Follow the directions in my post to block specific people from seeing specific parts of your profile.
Settings (in the blue toolbar on the top of the screen) -> Privacy Settings -> Profile-> Choose individual people from the pulldown menus for each part of your profile
I have a former friend whose requests I’ve repeatedly ignored on Facebook. I came to realize I only associated with her as a teenager because I didn’t have many other friends or much else to do. We have nothing in common, and she is the most mind-blowingly self-centered and controlling person I know. I’m sure she doesn’t understand why I’ve severed ties with her, but there’s no explaining it to someone like her.
Sometimes you just have to cut toxic people out of your life.
I refuse friend requests on Facebook frequently - I want my ‘news’ pages to be actually useful, which they’re not if they contain information from 300 people, 200 of whom you’ve met once or never!
If you really feel obliged to add them, which you shouldn’t, just heavily restrict what they can see. I’ve done this with people who I don’t want to be able to see every detail of what I post.
Yeah idiot. I’m going to “friend” you. The guy who stole my campus phone card* and rang up $500 of calls to Laos, smashed my roomates glass table and then failed out of school with a 0.1 GPA. That’s someone I want to connect with later in life.
*Before mobile phones, etc, we had calling cards / IDs for billing long distance calls from campus phones.
not on Facebook, obviously
There isn’t a “reject request” button that will block all future requests from this person? That would seem to be a handy, and rather obvious, feature. Whether or not it sends any indication back to the requester of what happened.
forgot to check log-in on this computer
Shoot, if you’re evil, then I’m Adolf Hitler.
Seriously. I’ve got a cousin I used to be really close friends with whom I wouldn’t friend on any networking sites. Or give her my email address or write hers down when someone tries to give it to me. And I don’t even find her grating, like you do this woman. She’s just really, really unpredictable and melodramatic, so I never know when I’ll set off a hissy fit. I love her dearly, but I’m just not up for the hissy fits. It seems like a really dumb reason to cut off a family member, but in all fairness she was the one who told me that I never needed to contact her again. Ain’t my fault she was right.