Listen, Facebook, we have to talk.
We have a lot of fun together. We go through photos, play scrabble, chat with friends, its great. But lately I’ve started to see a side to you that I’m finding rather aggressive. I am speaking specifically about your new “People You May Know” area on the main aggregate screen that provides a short list of people that you think I have simply overlooked.
Sorry, Facebook, it’s more complicated than that. While they are friends of my friends, I do not know them. Don’t get me wrong, I am aware they exist, the names are familiar to me, but I have yet to be properly introduced and conversed to the point where it wouldn’t be weird to ask them to consider me as their friend. So, I would appreciate easing off the pressure, I will meet them on my own, at some point, in real life.
And while we’re putting it all out there, Facebook. You leave me in an awkward place when you add ex-girlfriends from back in collegeto that list. I’m not sure whether we left things as friends, so asking them to add me as a friend is a pretty loaded request.
So, please Facebook, trust me that as soon as I see a familiar face, I will add them as a friend, but until then, stop telling me who I should be friends with.
