To be upset that no one wanted to be my friend?

[TheMagiciansNiece]

This has been praying on my mind for a couple of weeks now.

DH and I went to his nephew's wedding and he vaguely knew a few people, and I knew even fewer.

We had a nice time, chatted to lots of people etc.

Two weeks later and he's had 5 friend requests on Facebook from the wedding, whereas I've had none. I've no idea what I did wrong but very much having a crisis of confidence over this.

Any ideas as to why anyone?

Maybe it's just the people you were speaking to. Me and my siblings are all very sociable and it's likely they will add people to FB that they just meet wheras I never add people. As an example my siblings added DP as soon as they met him, I still don't have my BIL who I really get along with.

You sound as if your not very confident and having some self-esteem issues. Please don't see this as it says something about you. You sound as if your being really hard on yourself. Take some time and do something that makes you feel good - you would be surprised what it does for your self esteem

This is the problem with social media, it's completely artificial but when people are already feeling fragile for whatever reason they find it difficult not to take it to heart.

To give you and example, My SIL has a ridiculous number of FB friends, more than anyone I know. It was her 30th birthday party recently and there was only me and DH, PIL, her Godparents and one girl she works with. No one else turned up. From looking at her Facebook you would think she was a social butterfly with a very full life but it's all smoke and mirrors. It means nothing OP, you sound lovely and I'm sure the people you met at the wedding thought so too. Honestly, I've met some really nice people at weddings that I've had a great time chatting to but it's never occurred to me to look for them on FB based on one meeting.

Why are you mentioning OP's daughter? She doesn't mention a daughter - this is about her. Woosh

Well, I'll admit I didn't read the thread very closely, but I'm so sure that this can't be about an adult I'm just going to insist you are mistaken and not check.

I've recently received several friend requests on FB based on one meeting or (worse) on the basis that we have several mutual friends. I never accept them - I assume that they either want to sell me something, as that's happened to me a couple of times, or that they just want random people to increase their "friends" total.

@donquixotedelamancha a very fair point 😉