Well said. It seems to be a habit formed from the MySpace days. I belong to a new music genre community on FB called synthwave that we've been growing for years. You get those friend requests all the time. You reluctantly accept the request only because from their profile they have dozens of mutual friends. 15 minutes later they are are sending you a PM with there music links please listen and inviting you to like there music page. It's gross tbh.
For my own Artist page I have a weird little system where I only make invites every time my page gets another 100 fans and that can take me about 6 to 12 months. When I first found the Synthwave community I just commented an engaged for a few months later posting my art in the group. I'm an artist so I wanted to do their logos and album covers. One of the things I did was find my fav synthwave producer and befriended him. I sincerely loved his music and he was one of the most respected at the time. A few months later I told him I'd love to do his next album cover. I offered to do it for nothing and that damn thing took me 3 weeks, lol. It got my art seen by everybody in the scene and 4 yrs later we are still good friends.
I don't know what's wrong with people these days?