When I get friend requests from someone I've never communicated with in game I don't know what to do. Have they seen something of mine in the forums they like? Did they whizz past me and like my clothes? Is it just for a badge?
I started out friending everyone who asked, expecting that something would develop from there - or at the very least I'd get an initial communication from them telling me why, but now I have loads of people in my friend list without any context at all, which makes it hard to keep track of the ones I've actually chatted to. Terrible memory, y'know?
I know there have been threads about ways to categorise friends (which would be a good thing) but in the meantime I'm more interested in why the requests come. This is in no way intended to be critical btw, I'm just curious.
So what do you do when you get a request out of the blue? What assumption do you make about the reason for the request? Do you send requests to people you've never talked to? If so, why?