Facebooked from Singapore

Jena McGregor of Business Week gets some Facebook friend invitations from Singapore and wonders why people add others that they do not know as friends. From Management IQ:

I got two emails today from students in Singapore—not the most common event in my inbox. Both were asking to become my “friends” on Facebook after their professor assigned them a critique of an article I wrote last year on failure. The first one was a welcomed email—I love how the Web puts you in touch with people you’d never otherwise meet—but when I got the one from his classmate, I realized I could suddenly have a lot of friend invitations from Singapore.