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This is the best anti-social-networking article I've read yet. Choice quote: You'd think that Facebook would be the perfect tool for handling all this. It's n
by brlewis 19y ago
This is the best anti-social-networking article I've read yet. Choice quote:
You'd think that Facebook would be the perfect tool for handling all this. It's not. For every long-lost chum who reaches out to me on Facebook, there's a guy who beat me up on a weekly basis through the whole seventh grade but now wants to be my buddy; or the crazy person who was fun in college but is now kind of sad; or the creepy ex-co-worker who I'd cross the street to avoid but who now wants to know, "Am I your friend?" yes or no, this instant, please.
- Dauntless 19y agoI admit I have a lot of pending friends' requests... I was hoping they were going to expire but it looks like Facebook haven't implemented this very useful feature.
- smelendez 19y agoJust click the decline/ignore/whatever button. It doesn't tell them.
- zaidf 19y agoMay be you should just not friend them? It's as easy as friending them.
- coffeeaddicted 19y agoIt's only as easy when you look at it from the technical side (two buttons - click one). From a more social point of view there's a big difference (how big depends certainly on each person).
- rkts 19y agoSimple solution: change your privacy settings.
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