On Improbable Facebook Friend Requests

[danieldwilliam]

Probably in celebration of International Women's Day but I've started receiving Facebook friend requests from improbably nubile young women - again.

I had a rash of these, I guess, about a year ago.

They appear in my friend request notifications, I ignore them, then they disappear - presumably once the accounts have been deleted for being not actually real people.

I'm not sure what purpose these friend requests serve. The people behind it are clearly looking for something but I can't work out what.

Comments

[danieldwilliam]

So my ignoring them is actually do the rest of my friends a favour?

[andrewducker]

Yeah - used to be that your Date of Birth could be visible to "friends of friends", I think. Might not be true now.