I don’t have a public profile and I don’t friend people I don’t know, but when I got into college and friended all the people in the groups for school, I would recognize those people but we never actually became friends in real life. My only story, similar to robmandu’s, is that I had a boyfriend before facebook was around and we broke up not too amicably. A few years later, he found me on facebook through some mutual friends, and sent me a friend request, which I just ignored, because I had no interest in reconnecting with him, especially on the internet. About six months later, I ended up near where he went to school, and a friend suggested I get coffee with him. I wasn’t too sure, but he texted me and we set something up. The morning of, he calls and cancels, claiming he was “busy” with school work (even though it was spring break…), and said I should call him the net time I was around. Annoyed, I just said “whatever, talk to you some other time,” but before I hung up, he asked me to friend him back on facebook. I hung up and laughed because he obviously paid a lot more attention to it than I did, and actually asked me to friend him back. I think he just wants to look at my pictures, haha.