I love the serendipitous connections made through social networking and I have learned a valuable lessons from my friend Vincent Conard. At the time I thought it was curious but now I can totally relate....
When I sent a friend request to Vincent I did not send a message along with it. I had checked out his profile and thought we would connect and figured he could check out mine like I checked out his and every friend who sends me a request. But he wrote me a note asking why I thought we would be a good connection .. and I answered and we are becoming pretty good FB friends. He explained why it was important to him to get a message with a friend request.
Well, after not taking time to