Creepy unsolicited facebook Message

In My Humble Opinion
1

I play guitar. People online on this board might know this, but not anyone that knows my RL name. People close to me know I play guitar, but nothing I do online associates me with guitar. I have no YouTube videos of me playing guitar. I don’t play in a band. I don’t collab with other musicians for the most part. I’m a guitar player who stopped playing in my 30’s and started up about again 5 years ago @ 44 as a personal, pretty much solo, hobby. I bore my friends with this hobby, but have zero – zero! online presence re guitar.

So I notice today that someone sent me a message on Facebook that was filed under “other” – I guess that means unsolicited, not sure?

From Greg [LastName omitted, but very generic]:

“i love your guitar playin”

Nothing else. I don’t know this guy. I live in CA, his very bare profile says GA. I blocked him on Facebook.

Wife says it’s probably random. I’m kinda creeped out. What do you think?

2

I’d guess that it’s probably spam or some data-mining attempt. Likely many other people got the exact same message.

3

Random.

It’s like the twits who send out a million phishing emails that look like they come from Bank of America. They know perfectly well that 90%* of the people who receive those emails won’t have accounts at B of A, but that’s fine because email is cheap and the other 10% will have accounts there.

“Greg” probably sent out thousands of those messages. Lots of people play guitars. He’s betting that some of them will accept his friend request.

  • I made up those percentages, but the point remains.
4

Yeah, that was my SO’s interpretation: random hackery. Maybe, but it just seemed so specific.

5

He didn’t make a friend request. Just the message.

6

These are my thoughts exactly.

Also, how do you know if this Greg person is actually a real person?

You did the right thing. Move on and don’t worry about it.

7

You should send him a naked video of you playing the guitar, clearly he’s a fan