Vaguely amused and annoyed at the same time

[silverthorne]

...So who else finds having a person suddenly and randomly adding you to their flist using some sort of search script program annoying? Especially when from what you can tell, you and they have nothing in common?

Someone friended my main RP LJ yesterday doing that. It's the third time within a month that's happened, too. Which is why I'm asking. Whatever happened to actually talking to people and finding out what they're like?

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[cluegirl.livejournal.com]

When I first moved to Albany, I used LJ's 'find users by location' function to troll for other LJ users in Albany. I looked for people with at least five interests in common with mine, and added about ten or twelve, just so I could watch their posts, and see if they were the sort of people I'd like to get to know.

Several of them are still my friends now -- Chaoticerotic, Botia, and Dodging Fate, amoungst them.

But if they've no interests in common, I can't see why they'd just be adding you. I mean, unless they like the artwork?

[silverthorne.livejournal.com]

And that I don't have a problem with. It's a live person looking people up, and actually checking out the people they're friending.

But these last three incidents played out as chiss up above said--it was a spambot, and this last time (last night) when I posted to the owner of the LJ that he'd friended an RPG journal and not a real person's LJ, he was all 'STFU and just don't friend it back then!'.

So not only was it 'who is this?!', but the guy was rude too, when all I was doing was letting him know was that Derek's LJ was an RPG journal, and probably not what he meant to friend.