Yet another facebook question

[TootsNYC]

I messaged my cousin and asked her if she knew her and explained the situation.

I'm confused: what is the situation?

Is there some type of backstory or history with this co-worker? Did the co-worker lie to your cousin and pretend to have an existing rel@tionship with her? Otherwise, it sounds to me like your cousin chose to friend someone she didn't know. I fail to see how that is the co-worker's fault.

I agree. And I'm wondering why your cousin accepted the "friend" request.

It could have been a game thing, etc. And since Facebook runs around suggesting friends for people, it could even have been that your coworker was working her way through a list of suggested people and clicked "friend her" when she meant to click "ignore."

[Maggie]

I'm sorry it took me so long to answer.  My cousin thought maybe she was someone she knew since she was friends with me.  When I told her who she was she had the same reaction that I did.  I would not have stopped her from being friends with her if she wanted to be.  I just thought she should know who she was.  The friends on my friends list are people I know personally.  I guess I just assumed everybody was that way.  I guess I was wrong.  I still don't think I am wrong for telling her.  My past experience has taught me that de-friending her was the best choice for me.  I can't really explain it further, but I know it was the right decision.

[TootsNYC]

Oh, I don't think you were wrong to mentioning to your cousin that this person was a coworker of yours.

And if you had a reason to defriend the coworker, then definitely you can tell your cousin.

It's just that with no other anything to go on, it's not automatically creepy for someone to send a friend request to a friend of a friend.