Lets say you think of a university you attended... say University X, and you type the year 2009. So you know they still study at the Uni...

Now you can keep running through the photos until you find an attractive one.

How do you do a cold approach (without coming across like a stalker)?

Like they will ask "do I know you?" or "how did you find me?". So to counter that first, I should be direct that I stumbled upon her profile.. but HOW did I stumble upon her profile without common friends?

I think there is a huge untapped resource here because unlike dating sites, these girls do not get a lot of random emails from strangers.

If she says "How do i know you?"
You can reply saying "You dont i was trying to find a friend and saw your profile in my search and just thought you were cute as a button and i knew i had to get to know you."

Just say that she was suggested by facebook .

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kamadeva

say like "thought id add a local school mate since we go to teh same school" yadda yadda.. ive gotten away with "oh just tryin to make new friends i live by university x"

having something in common seems to grab their attention rather than hitting on them cuz they probably get millions of guys doin that.

tekryder GREAT point

How about this?

"My friend found this great girl just by stumbling on people whose photos show they're decent girls. So I thought of giving this ago. "

try to pre-plan your approach to avoid it, open with something in her profile and talk about it, usually chicks asked me that question when dated..

if she still asks, just tell her the truth, she poped in a group and looked cute/cool/sexy/familiar (whatever fits your game).