The Facebook “Friend”
December 14th, 2007
It’s a common occurence these days, someone requesting you to be your friend on Facebook who you aren’t actually friends with. What is a friend? Usually my guideline is that if I walked past any of these people in the street, I’d stop and have a yar or maybe sit down for a quiet (or not so quiet ale). Now recently, my social network has intersected with groups of people that went to highschool with me, lots of these people I didn’t ever speak to at school let alone was I friends with, so should I tweak my “rule” and add people who I know but really wouldn’t have a beer with.
You see the problem I have with adding these “known strangers” isn’t with them getting to stalk me. It’s that if I send out an invitation to all of my friends to come to a party - I only want the “have a beer friends” to come. At the end of the day, more friends are cool - Right?
Jameses said:
But you’re in New Zealand… who’s going to go to a party there?
If a ‘known stranger’ makes the trip to QT for your party, maybe they are worht getting to know ‘over a beer’…