A few weeks ago I asked what the big deal is with these social networking sites. Last week, I may have found out.
I’ve posted a few times asking if anyone would like to help with a security audit of Tasks Pro™ but hadn’t found anyone who was able to help. On a whim, I posted a message to one of the PHP communities on Orkut and the next day I got 20 some odd responses. Of those, a handful were willing to take a look and I’ve gotten some excellent feedback (turns out, I’d actually done a decent job). +1 for Orkut. 
In the last week or so, I’ve gotten a few “friend invites” from people I don’t know. What is the proper etiquette here? I’ve declined these invitations so far, but I’m curious if this is happening to other people too? I’m sure some or all of these folks are great people that I’d be interested to meet - but is a 
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Your thoughts?
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francey adds this Comment:
I believe, that a friend on orkut is basically someone who wants to get to know you. I have no idea myself, and have never really been into things like friendster and such, but that’s what I *think*
February 11th, 2004 at 3:50 am
James Walker adds this Comment:
i struggled with this too. i received 2 invitations yesterday from people i’ve never even exchanged an email with. in the end i ended up accepting their invites on the premise that perhaps they want to get to know me
February 11th, 2004 at 12:30 pm
Alex adds this Comment:
Maybe that would have been a better way to handle it. I declined them.
February 11th, 2004 at 12:35 pm
Geof adds this Comment:
I would’ve declined, myself.
February 11th, 2004 at 2:22 pm
Meep adds this Comment:
IMHO one should at least send an orkut-message before adding someone completely unknown as a “friend”.
February 12th, 2004 at 9:30 am
Erik adds this Comment:
I have yet to recieve an invite from somebody I didn’t know, although if I did, I would probably turn it down. I think a good general rule to accepting invitations is having a conversation with the person such that you might remember them afterwards, and not because one of you is really pissed off at the other.
February 14th, 2004 at 11:02 pm