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chuckorc said:
Girl A+ said:
krista4 said:
chuckorc said:
I joined due the the cnn coverage. Let's just say that I'm impressed by all my old friends that have accounts there and added me. Whoever set up facebook did it right. Just about all the people they have suggested to be friends for me I know :thumbup: Anyway, I need some cronies for mob wars. Any fgbs want to hook a brotha up with tips for this game?
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Girl A+ is your man. So to speak.
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Go ahead and friend me through the fbg facebook page.
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Hmm, I must be dumb or something. I can find your post on the fbg membername thread, but I can't send you a friend request. :thumbup: Any other suggestions?
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PM me your name or link to your page. I will friend you.
 
Girl A+ said:
chuckorc said:
Girl A+ said:
krista4 said:
chuckorc said:
I joined due the the cnn coverage. Let's just say that I'm impressed by all my old friends that have accounts there and added me. Whoever set up facebook did it right. Just about all the people they have suggested to be friends for me I know :goodposting: Anyway, I need some cronies for mob wars. Any fgbs want to hook a brotha up with tips for this game?
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Girl A+ is your man. So to speak.
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Go ahead and friend me through the fbg facebook page.
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Hmm, I must be dumb or something. I can find your post on the fbg membername thread, but I can't send you a friend request. :confused: Any other suggestions?
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PM me your name or link to your page. I will ..... you.
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Fixed. :softball:
 
I signed up for a Facebook account a year or two ago, but never used it up until a month ago when I started getting invites from people.

Yesterday I get a friend invite that says "Were you a my town High School grad?" Yes I was, so I check out this chicks page/profile to see if I know her, the name/pic don't seem familiar. She graduated 10 years before me, and I don't know her at all. Why would someone request a friend just because we attended the same high school? I really don't care to get updates on her life, so I ignored her.

Do you get many requests from people you don't know?

 
Gordo said:
Do you get many requests from people you don't know?
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A few. If I have to look your picture up in the yearbook to figure out who you are, you're denied. If you're a friend friend of a friend and we've only met once, you're denied.If I "know" you in ilife but have never met you personally, you're denied. Sorry Finless, them's the rules.
 
Does this sound normal? A friend of mine I used to work with sent me a Facebook invite today (which was weird, since she knew how quickly I lost interest in myspace years ago). Within two hours, seven or eight people we both know (none of whom, though, have my email address) sent me Facebook requests, wanting to add me as a friend. But I do not have a page. My friend who sent me the original email is no help, as she is worried more about me joining than wondering why I got so many requests. I thought maybe it was some computer glitch or something. If I do not have a page, how could they send me requests?

 
Ghost Rider said:
Does this sound normal? A friend of mine I used to work with sent me a Facebook invite today (which was weird, since she knew how quickly I lost interest in myspace years ago). Within two hours, seven or eight people we both know (none of whom, though, have my email address) sent me Facebook requests, wanting to add me as a friend. But I do not have a page. My friend who sent me the original email is no help, as she is worried more about me joining than wondering why I got so many requests. I thought maybe it was some computer glitch or something. If I do not have a page, how could they send me requests?
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e-mail.. If they somehow got a hold of your E-mail address, they can choose to send an invite to their contacts.
Import Email Addressesfrom your Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL, Gmail, MSN, Live.com or Comcast email account.
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Ghost Rider said:
Does this sound normal? A friend of mine I used to work with sent me a Facebook invite today (which was weird, since she knew how quickly I lost interest in myspace years ago). Within two hours, seven or eight people we both know (none of whom, though, have my email address) sent me Facebook requests, wanting to add me as a friend. But I do not have a page. My friend who sent me the original email is no help, as she is worried more about me joining than wondering why I got so many requests. I thought maybe it was some computer glitch or something. If I do not have a page, how could they send me requests?
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I think its a stupid feature of fb, but same thing happened to my buddy today.Basically your old work friend clicked something that says email this person and ask them to join Facebook. It should stop there. Instead, they have the option to choose which of their current friends would know you or be your friend if you were to join. If you were to create a page, I think they would be linked to you from day 1.Basically, its like your old work friend is passing around a petition saying "Sign this petition asking Ghost Rider to join FB".
 
Ah, okay. I suppose that all makes sense. I am still not taking the plunge. My friend was aggravated that I showed no interest in joining Facebook, but she'll get over it. Wait a minute...she is female. She might get over it. :lmao:

 
So my wife and I have been getting request from family and friends to join FB. I have held out for months but now there are some photos of are nephew we would like to see. Can we create a joint account or will that not work?

 
Wooderson said:
So my wife and I have been getting request from family and friends to join FB. I have held out for months but now there are some photos of are nephew we would like to see. Can we create a joint account or will that not work?
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I have a friend who has a joint account with his wife, though it always seems weird to me. Why not set up two? Or just put one of your names on it?
 
