I've found a little park down the road from yoga to just sit down and chill. It's nice just sitting and being. The sun feels glorious on my skin. There's a breeze and the chirping of birds.
What does this all have to do with facebook? How could thoughts of facebook corrupt such a beautiful and private moment?
I got a friend request from one of my in-laws. What is the etiquette for facebook and older family members? I love my family dearly and nothing on my facebook would be in any way disrespectful to them.
But. Not sure if it's would be a good idea. I like keeping facebook as a place to say whatever comes to mind - just me and cybserspace. It's a little bit quirky, a little bit sarcastic and often very irreverent. The times I have posted under the influence of many emotions and the occasional substance.
What are the options?
- Accept and keep on being me.
- Accept and filter who gets my status updates.
- Remain ignorant of the invite.
- Figure that a white head on a blue background could be anyone and be overly cautious and not accept the invite.
- Not think too hard.
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Ugh, I hate it when relatives do friend requests. Its hard to figure out a way to casually ignore they ever sent them.
ReplyDeleteIt really is a whole can of worms, isn't it. There's ethics, etiquette, the right to expressing personal opinions freely. I am home from yoga and none the clearer as to what to do. I think ignorance will be the way to go.
ReplyDeleteAhh. Have just frittered away valuable sleep time reading your entire blog. I love it and have 'Followed' you accordingly. You're a lady after my own heart.
ReplyDeleteI understand your point. I have some friends, relatives and non-relatives, who sometimes make me wonder if I should censor my Facebook just ever so slightly. I recently deleted my aunt. Oh dear.
ReplyDeleteFor now, I have a created a list of certain friends whom I want to block from certain posts, uploads, etc.
cat - high praise indeed, thank you.
ReplyDeleteSu - good idea. Will have to do the same.
I've had relative requests and I've accepted them. Granted they're just my cousins but I don't mind them reading what I say/do. I think they think I'm strange anyway :P
ReplyDeleteI contemplate this dilemma often....I used to love putting frequent status updates on FB...but a certain couple who are close friends ofinestarted "judging" my posts and making it clear that f taken put of context, others who didn't know me as well would assume things or judge me. So now I barely update status and worry that I am too exposed being on FB at all. I feel like I want to "defriend" a whole bunch of people to be left only with those friends who I think use and view FB in the same way as I do. But then i became anxious about the "defriending" dilemma......all in all I've lost too much timebeing anxious about it!! Let me k ow what you decide! Xx
ReplyDeleteHello S!!
ReplyDeleteThank you for stopping by.
I have ended up accepting the request but with limited access to my profile - so no wall posts visible. It is also possible to set your wall post default option so that certatin people not see it on your wall.
Hope this is of help :-)
xxx