We women are the ones updating our status a few times a day, commenting on all of our friend’s status updates, wasting hours staring at pics of old high school friends and squealing, “I can’t believe that’s HER!”, and occasionally stalking ex boyfriends.
It’s such a girl thing.
Guys, on the other hand…well, they have Facebook for different reasons. They open an account, find lots of people from high school and college, look at their friend’s pages once or twice, then abandon the whole thing for weeks at a time.
Unless they find an old girlfriend.
Those of us with “lady bidness” search for old boyfriends--but to actually send a Friend Request and start something up? Ummm...no. We don’t want to come across as the freaky stalker ex-girlfriend. (Even though that’s what we are every time we Google the guy, but whatever. We’re not talking about Google, people.)
Guys do the same thing, but they go one step farther and send the Friend Request. Not being a guy, I don’t know what their reasoning is—but I can guess. (Nasty beasts.)
I’ve accepted friend requests from two ex-boyfriends. One was honorable—one was not. (No surprise there—when I dated them, once was honorable and one was not.)
Facebook hookup, anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
I can understand the appeal of the long lost ex. Once upon a time they were a huge part of your life—just like the 400 other people clogging up your Facebook page.
But I got a weird Friend Request today…
How about the guy I had a 2 week fling with before my cowardly fade out? That guy who called me at booty call hours and I SWORE had to be married….that guy who’s last name I could never remember until one day—HELLO!—Friend Request in my in-box! Remember me? Let’s chat.
GAH! Are you serious, buddy? 2 weeks way back in 2002 DOES NOT qualify for a Facebook befriending! I’d like to forget that little blip in my life. Kaythnksbye!!!!
Also…how did you find me? I know I have a weird spelling of “Jackie”...but I have a different last name….did you spend hours scrolling through hundreds of possible Jaci’s to find me?
That’s some dedicated stalking right there. I’m kind of impressed.
15 comments:
Lol! That's commitment to a cause right there. Wow.
I think guys on facebook are slimy. My ex used it to actually meet girls while we were together. And because of this bad expereince i think facebook is the devil. Really it was just the guy who was a piece of shit, but i can't shake my dislike of facebook because of it.
LOL...Yeah, I agree, it's mostly girlie...I have a few guy friends that update regularly...but then all the comments come mostly from girls...go figure.
I like reconnecting after 20 years...old boyfriends, don't bother me...there was no Love of My Life that I still pine overs...so no biggie....
I even accepted a request from a friend I no longer wish to be friends with...just cause I'm nosy...Yeah, I said it, I'm nosy...lol...
However...YOUR odd request, I too might ignore that one!
I have a male facebook friend that I always suspected was gay. His status today? "oh noooooo.....I got a haircut today and it is sooooooo short!"!
I have deleted most people on my FB page because I'm really not interested in knowing everytime they go pee, when they get back, when they have to clean the kitchen...... I'll stick with people who really INTEREST me and are at least vaguelly interested in what is going on with us. And ex-boyfriends? No way!
I have broken up with Facebook. We are done.... sorta.
I've linked this posting to my blog cuz honestly girl, that was funny has h&ll!!!
Thanks for the giggle :)
Apryl :)
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I'm addicted to Facebook. There, I said it. Whew!
Not in a stalker way...just in a touching base with old friends and keeping up with current friends type way. I never even signed up for it until we moved an hour away from everyone...now it's just easier to communicate this way.
P.S. I might be a FB addict, but blogging and reading blogs is running a quick 2nd. Might even overtake FB in the near future.
I have the special privacy settings ready to go in the case where I have an exboyfriend/stalker in training. One of them found me by finding my sisters first and they friended him before they let me know about it. He kept bugging and bugging me because he knew I was the right person.
He gets the special restrictive privacy settings. And one day, when he least expects it, he's getting the boot.
On top of that, I hide the people who annoy me. But I'm like that.
Interesting... yeah, I wouldn't accept that friend request either. I have a few pending from people I don't remember at all, and I'm leaving them as is.
But the guy thing? Oddly, I haven't logged on in ummm over a week? Longer? And my husband logs on daily to chat and update his status and see what his friends are up to, etc. Then again, I've always been the guy in the relationship? ;)
Thanks for the laugh. I sat down at my computer, and got all excited because the top of my fb screen said "Inbox 3" I'm thinking, THREE people msged me on fb in the 5 hours since I last checked? AWESOME!
Nope, hubby had logged into his account after who knows how long, and one of the messages was from me - like a MONTH ago! LOL.
Um - no. That's just creepy.
Okay, I admit it. I totally friend requested this guy I "dated" for like a month while I was doing a study abroad in England. Totally stalkerish, I know.
I did go through mine recently though and get rid of people I used to work with who I was never really friends with etc.
Y'know what? Life was a WHOLE lot simpler back in days of yore (definition of yore = when I was single). Stalking was easy to spot. The stalker wanna-be-boyfriend would do a "drive by" - not the gun kind.
On the other hand, being the stalker was much more difficult. Always had to find a friend who had a car the guy didn't know so you could do the "drive by" innocently.
Ex-boyfriends on my Friends List? Three.
How many do I stalk? One. But only for about a month and then he found him to be as mundane as I am.
FB is like legalized voyeurism.
Def difference in guys and girls. I only accept people that are actually friends including family. YOU HAVE TO BE A FRIEND. yet I know guys who add one night stands. weird.
What a creeper! It's so awkward that he took all that time to find you. How strange...
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