Thanks For the Add!

When people add you as friend in Facebook, and you kindly accept their request, some of them might post to your wall saying:

• Thanks!
• Thanks for adding.
• Keep in touch y'all!
• Terima kasih meng-add

I do this sometimes. Most of the time I'll indirectly say thanks or just start a conversation.

• Hey you! Nice profile picture! Thanks anyway..
• Hey, I know you from somewhere, you're that handsome guy in McDonald's rite? Thanks

Motive, when I do these, and these things come out in your News Feed, people concentrate on the dialouge not the THANK YOU part. Not that I'm arrogant. My personal opinion for those who only says thanks to people who just add them as friend:

• If the person you added is someone people know (read: popular/famous), you would like your other friends to know he/she just accepted you as their friend virtually.
• You lack of any other interesting vocab to express your gratitude of them accepting your friend request?
• You just want to start conversation, and you're too nervous to say anything else and you end up saying just 'Thanks' only.

I do have issues with this actually. I don't know why it irritates me so much! Urgh! Since I sometimes do this, double Urgh Urgh!

This makes me think about MySpace all over again, come on humans! We're grown ups! Kill the ordinary or glittered thanks. Start conversation. Real one! Happy Tuesday humans!