# Creepy unsolicited facebook Message **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 8, 2011, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-unsolicited-facebook-message/595585 "2011-09-08T05:07:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-unsolicited-facebook-message/595585/1 "2011-09-08T05:07:38Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-unsolicited-facebook-message/595585/2 "2011-09-08T05:10:32Z")
I’d guess that it’s probably spam or some data-mining attempt. Likely many other people got the exact same message. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-unsolicited-facebook-message/595585/3 "2011-09-08T05:14:26Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-unsolicited-facebook-message/595585/4 "2011-09-08T05:15:26Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > I’d guess that it’s probably spam or some data-mining attempt. Likely many other people got the exact same message. Yeah, that was my SO’s interpretation: random hackery. Maybe, but it just seemed so specific. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-unsolicited-facebook-message/595585/5 "2011-09-08T05:16:30Z")
[quote=“Gary “Wombat” Robson, post:3, topic:595585”] “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. [/quote] He didn’t make a friend request. Just the message. ---
**Author:** ![OneMissedPost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e7dd6/32.png) [@OneMissedPost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneMissedPost)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-unsolicited-facebook-message/595585/6 "2011-09-08T05:31:55Z")
[quote=“Gary “Wombat” Robson, post:3, topic:595585”] 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. [/QUOTE] These are my thoughts exactly. Also, how do you know if this Greg person is actually a real person? > [@squeegee](#): > > I blocked him on Facebook. You did the right thing. Move on and don’t worry about it. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-unsolicited-facebook-message/595585/7 "2011-09-08T06:01:26Z")
You should send him a naked video of you playing the guitar, clearly he’s a fan