Poll: Escapist 'friends'

Recommended Videos

Joe Matsuda

New member
Aug 24, 2009
693
0
0
Lizmichi said:
Joe Matsuda said:
Lizmichi said:
Joe Matsuda said:
Lizmichi said:
Joe Matsuda said:
Lizmichi said:
Joe Matsuda said:
Lizmichi said:
Joe Matsuda said:
Lizmichi said:
Joe Matsuda said:
huh....no one has requested to be my friend....

i mean sure, Booster Gold is my avatar.....but....but...

*starts to sob*
Awww *pat pat* There happy..... umm 22nd of December. XD
*wipes tears* thanks...but i was only sobbing cause i remebered how Booster only has one speaking role in Justice League: Unlimited
Well to hell with that. Psh now you tell me. Ne I'm just kidding. lol I don't mind getting to know people. I'm not that much of a *****.... today.
(haha, i fooled everyone into believing i wasnt crying due to a lack of online stranger friends.....wait, why am i typing this?...crap, the jig is up! run!!!)
If you run you die tired.
oh noes, you know my one and only weakness: not being able to run very far without getting tired!....well that and bullets...knifes....blunt objects....fire......normal human weaknesses really...hell, just throw a pen at me and i'll probably be defeated....
Meh I won''t kill you. The last person I killed.. Oh crap shh I didn't say that. i mean no I don't have an ex boy friend in my back yard. Nope not at all.
psshhh...yeah...and im not wanted in several states for 1st degree murder.......(im not....its only manslaughter)
*backs away some* ummm that's not disturbing at all.
well im not the one who has a dead bodie in the backyard......oh wait, there is that one guy....but he was here when i bought the place
Shhh I said he wasn't there. Beside I was kidding my ex is still alive and I have no reason to kill him that I know of.
whatever helps yourself sleep at night...*caugh*murderer
 

Lizmichi

Detective Prince
Jul 2, 2009
4,809
0
0
Joe Matsuda said:
Lizmichi said:
Joe Matsuda said:
Lizmichi said:
Joe Matsuda said:
Lizmichi said:
Joe Matsuda said:
Lizmichi said:
Joe Matsuda said:
Lizmichi said:
Joe Matsuda said:
Lizmichi said:
Joe Matsuda said:
huh....no one has requested to be my friend....

i mean sure, Booster Gold is my avatar.....but....but...

*starts to sob*
Awww *pat pat* There happy..... umm 22nd of December. XD
*wipes tears* thanks...but i was only sobbing cause i remebered how Booster only has one speaking role in Justice League: Unlimited
Well to hell with that. Psh now you tell me. Ne I'm just kidding. lol I don't mind getting to know people. I'm not that much of a *****.... today.
(haha, i fooled everyone into believing i wasnt crying due to a lack of online stranger friends.....wait, why am i typing this?...crap, the jig is up! run!!!)
If you run you die tired.
oh noes, you know my one and only weakness: not being able to run very far without getting tired!....well that and bullets...knifes....blunt objects....fire......normal human weaknesses really...hell, just throw a pen at me and i'll probably be defeated....
Meh I won''t kill you. The last person I killed.. Oh crap shh I didn't say that. i mean no I don't have an ex boy friend in my back yard. Nope not at all.
psshhh...yeah...and im not wanted in several states for 1st degree murder.......(im not....its only manslaughter)
*backs away some* ummm that's not disturbing at all.
well im not the one who has a dead bodie in the backyard......oh wait, there is that one guy....but he was here when i bought the place
Shhh I said he wasn't there. Beside I was kidding my ex is still alive and I have no reason to kill him that I know of.
whatever helps yourself sleep at night...*caugh*murderer
Yea if that's the case then do you want to piss off the killer?
 

Mr.Pandah

Pandah Extremist
Jul 20, 2008
3,967
0
0
hURR dURR dERP said:
I haven't been a member of The Escapist for a terribly long time, but ever since I started to be a bit more active on the forums, I've been recieving friend requests from complete strangers.

Now, normally I don't mind friend requests. There are a number of people I never even met in real life but who I still consider to be my friends. It's one of the coolest things about the internet, if you ask me. It's for this reason that I pretty much always accept those friend requests and add them to my friendlist as well.

But out of all the friend requests I've had on The Escapist, only one of them even bothered to send a message to talk to me about why they wanted to be my friend, and even that one only sent me one line of text and has never contacted me ever since. That's hardly what I call 'friendly'. I get the feeling that most of the people friending me only do so to get the 'X friends added' badge, which is pretty damn sad.

I haven't sent any friend requests myself because I don't feel I know anyone on this board well enough to call my friend, but if I did I'd at least send them a message explaining to them why I'd like to be their friend, and if they were interesting enough for me to want to befriend I'd certainly not add them to the list only to completely ignore them afterwards.

What's your opinion on this curious behaviour, forumites?
I made a topic about this as well a long time ago, probably just around this time about a year ago.

I said the same thing, but I don't usually accept the friend requests. The way I look at it, people enjoy what I wrote, and would like to keep track of other posts that I make. That, or they're just looking to boost their friend list. Only two people have actually messaged me, and everyone that I have friended, I've messaged at least once explaining why I sent them the request.

Then again though, I haven't gotten many recently, so I take it I'm not terribly popular on here.
 

Altorin

Jack of No Trades
May 16, 2008
6,976
0
0
the friends system on the Escapist are more like a positive Karma system. The more friends you have, the longer you have been doing things that people like.

that's actually how I prefer friends lists to be. I don't need every person I friended to talk to me, and I don't want to talk to them necessarily.

