Can Friend Requests Exist in the Real World?

[data6000]

An interesting student project documentation. Why can't we have friend requests (http://digg.com/educational/Real_World_Friend_Requests) in RL?

[topperharley]

Why can't we have friend requests (http://digg.com/educational/Real_World_Friend_Requests) in RL?

Because the system would crash from all of the guys sending Megan Fox a friend request. :p

[estemshorn]

Why can't we have friend requests (http://digg.com/educational/Real_World_Friend_Requests) in RL?

because in real life it's not like that. you don't just ask someone to be your friend and then you guys are friends. you have to develop a friendship.

[Daemius]

An interesting student project documentation. Why can't we have friend requests (http://digg.com/educational/Real_World_Friend_Requests) in RL?

It'd be socially awkward to do that :p

[ThrobingCane]

you don't just ask someone to be your friend and then you guys are friends.

Unless your in kindergarten.

[murph]

lol. reminds me of a funny story.

my friend and his bro don't get along so well. never did. both grown men at this point. so my friend joins Facebook and sends various people FR's. eventually his bro accepts, so it pops up on his profile page "Ari and Lee are now friends", to which my friend (Ari) comments "if only it were that easy". i LOL'ed.

[Jixzer]

Not to be crude or stereotypical...but I'm willing to bet the numbers would have been higher had they used a good looking girl and maybe a better looking guy.

For the test to be more thorough, they should have had at minimum 4 test subjects. 2 female, 2 male, one humble and one attractive of each (in the stereotypical way...understanding that "attractive" differs from person to person).

There was no real control element there in that test so the results, while not surprising, are inconclusive.

[Bearclaw]

Unless your in kindergarten.

Funny story about that, my best friend for 10 years approached me simply by saying "Hey, let's be friends." He then later introduced me to someone else stating "This is Shawn, he's our new friend."

He was a little direct.

[cromartie90000]

I don't know about anyone else but personally I find it disturbing when something from the internet tries to escape and make it's way into the real world.

IT CANNOT SURVIVE OUTSIDE IT'S NATURAL HABITAT

[neckermanncj]

An interesting student project documentation. Why can't we have friend requests (http://digg.com/educational/Real_World_Friend_Requests) in RL?

okay step back from your computer, turn it off, go take a walk outside, you've been on it too long.

[data6000]

I guess i should have been a little clearer that my comment was made tongue-in-cheek. I guess I assumed that the project was made more along the lines of making fun of this system that facebook has set into place where people go and make all these "friends". I look at it like someone doing this in person seems incredibly weird, but its an alright practice over the internet?