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Old Jun 21, 2022, 11:02 AM
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Originally Posted by ArtleyWilkins View Post
Doesn't necessarily mean she looked you up. I have had many people show up as friends suggestions who I have never considered looking for. On occasion, it is a student or former student, or some odd acquaintance or distant relation that I have no interest in interacting with. No idea why some of them showed up - it's that weird six degrees of separation thing I'm guessing. I've been known to proactively block those names so it stays a non-issue.

Seems entirely ethical to block clients if it is the therapist's policy not to interact on social media with clients.
Yes, I've had random people show up on mine, like my then-current gynecologist--no, I don't want to friend her, thanks! Or other T's at ex-T's/ex-MC's practice. It made me wonder if Facebook paid attention to locations (I have location services on when using it) and suggested people from the location where I'd been. This was maybe 5 years ago, and it hasn't really happened since.

It's also possible that there could be friends in common, though I often get suggestions where no common friends are listed. The algorithms are pretty random, it seems.

I can understand a T blocking a client, though I'd also feel bothered by it. I felt sort of weird when Dr. T's wife posted in a group I was in (I was in it before I started seeing him, had no idea she was in it till she posted), and I let him know. She then left that group and apparently deleted many of her posts first. I felt strange about that (particularly that she felt she had to leave a group because of me), but it would have been posts about their son, so I completely understand why she did.

I don't know that she blocked me--to do so, Dr. T would have had to disclose my identity, and I don't think he can ethically do that. I mean, I guess if she let him into the account, he could do that, but I assume someplace you can see names of people you have blocked, and she might be like, "Hm, why is this LT person blocked? Oh, maybe she's the client!"
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