What happens when you reject someone’s advances to become a Facebook friend? Do they get a message telling them that they’ve been turned down or is the matter simply dropped with no acknowledgement of the action from either side?
I really like sites such as Facebook but only when I’m able to keep my friends to people who actually are my friends. There’s no need for fakery, but I don’t know what happens when I reject someone as the link is too tenuous. Previously it’s always been people who are of no consequence and (oddly) in fact completely unknown to me; now I’m receiving requests from people I’ve actually met. Here’s the problem: how do I turn them down without slapping them in the face?
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Well I’m glad I’ve made your final line up! Happy revision.
Oh blimey! You were an instant addition. I had two people who I had to think long and hard whether I wanted them as ‘friends’. In the end I rejected one and accepted the other. I felt bad for rejecting one but actually worse for hesitating on the other. You can’t win really!
You think about this stuff too much.
It doesn’t tell them anything, you just don’t appear on their friends list.
http://leedsac.facebook.com/help.php#cat8
Ehhh! Thanks a lot. Much much appreciated. I had kind of assumed it wouldn’t give the person I reject as a friend a big LOSER sign after I’d declined their Best-Friend-Forever offer, but it’s always great to know for sure!
As Ken said, you just think about these things too much, hun. And, to be honest, I don’t think Facebook was made for people to create the list of their truest friends… it’s more of a network that links you with the rest of the world!! I find it exciting. Probably I don’t take these “friend” listings to seriously because of Myspace, where you can be a fan of a musician and become his/her friend with the click of a mouse.
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