Tom Raferty is a gentleman.  He popped me an email to let me know that he defriended me on Facebook and wrote a blog post about me, Funny FaceBook spam! That’s what I call professional courtesy!  Here’s my response to him as sent to him via email, although I also posted it onto his blog as a post as well.

I am always happy to receive email from you and blog posts.  I have almost 4,000 friends on Facebook, so inviting my friends to my events doesn’t seem like spam at all to me. In Facebook, you cannot actually invite anyone who is not explicitly connected to you.  So, this month, I am offering a series of 3 free webinars — for free, mind you — that I would love my friends to attend.  Am I being aggressive?  Well, yes; however, over 340 folks registered to attend my last Tw itter for Business webinar, so I don’t think it is much of a problem.  I am sorry to have lost you as a friend, but I am happy to be blogged about, even in this situation, because I know for a fact that when y ou’re connected via Facebook, it is surely a double-opt-in situation where I am surely allowed to message my Facebook friends, especially if it is to invite them to something for free that could actually save them a lot of money and a lot of trouble. Thanks for emailing me and giving me a heads-up for this article — I appreciate it!

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