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I have got 41 friends

Good for keeping in touch with people but i hate people who want to be your friend and you don't know them
 
I have so many friends Facebook had to set up an extra site - Facebookextra.com - to cope. And I have like a squillion followers on Twitter. I'm pretty big on the internet. I'm a major web identity. People write about me in blogs and stuff.
 

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cross#4 said:
*******, if your going to be one you Gould Atleast be able to spell it.
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HSSB said:
I jumped ship from Myspace to Facebook first out of anyone I know when 3 offered free mobile Facebook for most of 2009. I don't think I will jump ship again, I have 500+ facebook friends and don't think they would all jump ship to another site.
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I have it on good authority that you do not have 500+ friends.
 

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Got a co-worker that I regularly work with try to add me. I don't want to accept because she's nosy and talks a lot, meaning anything she sees on my facebook will get spoken about with various people at work. Not that there's much to hide, but I value the separation between business and pleasure so to speak.

In terms of mutual contacts, there is an ex-colleague of mine added (works elsewhere now) as well as someone that currently works with us but only on the odd occasion.

I know she's going to press me about accepting her request and I'm not that confident about handling this situation as I've never experienced anything like it before.

Advice?
 
Power King said:
Got a co-worker that I regularly work with try to add me. I don't want to accept because she's nosy and talks a lot, meaning anything she sees on my facebook will get spoken about with various people at work. Not that there's much to hide, but I value the separation between business and pleasure so to speak.

In terms of mutual contacts, there is an ex-colleague of mine added (works elsewhere now) as well as someone that currently works with us but only on the odd occasion.

I know she's going to press me about accepting her request and I'm not that confident about handling this situation as I've never experienced anything like it before.

Advice?
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Lie. its probably the most immature way to go about it, but it can be super effective.

You can start with a "but i never received a request!" type response, and when that gets old go for a "oh, i haven't been on fb for ages, all the notifications go to the spam thing... i'll totally accept when i'm on next" kinda thing, with the right privacy settings and a lack of mutuals you can pretty easily keep this excuse until they give up/get the message, just keep the same dp!

Also blocking them can be effective, but that requires a serious lack of mutuals and you can easily get caught out...:(
 
Have you tried hitting her?

Seriously, just tell her you don't like adding co-workers for the reasons you just mentioned here (minus the bit about her being nosy). If she can't accept that, it's her problem.
 

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Power King said:
Got a co-worker that I regularly work with try to add me. I don't want to accept because she's nosy and talks a lot, meaning anything she sees on my facebook will get spoken about with various people at work. Not that there's much to hide, but I value the separation between business and pleasure so to speak.

In terms of mutual contacts, there is an ex-colleague of mine added (works elsewhere now) as well as someone that currently works with us but only on the odd occasion.

I know she's going to press me about accepting her request and I'm not that confident about handling this situation as I've never experienced anything like it before.

Advice?
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If she asks you, just say "Oh, I make a habit of not having colleagues on FB. Honestly, it's nothing personal." If she presses you, just say "I had a bad experience, so I decided it's a good policy". If she asks about the others, just tell her you had them from before you decided to make this a policy.

If she keeps asking, repeat the "bad experience" line and go no further. As far as she'll know, you had some freaky stalker colleague somewhere down the line and you genuinely don't want to talk about it, which would be fair enough.

Of course, this is making some assumptions about how well you know each other and how long you've been working together, but if it suits the situation, do it.
 
Most people I know don't like to have their work friends on Facebook. I only work 3 days a week and I still only have 1 work friend on there. It's nice to keep things separate and people will generally understand.

People work 8:30 - 5 or 9 - 5, 5 days a week, is it really that much to ask that your Facebook is separate from work? Even if you work part time/shorter hours, I think you get enough time around them to not need Facebook.
 
Power King said:
Got a co-worker that I regularly work with try to add me. I don't want to accept because she's nosy and talks a lot, meaning anything she sees on my facebook will get spoken about with various people at work. Not that there's much to hide, but I value the separation between business and pleasure so to speak.

In terms of mutual contacts, there is an ex-colleague of mine added (works elsewhere now) as well as someone that currently works with us but only on the odd occasion.

I know she's going to press me about accepting her request and I'm not that confident about handling this situation as I've never experienced anything like it before.

Advice?
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Accept her then setup the privacy settings so she can only see a limited profile.
 

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