Op-Ed: Stop Inviting Me To Your Facebook Author Page, Stranger

A Letter To The Guy Who Just Friended Me On Facebook

By Christine Sloan Stoddard

Dear Wannabe Writer Published Two Poems on Blogspot Three Years Ago,

We've never met, but we've known each other on Facebook for all of five minutes. You friended me and immediately sent me a request to like your author page. I foolishly accepted your Facebook request because of our mutual friends (like, literally hundreds) and, ugh, popular social media promotion adages. More friends, more likes, amirite?

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​I accept to my detriment because you're a spammer. I'm guilty of that, too, but at least I hold off on my invite attacks. Maybe engage with at least one of my posts first? Maybe don't take the "fake it till you make it" advice quite so close to heart? Maybe you don't need an author page just quite yet? At least wait until you've been published on 20 Blogspot lit mags, lol.

LOL.

L.
O.
L.

​Unfriend. 

Byeee.

​Sincerely,
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A Writer Sick Of Facebook Habits Like Yours

P.S. Don't write me back. And definitely don't send me another friend request.