I distinctly remember one of my 8th grade teachers. He was young, hippie-ish, and fun. I remember him being in a rock band and liking the Stones.
As it turns out, he is a friend of a relative and I saw his name pop up on the FB. I contacted him and shared my memories of his class and we are now Facebook friends.
Note that 8th grade was 44 years ago.
Who is your most unlikely FB friend?
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A friend from elementary school who left our school system to go on and have an Olympic skiing career. We had a few mutual friends in common and reconnected via FB. As it turns out, she trained with my wife when they were in ski academy together.
Two reasonably well-known comedians. One is married to a former classmate, and sent me a friend request. The other? The only mutual friend we have is a guy who works with an in-law of mine. He also sent me a friend request, and I just saw “oh, friend of M, I’ll accept, and just unfriend if he’s weird.” I had no idea who he was until my son asked me how I knew him.
Also, two best-selling authors. One is my cousin, the other is a classmate of one of my children.
As for everyday folks - a retired nun, whom I’ve never met, and the father of one of my elementary school classmates (we weren’t friends.) Sister V used to be a client of my mom’s, and she and I have enjoyable, lively discussions about ethics, morality, health care, politics, and education. (Her vocation was as a nurse and then as a teacher.) Emmett is an attorney, and my aunt was his secretary decades ago, and I guess he saw some of my posts and was amused? I don’t know, he sent the request and I at least knew who he was!
Mine are all unlikely, except a few family members. And several people I keep n touch with who do not use email. A few people have fallen through the cracks and I pay no attention to tnem, unless thay post way too much junk, in which case I unfriend them. One has exactly the same name as an actual acquaintance, but turned out to not be the same person, but accepted my invite anyway.
I went to a zombie walk with some friends many, many years ago (you dress like zombies and sort of do a parade around a neighborhood). At the end we were at a bar, and stood around for like 20 minutes with two women who were friends with one of my friends (he’s not a very close friend). One of the women friended me on FB. She’s a lesbian and a minister - I am a woman and a Christian but fall into neither of those categories.
We don’t hardly interact much but like 3-4 likes or comments a year. She is getting married this weekend (to the other woman I’d met that day) and I’m having fun watching her wedding prep.
Very odd that we’re FB friends at all but I enjoy seeing what she has to say.
A couple of well-known authors who just happen to live in the same small town I do.
I’m FB friends with a guy in LA that does special effects, make-up and makes monsters for big-budget Hollywood movies. He’s worked with pretty much all the A-list action movie stars of the last 20 years.
I was sexually used by a priest roughly 35 years ago. I was blacksheeped, got into trouble and left town, and tried my best to not look back. Meanwhile, the priest continued his pedophilic ways, got caught and was sent to prison. One of his victims somehow found my name and contacted me on FB, and I friended him. We don’t talk, but he’s a FB friend. Never would have thought that would happen. He asked me if I had any interest in attending this priest’s parole hearing. I said no, but gave him permission to bring up my name when he confronted him. He did, and reported back the priest was definitely taken off guard upon hearing my name. Guess he thought he’d gotten away with that one. Well, he did get away with that one. Apparently I have no legal recourse after all these years.
When I went on a cruise 2 years ago, one of the performers was an amazing violinist. I bought his CD on the ship and saw that he had a website and a FB page. I was quite surprised when he accepted my friend request. I’m also rather delighted that he “knows” me from some of my sillier posts, but it’s probably because I tend to stand out. Most people fawn over him, commenting on his good looks and amazing talent, while I tend to make smart-ass comments. I even took one of his photos and “enhanced” it by drawing in a goofy hat and glasses and mustache. He’s responded directly back to me on occasion, which makes me ridiculously giggly. I keep hoping he’ll get off the cruise ship circuit and do a tour in the US so I can see him again.
The wife of a sort-of friend from another forum. He’s kind of a jerk, but I really like his wife who’s a biology professor at a university. She loves cats so we have that in common, plus she posts interesting biology-related things, including travelogues of her school-related expeditions all over the world. I know more than I ever thought I would about being a professor/university politics, bugs, chemistry, the flora and fauna of Turkey, etc.
A supporting actress from a popular TV comedy. We were in the same small tennis class together, and I didn’t know who she was when I met her because I’d never watched the show. I don’t claim to be even remotely close to her, but we were friendly enough to become FB friends, and we say hi once in a while. And she’s hilarious in real life, so there’s that.