[LINK] Social e-tiquette

[Michael Still]

Pilcher, Fred wrote:
> Marghanita wrote:
>> Having just received my first invite to someone's facebook - I took
>> the option to opt out of further invites....is this the social 
>> equivalent of not accepting a business card?
>> 
>> I constantly get reminders from someone who put me into their
>> address book about 10 years ago...which I now label as SPAM?
> 
> What's a facebook? The mind boggles! 0_o
> 
> I'll suppress my raging desire to point out that the noun is
> "invitation", "invite" being a verb. ;-)

A facebook is a US college (i.e. University) yearbook. It's full of face
shots of people you didn't like. I'm thinking its use is more generally
in the sense of "social network" these days.

Mikal