An "A List" celebrity sent me a friend request on Facebook this weekend.

Leaving aside the paradoxical description, yeah, Sandra Bullock may just be that bored.

The fan site isn’t really relevant. The question is how many friends she has on the profile contacting you. You should be able to go check, even if her friends list is set to private. Sending friends requests opens up the profile.

But chances are it’s not real at all. Personally, I’d just report it to Facebook as fake, and let them determine if it is so.

It’s not even the number that’s as relevant as seeing if they add a bunch of incredulous people. And also you should be able to see what they post–check if they pimp their own stuff and actually sound like them. Also you can see photos, and see if it’s just sexy pics or a bare minimum number.

In short, check and see if the profile seems like a real person.

Is her first name Zsa Zsa?

I’m friends (in RL and on Facebook) with maybe three C List celebs (an actor, a comedian, and a journalist with a national column and previous TV series) - they have public profiles in their real names, but none of them use precisely their real names for their personal accounts. I’d be a little suspicious of an A Lister doing so.

I’m with you. I don’t do coy.

I doubt that her professional name is her real name in the first place. I might have more to say later this morning. Or maybe not.

And don’t forget… She’s also just a girl, posting to a boy, asking him to friend her.

Can someone PM me if the so-so-secretive Facebook friend ever gets revealed?

Hey. I was thrilled to get a friend request from a “D” list celebrity- a hometown local musician who had some minor credits with a few major rock bands, and a failed marriage with another “D” list musician.
I sort of knew the guy when I was a teenager ( he signed my yearbook but I don’t think I ever had a conversation of more than a few sentences with him). I was really surprised he remembered I existed.

I’ve heard of vaguebooking … this must be vaguedoping (with an extra level of irony since the vagueness actually involves Facebook).

yep, totally vague-doping :dubious:

I’m betting the account is run by her assistant anyway.

I never knew there was a term for this, but of course there would be! Holy shit does that behavior drive me nuts and get people quickly unfollowed if they show a pattern of doing this.

Vaguebooking seems entirely about posting annoyances vaguely. This is more like some slow build brag or something. A slightly disguised “Guess who invited me to a party yesterday! Nope, guess again!”. The problem is that the reveal will almost always disappoint.

I am friends with some of my favorite SF/fantasy authors, but many of them I know from the con circuit.

Here’s how you should absolutely handle this:

Pull an image of her off the web, photoshop yourself in next to her, post it everywhere on social media and announce that you are besties.

Or you could not be that guy who shares her name all over the Internet. If she friended you, and you want to say friended, why don’t you respect her privacy? Just a thought.

I am Facebook friends with several authors, comic book artists, minor actors, and Wonder Woman’s granddaughter. I find nothing odd at all about this thread.

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I know the feeling. Mary Elizabeth Winstead keeps asking me to be her friend and pestering me. I finally had to say to her ‘look Mary, this dick ain’t yours and you ain’t earned it yet’.

If her attorney is reading this please don’t sue me for libel for making that up.

I’m beginning to think this is real. I was very skeptical at first. She hasn’t given me her personal phone number but she gave me her PR reps phone. I havent called it but I looked it up and it checks out.

If a 40 something actress shows up in a show set in the Carribean this fall, it’s true.

This isn’t stealth bragging, I was just wondering if this happens often. I’ve been online for close to thirty years and it’s never happened before.