Reporter's question about Facebook

On Boston.com, the following Reporter's Question:

Facebook friends with your boss?
Has your boss or superior coworker asked you to be their friend on Facebook and you felt uncomfortable about it? What did you do and why? Emailjodiaz@globe.comto share your story.

I'll answer this from the other side. My view is that anything put on Facebook is something the writer feels comfortable being made public, including the fact that the writer has a page. Once you have a page, you are open to invitations from virtually anybody in the world. But, you are always free to say "no thank you" by not accepting an invitation. Also, if a person does accept and later decides to remove the link, it is easy to do so.

I have invited people from BIDMC to be friends on Facebook to create another line of communication with those who like that medium. Some people prefer it to email. But, I certainly understand if they choose not to accept my invitation. Not only would there be no hard feelings on my part, but I am extremely unlikely to even remember who did not respond.