I am astonished at two thing in this thread.
1. How carelessly people throw out their info out on the internet, especially if name in the FB account is not fake
2. How easily people throw around the word "friend" as if the word has no real value any more.
Well, like I care about spot number 1. I accept only people I know and members of BBT.
2. in Finland here is to words, Kaveri and Ystävä that both are translated as friend but the meaning is slight diffrent, Kaveri is just a person you may hang around or talk, now days we even have the word Netti-Kaveri (Web-Friend) that means nearly the same thing, but the word Ystävä is used only of those friends who are close to you, who know about your past and you talk about deep things etc., etc., and the info on my FB profile is just a scratch of who I am.
...and other thing; I won't ask anyone to be my friend, I know that if some one wants to be my friend, he/she will send a friend request, I just wont ask. I ask only if would like to get that person as my friend and if that is the case, I know a bit more about the person.