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Thread #132237   Message #2991624
Posted By: PoppaGator
22-Sep-10 - 02:53 PM
Thread Name: Tech: When FB friend reqs become sinister...
Subject: RE: Tech: When FB friend reqs become sinister...
I was surprised to read of George's reluctance to have any fb-friend-type contact with younger people. Maybe I'm just not as paranoid as I should be, but MOST of my facebook friends are contemporaries of my kids.

Now, I'm in my 60s and these "youngsters" are late-20s-early-30s types, so there isn't much danger of anyone being accused of pedophilia ~ which is, I suppose, the basis for so much cyber-caution. (Second only to fear of identity theft, of course.)

I occasionally find that I have a "friend" whom I don't remember either requesting or accepting. In each such case, however, there has always proved to be some mutual interest and/or mutual friend to explain the connection. Perhaps the only real problem is with my memory...