Do you offer your Friendship card in SL or wait for it to be offered to you?

O.k. pretty simple.

Do you offer your Friendship (Calling Card) or do you wait for people to offer theirs to you?

Both.

"Yes"

I have no friends *cry*

Both

You left out the option - "I punch people in the face for offering me their calling card".

I hate the things

I wait. When people get to know me they wind up disappearing anyway, so I see no good in pushing my contact on other people. (>_<

"Yes"

I will be testing that in the near future.

Prepare thyself.

Seriously, yo.

If you're talking about friendship, I always accept but rarely offer, usually in cases of a non-English speaker who might want someone to contact later. If it's the card thing, no I never offer and I've never been offered.

Well, there was a time they were one in the same.

Now its all discombobulated.

I'm not quite sure what you mean by your poll. Do you mean just offer your calling card without offering friendship? If that is the case I never just offer a calling card but do give it automatically in the process of "friending" someone. I don't really use my calling cards for much unless I'm using them for group conference IMs and I want to add someone to an ongoing conference by dragging it into the conference window. Oh and I don't think anyone has ever just given me their calling card without offering friendship either.

I chase them down, pounce on them, and pry their calling card from their screaming paws!

Well, only for the ones I want to know.. the rest I chase down and use a chainsaw to cut their calling card up into nanobytes L

If I want to remain in touch with someone, either as a personal friend or as a business contact, I offer Friendship. I very rarely offer just the "Calling Card", which gives us both a contact card for each other, but does not add each other to Friends lists.

If someone offers to me first, I may or may not accept, depending on circumstances. If I likely would have offerd it myself, anyway, and they just "beat me to the draw", I'll accept. Otherwise I might decline and say "I'd like to get to know you better first, as my Friends list is rather overcrowded as it is.".

A Friend request that comes when someone isn't anywhere near me, or isn't already talking to me via IM will get decidedly ignored. I never accept "out of nowhere" friend requests.

I'm pretty sure giving a calling card isn't something that is automatically reciprocated by the receiver like when a friendship offer is accepted. I think the receiver would have to explicitly offer their calling card to you when you're not "friending" one another.

Both … really depends on the situation. But I will always accept friendship if offered.

Are YOU going to get spammed now.

Except on one occasion when I hit "friend" instead of profile (might have been just once), I rarely offer first. Shy, I am. I assume one of two things, they will ignore it, or accept then later, quietly, drop me.

I'm the same Lexxi, pretty shy when it comes to requesting a friend but will accept them if offered. If I'm on HIP mentoring, I will accept their card if they need more help later on.

I've very rarely offered friendship, I think all my current friends are the result of them offereing me friendship. I'm a friendly person but also independent and free-spirited and so the idea of forming ties doesn't often enter my head.

i don't offer ..i never really think about it if i know we are in the same group or bump into each other all the time..i don't use my friend list much anymore..i just have a few groups i'll chit chat in once in awhile..

I presumed the poll meant the friendship thing, my choice is no, I do not offer, but I will accept in some cases

as for calling cards, I did hand out mine when I first started SL and was offered some by others, but quickly got tired of them and never use them.

I rarely offer, because there is something that feels presumptuous about it to me.

The main effect of the Friends list is that I can track when the people on the list are online. That is intimacy. That's not something to ask casually.

I rarely turn down an offer. I don't want the person offering to feel rejected. And for the same reason, I have never removed someone from my Friends list in over two years.

I am at peace with the fact that the world can know when I am online and when I am not. It doesn't bother me to assert my privacy by telling someone I can't talk right now. I use the "Busy" message when busy. And the fact of the matter is, if anyone really wanted to know when I was online, there are a billion, relatively easy, ways of doing it.

One of the side-effects of rarely offering and usually accepting Friendship is that my list is dominated by casual acquaintences, and a few people I really like a lot are not on my Friends list.

I chose the first option but in reality both. Sometimes I offer friendship first, other times I let it hang until the other person offers mostly to see whether they really want to keep in contact with me. I dislike pushy types who force their friendship on others so I tend to wait until I know someone before offering unless it's a business contact thing in which it's work-related and not really anything to do with what the other person thinks of me.

On a lighter note I'd like to see 'enemy' lists and cards. That could make SL a bit more 'interesting'.