RE: Is common courtesy unavailable online?

Speaking as someone who has ignored friend requests without responding, let me explain why I do that.
First, it is not a habit. I always look at the friend requests but I don't always read them. If I do read them. I don't always check the profile. But before I accept a friend request, I read it and check out the profile. I never accept a friend request without reading it and checking the persons profile.
However, because this is the internet, I get many friend request from people who are not really interested in friendship. Many people treat friending like a game where they see the number of friends as the score of the game. They have thousands of friends but when you have that many friends, are any of the friends really friends?
Then there are those people who have ulterior motives. They have something to sell or they have some scam to pull.
Therefore:

1. If the friend request looks like it's from someone with a scam, I decline their friendship.
2. If the friend request looks like it's from someone I want to be friends with, I friend them.
3. If the friend request looks neutral or like it's from someone who seems to just be collecting friends like a game, I ignore them in order to give them a chance to prove that they were serious. If they put a little more effort into contacting me, I know it's not a game to them.

This means that I miss out on many friends but that's fine with me because it means the friends I do have are really friends.

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