# My new Facebook fan **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 7, 2023, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-facebook-fan/989731 "2023-09-07T12:55:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2023, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-facebook-fan/989731/41 "2023-09-07T22:32:53Z")
Just now I saw that I have a Facebook friend request from a woman posing on a Harley, whose feed contains this cartoon: > **[https://i.redd.it/11saj7r4g3ba1.jpg](https://i.redd.it/11saj7r4g3ba1.jpg)** OK, much more compatible. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2023, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-facebook-fan/989731/42 "2023-09-07T22:40:59Z")
I’m on Facebook and Strava and never get contacted by gorgeous, young scammers. I don’t know whether to feel relieved or offended. ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2023, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-facebook-fan/989731/43 "2023-09-09T17:17:58Z")
Squeaky Woodrow here. Me love you adequate time. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2023, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-facebook-fan/989731/44 "2023-09-09T21:28:12Z")
I’ve received several likes from people who say something like, “I don’t want to invade your privacy by sending you a Friend request, but I’d love it if you’d send me one.” To me this sounds like a vampire asking me to invite him into my house. Sincerely yours, Topper West Villa ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2023, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-facebook-fan/989731/45 "2023-09-09T22:19:58Z")
> [@markn\_1](#): > > “Fluffy 112th” doesn’t seem very promising. Maybe if we embrace it, we could work the “borg porn” angle Jojo 17th ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-facebook-fan/989731/46 "2023-09-11T12:09:54Z")
> [@DorkVader](#): > > Maybe if we embrace it, we could work the “borg porn” angle > > Jojo 17th _boom-chicka-bow-bow_ “Yes! Yes! Assimilate me, baby!” ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-facebook-fan/989731/47 "2023-09-11T12:21:01Z")
I’ve gotten the male version of those. It’s almost always a reply to a very old (and usually banal) comment of mine on someone else’s feed. The guy’s picture is always respectable looking, late 40s to 50s, and he’s always a bank exec or business manager. He’s admired my posts for a while now and would like to get to know me, would I send him a friend request. The part that kills me is that the “I admire what you have to say” is virtually always prompted by some stupid reply of mine to someone else, like “That kitten is TOO cute!” or “OMG, unbelievable …” Scammers gotta scam. 🤷‍♂️ ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-facebook-fan/989731/48 "2023-09-11T14:34:55Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > _boom-chicka-bow-bow_ “Yes! Yes! Assimilate me, baby!” “We will add your biological distinctiveness to our own, and do it slowly.” ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-facebook-fan/989731/49 "2023-09-11T19:09:15Z")
I get friend requests from “men” whose profile is a photo of a doctor (complete with stethoscope, sometimes in scrubs) with no education, no friends, and no posts. Sometimes it shows they’re in some foreign country (not Europe). Yeah right!!! ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-facebook-fan/989731/50 "2023-09-11T19:12:16Z")
I’m _Lucky Center_ for a stripper/porn name. I think it sorta works. The next one would be _Pretty boy McCullough_ not so good. More like a gangster name ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-facebook-fan/989731/51 "2023-09-11T21:02:34Z")
I am Buster Mainstreet, I like it. Feels quite manly, like me! 🙂 If only we had lived two blocks over on Cherry Street it would have been awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2023, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-facebook-fan/989731/52 "2023-09-14T01:08:55Z")
Pete Cricket. I think it works. (Actually, Pete’s papers said his name was Salty P-Nuts, so it’s _technically_ Salty P-Nuts “Pete” Cricket; now it _really_ works) Oh, and _lots_ of _hawt_ women with 3 pictures and 4 posts want to be my friend on social media. And I sometimes get random text messages asking if I’m somebody else. When I try to explain that I’m not, they immediately lose all interest in that person they were trying to connect with and now want to know all about _meeeeee_! I feel so special when that happens. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2023, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-facebook-fan/989731/53 "2023-09-15T01:59:44Z")
> [@Moriarty](#): > > And I sometimes get random text messages asking if I’m somebody else. When I try to explain that I’m not, they immediately lose all interest in that person they were trying to connect with and now want to know all about _meeeeee_! & you should tell them all about you - how you’re up the river for a long stint for that heinous crime you committed & how every last cent of the pittance you make as a swabbie goes towards restitution. Hmmm, maybe they could fund your commissary account; hopefully before the guards do another sweep & confiscate your contraband phone. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-facebook-fan/989731.md?page=2)