Man, my favorite thing about Facebook posts are the sheer number of self-righteous posts about how much social networking sucks. "I deactivated my Facebook account" is the new "I don't have a TV in my home."
I got a sad message on facebook the other day. The subject was, "Does MHCC mean anything to you?" and the message said, "If so I have been searching for you for twenty years." Unfortunately for the guy who sent it, twenty years ago I was nine, so I wasn't who he was looking for. But I can't really imagine holding a torch for someone for that long. I felt a little bad for the guy, but I wonder if the woman he's looking for really wants to be found, you know?
Inspired by this post, I looked up first kiss guy. Probably not going to friend him, but he grew up cute and sorta reminds me of my husband. He's just a happy 8th grade memory that is probably best left at that.
I love looking up people I used to know, but not for hooking up purposes.
I like knowing that my ex best friend only had two bridesmaids while her husband had seven groomsmen (I take that to mean she can't keep friends), and I like knowing that my ex's current girlfriend is younger than I am, even though he told me I was too young for him. I'm passionately in favor of schadenfreude, and facebook is my dealer.
@sequined: I am with you on that. I like knowing that the girl my ex constantly compare me to, who was always prettier than I am, smarter than I am, an all-around better person than I am, is doing porn now. Schadenfreude FTW!
The thing I like about Facebook is that it confirms for me that people I left in my past really deserved to stay there. That old high school boyfriend I felt vaugely guilt about dumping- a Facebook friending confirmed that my assumptions back then were true. That girl I distanced myself from in 11th grade? Yup, still self-righteous and overbearing. My aunt who I stopped talking to? Yup, good reason there too.
Thank you, Facebook, for an easy way to confirm I have good instincts.
i found my ridiculous college crush on facebook - i had seen pictures of him online before and was all 'meh', but his profile shot on fb brought up some hardcore retrosexual feelings.
absolutely nothing ever happened between me and the crush...as goes the legend of most of the crushes i've ever had in my life. what's worse - he knew i had a crush on him and did this whole weird dramatic thing when he dropped out of school that caught me off guard. i've known through friends that he has asked about me. whatever.
@rednrowdy: My current boyfriend is someone who (unbeknownst to me) had a big crush on me in college. I liked him fine back then but was dating someone else. He found me on FB and we've been together for 9 months so far.
I have a confession to make, you guys. I was curious about the love of my middle school life who I made out with like, twice and never spoke to again. We're friends on Facebook but we hadn't talked in like, 7 years. Sooo I messaged him on Facebook IM and pretended like I meant to send the message to someone else.
@R_Claw: Maybe I'm just really coldhearted. I don't care what they're up to. I assume they are all out there, living their lives as blissfully content without me as I am without them. Once in a while, I'll hear from a mutual friend that so and so is married or whatever, and I guess that's nice and all, but it doesn't impact my life in any way.
@jianna: My dad divorced my step-mom to marry a girl who was in love with him in high school who he found on Facebook. It reallllly says something about how much of a moron you are when both of your adult children choose their (now former) step-mother over you in the divorce.
My high school boyfriend found me on facebook years after we broke up. Nothing made my day like finding out he was still living with his mother and still dating girls who were in high school
@colormeroutine: I have a creepy ex who friended me, so I friended him back long enough to decide he wasn't doing anything interesting and then blocked him. Does that make me a bad person?
I don't friend anyone on Facebook I don't talk to regularly or anyone I wouldn't want in my house when I'm in sweatpants. That's the cardinal rule of social networking.
@Nariel: Likewise. People are like "why are you only friends with so-many people?" well, those are the people I've had a conversation with in the last six months. In person.
@alouette: Yes! I thought the Myspace trend of having 6356 'friends' went out the window when you abandoned both myspace and middle school. Apparently not.
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I like knowing that my ex best friend only had two bridesmaids while her husband had seven groomsmen (I take that to mean she can't keep friends), and I like knowing that my ex's current girlfriend is younger than I am, even though he told me I was too young for him. I'm passionately in favor of schadenfreude, and facebook is my dealer.
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Thank you, Facebook, for an easy way to confirm I have good instincts.
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absolutely nothing ever happened between me and the crush...as goes the legend of most of the crushes i've ever had in my life. what's worse - he knew i had a crush on him and did this whole weird dramatic thing when he dropped out of school that caught me off guard. i've known through friends that he has asked about me. whatever.
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that'll never be me
that'll never be me
that'll never be, never be me
NO!
trust me on that one. but hey! cool for you! :)
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I've heard the term retrosexual before, meaning having an attraction to historical aesthetics. I prefer that definition.
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