There are a few exceptions, but they're few.

If you don't like it, don't accept them.. It's not meant as an insult, more of a nod.
 

Inco

Swarm Agent
Sep 12, 2008
1,117
0
0
I get or send requests to members of the forums who i deem to be personally worthy of it.
Or i met them at one of the two Escapisms i have been to.
Which is an instant request, when i am bothered to do it.
 

Ghonzor

New member
Jul 29, 2009
958
0
0
HUBILUB said:
I usually get friend requests when I post a funny reply to someone and they like me for it.

Soon I will befriend the world with my awesomeness!
Pretty much this.
My avatar has attracted someone who thought I was someone else as well.
It was an odd moment for both of us.
 

Kollega

New member
Jun 5, 2009
5,161
0
0
Oftentimes, i feel pretty damn confused. Always ask why. And i always explain to someone why i want to be their friend.
 

aruseusx

New member
Apr 22, 2009
864
0
0
Vanguard_Ex said:
I tend to get friend requests after little exchanges in the forums and stuff, OR if I make an occasional but particularly epic post.
Ditto.
 

Optimus Hagrid

New member
Feb 14, 2009
2,075
0
0
lewism247 said:
What's wrong with being Scottish hmmmm?
Dahni said:
what did them being scottish have to do with anything D:
It's not that they were Scottish, it's that they were Scottish and twelve. I found their voices unbearable.

Any squeaky regional accent will irritate me, but it just so happened the three twelve year olds that were on my friends list happened to be Scottish :p
 

Inverse Skies

New member
Feb 3, 2009
3,630
0
0
I've found that originally I added people as friends simply because we had similar interests or something else in common, but now I've grown largely apathatic towards the idea. Interestingly, it mirrors my behaviour on Facebook, where I originally did seek out people I knew to add as friends and now don't care at all (there is one exception to my usual lack of friend adding... it's not hard to figure out either). Similar here, people sometimes add me and I always add them back, but I don't actively seek to add friends.
 

Samurai Goomba

New member
Oct 7, 2008
3,679
0
0
I usually only add people back. There are quite a few people I like on The Escapist who I do not consider "friends." If they add me at some point, I'll probably add them back. Otherwise, meh.

I've only added three people before they added me.
 

lewism247

New member
Aug 1, 2009
1,137
0
0
OptimusHagrid said:
lewism247 said:
What's wrong with being Scottish hmmmm?
Dahni said:
what did them being scottish have to do with anything D:
It's not that they were Scottish, it's that they were Scottish and twelve. I found their voices unbearable.

Any squeaky regional accent will irritate me, but it just so happened the three twelve year olds that were on my friends list happened to be Scottish :p
That's alright then!

If you hated Scots i would have been sad and ANGRY
 

Joe Matsuda

New member
Aug 24, 2009
693
0
0
Lizmichi said:
Joe Matsuda said:
Lizmichi said:
Joe Matsuda said:
Lizmichi said:
Joe Matsuda said:
Lizmichi said:
Joe Matsuda said:
Lizmichi said:
Joe Matsuda said:
Lizmichi said:
Joe Matsuda said:
Lizmichi said:
Joe Matsuda said:
huh....no one has requested to be my friend....

i mean sure, Booster Gold is my avatar.....but....but...

*starts to sob*
Awww *pat pat* There happy..... umm 22nd of December. XD
*wipes tears* thanks...but i was only sobbing cause i remebered how Booster only has one speaking role in Justice League: Unlimited
Well to hell with that. Psh now you tell me. Ne I'm just kidding. lol I don't mind getting to know people. I'm not that much of a *****.... today.
(haha, i fooled everyone into believing i wasnt crying due to a lack of online stranger friends.....wait, why am i typing this?...crap, the jig is up! run!!!)
If you run you die tired.
oh noes, you know my one and only weakness: not being able to run very far without getting tired!....well that and bullets...knifes....blunt objects....fire......normal human weaknesses really...hell, just throw a pen at me and i'll probably be defeated....
Meh I won''t kill you. The last person I killed.. Oh crap shh I didn't say that. i mean no I don't have an ex boy friend in my back yard. Nope not at all.
psshhh...yeah...and im not wanted in several states for 1st degree murder.......(im not....its only manslaughter)
*backs away some* ummm that's not disturbing at all.
well im not the one who has a dead bodie in the backyard......oh wait, there is that one guy....but he was here when i bought the place
Shhh I said he wasn't there. Beside I was kidding my ex is still alive and I have no reason to kill him that I know of.
whatever helps yourself sleep at night...*caugh*murderer
Yea if that's the case then do you want to piss off the killer?
sorry....me talking about sleep made me fall asleep....and no...i guess i dont want to piss off the murder....lets just say that you and i may or may not be (but lets just say "not be") murderers... and quietly leave before someoen calls the police....
 

Andalusa

Mad Cat Lady
Feb 25, 2008
2,734
0
0
They're quite cool. It's how I got most of my friends on the 'Pist, and some of them turned out to be really awesome friendships. I talk to a lot of them on Twitter, and found that they were interesting people who I actually, genuinely like.
 

lewism247

New member
Aug 1, 2009
1,137
0
0
OptimusHagrid said:
lewism247 said:
That's alright then!

If you hated Scots i would have been sad and ANGRY
I don't hate anyone, discrimination is for sillies
and Americans

Nah i'm just messing with you Americans

Don't want to piss of the people with all the guns do we...