On 3/17/2010 1:41 PM, Hans Pizka wrote: > Dear friends, you should have understood so far, that I am not willing > to join ANY of these chat rooms like WAYN or FACEBOOK or others. I > definitely do not want to share my private life with others except my > family. I definitely am not interested on private things of other > people, even friends. Please respect that in the future.
While I echo Hans' sentiment (I try to keep my Facebook friends to true close acquaintances), everyone should understand that many of these types of requests are automated. Facebook, for example, can send a message to EVERYONE in your email address book and request that you join Facebook if you haven't already. Since many email programs/services automatically add every person to your address book automatically if you've ever sent them a message, Facebook (and others) will send a "join Facebook" solicitation to a number of frequent horn list contributors when another horn list member joins Facebook. It's (sadly) best to treat these invitations as spam. While the invitations may have been sent semi-intentionally when the new Facebook user allowed Facebook to scour their address book, they were probably not sent deliberately to any individual person in any personal way. It's just a testament to how impersonal social networking has really become. The big-name social media sites like Facebook do have a "don't send any more requests" link at the end of the email which seems to work. Greg _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
