HOW TO FACEBOOK

Facebook will suggest "people you may know". With the intent of getting you to "friend" them. Which is sometimes worthwhile, sometimes not. A good rule of thumb is to scope out their friends and their profiles before clicking. If the friends you have in common are all sane individuals whom you respect, and their profile suggests that the person in question is also a balanced (and rational person) you could respect, then maybe yes. If there are symbols or posts that show a philosophical affiliation which is dubious or less than that, no.

[And obviously, a curvy scantily clad profile picture is a warning.]

[To the best of my knowledge, none of my friends are curvy scantily clad persons, of either gender. Appropriate people are NOT scantily clad on their Facebook Profile. 
Whatever their apparent gender might be.]

A shared interest is marginal at best. One pipemaker whom I unfriended months ago does stellar work, but seems to be a raving Trumpite nutball living in the great American outback. After putting him on mute several times I finally took the plunge, because I was sick of his nonsense.
Still, a superior craftsman.

Very nice pipes.

But a reprehensible human being.

Almost all members of a local grass-roots political action group are also on the "no more contact in this life list". Which they probably never realized, given that their social media posts turned increasingly anti-Obama several years ago.
There were ever diminishing chances to interact.
Given how FB algorithms work.


Several of the people I keep in contact with are non-gluten phobic pro-vaccination liberal humanists.


Quite a fair number of them are rabbis or rabbinical students.


That should not surprise anyone.


To the best of my knowledge there is only ONE Christian minister among my FB friends. Who, if she were not a Christian minister, would have been born as a modern-orthodox rabbi.

Most of my FB friends are neither rabbis nor pipe smokers.
A few are food mavens. The Venn diagram is messy.

Only two of them are Goths.
Out of 300-plus.



Facebook friend suggestions are only barely useful.

Most of my FB crowd are younger than myself.





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