As someone who interracts with shittons of people, I can tell you that sometimes random friend requests are most of the times golden and wrth it.
Seriously, interract with them, if it goes well, congratulations, you got a new friend. Otherwise, it's just a matter of "unfriend" to solve it.
Well i suppose you have valid point. But just for people who may not be aware of this, perhaps there is some who... well, how do i word it to not sound bad.... "Cling to false hope" To be a bit more fleshed out, perhaps the individual hoped something good can come from it, and you know... doesn't know when to give up on things. Besides hard to believe but not all people are as optimistic, is all down to mentaility.
By the way, when i said don't give up, i mean the reciever, as they could intend to "Keep trying" that maybe it will "Work out" and some just probably don't have it in them to be rejecting to remove, ignore request or something knowing is probably not gonnaget better. I wouldn't known how to better describe this other than what i said Cling to false hope.
Either way, i understand what you mean, and i think you made a rather good point like some other comments have here.
I accept them but usually i don't talk to them or play with them ; They friend name are just there , using space on my friend list
Its funny since with my internet friends i barely play with them and...i don't have IRL friend on consoles ;u;
However ; I have a rule which is if they aren't a friend i talk to and they haven't connected in one month , i delete them
Well that is probably good. Is not always easy to have control over things like this. To be honest, i seen some pretty messed up situations with this, and is all mental state based, where people can't accept some of the things, and try to just "make it work" but in all seriousness, these people i guess have their own reason for this behavior but is only speaking from expeirence and observation.
I usually don't like purging such things, i dunno what is going on over there on the other side of the monitor, but i can least give them benefit of the doubt to least show them i'm giving chance. Is not that i'm too lazy to clean a friend list... (if i had one) is just things... different things and i guess is best not started here for sake of people complaints.