The facebook people you may know: do you know them or do you wonder who those fucking strangers are?

[JVS]

Or are they people you may have heard of, or people whose family you are aware of but whom you've never met?

[DS1]

1. There are people from my high school class adding me

and I have no idea who the hell they are. It was a big class.

[JVS]

2. JVS knows Jim from sitting one row in front of him in home room in 7th grade.

But actually it works out kind of nicely. It's like being able to talk to the people back home but instead of bumping into them at the store, you bump into them when commenting on stuff.

[DS1]

3. I saw a cnet-type article saying that facebook and the like were making

reunions obsolete and less fun, because everyone already knows what each other is up to.

I don't know how FB handles the screwing of long lost crushes :shrug:

[LynzM]

4. Heh.

I have some DUers on my Facebook where I *know* they're DUers, but I couldn't tell you their DU name... :crazy:

[JVS]

6. What if you ended up friending someone you have on ignore without realizing it!

[LynzM]

10. That'd be weird, eh?

I guess then I'd find out whether they're still not someone I want to correspond with!

[Lavender Brown]

5. Most are friends of my friends who I've only met once or twice

Now that I have DUers on my page, I think some suggestions are people from DU but I'm not sure.

[BarenakedLady]

7. I just recently got on there.

Well, more accurately, I got a new password since I totally forgot my old one. Within the day, my ex found me. Heh.

:crazy:

[JVS]

8. That sounds unsettling

they have a block function to make you invisible to certain people

[BarenakedLady]

9. Meh

I don't mind. He was my first real boyfriend and we lost our virginity together. His mom and mine are still in touch so I get updates periodically about him. It was the first contact I've had with him in over 15 years though.

[unpossibles]

11. most are actual, real life friends

a few are what my friend calls "imaginary friends" - people you know from online but have not met yet.