That's the thing with facebook. For me, i want to use it to meet people who live in my city and want to make friends. So i just try and message stragers who live in my city..not easy to find..the only way to find is by messaging people that are FRIENDS of a local university, or language school in my city etc. Usually these people are young or foreigners..

You guys probably aren't looking to find friends that live in your city. You go to Graphics or Poser(as Medzinar said) related pages in facebook, and of course you have a common interest and you may message people there..

The way i do it.. is just message people who may live in my city. wee have nothing in common except maybe be near the same age.

I could join a facebook page about Poser and i would, like you, make friends. But that's not my goal. My goal is use facebook to make friends with people who live in my city.