Via danah boyd, I may have a solution to why I am getting a lot of friend requests from people I have never heard of. Apparently there are Facebook games out there that encourage you to collect friends. Also I’m apparently contributing to a “problem” for Facebook by accepting friend requests from strangers. In danah’s list of friend collectors I guess I class as with “micro-celebrities who feel awkward saying no to fans,” except that I’m more of a nano-celebrity and I doubt that many of the people who have friended me would describe themselves as my “fans”. Besides, I see Facebook as a similar sort of animal to LiveJournal – it is an RSS reader for people who are scared of RSS readers. If that’s against the Facebook Terms of Service, I guess they’ll have to throw me off or something. I’m not going to turn down someone who wants to read my blog just because I have never met them. As danah says, once you have created a software system, it is very hard to control how people use it.