6,419,499
My personal fb page is for friends, the business fb pages is where I do business, and I think it is important to keep them separate.
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Wayne Zuhl
Cranford, NJ
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Kartik Subramaniam
Rancho Cucamonga, CA
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
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Dan Tabit
Sammamish, WA
809,829
I have taken on the practice of delete all that are from out of state and all that do not have atleast 1 mutual contact.
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Katerina Gasset
Provo, UT
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Fred Griffin Florida R...
Tallahassee, FL
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Dan Tabit
Sammamish, WA
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Mary Yonkers
Erie, PA
2,193,065
I visit their page and then decide
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Katerina Gasset
Provo, UT
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Fred Griffin Florida R...
Tallahassee, FL
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Dan Tabit
Sammamish, WA
1,390,113
On my personal page, I ignore them.
On my business page, I accept them.
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Fred Griffin Florida R...
Tallahassee, FL
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Dan Tabit
Sammamish, WA
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Lyn Sims
Schaumburg, IL
5,772,593
Dan,
We used to accept everyone in the wild west of social media. We cleaned out all the weird ones. Now we are careful and picky, picky, picky. I ignore the majority. A
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Katerina Gasset
Provo, UT
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Fred Griffin Florida R...
Tallahassee, FL
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Dan Tabit
Sammamish, WA
2,784,876
In the beginning, I accepted friend requests not knowing to do any different. Now, I understand it better. On someone I don't know, I look them up. If I don't like what I see...it ends there. Request denied. Business? It will come
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Richie Alan Naggar
Riverside, CA
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Fred Griffin Florida R...
Tallahassee, FL
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Dan Tabit
Sammamish, WA
66,409
If you have no mutual friends and receive a friend request, check the profile. There's a miniscule chance it's someone you met and handed a business card at a busy function and forgot about. But, that probably isn't the case. 99% of those are fake accounts and you would be wasting your time accepting.
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Fred Griffin Florida R...
Tallahassee, FL
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Dan Tabit
Sammamish, WA
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Mary Yonkers
Erie, PA
212,500
Investigate.
After looking at their profile, they only have one pic, about 20 friends, etc., delete as fast as you can - those are not the people they say they are and are highly likely scams.
But if they have some substance to their profile that is verifiable, then I stop and think about it because there is an agenda there that you don't know yet and often it is..... to sell you something. All of a sudden you will be part of group invites and group messages. Then... delete.
And the list of "what ifs" continues...
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Katerina Gasset
Provo, UT
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Fred Griffin Florida R...
Tallahassee, FL
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Dan Tabit
Sammamish, WA
991,352
isn't that what FB is all about - friends you've never met showing you what they are eating for lunch?
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Dan Tabit
Sammamish, WA
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Jennifer Mackay
Panama City, FL
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
3,988,013
Ignore. In fact over time it is better to trim your list to those you have a connection with.
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Katina Hargrove 352-55...
Eustis, FL
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Dan Tabit
Sammamish, WA
902,038
I ignore them on personal page if I don't know them.
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Katina Hargrove 352-55...
Eustis, FL
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Dan Tabit
Sammamish, WA
715,407
I have a business page that people can "like" and I don't need to know you! On my personal FB page I ignore, it can cause hacking problems and scams if they aren't who they say they are.
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Katina Hargrove 352-55...
Eustis, FL
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Dan Tabit
Sammamish, WA
823,679
My personal page is private and for family and friends only. My business page is open to the public and they are welcome to "like" it and follow the posts.
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Katina Hargrove 352-55...
Eustis, FL
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Fred Griffin Florida R...
Tallahassee, FL
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Dan Tabit
Sammamish, WA
1,847,171
I totally ignore them & they creep me out. On LinkedIn I have people all over the world doing that.
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Fred Griffin Florida R...
Tallahassee, FL
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Dan Tabit
Sammamish, WA
3,349,654
Ignore. Delete. Asking random people we don't know is just so odd to me. Why would anyone want to friend random people they don't know?
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Fred Griffin Florida R...
Tallahassee, FL
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Dan Tabit
Sammamish, WA
1,231,853
Ditto Cody Carmen If the request is from someone who has 50 mutual friends maybe. Otherwise I delete the request.
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Dan Tabit
Sammamish, WA
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Kartik Subramaniam
Rancho Cucamonga, CA
913,568
Delete the request.
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Katina Hargrove 352-55...
Eustis, FL
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Dan Tabit
Sammamish, WA
290,969
I 'ignore' and do not Friend on FB, if I do not know the person. I also do not necessarily Friend a friend-of-a-friend, either. For me, I do not think of them as a 'business possibility' Dan Tabit.
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Fred Griffin Florida R...
Tallahassee, FL
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Dan Tabit
Sammamish, WA
3,071,489
I'm ignoring Facebook!!
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Katina Hargrove 352-55...
Eustis, FL
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Dan Tabit
Sammamish, WA
5,113,596
Most often, I ignore. Sometimes, I delete the request.
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Katina Hargrove 352-55...
