Do you feel guilty when you have to decline your friends invitation

I turn down lots of group invitations from friends all the time. I don't want to join lots of groups because I don't visit facebook that often. I hardly ever join groups my friends send me. If I join a group it's because I found the group somewhere and I want to join it, and I never send invitations for friends to join. I don't think you should feel guilty for not being into the same things that your friends are. Don't explain unless for some reason they demand an explanation, and then just shrug and say it's not your thing. It's not a big deal.

I really do not think you should to feel guilty, you are independent, and friendship is actually a social relationship based on common interest, you needn't to mix up with others all the time. What's more, if the invitation is from Facebook, it's a very casual invitation,nothing serious, then of course you needn't to feel guilty.

Hello venshida! I have been with Facebook for a very long time now. So far, I have not had any problems or issues declining invitations from friends. I must admit that a lot of those invitations are not really interesting. So for me, I don't see any reason why I should feel guilty for declining their invitations. Besides, I also have sent out a lot of invitations and not all the invitations were accepted. And well, I'm cool with that.

No, i wouldn't. I hardly ever accept invitations to groups and stuff because more often than not it will have just been facebook that has randomly selected me as one of the people to receive an invitation on their friends list. I do accept the ones i would genuinely like to join though :D

Don't feel guilty if you decline to those groups. Those groups are just for fun and they are just asking for more members. I always receive a lot of those requests from my friends and I decline most of them. I also ask them to join the group that I created and some of them decline to. Well we never took it hard and it was just a normal thing and nothing personal. I would feel bad if the group that I asked them to join is the name of our group of friends but it wasn't those are groups like "I hate boring classes", "I love it when the teacher is absent" etc groups so you should not take them seriously.

There is nothing to feel guilty. Its all your wish that what you want to join and what you don't want to join. Just tell frankly why you don't want to join or add someone.

i have a cousin who put something like this on her shout out stating that she dont like to open much of applications on her facebook so sorry for those people who are sending her to join on something but she never did. now if the application is sending her love then she will give a little note saying about how she appreciates that love and she loves back but not agree on any groups or something. i do that too. though i dont send any note i just decline or ignore if i am not interested with it. there is nothing bad if you dont like to join the group that they are a member. not all the group they like to be members... that does not mean you need to join too. just my view

Well, I actually don't really care for such sites so I usually just accept whatever invitation I get.. but if I were in your place and would have to decline the invitation.. I would just tell my friends why I did that. I'm not sure if I would feel really guilty for declining it. Simply because.. well, why should I? Ok, it might have a little bit to do with the kind of group I get invited to but if I don't feel like joining it. And my friends would have to simply accept it.

i don't. . Anyway, those were just games. It would not hurt them if I did not want to join their causes or games

Alot of my friends on facebook also send me allsorts of groups to join as well as all sorts of gifts.To be honest it is rare for me to join a group as well as to accept the gifts as well as to join all the games as well.I am forever ignoring all those requests as i think that there is no need for the groups etc.I never get asked by the people who send all these gropups why i have not joined them and if they did ask i would say i have not had time as well as have not seen any groups they have ent.

You'll get all kinds of invitation on facebook, if your friends are anything like mine. I send out quite a few myself, and I don't get upset if anyone says no. Maybe if it's your closest friend and you ignore his or hers request to support their most important cause, but apart from that I wouldn't get too stressed when declining.

I have had the same problem. I have several friends, who keep referring me to new friends, or refer their friends to me. I keep getting these random invitations to become a friend and not knowing what to do. I just keep accepting and accepting. I decided to make a new facebook account after, and ignore those requests and make a fresh start.

You shouldn't feel bad about declining an invitation. The sender will not see that you ignored the request and most people will not be offended if you decline an invitation, especially since most requests are sent out in mass. I don't play Farmville and ignore the countless requests sent to me.

I know how you feel, I felt like this in the past. You shouldn't feel guilty though, so don't worry. Maybe just make it clear that you are not interested in receiving requests, put it on ur status or something, then your friends know not to send you invitations. And then if you still receive them, you won't feel bad declining them. It worked for me! x

Nope, i never approve all the invitation since i could not longer be online most of the times i decline them and instead just being friend with them is enough than no communication at all.

No I don't decline any of my friends invitation.If they are affiliated with other groups I don't mind adding them to my list.If don't want to join any of the programs I definitely give them an explanation and tell them not to force me to join those group.No need of feeling bad for this.Its your choice and others won't mind even if you decline it.

i for one ignores most of the requests i get for one reason, i'm not interested with it. the only things i accept are friend requests, i never declined any. but once a month i try to review my list of friends and delete those i do not know but of course i let them know i'm deleting them from my list with matching reasons. my point is, it's never enough reason to feel guilty just because you've declined a request, it's pointless since it was just an invitation. what are you gonna do anyway with applications, or causes, or groups, etc. etc, which you don't even know what they're about and not of your interest. just stick with those that catch your interest.

why i will feel guilty? i only decline my friends when i am indeed inavailable. i am a human who have the freedom to decide what to do, and how to arrange my life. so i will not feel guilty at all. but if someone cheat his friend when he is going to decline the friend, i think he is guilty.

I have a facebook account and I can tell you I get annoyed when people send me requests to join some group. A real problem with most of those invitations is that you can't block them. I ignore nearly all of them because if you didn't it would be impossible to be an active member of all the ones that you are sent. No one should make you feel bad or force you to accept an invitation to a group if you don't want to. You also have to think about the fact that most groups most likely will be asking for some of your time which could end up being very draining. My advice is that you should stand your ground and do what is best for you and ignore the requests and if someone doesn't like it, too bad.

I don't feel guilty since my invitations are all nonsense. I mean the group of friends I have in my Face book is more in game invitations. I do play games but too much is a pain already and gets me addicted. I just decline some but in groups I just accept them if one of my friends are listed. It is no biggie really. Happy Lotting ^^