No, thanks. That must cross some professional ethics boundary, mustn't it? I wonder if the American Psychological Association has drafted guidelines on mental health professional conduct in this area. If not, they probably should.
These Facebook suggestions provide occasional amusement, don't they? Sometimes, they are helpful. Often, they are, um, awkward.
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
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After you mentioned to me that Google searches of your name bring up your ex-husband's blog, I searched for you to see what unsavory things he was saying. I was curious, of course. Anyway, one of the things he discusses is that your name pops up on his Facebook (he took a screen shot of it), as a person he might know. Come to think of it, I'm sure you read his blog and already know this. ;)
Ah, yes. I accept that Googling someone's name is no secret investigative strategy, so I guess there's no harm in publishing this comment.
I do occasionally pop in on the ol' ex's blog, though usually it's when someone else who knows us both mentions that he posted something of interest . . . which usually translates to "something about me," though I did read his posts about his motorcycle accident a while back just because I do still love the man in a certain way and care about him not getting killed. (He probably would reject that idea, but I aver it.) The fact that he has a local talk radio show, of course, also means that I get a vague notion of what he's up to.
The FB deal seems pretty funny, I guess. He's showed up on mine as well. It makes sense, of course, since we have numerous friends in common, his e-mail address is on my contacts list, etc.
Every generation has surely had its ways of crossing paths with someone in socially awkward ways. Yet, admitting my own biased perspective, it seems like ours is especially fraught with novel ways to do exactly that.
Yeah, it once suggested my old soccer coach from high school. I guess Facebook isn't smart enough to know that I once called him a nazi and told him to..um well let's just say fornicate with a donkey.
My psychologist is on FB as well, she actually mentioned it in passing one time. I have never added her, but she did ask me to send her a photo album from a camping trip that I took (she's very outdoorsy like me), which I did, but have never asked her if it's crossing the line to add her as a friend. Even if it wasn't weird for her (and I assume it would be), it would be weird for me too, even though I have no ED-related stuff on FB.
It is interesting that she came up as a "person you might know", that means you probably have a mutual friend, do you have any idea who that might be?
I suspect that my therapist appeared as a Facebook suggestion because she is in my e-mail contacts list. Facebook pulls info from your address book, if I'm not mistaken. There might also be some San Francisco connections, but I'm not sure.
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