What a cutie! If only I could "friend" him.
Actually, I had two less-than-wonderful Facebook experiences ... just yesterday!
First, this woman who lived across the street from me 25 years ago -- this kind of creepy, stalkerish woman who used to watch when I went in or out of my apartment and call me the moment I came home -- sent me a friend request out of the blue. She also sent a note, that said, all in caps "DID U USED TO LIVE ON" with my street and town from back then. Back then, she was just sort of a druggie. Now, apparently, I subsequently learned from a mutual acquaintance, she has become a conservative Christian outspoken homophobe.
Shudder. I didn't friend her.
Later in the day, I posted a status update that referred, obliquely, to the fact that I'm divorced. And this OTHER Facebook "friend" who is actually a total stranger -- I usually try not to friend people I have never even met, but this is one I let slip through -- responded by asking, "Do you mind being divorced?" As if I would get into a big discussion of something so personal and complex on my Facebook wall. I made a little joke trying to get past it. And she, apparently realizing I might have been put off, wrote a long response about how she didn't mean to get too personal but she thinks that divorce is always harmful to the children involved, blah blah blah.
I may have to unfriend that one.
