How long should you wait to Facebook-friend someone you met?

That’s a good question, but it’s hard to answer because everyone has different views on this. I don’t see Facebook as a place where I keep up with my friends, I see it as a place where I keep up with everyone that I meet. I usually don’t go hunting for people, but I don’t see anything wrong with people adding me several hours after we met.

Other people are much more protective. If you’re worried, give it a buffer of a day or two in any situation.

I think you should wait until you run into them again or next time you have a conversation with them. If the convo is good, and they are interested in you and it wasn’t just them being polite as a first impression, go for it. If you add them too early though it might seem a little bit desperate. When your on the computer your usually alone and that means that they’re on your mind when you go to friend them. If you only met them once it might be a little too much to add them right away. Just my opinion though, I guess it depends on the social network and how much you clicked with them.

ehh definitely not same day.. i’d give it a few days .. 4 or 5 ?

i wait for people to friend me… i only on rare ocasion friend other people. but i would say if you have talked more than once and seemed like you would want to talk and keep in touch then go for it!

i mean more like, how many times should you have met the person, rather than the duration you should wait after meeting them…

I’m not a big Facebook person but I generally only send friend requests to people I already know, either in real life or people I know from online that I’ve had long term dealings with, and even then, I mostly wait for or respond to people who send friend requests to me. I’m pretty particular about who sees my stuff though I have accepted friend requests from several people I apparently went to college with but for the life of me cannot remember at all, but when I check their friends list they are friends with the people I went to college with, so I figure I really must know them. I’m just relatively cautious when it comes to my online life. Many people aren’t and I think more people really should be.

I am so old that this is weird. You actually have a protocol on when to friend somebody? Seriously? So what would happen if yo met someone at a party on Friday and then just happened to see them again on Saturday at another party? Would you not talk to them because it was “too soon”? What is the big deal about inviting someone to your FB?

Until the end of time.

I just friend them the next day or the next time I log on.. If you meet someone casually, especially in college, you might just forget to add them. It wouldn’t weird me out if someone added me the next day; I’d just think they were doing it when their memory was still fresh. Sometimes after a long night of partying, I’ve been friended by people I don’t remember talking to.

@Sueanne_Tremendous LOL. That’s what I was thinking. I was going to start my answer with “God, this question makes me feel so incredibly middle-aged! There’s actually a formula for this stuff?”

@Sueanne_Tremendous Because when you friend them on facebook they now can see everything on your facebook. Of course one should always assume anything on the internet is out in the public domain, but unless someone is really looking to get at your info pretty much you can control who can see what. Similar to meeting someone new, and not telling them too much about you initially.

Still, I friend people pretty quickly if I like them initially. If they get strange on “the wall” I defriend or block. Which brings me to another point, sometimes it feels weirs to defriend, and so if you are more selective on the front end it avoids this.

if you add them too soon it can make you seem over eger.
its creepy?...

if you meet a guy per say and you go home that night and add him on fb he’s either going to a. feel really good about it ( that’s if things went well ) or b. kind of turned off ( that’s if your not 100% sure about how he feels).

either way your going to end up adding the person eventually. that’s just my opinion on that hypothetical situation.

I add people as soon as I meet them, for the most part – but I only add them if I think about them when I’m on the computer, and I only think about them if I hit it off pretty well with the person.

Shit, I add friends of friends that I have only talked to over the phone or met in passing.

@stemnyjones i never add people like that. i have to know the person personally. or if i have met them over the comp, but talk often.