FACEBOOK MANNERS

This whole facebook "friend request" thing is interesting.

It's kind of invaded the culture. I was talking to a young woman friend in another county. We were walking from an office and talking at the same time. Young men in the building would come by and say "Hi, Amy" and she would answer back. As we walked a little further, she'd mutter under her breath "Ignore Request". It seemed she was almost doing it out of habit.

I asked her, "You're doing Facebook in the RW, is that it?" Surprised that the old fart would understand, she said, "Everybody does it all the time, it's just a little easier on Facebook."

All of which raises the issue of drawing the creepiness line for "Friend Requests" but that's an issue for another post. Hopelessly optimistic, I think friendship is almost always a good thing.