Adding Friends
It’s most likely you wish to register one Facebook account with your main email address to be able to interact with all your friends, colleagues and family members. Talking with friends particularly some long lost or no contact friends are always happy news. Problem is that when click on invitation to accept the “add as friend” request, you need to sign up a new Facebook account with that email in order to include the request sender as friend. Attempting to sign in to existing Facebook account to check for any new invitation can lead to nil invite, and the invitation page loaded by link in email when logged in is lost or failed, and simply got redirect back to Facebook homepage without error message.
Facebook does not have a function to allow users to include, define or relate substitute email address besides the main registered email, so that when somebody send invites to these addresses, it will automatically match to your profile. So Facebook has no means to realize that the other email is your alternative email, which likewise belongs to you and will link to your Facebook profile. So the workaround is to look for your friend who sent the invite to wrong address and request to add him/her to your Facebook profile instead.
The simple way is to look for friend’s first name, last name, or email address in Facebook. If your friend have popular name the search results most likely come across hundreds or even thousands of profiles in Facebook. Start with the people that you know. You may use the FaceBook feature that will search your email accounts at Gmail (http://www.gmail.com), Hotmail (http://www.msn.com), and AOL (http://www.aol.com). In case it finds most of your contacts are Facebook end users, it will give you the option to send those people as friend’s request.
After that, consider other social networking websites that you belong to and the friends you have there even if they are not in your email address book. Determine whether they have an account on FaceBook. Compose a message in NotePad to be able to copy and paste. You might need a number of different messages. One might say, “I know you from such forum or social network website and I would like to add you to my friends list here at FaceBook.” Another might say, “I understand that you don’t recognize me personally, but I see that we have something in common, thus I would like to add you to my circle of friends.” Look for individuals that you know through other social networking websites, social bookmarking sites, micro blogging (Twitter, at http://www.twitter.com), forums, and also blogs that you generally go through, and people who read your blog. Likewise contemplate adding other online marketers, such as marketers who are in the similar niche that you are in.
From there, you may use the search features to get people in your general area and people who have interests that are in common to yours. Simply add them even if you’ve never had any connection with those people in any online or offline venue. Look at the friends of your friends. This is a good method to increase your network too – the thing that you have in common is the original friend. Keep in mind that every person you add to your network is a possible client, or a business associate, and you absolutely desire your own network to grow as large as possible, as quickly as possible to get the most benefit from FaceBook.
