Stephen Fry’s Facebook Hack
Many of you American’s might not know about Stephen Fry, one of England’s greatest comedic actors of the 80s and 90s. In any case, he’s definitely not one to be known to those in productivity or social networking circles.
However, this article from the UK Times Online has a few quotes and points from Fry in [...]
Many of you American’s might not know about Stephen Fry, one of England’s greatest comedic actors of the 80s and 90s. In any case, he’s definitely not one to be known to those in productivity or social networking circles.
However, this article from the UK Times Online has a few quotes and points from Fry in regards to Facebook and having to ignore friend requests.
What do you do when you want to ignore a friend request but not appear like you are snubbing anyone? Is there any way to do this politely and without hurting anyone’s feelings?
Complex Facebook etiquette aside, Fry found himself having to resort to a different solution so he could keep a personal personal profile for himself and his close friends.
The actor attempted to avert social meltdown by creating “Stephen Fry’s Friendship Proxy Group”, open to all-comers. “If you join this group instead of applying for friendship, you might save me a fair amount of heartache in having to turn you down on account of there not being enough hours in the day,” he wrote. “Some of you are friends, of course, and some of you technically aren’t, but you’re all very welcome to this group, which I hope you’ll enjoy. Consider membership to be congruent to friendship.” Currently it has 2,500 members.
If you happen to have a lot of inconsequential friend requests, is there something in creating your own group? For anyone with any kind of ‘internet popularity’ I think this is a good idea.
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