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[jay-ell]

I get those all the time. I ignore them. If I'm in a bad mood I block them.

I've got enough friends, thanks,

[wombat]

I get those all the time and I accept them. I don't treat Facebook any differently from a public blog, I don't post anything I wouldn't want everyone to see. Which doesn't mean I don't sometimes exercise questionable judgement about that, but I'd do the same on a blog. Friends of friends are fine, people who have seen my pug photos in groups are fine. It's the Internet, I come here to meet people who share my interests. What creeps me out is the ones that are from REALLY total strangers and I can't figure out what the connection is.

[side_show]

Hey wombat, do you see my December 5th post and your response?  Do you get now why that is hella not possible? (Yes I am telling you I made a baby in Japan!  Best souvenir ever, but no, you can not have her/him.)

[side_show]

I get those all the time. I ignore them. If I'm in a bad mood I block them.

I've got enough friends, thanks,

See, I almost ignored someone once for that reason, but then I thought, "why not accept them, then unfriend later if they turn out to be useless" and that person turned out to be the assistant of the publisher who is publishing my play, trying to reach me to make me an offer.  So now I always have that worry that someone is trying to reach me to offer me money for work I've basically already done.  So I friended them both.

[wombat]

Right - except that is totally weird - a publisher couldn't think of any other way to reach you than Facebook?

[pmcd9]

Right - except that is totally weird - a publisher couldn't think of any other way to reach you than Facebook?

Facebook is a totally valid way to reach someone, but you don't have to friend someone to send them a message.

[side_show]

Yeah, and my phone number and contact info are on the script's first page, which I emailed to them.  So they had my phone number and email, but this was their way.

[wombat]

Facebook is a totally valid way to reach someone, but you don't have to friend someone to send them a message.

But if they are not a friend you don't get a message notification, you have to actually check your inbox. I have missed several important things that way. It is not a good way to contact people.

[Carlos del Vaca]

You know what I like on Facebook, is "Facebook triangulation," when two of your friends turn out to know each other through an entirely different channel than you know either of them. Like, a guy I used to work with, and a guy I know from the old Utne Reader online community, turned out to have gone to high school together.

There's also the "facebook square," in which you check out someone from a friend's comment thread, and discover they know TWO of your friends, that person and one other, but apparently don't know you.

[pmcd9]

But if they are not a friend you don't get a message notification, you have to actually check your inbox. I have missed several important things that way.

That I did not know.

However, I have been contacted by strangers before and don't remember not being notified, but I can't remember for certain how it was exactly.

[wombat]

You can send a message along with a friend request, that is the best way to do it, since you do get notified of friend requests.

[Doc]

  Best souvenir ever

The best line. EVER. You're telling the kid this, right?

[littlefallsmets]

Congratu-kid-u-lations!

[jaydub]

Now I'm wondering if the friend who was avoiding you was your period...I can't say I've ever heard a woman refer to it as her BFF though.

[side_show]

No, she is my actual BFF.  I would have basically told her the day I found out, but I wanted to do it in person.