There are certain people I don't care to see again

Am I the only one on facebook that doesn't want to be found by every random person? I know it is suppose to be about connecting with people, and keeping in touch, but I really don't want some people to find me. And those I don't know, why do I want them to find me and view my profile?

Today I thought I would double check the privacy settings on my facebook, and I found that my settings had changed so that EVERYONE could search for me and view my profile. Ok, I am ok about people wanting to message me if they need to get a hold of me, you know friends of friends that I may actually know, but quite frankly there are some people I don't want to find me.

My change in settings explained why the last few days I have been getting random friend requests from people. Apparently I am not longer invisible to the random group of facebookers- well not any more suckers!

I have always had this rule when it has come to facebook: I will only add you as a friend if you:

(1) I actually speak to you. I know lots of people, but it doesn't mean I want to keep in touch, or actually communicate with them; and

(2) I actually like you.

I am getting really frustrated with these random people that keep trying to add me just because we happen to know the same people. If I wanted you as my friend I would have added you. I have no idea who some of these people are, and some I know of, but nothing more. So I don't know why they would think I would want them to be my friend.

That and there are certain people I am happy never to see again. When I first got an account I hadn't really changed many settings, so I was getting friend requests as a result of, I am guessing, those stupid friend suggestions things. Unless for some reason people just randomly like to search for people on a daily basis //sarcasm//. Low and behold, a few girls from my graduating class wanted to add me. These are the very same people that hated me at school, and made my life hell. And for some reason they wanted to friend me.

That is what baffles me. Why all these people, that won't or don't talk to me, still want to be friends on facebook? I don't know how this works. I think this 'having to friend everyone' attitude is strange. Who cares if you have 500 friends, I bet half of them don't care what happened during your week. They just know you, so add you.

So obviously the definition of friend has changed to anyone I know or may know? Gee how things have changed.

Does anyone else feel this way or am I just the only crazy?