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[SteveAvfc.]

Hi Oofers how many of you use Facebook ??.
Now then what i want to hear is your excuses in telling people should you bump in to them as to why you didn't accept there friends request.

If you are a Facebook user you will know what i am referring to. Maybe we could compile a top ten. 

[TheBoy]

I tell any arsebook users that I prefer real friends to virtual ones

[TheBoy]

Oddly, we were sat around table just 10m ago debating the merits of real friends versus arsebook 'friends' !

[05omegav6]

The sole purpose of facebook is as the research site for Jeremy Kyle

Don't have an account and never will, sorry I can't help

[Big_Al]

Not my thing either 

[plym ian]

not my thing either I just about have time for oof

[Abiton]

Is there an actual arsebook site?

If so I'd be constantly trying to befriend this lady:



 

[waspy]

I don't see how facebook friends can be called "friends"

A "friend" is someone that can be relied on in a crisis or time of need.
Being a friend of someone you've never met is not friends, they're associates.

Facebook my arse. Total load of drivel

[SteveAvfc.]

I simply use Facebook to stay in touch with close family and friends, most of which sadly live many miles from me. Mostly up north and a handful out in Australia.

I agree it is an arse hole book, that's why i posted this thread to see what excuses were best  bit of fun fellows. 

[albitz]

I find skype much more useful for keeping in contact with distant family.

[Martian]

Hi Oofers how many of you use Facebook ??.
Now then what i want to hear is your excuses in telling people should you bump in to them as to why you didn't accept there friends request.

If you are a Facebook user you will know what i am referring to. Maybe we could compile a top ten. 

You don't have to tell them fu*k all as they won't know if you have even seen the request, let alone ignored or acknowledged it

[OOMV6]

It is in some ways unfortunate that FB uses the word "friends". This, as is evident by the responses in this thread so far, has certain implications. LinkedIn, for example is intended for more professional uses and use the term "contacts" or "connections". I personally think this is better.
That said, like it or not, FB is what people use. I don't like the idea of reading the minituae of peoples lives, but I am very interested to see that since I opened a company facebook page for my company, my website traffic has increased to all time highs - and as a result I am now overloaded with work. So as a marketing tool, it works very well. Friends? Not my thing particulary, and I always only had crap to say about FB.
But times change. How many people remember one saying "why would I need a mobile phone?" for example.
So for FB, I take it for what it is and use it for my needs. Advertising. Marketing.

As for the OP question. In the past if I hadn't accepted a friends request, and subsequently meet them, I simply tell them "we're not friends, we just know or have met each other".
Nowadays, I tend to accept many as the more people I am linked with the more people will know about my business. Free advertising.

[Dishevelled Den]

Is there an actual arsebook site?

If so I'd be constantly trying to befriend this lady:



 

That'll do for Uncle Denny - thank you Abi.

[cam2502]

I use it, can be very useful at times but must admit it bugs the life out of me when johny no-mates tells the world he's having a cup of tea with three sugars 

There's an omega owners page on it as well that I sometimes have a look at.

[Kevin Wood]

Yes, I have friends who I only see every few years. Perhaps I should communicate with them more often than I do. Perhaps if I joined @rseboox I could.

On the other hand, it's quite nice to "catch up" when I do (physically) meet them. Not sure what I'd have to say to them in such circumstances if I had been updated on their every bowel movement since last meeting them via social networking.

You also find it's the people who you are least interested in hearing from who post the most "noise", IME.

..and just in case such people know someone like me who doesn't do social networking and, therefore, might miss the status of the traffic on their latest commute into work or some equally useless information, they post duplicate copies of the same bilge on @rsebook, idiotter,n LinkedIn, via e-mail, every mailing list and forum they subscribe to, etc.