Up until recently I hadn't had a problem with facebook. I think this was because for a long time I had a very small friend list and they were all people I knew in real life and liked.

I would say it got more complicated recently with a few people I felt obliged to add because they requested and I did not like to refuse. This has mainly been work. Most of my colleagues add each other, and sure enough I got requests, a few I was okay with, most tbh I wasn't really, but I work with these people and snubbing them didn't feel right.

Most recently I got a request from a supervisor, my heart sank. Yes he is an okay guy, I like working with him, but he & I would never be friends outside of work, we have nothing in common. But he's my supervisor so I felt compelled to accept. I looked through his timeline and most of it is benign family stuff but there was some pretty controversial stuff around the London terrorist attack. It made me feel uncomfortable. I'd rather not know these things about his personal thoughts.

I post rarely, it's mostly to share social photos etc, and I don't go out much so there's not much of that. But even so I have been through my settings limiting what he and other colleagues can see.

It's such a minefield! Sometimes I wish I'd never joined, but there again it has been useful in keeping in touch and nearly everyone does it these days.

Trying to keep out my head the stuff this supervisr posted, but it's going to be tricky for me - I wish I could 'unsee'.