Facebook “friends”?
I now have 30 friends on Facebook, which is rather remarkable considering my socialization habits in conjunction with my tendency to befriend non-’Net people.
The trouble is, of those exactly 4 are people that I actually speak to on a regular basis. Another 4 are friends that I don’t talk to much but like to keep up with. Another 11 aren’t exactly friends, but are people that have been in my life that it’s nice to know about. The other 11, over a third of the total, are people that I’ve had some degree of contact with at some point in time (many from long, long ago and some I had literally forgotten had ever existed) who have somehow found me and sent a friend invitation that felt rude to refuse.
Is it rude to refuse? Is it even more rude to change your mind and punt them after the fact?
October 23rd, 2008 at 7:01 pm
It might be rude to refuse, but I have no problem with it at all. I just refused someone the other day because I can’t stand her any more now than I could stand her years ago. Others that can only very loosely be considered acquaintances I have allowed–for now–just because I’m surprised they would bother to track me down. There was no friendship with them “back in the day” really, but I don’t mind being open to the possibility now.