Eustis, FL
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Dan Tabit
Sammamish, WA
3,340,443
We get these and other "offers to link" on linked in...you are known by the company you keep...if you don't know them...pass.
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Dan Tabit
Sammamish, WA
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
7,864,998
Just delete them when they are spam. Those usually have a small number of friends. I receive several each day.
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Dan Tabit
Sammamish, WA
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
3,627,172
I check and if there are no friends that I recognize I delete them.
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Dan Tabit
Sammamish, WA
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
3,167,814
if their account is about 15 minutes old (no friends, no posts, 2 photos) and it says they are "widowed" and work US ARMY I block them. Then I report them as spam.
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Dan Tabit
Sammamish, WA
3,742,076
I ignore them.
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Dan Tabit
Sammamish, WA
4,719,263
I will just ignore them, as they are usually just fake accounts. When I get a request from someone that I don't know, I look through their profile to try and figure out where I might know them from. If I can't figure that out, I don't accept them as a friend.
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Dan Tabit
Sammamish, WA
1,771,867
Do not accept.
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Dan Tabit
Sammamish, WA
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
3,986,308
I am just setting up and will have to decide onthat.
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Dan Tabit
Sammamish, WA
2,376,103
I'm with Bob Crane here
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Dan Tabit
Sammamish, WA
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
2,221,377
On my business page I accept.
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Dan Tabit
Sammamish, WA
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Anthony Acosta - ALLAT...
Atlanta, GA
2,224,473
I don't accept the ones I don't know on my personal page. On the business page I will generally accept them. I do check them out first. You know...look at their FB page and see if we have anyone in common, and where their from and what they do for a living.
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Dan Tabit
Sammamish, WA
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
1,078,201
I don't think anyone is doing business by sending random friend requests. Unless it's accompanied by a message, ignore
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Fred Griffin Florida R...
Tallahassee, FL
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Dan Tabit
Sammamish, WA
1,728,356
Lots of these personalities are fictitious as far we have noticed. If limited photos, short timeline, no clear evidence of truth; we delete the request
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Fred Griffin Florida R...
Tallahassee, FL
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Dan Tabit
Sammamish, WA
5,061,034
I ignore
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Dan Tabit
Sammamish, WA
4,902,981
Decline. Too many idiots out there.
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Dan Tabit
Sammamish, WA
5,583,328
I did that twice and they were stalkers!!! they IM'd me for days.... I finally learned how to get rid of them permanently.... unbelievable....
and they were friends with another AR member!!! I assumed that would be safe....NOT.
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Dan Tabit
Sammamish, WA
4,582,734
I'm finding more and more that the delete/ignore keys are some of my best friends.
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Dan Tabit
Sammamish, WA
4,961,883
444,170
I ignore them. I keep my FB Friends down to people I care about, friend and clients with whom I have a personal relationship. Professionals I don't know I will Link to on LinkedIn, which I totally ignore anyway.
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Dan Tabit
Sammamish, WA
5,241,029
Have gone the way of Ron and Alexandra. Picky, picky, picky!
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Dan Tabit
Sammamish, WA
3,416,038
I check their page first to see if a real person, scammer or some type of sales person. It is easy to spot both types
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Dan Tabit
Sammamish, WA
519,324
Wow, thanks for all the responses. I've been doing a quick check to see who we had in common or if we had any past work or schools in common that perhaps I didn't recall. If I didn't find a connection, I just ignored them. I assumed that they were working their own agenda, but I thought if anyone had an idea how to use this to our benefit, I'd learn it here.
Thanks for all the responses!
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
634,532
3,048,382
I click on the profile and check them out. The spammers are out in full swing it seems right now. If they only have a few photos and nothing in their information settings, I will not approve them. Since my personal page is public with public settings, people can "follow" me without me approving them as "friends". If they are family, past clients, current clients, agents, brokers, community people like our mayor, people of influence, other fellow group members in groups I belong to, etc, I approve them, of course. Katerina
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Dan Tabit
Sammamish, WA
534,647
i click block and report profile for anyone who sends me a request that i do not know.
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Dan Tabit
Sammamish, WA
2,817,727
2,684,669
I am in the process of leaving Facebook. Not entirely, but just getting back to family and true friends.
Previously, I accepted most people, but of course I researched them as best as possible. There are some hucksters, perverts, and others that I don't want anything to do with.
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Dan Tabit
Sammamish, WA
1,241,879
With Linkedin, I will not take on another "FRIEND" wanting to sell me something. That is up to you. Some realtors have 1200 friends.
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Dan Tabit
Sammamish, WA
921,504
@Shea Oliver just published his first blog about Facebook.
Perhaps what you are experiencing is tied directly to Facebook enhancements.
ENHANCEMENTS!
What to do? Depends on the purpose to which you have assigned your Facebook presence. If it is list building, respond YES to the all.
My purpose on Facebook is to utilize the enhancements.
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Dan Tabit
Sammamish, WA
473,243
Good morning Dan,
On my personal page I have only my close family. On my business page, anyone can follow or like.
321,564
1,506,163
Dan, best course of action is to have a separate page for your business. People can like that until they're blue in the face. Keep your personal page to just your friends and family.