Being nosy on FB she has now sent me a friend request

[Shitwithsugar]

I was being nosy on FB. Put in a name and within 5 minutes I get a friend request from her. I've met her once. She is the wife of one of my husband's teammates and the mother of another.

And I am agreeing with you.

Sorry, but why is an 86 year old who's 'not up on things' the director of the museum?

Ok, good. To me it's not different than looking as somebody's website for example.
The only time it's wrong is if you've somehow hacked into the private side of the account or a mutual friend is showing things to someone else that shouldn't be shared.

She isn't any more, she resigned more than 10 years ago. It is no good asking me all the in's and out's of the set up, all I know is that she became a volunteer of a small (but well known) local museum, and however it was they did it, she was listed as director status. It even says under occupation "none", because she had no paid role anywhere.

I have just looked up the museum in question, and they are currently listing 23 people, 20 of whom have resigned in the time the company has been formed, and most of them listed by their home addresses.

I could link to the page quite easily, but I'm not going to as I don't want to draw any more attention to those involved, but please, don't shoot the messenger!

No, but people should really think carefully before accepting these positions, even if they're not told their home address will be on Companies House. I think that in some cases they can be held legally responsible for things that go wrong.

Also, aren't most 81 year olds likely to have been in the phone book most of their lives anyway and not see their home address as something confidential? It's really only quite recently that we've become so sensitive about it.

Don’t get it. What’s the point of your post?

It’s probably because you liked a shared photo rather than went to her page.

Some people friend all and sundry on FB and others just people they know well. You can leave the request unanswered for a month and then hit ignore

Agree, but why a month? On my facebook I can delete them immediately.

Oh you can - just that she will probably have forgotten about sending it by then

Ah, ISWYM

Yes! A long time ago.... my best friend has been reunited with her long lost dad because of it 😊

@Imusthavemademydeskaroundaquaterafternine If you are a company director then you do not have to provide your home address, you can simply use a correspondence address This can be the company's registered office, which may or may not be the premises from which the business operates, or a firm of accountants or similar entity.

I use Companies House records all the time as part of my job in assessing corporate credit risk and the majority of directors do not have their date of birth on the record, it is usually only the month and year. It certainly helps to differentiate between the John Henry Smith, director of Company A who you would be happy to lend money to, and another John Henry Smith, director of Companies B, C and D (all of which went bust), who you really wouldn't want to lend money to.

If you are a company director then you do not have to provide your home address, you can simply use a correspondence address

I know, and I fully appreciate this. However, it doesn't stop those who put the information across to Companies House putting down someone's home address. Mine is on there, for all to see, as I had a limited company for a while.

While the accountant who set it all up for me was 1st class, I often wish he'd told me about this and that I could elect to use his business address, should I wish to. And so on. Bearing in mind also, some of the records (case in point the lady I spoke about earlier) had been registered with Companies House long before the ability to search for those records at the click of a button was ever a thing.

@Imusthavemademydeskaroundaquaterafternine I do understand how you feel about it. I can also see that for many people (women in particular) it could cause problems should their home address be easily available. Maybe things should be tightened up in this respect and it should be made clearer to directors that there are other options. An address needs to be there for the means of serving legal documents and so on, but there is no need for it to be their personal home address.