Hmm I may be guilty of this. But sometimes I think I might know someone so I'm double checking before rejecting them. And sometimes the same person will repeatedly add me and I wonder why.

But yeah, people are pretty rude. I should probably change that feature on my MySpace come to think of it. I use MySpace for real friends (and a few fave blog friends!) and I use my Trig account (rostasuicide - add me if you have one!) for any and everyone else.

I'm guilty of this too. I usually say "Sorry, but do I know you?" because I have my profile set to private, I don't have the the "require email/last name" option, but I do have a note in my headline saying "If you don't know me in real life, then please don't add me," or something to that effect. I think it's rude that people add me without reading! Ha.

I know what you mean if people don't have something like that though… people are rude in general. And often, via MySpace or pretty much anything on the Internet, people just use the anonymity of the Internet to hide behind.

Your self portraits are beautiful by the way! =)

Aww man, yeah, I understand that it's a bother.
I'm guilty of doing that too but ever since I had some pervert make sexual remarks about my baby's picture, I am very careful about who I add as a friend. Sometimes people go by different ID's online and they add you but their real name is something completely different and when they add me I'm like, "Yikes. Who's this?" It DOES seem rude but there really isn't any other way to go about it. LOL "Do I know you?" It sounds rude but I know where they're coming from. I do the last thing name too because if they know me that well, they know my last name. If not, oh well. LOL

MySpace is horrible, period. I don't use it that much.

I can't stand rude people on Myspace either. =( It always feels like most of the random people I meet are on it to look for some ass. When I get friend requests from someone who seems familiar I attempt to find out for sure if my hunches are correct by asking who they are, but like you suggested, if I really don't want to add them, I reject them quietly. Most of the time, they won't realize it either. =) What my boyfriend does is funny; when people request to add him and he doesn't know them, he doesn't reject them but instead marks them as spam. lol

…haha, I don't add people I don't know on Friendster and Facebook and the same goes for Myspace. But when I reject people, I don't feel the need to message them about it.