If there's not a book on this I'm sure there soon will be

If you go in any book shop there's usually a section which groans under the weight of multiple volumes detailing to do pretty much anything in the world, as well as "rules" for all sorts of situations/jobs/clubs etc.

There seems to be one of these books for anything you can think of. Heck there’s even Mormonism for dummies!

And no it’s not a Sunday school manual!


One thing I noticed there doesn't seem to be any hard and fast guide to the etiquette of using facebook. I mean anyone can log into facebook, apparently one in thirty of the worlds population does and it’s now grown into this huge international “ you must have” Kind of thing.

I know I’m rambling a bit now but bear with me. I am getting to a point here.

Specifically what are the rules for certain situations such as Friend requests. Who should you ask to be a friend? Does somebody from Work count as a friend? Does somebody from church who you might rarely speak to count as a friend? Fine neither of you talk to each other but would they be offended if you don’t ask them to be a friend?

Likewise do you accept Friend requests from anyone even if you haven't seen good ole john since Primary school and even then you only sat next to him for two days whilst somebody else was sick but it obviously meant a lot to him as he's sent you a friend request. Or is there a minimum standard you should apply. Does a person have to know you a set amount of time before you should accept a request

Also what do you do if you get a friend request from someone who knows you and has mutual friends but you can’t for the life of you place them as it were? At least if you run into somebody like that in the supermarket you can fake your way through a conversation that of course you know who they are.

Ummm not that I’ve done that at all.............. Honest : - )

Plus what happens if you see someone you consider a friend whose sent Friend requests to everyone else you know but you. What do you make of that? Get offended? Wait for them to send you a Friend request? Send them a Friend request?

Getting someone on your list is only half the battle. Keeping them is a whole other story. Especially as you don’t get a notification if someone removes. So what do you do if someone removes you as a friend? Do you quietly accept it? Do you decide that they must have their reasons and quietly moan the loss of a friendship as it is consigned to the depths of history.

Or do you send them a email filled with righteous indignation demanding to know why they don't want to have you as a friend anymore, and informing them that you're very angry about this even if you've never spoken to them since accepting their request and only occasionally pay attention to their status updates. In fact you’re so angry that you will send them another friend request just so you can remove them from your list! Yes that will show them.

For something which is so easy to log into it’s so hard to master. It's all terribly vexing isn't it?

Anyway

Later Folks