Why is this fair or unfair?

He doesn't get to just "friend" them on Facebook. They have to agree to be "friended" by him.

Of course it's not fair. But it is life. Just one more variation of the jackal hanging around the lion's kill.

I could somewhat understand it if the other brother has actually met the women, but if he's doing it in hopes of dating them, I don't see how that would work. And I don't know why they're accepting his friend requests. Do they do this blindly? Do they know he's the brother of someone they previously friended? Has this other brother actually succeeded in scoring with one of these women? These are the questions I want answered.

So brother A is being brother B internet wingman. The women have to accept friendship request and anything further than that will take a lot of work.
I see it as no different than taking brother to a party and saying to everyone hey this is my brother Daryl, and my other brother Daryl.
As to how much work the first brother had to do is questionable, I've had people I've met for 5 min friend request me and people I've known for years not.

I don't do Facebook, but am totally in agreement with Joe J.

This is public information, like leaving notes on the refrigerator.

Once brother B has the contact info, it is totally between him, and the ladies in question.

Friending someone on Facebook seems to be a pretty tenuous connection, and not worth getting all proprietary over.....

If he's making some questionable comments on the women's pages, that could be embarrassing, but most people have siblings and know full well what that's like. I wouldn't call it unfair.

I had a sibling rivalry in which my brother would try to usurp my friends from me. It's actually something he still does to this day, to try to get them to like him better than they like me. It doesn't always work. While he never tried to make moves on any of my girlfriends, he did enjoy actively demonstrating his personality to them. It was mildly irritating, but my girlfriends could generally see through the facade and realize what kind of person he really is. By not acting like my brother, it just makes me look like a better person.

Fair or not, totally annoying!!

I had one friend in life actually do this; go through all my friends on my list, and friend the ones he knew, even slightly.

Now, we are just about as close as a brother and sister, and both married, so I never knew why he did it.

Grating on the nerves, extremely irritating. I don't know about unfair though.

I will say my reaction was "HEY! Get your own!"

These guys are white, right?

Damn it. went to the next clip before I captured the
link.

Has the brother also met these women in real life prior to friending them?

If not, I think that's creepy.

I only accept friend requests from people I've met in person. If I were friends with someone, and one of their relatives friended me, I'd ignore that request.

Twitter, yeah, sure fine. Follow all the strangers you want. But, for non-famous people, FB is regarded as a social network of people you already know. This guy is more than welcome to friend his bro's ladyfriends, but I imagine he'll be seen as a creeper for doing so.

So long as brother B isn't cock blocking brother A, I don't see a problem. If brother A has a problem with it, well, he's a grown man and can make his displeasure known.

And these are grown women, yes? and they can make their displeasure known?

Again: what is the problem? or is this a case of people who wish they could say "no" but don't because they don't want to play the part of the bad guy? Here, go watch this and then go say "no".

It'll be liberating.

I don't often do social, but whenever I visit Facebook, it is always suggesting friends of friends, wives of friends, wives of coworkers, girls who are friendly with my nieces, all sorts of people who I only sort of know and that I think it would be awkward at best if not downright creepy to send a friend request to.

But that is the majority of the relationships that are suggested to me by Facebook.

Is it the case this other brother is intentionally stalking his brother's friends, or could he just be taking FB up on its suggestions to friend others?

And even if he is, well, come on, in an society that supports http://www.bangwithfriends.com/ I'm just not sure this one guy's behavior is all that extreme.

I view it as pretty much just how social networks (of the FB kind) work.

How is viewed is going to depend on the group of people. In some circles it is quite normal to friend people you don't really even know other than that you have a friend in common. If e makes creepy comments then of course he will be viewed as creepy.

I agree that it's POSSIBLE he's just sending requests to people FB suggests, but...
If he's just trying to pick up women his brother is working on, that's a "dick" move.
Fair, sure- and acceptable in some social circles- but uncool.

But lots of people accept friend requests from those they've never met--I do, depending on the circumstances. If BroA is worried that his Brother is going to be more popular than he is, maybe he needs to take a look at what BabyBro has going on--is he better looking, better dressed, funnier, richer?
Women are autonomous. They can befriend anyone they like. Men don't get to stake a claim.

Don't see how it is different from Joebob having a party and inviting his hot friends, and Carlbob showing up and meeting those hot driends.

Oh, and I am totally creeped out by guys I've never met who randomly send friend requests.

Dead Ringers for the Mantle twins . . .

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094964/

If A didn't want B to do this, he could set up his settings to block B from seeing these "friends". Otherwise, as annoying as it is, it's fair game. There's probably an assumption that B is like A, so unless A downplays B, even just a little, the women may be attracted to B. Doesn't sound like A is closing the deal to make B a non-issue.