Do you ever decline friend requests?

I've declined only one, but that was because the person was spamming me right off the bat in their FR message.

I accept lots of requests from women (pretty much anyone with similar goals); however, I decline all requests from men. It's not personal (and I have lots of guy friends in real life) but I just feel funny about it online for some reason. I don't think my boyfriend would even care necessarily, but I figure if I feel weird about it there's no need to do it. And I've gotten enough messages that cross the line to feel validated in my choice, honestly.

Plus, most women on my friends list have similar goals/weights/diets to my own, compared to most of the guys who request.

So, yeah. There are lots of great, supportive men here, but I get all the help I need from the ladies on my FL and none of the flirty messages, so my blanket policy stands.

I decline them all the time, because they are blank.

I accept every friend request. But I do feel free to delete liberally, especially when all I see are posts about sex.

Nope. I look at every one as someone who wants to learn or share.

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Sometimes. I recently got a friend request without a message and when I accepted, the profile was still private, so I ended up deleting the friend since I couldn't tell anything about the person.

I only auto decline the ones that don't feel the need to send a message. My profile is open, if they are sending me one I believe they should read my profile....if they read it, they would know it is what I expect.

I rarely do. I only deny if they don't give a reason for adding me, because that's on my profile, or if they're names are like ghfdjksj77777739847 because those are usually random scam accounts.

If you wear Crocs: decline

lol!

I don't mind a closed profile. But

If there is no note: decline
If a note has words but says nothing: decline
If there is some indication you just collect friends: decline
If you wear Crocs: decline
If I've heard you're bad in bed: decline

luckily for me, she accepted...take notes everyone

Yes. If I look at someone's previous posts and see that they've been mean/rude on the forums, I'll decline.

Onetime, I shared a story on the forums about how I would never use the showers in the gym because I'd witnessed some inapporpriate activity there (I don't want to get into specifics because I got a warning from the mods). Anyways, I ended up getting a friend request with a message that said "Don't you hate how [two syllable F-word]'s are everywhere!?" I declined the little hate monger. I was just sharing a funny story. Whatever. That's what the decline button is for.

My FL is large... too large for me to interact with everyone regularly. I often feel like a "bad friend" because of that. I can't spend my whole life on here, I have so much to do as it is! But I feel the pressure to be a good friend anyways. I care about my people, even if I can't be there all the time for them.

So I yes.. I decline friend requests.... I instantly decline requests with no messages. And I decline ones where the person seems to be collecting fit women... I decline ones where the person requesting already has like 500 friends... really, what value can I add anyways.

I hang on to the ones that I want to accept, but feel bad doing so because I neglect the ones I have as it is. I sometimes accept the ones who catch me with their message, or if I've gone in and cleaned out a few deactivated ones, then I will add some more in.

I hate doing it though. I hate saying, "no, we can't be friends"... and it's not because I don't want to be their friend, but more because I cannot be a very good one.

I only automatically decline if there is no message and no profile pic.

I don't get that many. If they have a message that's amusing, I'll accept usually. I decline blank ones, unless I've seen them around a lot.