Declaring Your Love on Facebook
Farhad Manjoo and Emily Yoffe debate the etiquette of saying you want to be more than just friends via Facebook message.
Posted Tuesday, May 24, 2011, at 11:10 AM
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This week, Farhad Manjoo and Emily Yoffe debate the etiquette of saying you want to be more than just friends via Facebook message. Listen to Episode 5 using the audio player below or by opening this player in a new window.
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Farhad Manjoo is Slate's technology columnist and the author of True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society. You can email him at farhad.manjoo@slate.com and follow him on Twitter.
Emily Yoffe is a regular Slate contributor. She writes the Dear Prudence and Human Guinea Pig columns. You can send Dear Prudence questions for publication to prudence@slate.com. (Questions may be edited.) Subscribe to Emily Yoffe's Facebook page.
Illustration by Robert Neubecker.