You did the right thing. At least he accepted your explaination and was polite about your privacy.
Before I'd been on FB very long I had accepted friend requests from 2 colleagues and one supervisor. I liked them but they aren't privy to my personal life. Unfortunately now I have to keep everything on there very innocuous and impersonal. E.g. I couldn't use it for dating or searching for a new job.
The difficult part came when a senior manager who is very close to the top of my company requested to friend me. I felt intimidated because she has so much power over my career. I declined. One year later she sent another request, and I declined again.
She has used FB in the past to monitor other employees activities and actually counts the number of minutes during the day that they spend logged in. She also has publicly criticized these people for not working hard enough.
Now I regret having ANY colleagues as FB friends because FB is next to useless for me to talk to my real friends about sex, drugs, love, work, depression, etc. None of my family use computers. Yay! I love LPSG for the freedom and privacy I have, but my other friends are now partitioned off on FB.
Yuck! What a mess! I am meeting more and more colleagues who have shut down their FB accounts for these and other reasons. It's too stressful!
On the other hand, for those who want to network for clients it's possibly OK to start a business only account, but how fun would that be?
