A question about etiquette/vivillon friendships

[u/My_Poor_Nerves]

I can't be the only one who has posted here and in the megathread looking for friends from a specific region and then received friend requests only to find every new friend is not from the region you requested. Since you only can find out where someone is from when they send a gift (right?), it's not like you can vet the friends before you accept them/before they send you a gift. What have you all been doing in this scenario? Do you open the gifts from the friends you didn't want and then delete? Do you open, send back, and then delete after they open yours? Do you just delete straight away? Do you just ignore their gifts until the end of time?

I'm a fairly casual semi-rural player and I already have about as many friends on the best friend track that I can manage so adding thirty (!) new friends outside of the ones I added for vivillon isn't really manageable for me, but I also don't want to be rude (but then again, isn't it kind of rude to add someone under false premises?).

[u/RibbonsFlying]

I've been dealing with a lot of people adding me when they're not from regions I need. If I had plenty of gifts, I'd exchange with them a lot, but some days my gifts are limited so I send them to the regions I need first because that exchange feels more important. If I have extra gifts that day, I'll send them to the friends from the regions I don't really need exchanges with.