Do You Blindly Accept "Friend" Invitations?

Marte - I always do check on Linked In.  In fact need to first know them.  As for the others I probably should especially wit Twitter followers.

Marte Cliff The thing about LinkedIn is that these are all possible customers (clients) and referral sources. You don't need to like them to connect with them. It is just like having a store, you sell to all customers that come in whether you "like" them or not.

Bill Roberts

I'm with you on this.  I always check folks out.  Also, it they have common connections -- I look to see who those folks are.

I have ignored and accepted, with no particular reason. I guess, I shouldn't. I once even had a problem, when I could not log in, and the platform was verifying that it was me, and they produced 3 photos of people, who are my "friends" so I was supposed to know who they were, but I did not really know them. Took me some image checking on Google so that I could satisfy the request.

I think I had that same request.  I laughed and showed it to Donald.  I always check.  Sometimes I even report.

Hi Marte, yes I always check first, especially on Google+. I think more of these newer accounts are run by hackers. I know on twitter, some profiles look ok and the next thing I know there are images I just don't want in my twitter feed. 

In the very early days of Facebook and LinkedIn, it seems that I always "accepted." Then, I soon learned from my 20 something daughter-not to do so. I have since gone thru Facebook and all social media and completed a large clean-up. I also think that the privacy settings on most social media is much better and most business minded people are careful.

Marte Cliff there are two things you can do: block a twitter follower, which I do to followers I find offensive, or mute them, which means whatever they tweet you won't see in your twitter feed. If you haven't been on twitter then I wouldn't worry about it. 

Marte - I am afraid I ex[lained it wrong. I believe it was Facebook, and for some reason I had a problem logging in, and I started working with them, and this was part of their process, where they verified that this was me, so they picked 3 of my "friends" from my account and asked to name them, and I couldn't.

It is good to be careful. I do not accept invites on Face Book unless someone I know can tell who they are and how we are connected. Some of these people just started using FB and are randomly befriending everyone. I can't see that being a good thing. I think they are fishing for your info to do monetary damage.

My default tends to be "no", and I still can't understand why 98% of the local realtors all want to be my friend. It turns out the 2% who don't ask are the 2% I actually would say 'yes' to.