Thank you for asking that question as I wasn’t sure what to do with the requests and initially felt a bit uncomfortable. Now I understand why it is handy to connect with others! I have just accepted my first friend request and to those who have send requests in the past: my apologies for not accepting. :-)
I got a friend request from a photo of a shapely torso. It's weird because on other social media I'd think No way that's them, it must be a spam account but on here I'm all Oh let's see what they've written.