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Therefore I wasn't terribly surprised when I received an email saying my pharmacy school had started up a Facebook group for our class. It makes sense when you think about it because we're all embarking on this journey together. I believe the majority of schools do something of this nature.
In any case virtually my entire class is in this group. A few people have posted questions on where to live, what the weather is like and so on.
But here is where the fun starts. I have had people from my class start to add me as friends on Facebook already.
Now I am not a bashful person. I've shared my testicle story with virtually everyone I know. Despite this, I am not willing to randomly open up my life to people I have not only never met, but never spoke with.
It seems highly strange that one person, let alone multiple people, would randomly choose to add someone like that.
I come from a very small town (I graduated with ~70 people) so I know the dynamics of seeing the same small group of people day in and day out. In many ways, it can be a not terribly fun experience and you learn to value what little privacy you can ascertain.
Because of this, I'm not 'friending' anyone from my class right now. I don't know who they are and they don't know who I are. We can meet during orientation in the fall and go from there.
Anyone else find this perplexing?
8 comments:
I hate facebook.. there is nothing private about it.. That's all I have to say about this!!
I'm pretty conservative when it comes to "friending" people on facebook. I pretty much limit it to people I know from work or life, and people they know who play farmville (yes, I'll admit it, I play, lol). Basically, I've made it a policy not to friend anyone who's not a friend of one of my friends. Even then, if I get a weird vibe, I don't friend them.
I don't blame you for not wanting to jump right in before you meet anyone. It seems weird to me too.
When I started undergrad at a small private school, almost 100 of the ~500 people in my class added me before we were even moved in! And the worst part was that many of them recognized and greeted me by name on move-in day... Creepy!
I only friend people I know. But, many people in my class/pharmacy school do not have facebook, because of the professional stalker aspect... I even got in trouble once because someone screen-printed my status (I was annoyed about a reminder to complete an assignment that came out after the deadline...) and gave it to that particular teacher... That resulted in me deleting most of the pharm students I had friended because they were people I had spoken to once. So, yeah, be conservative. :)
Until I'm your friend, I'll only social network with you in LinkedIn. Facebook is for people I know (and like, even :p )
Can't you hide your profile from searches? That way you can avoid the awkwardness of being friended by people you don't know.
MD - Personally I don't mind having people be able to find me. I've gotten in touch with a lot of people I otherwise would have.
But yes you can hide it if need be. It wouldn't make much of a difference in this case though since we're all in the same FB group.
Facebook friend =/= friend. There is nothing wrong with friending someone who has something in common with you. In this case, they're your future classmate. Don't overanalyze the situation because it is seriously a non issue.
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