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Originally Posted by CoachKandSportsguy
Just rejected a friend request from a name which has never posted a single message.
What does a friend request get a member anyway?
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On Social Media networks (FB, Twitter, etc), it gets them access to whatever personal information you share with friends including the list of your friends. With the list of your friends they can send out even more friend requests and build an even larger network.
On the passive side, they can watch what you and your friends post about themselves: places they are visiting, vacation schedules, responses to polls, responses to stupid and meaningless questions that sometimes turn up as security questions, etc.
On the active side, they can post something that will be seen and possibly shared by your friends. Want to push a piece of disinformation? Put it in a meme that gets seen by dozens, shared by a few, and then seen by hundreds more.
There might be a financial aspect too. If businesses were willing to give me half a cent for every time someone looked at or clicked on an add then it would benefit me to have a large network of people who saw my posts. I don't know if this is an incentive but from some of the posts I see on FB I can believe that it is.