So, someone "friended" me on Facebook

[Celebration]

While I didn't really recognize the person, I thought the first name sounded familiar, and thought it was someone from this group. So, yes, I said yes, not wanting to be rude. Then, I found out that this person was a male, not a female, and I thought, THAT IS WEIRD, I thought the ASAH person was female. Not only that, the person can't write good English, and seemed like he was from India or Pakistan.

:rofl:

Nothing against India or the Philippines or wherever, but the person I thought it was here writes really well, and I just knew was female.

The point of this story is that I now don't know what to do with this "friend."

So, this was what he put up on his wall--

"Thanks God......... I have found many friendly foreigners, and I think they are my family in my life before........ Thank God very much.........."

Guess I am stuck with him. Oh, man.................

[Kookaburra]

1. Can you "unfriend" someone?

I'm not very familiar with Facebook -- have a page, but hardly ever check it. Would you want to unfriend him? This could be a fortuitous meeting that teaches you something interesting. You never know.

[Celebration]

4. yes, you can

I wish I had not friended him in the first place, but, given what he wrote, I would hate to unfriend him. But there are all sorts of options on Facebook about what you allow specific friends to see, etc. I just never have felt the need to exercise those options.

Although, I have to say, I am getting tired of seeing posts about Farmville. ????? I don't get that. He may be a better friend than my second cousin or my friends from high school that play that game and fill up the page with all that stuff. If anyone knows how to block Farmville without blocking the whole person, let me know. If this Indian guy has so much as one post about Farmville, he is outta there.

[MorningGlow]

7. That is weird!

I was gratified to learn that it is possible to block Farmville (and other game notifications)--as soon as you see one, hover your cursor to the right of it till you see "hide". Click on that, and you'll have an option to hide the person, or hide the app. Choose "Hide Farmville". It's allowed me to keep my "step cousin" (okay not really--a cousin through my aunt-in-law's second marriage--figure that one out!) in my friends list without wanting to murder her--she plays EVERYthing on FB. :crazy:

[Celebration]

9. Ah thanks!!

Everything happens for a reason, no? This guy friended me so I could learn how to block Farmville!!!

:rofl:

[Celebration]

15. Ha!! I just hid Zoo World!!

I feel powerful!!

I'm so glad that Indonesian dude friended me now.

[Celebration]

11. well I supposedly hid Farmville

But I don't seem to be able to block Farmville pictures. Did I do something wrong? Then when I click hide, it only gives me the option to block the person, not the app, presumably because I just blocked Farmville. Maybe the game is just awesomely fun. But if it is, I definitely don't want to find out.

Are you still getting Farmville pictures? I guess I can put up with that. But another person keeps putting updates about Farmville into her regular updates. I can't block those unless I block the whole person. I'm considering it. I am just not at all interested in the flaws of the game or whatever. But one in ten of her updates are sorta interesting.

[Kind of Blue]

13. Thank you, MorningGlow!

My God, my SIL through friendship with me befriended my sisters who she just about forced to play that game. "Just play it!" She demanded it - needed to get some medal or hamburger - or was that Diner Game :rofl:

[rosesaylavee]

2. Facebook occasionally does this annoying thing

in suggesting friends to absolute strangers... people I have no shared friends with and I have just learned to ignore those. But as you now have this guy as a new friend, see what he posts and if it's acceptable keep him around for awhile. He may not understand the workings of facebook either and thought 'oh, FB tells me I should friend this person' and sent you the request. Poor guy. I bet that's why no one else he didn't know didn't accept his friendship.

[Celebration]

3. well, he has more friends than I do

My age isn't exactly the Facebook demographic, though. They all have foreign sounding names. Funny.

[Iggo]

16. He's got more friends than you?

Dump his ass!

[Delphinus]

17. Oh, that is funny!

I laughed out loud and my dog thought something was wrong! :rofl:

[Celebration]

18. Yeah

Funny.........and OUTRAGEOUS!!

LOL.

[Cleita]

5. I found out that Facebook sometimes sends friend emails to people who

live in the same area and may have common interests. I was friended by a neighbor, but I couldn't reply because although I have an account I haven't been able to get my password from them although I have tried. I ran into the neighbor and apologized, but she said she hadn't friended me, but she is a computer teacher in high school and said that this is what Facebook does.

[Celebration]

6. I have seen random things like that too

Why does Facebook do that? I probably just popped up on his screen or something. Then he sent out a friend request to people that pop up like that. I have noticed that but never sent a friend request to any of them, even if I have five friends in common.

But this guy for sure is no neighbor, except I guess we are neighbors in the World Community.

