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So, You've Accepted a Friend Request, Now What?

Farhad Manjoo and Emily Yoffe debate the question: What's the polite way to accept a friend request?

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Posted Tuesday, July 12, 2011, at 11:05 AM

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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.

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