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I have a question: say I use facebook as I do every other web service that employs a built-in serach engine, and I waste 25 minutes of my life digging myself deeper into the hole. I come across an interesting person's portfolio and decide to add him as a "friend /contact" to be kept abreast of their updates. Now, I don't know this guy from Bing, and perhaps he or she doesn't even speak English, (or Portuguese, Spanish, broken Japanese, and backwards French, etc.) what additional access am I granted to see, would you think, now that he or she has seen me add them a friend? Do they automatically add me as a friend as well just to see their "popularity counter" increase? Would they ask who I am? If they don't add me as a friend, am I just left to look at their name and profile picture and five random "real friends" of theirs behind a virtual plate-glass window, until, if ever, they consider me a facebook friend?
-- (I'm not very good at meeting new people. I like to study them first, then say 'hello'.)
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