A Return Guest Post: Facebook Etiquette

Today, I bring you the latest guest vent from my friend The Parker, who broaches a subject that I'm sure will become a recurring theme as time goes on: Facebook and its seemingly endless potential for troublesome social interactions.

I went to a small college (graduated 10+ years ago!) and now on Facebook I have been "friending" and being "friended by" many past classmates. Recently I became Facebook friends with one past classmate who I was not particularly close with, but I did play a role in her meeting the man who eventually became her husband. When I put in a friend request to her husband, he did not accept it. I have no idea why not, but I decided he was rude, so I un-friended her and I blocked him for good measure.

To which I say, right on! and add another related comment of my own: just because we went to high school together 15 years ago - in a class of over 500 students - does not mean I wish to be connected to you on Facebook.  If we knew each other, even if not very well, by all means, friend-request away. That's fair game. But: if I have no idea who you are, what gives you the idea I might be interested in photos of your hiking trip in Peru or your status updates detailing the adorable things your children say? And I am certainly not prepared to have my own photo albums open to scrutiny by every yahoo who happened to grow up in New Jersey. If your name doesn't ring a bell, it's just not happening, buster.