[JBiserkov]

"Within two weeks, 976, or about 19 percent of the requests, were accepted.

Of the 3,517 users who received the second round of requests, 2,079, or about 59 percent, accepted."

It seems to me that either people are really indiscriminate in who they accept as their 'friends', or the 'randomly selected "people"' were actually other socio bots :-D

[kleiba]

Or people are more likely to accept a friend request when you already share a common friend on FB.

[brc]

I'm guessing the profile pictures of the 'friends' weren't ugly people.

[derrida]

Funny how those stereotypical 'beautiful' pictures found on the internet are usually ugly.

[pmjordan]

I'm sure that's no accident. I suspect they're at the empirically determined sweet spot between 'beautiful/sexy' and 'loose/easy' for the maximum number of people to feel they'd both stand a chance with the person and actually would want to have sex with them.

[ChuckMcM]

I actually got one of these requests and reported it as a scam. One of the reasons I knew it was a scam was because the facebook picture came from one of the stockphoto websites.

[rorrr]

Most of my FB contacts are "friend collectors", they would accept any request. Most of them have 1000+ "friends". I have no clue how they can even remember that many people, let alone have meaningful relationships.

I delete contacts that don't post anything interesting after my list grows beyond 50.