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in a large city a tourist from kashmir asked me for directions and we got to talking. after about ten minutes he very politely asked if we could become facebook friends, but did not press the issue when i said no. it made me wonder, american culture sees something like that as creepy, but are there other cultures that see it as acceptable? i didn't feel threatened or scared and as i said he was very polite, but i'm curious about whether the guy was socially clueless or a genuine creeper, or just from a culture where people would think nothing of exchanging fb info with near-strangers.

it might just depend on the person. I used to work for a social media marketer and one of my jobs was to friend everyone that asked to be her friend on Facebook.

EVERYONE.

she just didn't use Facebook for super personal stuff, she used her personal email for that instead.

I lived in East Africa (Tanzania and Kenya) and got asked if I wanted to be Facebook friends quite a bit. At first I thought it was creepy, but then I realized it was just kind of a thing to ask there.

Or maybe everyone was being creepy and I just got used to it after awhile idk.

are you the anon who shaved her head during a power outage and convinced a fisherman to take her out in his boat? i always love your stories every time you comment with them ngl

haha yes that was me! I'd be amazed if there was another anon that lived in East Africa tbh.

the fisherman asked if i would friend him on facebook funnily enough.

LMAO

you sound like you live an interesting life

sometimes :) right now not so much, haha.

you're one of my favorite anons. i hope i can be as brave in traveling as you are someday.

aww anon

I don't consider myself that brave. I have yet to venture into solo travel (had a constant companion in east africa and we picked up a few brave souls along the way). Right now I'm trying to build up the confidence to go back alone because for some reason I keep thinking it'll be different even though I/we did some PRETTY QUESTIONABLE things last time haha. And the fact that I never met someone who wasn't genuinely nice or caring or helpful, though I spent not a whole lot of time in big cities so that could have changed.

Though on like our last day in Africa, some guy in Arusha assured us that our checked bags would be safe in a parking lot for like four hours while we went and ate, checked the internet and waited for the shuttle to the airport and he was totally awesome and delivered. Dude disappeared before I could even say thank you and give him a tip when we came back. Nicest dude ever.

i highly recommend solo travel, it's basically my favorite thing

what kinds of questionable things did you do? if you don't mind me asking

dude i live in canada have asked this twice and both time gotten a yes

maybe it's just you

i wouldn't say just me, but it might be a my area thing. i'm from the us and my part of the country is stereotyped as being full of people who are untalkative at best and unfriendly and cold at worst.

lol i find that funny cause even as a canadian i'm usually untalkative and unfriendly, that's why when i meet someone i click with i want to keep them in my life somehow, even just as a benchwarmer

and i don't consider myself that unfriendly or untalkative (i love talking to strangers), but would never think to ask someone i met in passing if they wanted to be fb friends. getting asked was a little odd to me too and i don't know very many other people who wouldn't feel the same way.

this is very interesting to me. thank you for answering anon!

american mid-westerner here saying this sounds fairly normal

but i grew up in a military family where moving all over the place meant i had to keep a pretty constant stream of half-friends/half-acquaintances to have even the semblance of a social life. asking someone for the contact information is kind of normal, and i find facebook to be less presumptuous than, say, a phone number

idk. if i'm asking someone out, i ask for their number. if i'm interested in being friends with someone, i ask for their facebook info, but i wouldn't find either of these behaviors "creepy" unless the person themselves was creepy

nah, people exchanging facebook info isn't that big of a deal. i've been to paris and rome on school trips and both times i met people asked to add me on facebook.

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