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"How to Decline Facebook Friends without Offence"

This article was written by Richard Baum: "A colleague I just met at work has invited me to be their friend on Facebook. I don't want to offend them, but nor do I want to share my candid photos and lousy Scrabble scores with someone I hardly know.

Can I ignore their invite?

"Can I be your friend?" might work as an ice-breaker among small children, but it's not a question you hear often between adults, at least not outside of Las Vegas.

Friendship, it is generally understood, is a relationship that evolves through shared interests, common experiences and a primeval need to share your neighbor's power tools.

Yet for many people, Facebook permits a return to the simplicity of the schoolyard.

Rather than inviting someone to be our Facebook friend only after we've become friends in the real world, many of us are using Facebook as a short-cut around all that time-consuming relationship building..."

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Source: Reuters, 22 February 2010. Hat Tip to Tom Mighell. Internet Legal Research Weekly. Volume 11, Issue 7. 28 February 2010. Subscribe <http://lists.inter-alia.net/mailman/listinfo/inter-alia>.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on March 01, 2010 (boomark / email).