I personally am convinced that all political discussion on Facebook is pure trolling and asshattery. I mean, unlike on a message board, you’re sending out your dank, stupid political shit directly to your friends. It appears whether they like it or not. “Here! have a shit sandwich! Let me know what you think!”
Bah. Keep your fucking politics (conservative OR liberal) off my Facebook.
Re: the OP: I’m married, with a baby on the way. I would welcome the friendly contact, but strictly make sure it was proper and friendly only.
Since I’m not male I can’t respond for myself.
My husband, however, has been contacted by several women he went to high school with. For the most part, they’ve just wanted to touch base with an old friend.
One or two have tried to rekindle old flames. When he told them he was happily married they got a bit stalkish. Since they don’t have our address or phone number, he’s had no problem ignoring them. Eventually they got the message.
I joined Face Book a few months ago to reconnect with friends from school and old jobs. It’s been fun. Had a few ladies connect with me. We exchanged a few emails talking about old times and what we’ve done with our lives. Nothing like getting together for lust and love… just to say hi. I’m glad I joined.
Sure, a girl I knew in high school added me to her friends list on Facebook. We just knew each other, were never romantically interested in one another, she’s married, and she’s never shown any interest in being anything other than Facebook friends. Why she contacted me is kind of a mystery because it’s not like we were ever close.
I contacted someone I knew from elementary school. I went to school in Europe for a few years -it was an American school- and after I moved to the states I was always curious to learn what happened to my old friends. I remembered one guys name because it was very distinctive and found him on MySpace. Turns out he’s a gay air steward living in California. Other than him saying “Yeah, I remember that guy” we never really started a friendship. Oh well, my curiosity was sated.
This. Also, some screwballs have some contest or something; isn’t there some FB ranking that one can get? NO prize, or anything, just a ‘preferred’ or label something similar to that?
I’ve had friends FB me; never bothered to respond to my response, but I got about a trillion recommend/ivites/etc… posts. Still never so much as an fu from them.
With my first Facebook, I went through my yearbook and friended anyone I could remember. And then I read their profile and found out they weren’t worth talking to. But there was no way I was going to be so rude as to unfriend someone who hadn’t done anything to me.
After my friends list topped 1000, I decided it was stupid, and put stuff on my wall about how if you wanted to be my Facebook friend, you needed to say something. Now I’m down to about 138, and I get maybe one notification a day. It’s much better.
