Etiquette for Ignoring Friends Requests on Facebook

[Chadmama]

I've recently starting getting a lot of friend requests from people in high school. I'm a way different person and don't really want to reignite old friendships.

I feel rude just ignoring their friend requests. I wish them all well but don't care to keep in touch.

I thought about emailing each person that sends a request and telling them I hope they are doing great and explaining why I'm not accepting their invite but I'm afraid that's just a way to ease my guilt.

Would you just ignore them or explain why you aren't going to accept the invite? Or do you think I should just accept the invite and deal with it.

[Heidymus]

Most people don't really talk to each other a lot on Facebook unless they're actual friends. I would just accept it, no biggie.

However, you can just ignore it and put yourself on private so that people can't even search you if they use your name.

[yaoman]

Yeah I just accept and put the people that I don't talk to much in a separate group. But if someone already found you and you go private it may look like you want to hide.

[Megatron-EF]

Accept the ones that you know are your friends, the ones that you talk too the most are your true friends. The rest just decline