[stellanoir]

8. I keep getting friended by all these Italian guys.

I friended a bunch of them to figure out why they were pursuing me. So I finally cut and pasted one of their Italian messages on free translation. com and found out that there is a Italian television star with my screen name. e-gads

Could that perhaps be a really strange repercussion of sharing a birthday with Sophia Loren. . .?

[Celebration]

10. okay, I literally burst out laughing

That's the funniest thing I have heard in a week, at least.

[stellanoir]

20. Glad you got a kick out of it.

I haven't been on facebook much of late but after I was reminded of all my undeserved Italian stallions I went on and blocked them. I probably should have left them on just so you could see them.

Oh well. On to greater and even weirder mistaken identities if that's even possible..

:)

[Kind of Blue]

12. Sheesh, I've got about 5 friends that I have no

mutual friends with, and one with the same last name (maiden name) - at first, her picture was no doubt a guy and now she's a cute girl :shrug: I think some came from singers pages or groups, like Edgar Cayce. I know that at least another 5 are from DU, I know their real names but not their DU user names - their utter disgust of Repubs is a dead giveaway :rofl:

One girl - I have absolutely no idea. Another girl, who I don't know got angry because no one is talking to her :rofl: She got a lot of nasty replies, which was kind of weird.

I don't think I know at least half of my "friends," but I can't bring myself to say no.

[Celebration]

14. oh, that makes me feel better!

I at least sorta know everyone but this person. I saw later that he IM'ed me to be my friend, too. I never pay attention to those Facebook IM's. In it he said he was from Indonesia and wanted to learn English.

Seriously, I have turned down about three people that I couldn't figure out a connection to............and would have with this guy except I just assumed for some reason that he was from ASAH!

[kentauros]

19. As I am not on FaceTwitter or any of those "normal" social networking sites

(I'm only a member of LinkedIn, for employment purposes) I have no idea of the inner workings. The only advice I can think of is to research each and every "friend" before friending them. I would hope FB would allow you to look at their profile first, otherwise they deserve all the bad press they get (stalking, ID-theft, et cetera...)

I know I've gotten FB invites through email and my first thought was, "You have my email address yet you can't use it for anything but inviting me to FB?!" :P

I know everyone says "Oh, but I reconnected with all my old school chums, yada yada yada..." If my old schools buddies really and truly wanted to get a hold of me, well, whatdya know? I'm still in the phone book! You know, those big doorstops TPC (The Phone Company) insists on continuing to print and deliver for free to every physical address ;)

[kentauros]

21. I just found an interesting blog post

after googling "facetwitter" and "twitbook" :)

Is TwitBook Really Getting Us More Connected?

[Oak2004]

22. That in a nutshell is how I see Twitter

(Facebook, I use to post information about a server I manage, largely when it's down. I never expected to find community there, and I have not been disappointed).

Sometimes I wonder about the internet in general. Do I have "friends" when my "friends" are hundreds, even thousands, of miles away, and I've never seen them? Is it a "community" when it can't organize locally because it exists in no particular locality on earth? I continue to believe this is a powerful medium, but it will not achieve its potential until it finds a way to routinely bridge the virtual and the actual.

[Celebration]

23. mainly I use Facebook

To keep up with my kids, that live out of town and post pictures.

But people use it for different reasons.

I actually just joined a medical related group on Facebook, and the specific topic exists nowhere else on the internet. Why the guy started the page on Facebook, I don't know, but he did. It's a very important topic to me. And, I have learned a lot. It may end up being even MORE important for me. And I might not have found it at all if I hadn't joined Facebook to keep up with my kids.

Life just sorta works like that. Honestly I think the internet and all kinds of networking can be like a series of synchronicities. I love that about it. But even though I enjoy getting to know people virtually, I don't really think of it as a social life at all.

But, if some people do, then great! Hey, they can even play Farmville as far as I am concerned, as long as I don't have to look at it on my page.

Having that Indonesian as one of my friends--hey, that was not planned at all. I just don't have the heart to reverse it. A lot of foreigners actually *do* join these sights because it is a fun way to practice English.

[MorningGlow]

24. Celebration, do you have a kitteh, by any chance?

Saw this today and thought of you!
:rofl: :hi:

[Celebration]

25. LOL!!

I would love one as a Facebook friend. I am currently kitteh less, but have had quite a few over the years.

I am about the least likely person anyone knows to add a perfect stranger as a Facebook friend. I have to say, this thread has lots of interesting and funny posts in it, so I guess it was worth it to add this Indonesian "friend." So far not a peep out of him.