend?
Do they not want to be my friend?
Were we not really friends before?
Do they even remember me?
Or are they waiting for me to friend them because they don't think I remember them?
Maybe they just don't care and I thought we were tighter then we were.
And then I log off.
This is sad. I've heard of Social Anxiety, but Social Network Anxiety? Really?
Re: I am a Facebook Loser
LOL. you have SNAD. it's very common.
i had it, until my friend decided to contact everyone she knew (thank god she didn't have my exes on there) and 'suggest' me.
want me to 'suggest' you? heh heh heh
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I don't like getting rejected. It makes me sad. Not like a lot is riding on it, but I wonder why I'm the asker and not the askee (?). Yet I am incredibly nosy so I want to know.
But do I first invite people I know now, and then work my way up to people I haven't talked to? Sort of like, "Hey, now that I have my IRL friend base, I will work my way into the people I haven't spoken to in 20 years!" Way to over think it, I know.
You can suggest people? Yowza. I really am not up on this.
My SNAD is so bad I couldn't even make a Facebook profile
Quite a few of my IRL friends were on Myspace so when everyone stopped using that I got bored and I thought I'd check out Facebook. It turned out that only one or two of my IRL friends were on and I'm too nervous to send friend requests to people I don't know well or haven't talked to in years. So I never made a profile so that no one would know I don't have any internet friends 