Meep.

[des_pudels_kern]

I have been friended by a Russian person who has 349 friends, 14 journal entries, and is in no community. Why? Seriously, what's the point? If there's a reason you friended me, suspected troll, I apologize, though it would have been nice to drop me a comment and let me know. If you are indeed a troll, wtf? Do you have nothing better to do with your

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[tootsiemuppet]

I keep getting friended by people whose LJs look perfectly normal, but I don't know them from anywhere. O___o It's disturbing. Who are they?

[des_pudels_kern]

Mh, do you have any old friends who disappeared? Maybe it's them, in witness protection.

[tootsiemuppet]

Not that I'm aware of. If it is that then they should send me a note. :P

[des_pudels_kern]

But that might break their incognito and endanger their lives!

[ylla]

I've had random people friending me on and off, occasionally - sometimes they're country dancers, or language people, but I still can't believe I'm actually interesting to them. They never comment, anyway :)

[des_pudels_kern]

*still creeped*

[ylla]

By me? I just read you occasionally without friending you :P

I sometimes get a bit worried about specific people I know are reading, but not so much by all the random people who could be (since I tend not to f-lock anything, or write anything I feel I would need to)

*hugs anyway*

[des_pudels_kern]

You are an AoSler, not a troll.

Hug! :D

[sharpiefan]

People who randomly friend me, don't comment and share none of my interests don't get friended back.

I think that's one of the main reasons I went friends-only. Though you still get random idiots who don't say anything, even when the only open post is 'Please comment to say how you found me'

[des_pudels_kern]

Most of my posts are flocked, but I hesitate to lock everything, because I imagine someone who is thinking about friending me might need those entries to figure out what kind of a person I am; after all, I have no interests listed.

But friending back? Bwahahahaha! So not friending someone who doesn't talk to me.

[sharpiefan]

I check out folks' profiles. Chances are I've seen them on perfect_duet, or anything_aos or somewhere anyway. Folks I recognise are much more likely to get friended back. Folks I don't know, who don't comment haven't got a snowball's chance in Hell.

And if you want to friend ylla, she's on my flist, and she doesn't bite. Honest. :D

[des_pudels_kern]

I already have friended her. :) After she commented on my unlocked drabble meme squee post. And having seen her around and ergo knowing she's a real person.

[niciasus]

I hope this user isn't of the XXX persuasion. The type used to friend me and I would get royally pissed off. :-)

[des_pudels_kern]

I have no idea what the 14 entries say, as they are in Russian.

[grace_poppy]

That happens to me a lot too. Often by the time I decide to look at their profile, they've already deleted their account (or have been kicked off of LJ, who knows). Or I'll see that they've also added 500 other friends and have only been friended back by two of them. I don't know why they do it, but I guess they do just go trawling for friends.

I've seen people do that to communities too, and it's irritating to see their personal advertisements popping up all over one's flist just because one is watching those comms. They usually get kicked out of them too. For a while one guy was posting multiple long "articles" about how awesome his own artwork was in several of the museum-professionals comms I was in. It was highly irritating. (And his artwork wasn't that bad, but the heavy self-promotion made it seem like crap. Some of it was crap, but some of it showed real talent. But talent without taste or tact.)

[des_pudels_kern]

Still there. *sigh* Someone also keeps friending and defriending my fic journal, no single post or comment, looks like a bot to me, and I've reported it, but LJ hasn't done anything. ): About every two months I get another notify that dnimetp has friended me.