James Andrews

Last night I had an interesting conversation with my Fiance. I had set her up with a Facebook account back in February so that she could show pictures to her friends online. Since then I have had family members and friends who have met her add her as a friend. She has also received many invitations to play Facebook games. Last night, she started asking me what she should do. My suggestion was that she block the application and forget about it, as that is what I do. She seemed horrified (ok maybe not horrified) that I would suggest such a thing. Saying that it wasn’t polite. I then spent several minutes trying to assure her, that it was and that if she didn’t she’d spend every waking moment of her life playing these games and would get nothing done. I finally got her to agree that she didn’t need to play these games, and that it wasn’t rude to block the applications.

I guess the big point I am making is one shouldn’t feel bad about saying no to friend invites and blocked applications. Most people get over the blocked applications pretty quickly and others forget they even friended you. For those who don’t forget, we’ll they have bigger problems if they revolve their life so much around Facebook.