Assuming you have decided that sending a Facebook friend request to someone you work with is both appropriate and acceptable, the question becomes: How do you send a request they are likely to accept?

Facebook has a privacy setting that allows you to dictate who can send you requests. It defaults to letting everyone, even bots, send you a request.

With friend requests, for example, you can allow anyone on Facebook to ask to be connected to you, or limit it to friends of friends—that means only those people who already know someone you're ...