Awkward

Jul 06, 2012 17:28

Awkward: When the person who prompted a rant sends a friend request on facebook the following week ( Read more... )

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spectralbovine July 6 2012, 22:00:40 UTC
Do what I did with my cruise post: as soon as you accept the request, change the security of that post to hide it from him. Easy-peasy.

Or just give him Limited Profile access to begin with.

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thetheatremouse July 7 2012, 15:40:16 UTC
Perhaps he already saw it and realizes he's the one who prompted it and sent the friend request in order to make you feel awkward as revenge? (is that a crazy theory? or do you already have it set so only friends can see those things anyway?)

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jeeperstseepers July 8 2012, 01:52:34 UTC
I have everything set for Friends only, except certain albums which I have set as Friends-of-friends. He sent the friend request because some people friend everyone in the world they ever interact with. I went on one date with him a week ago. It was via a dating site where there's an online matchmaker who sends you each other's profile, and if both accept, it's a mutual match and the guy calls to set up a date. If at some point you don't want to keep going out, you end things and then go into your account's Matches section and you "close the match." After a week, the guy hadn't called, texted, or e-mailed me, and he hadn't closed the match either. So finally I emailed him saying "Hi, I haven't heard from you, so I'm going to close the match myself. Good luck!" And then I closed the match. A few minutes later he sent me a message on facebook saying that he'd told the matchmaker online that he wouldn't be calling me again, but he guesses that wasn't conveyed to me. I responded that even though there's technically a matchmaker with ( ... )

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ikcelaks July 9 2012, 11:58:20 UTC
Since you're not someone who Friends everyone they ever meet, you should either ignore or decline his request. Odds are that it won't really upset him, but it's his problem if it does.

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