What do you do when someone wants to befriend you on Facebook and you really don't want them in your everyday social circle?

Hit the ignore button. They don’t know what happened. All they know is that you didn’t say yes. They have no idea why. They don’t know if you didn’t see it or you accidentally deleted it, or what.

I don’t know about you, but half the time I send out friend requests, I forget who I asked. If they ignore me, I don’t even remember. I really wouldn’t worry about being polite.

I’d just hit the ignore button as well. If you really don’t want to do that though. You could accept them and make a special group for them that have limited access to your information and you could block their posts from coming up on your wall.

Ignore. I’m sure they’ll live.

You are very sweet for not wanting to offend old friends. Having been declined from a couple of old friends from high school, I can tell you I wasn’t offended and understood their reasons for not accepting my friendship. It’s possible they either rarely visit Facebook and haven’t received the invitation or they are like you and only want to be friends with people they are really close to now. I understand, I’ve declined a few people myself. Don’t worry!

ditto that, I would just ignore them. that said, if you do accept the friendship you can always disable their posts from appearing on your news feed (by clicking the ‘X’ to the right of the post, then “hide posts from ____”). I do that for alot of my fb friends. I have gotten quite lax with who I allow to be my ‘friend,’ but my news feed only consists of posts from people I am either close to or who are related to me.

I hit the Ignore button.

You heartless people! LOL. OK, it’s unanimous. Maybe I’ll use the ignore button more since I’m the only softee online.

@gene116 , haha I’m a softee too, I actually don’t even have fb- for many reasons . one being that I don’t want to deal with “the filtering process” with co workers, bosses etc. I think I’d feel guilty… and if someone asked at work or what not, haha I dunno.

Hit Ignore and forget about it.

Two options: either hit ignore, or friend them so their feelings won’t be hurt, and when you see their first post, just hide them.

Hit ignore and let it go .

ignore

You can put them in a group that has limited access to your page. That way they’re still your “friend,” but they don’t have access to your stuff. Its easier to put people like this in a group than to limit access individually. You can go through and choose what you want people in this group to have access to. You can be nice and add them without giving them access to your life. Its pretty simple and it allows you to not be that person who is too much of a snob to add people from the past to their facebook friends. Once you have them on your list, just ignore all posts from them. Not a problem any more.

@klutzaroo , clever.