[LINK] Social e-tiquette

[Roger Clarke]

At 11:50 AM +1000 4/6/07, Marghanita da Cruz 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?

I routinely decline invitation to be in people's published address 
books / social network services, as below.

Most people actually both reply and say they've deleted my entry. 
Many also say that they hadn't thought about those aspects before.  A 
few say that they're re-conssidering whether they should use the 
service.


Standard response:

I'm delighted to be in *your* address-book.

But kindly delete all information about me from <SNS-name>!!

And please ask them to confirm to you that the data has been entirely 
deleted, and that they have not retained any copies.

For the reasons why, see:
http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/DV/ContactPITs.html


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