Attention FACEBOOK MEMBERS

What is FACEBOOK etiquette here?

Feel free to comment or write me directly.

I can tell you this:

If you ask me to be your friend on FACEBOOK, I am not going to turn you down unless I know you and am carrying a grudge for the past 30 years or so.

I mean.

Come on. Let's not take this too seriously. It's FACEBOOK.

I am not asking you to share my toothbrush.

I am not asking you to spend a weekend in Las Vegas.

Well, at least, not yet.

This dilemma has come about because some of my students have found me on FACEBOOK and legendary teacher that I am, have asked me to take in their friends as mine.

Of course. fair minded man that I am, I readily acquiesced.

Then I get a crisp reply from a friend of a friend who says:

DO I KNOW YOU? or

I CAN'T RECALL MEETING YOU. or

I DON'T ADD PEOPLE I DON'T KNOW.

Hey, I didn't ring your doorbell at 2AM and ask to bed down for the night.

All I asked was for you to join me a a FRIEND on a social network.

What could be so terrible about that?

When I visited Club Med in 1975, guests still slept with their doors unlocked.

Now, in America, there are security systems, bars on the windows, a bevy of handguns and you need FBI clearance to gain admission to becoming a FRIEND on FACEBOOK.

Can't we all get along?