One of the first things I do each morning is open my 'phone to see what activity there has been overnight. Inevitably, there is a request from someone to be my friend, or a suggestion from Facebook that I accept their recommendation of someone I don't know to be added to my list of friends.
I suppose the first listing makes some sort of sense; Facebook is, after all, geared to keeping friends in touch with each other. If one of my genuine friends had, somehow, missed being connected to me, I'd want to remedy that as soon as possible. But, the vast majority of suggestions are nor real friends, merely people I have come across in passing. Unless you subscribe to the nonsense 'a stranger is just a friend you haven't met yet' then these acquaintances are unlikely to ever make the Friends' List. In any case, I don't ever make comments on Facebook so there would be no advantage for anyone to have access to my facebook account. It would make very disappointing reading.
The other listing of 'Suggested Friends' is a lot more interesting. It raises the question of whether Facebook is monitoring the activity on my account and has decided that I am clearly a friendless misfit who needs all the help he can get to re-join the human race. And, who are the people who have been tagged to help me in my recovery? Browsing the last few days, they seem to me mostly female. I don't know whether they have volunteered to help in this charitable act or whether their names have been siphoned up in some random way; in any case, the chances of my hitting OK is virtually nil.
I just want to be left alone but how do I tell Facebook that?
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