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krista4 said:
Disco Stu said:
Big Rocks said:
My aunts and uncles are now adding me as friends :goodposting:
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My dad just added me. :banned:
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Oh, my whole family have been my friends for ages. At first I tried to avoid friending some of the more extreme-religious-right people in my stepmother's family, but I had to give in since they could all see I'd only friended some of the family. :goodposting:
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This is another reason I'm not on these sites. Both of my parents are on there. It's pretty embarrassing when i see someone I know through family that is near my age, and they tell me my dad is their facebook friend. :lmao:
 
So I received a friend request from a good high-school friend with whom I'd lost touch--great! I looked through some of her pictures and saw a couple of a really hot guy in there and thought, "Good on her!" Then I realized it was her son. :thumbup:

 
krista4 said:
So I received a friend request from a good high-school friend with whom I'd lost touch--great! I looked through some of her pictures and saw a couple of a really hot guy in there and thought, "Good on her!" Then I realized it was her son. :bag:
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If you're gonna do it, at least ask Otis how to go about it. That kinda move seems right up his alley. :popcorn:

 
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krista4 said:
So I received a friend request from a good high-school friend with whom I'd lost touch--great! I looked through some of her pictures and saw a couple of a really hot guy in there and thought, "Good on her!" Then I realized it was her son. :bag:
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If you're gonna do it, at least ask Otis how to go about it. That kinda move seems right up his alley. :unsure:
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Well, I wouldn't be averse to it, but I've since learned he is 18.And I still wouldn't be averse, but I have a boyfriend.

 
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krista4 said:
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krista4 said:
So I received a friend request from a good high-school friend with whom I'd lost touch--great! I looked through some of her pictures and saw a couple of a really hot guy in there and thought, "Good on her!" Then I realized it was her son. :bag:
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If you're gonna do it, at least ask Otis how to go about it. That kinda move seems right up his alley. :popcorn:
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Well, I wouldn't be averse to it, but I've since learned he is 18.And I still wouldn't be averse, but I have a boyfriend.
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mhmm...Yeah, not a good idea then. ;)

 
Early_10 said:
I opened an account as an agreement with my teenage son to being able to monitor his account. I log on once a month to find friend requests from people I'm happy to have forgotten and 120 ridiculous coffees and beers and shet. Nice to be able to catch up with friends that have moved out of province but if I spend 30 minutes once a month there, thats it.
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This is exactly what I did. :facebooknanny:I got requests from some relatives in CA that I don't get to talk to too much, so that was cool. However, I also regrettably accepted requests from neighbors who insist on updating the world on their decorating conquests and social calendars :deadhorse:

 
From today's NY Times:

Friends, Until I Delete You

By DOUGLAS QUENQUA

A PERSON could go mad trying to pinpoint the moment he lost a friend. So seldom does that friend make his feelings clear by sending out an e-mail alert.

It’s not just a fact of life, but also a policy on Facebook. While many trivial actions do prompt Facebook to post an alert to all your friends — adding a photo, changing your relationship status, using Fandango to buy tickets to “Paul Blart: Mall Cop” — striking someone off your list simply is not one of them.

It is this policy that Burger King ran afoul of this month with its “Whopper Sacrifice” campaign, which offered a free hamburger to anyone who severed the sacred bonds with 10 of the friends they had accumulated on Facebook. Facebook suspended the program because Burger King was sending notifications to the castoffs letting them know they’d been dropped for a sandwich (or, more accurately, a tenth of a sandwich).

The campaign, which boasted of ending 234,000 friendships, is history now — Burger King chose to end it rather than tweak it to fit Facebook’s policy — but the same can hardly be said of the emerging anxiety it tapped. As social networking becomes ubiquitous, people with an otherwise steady grip on social etiquette find themselves flummoxed by questions about “unfriending” people: how to do it, when to do it and how to get away with it quietly.

“If someone with more than 1,000 friends unfriends me, I get offended,” said Greg Atwan, an author of “The Facebook Book,” a satirical guide. “But if someone only has 100 friends, you understand they’re trying to limit it to their intimates.”

Mr. Atwan, a recent graduate of Harvard (where Facebook got its start), recommends culling your friend list once a year to remove total strangers and other hangers-on. Keeping your numbers down gives you more leeway to be selective about whom you approve in the first place, he said.

(While some people prefer the term “defriending,” a quick survey of user-created groups on Facebook shows “unfriending” to be the more popular choice. A Facebook spokeswoman, Brandee Barker, said there was no officially preferred term.)

Of course, not all unfriendings are equal. There seem to be several varieties, ranging from the completely impersonal to the utterly vindictive. First is the simple thinning of the herd, removing that grad student you met at a party two years ago and haven’t spoken to since or that kid from middle school you barely remember.

These were the people whom Steven Schiff, a news assistant at Vault.com, a career services Web site, sacrificed to get his Whopper.

“I found there were quite a few people on my list that I’d never even spoken to, much less been close friends with,” he said by telephone.

Mr. Schiff, 25, said he experienced only the slightest guilt at eliminating those people. While he didn’t feel the need to write to them individually to explain things, he did use his personal blog to address them en masse.

“Let’s be honest here, questionable Facebook friend,” he wrote. “We’ve been keeping you around all this time because we’d just feel bad if you ever found out that you got the ax. It’s just, well, up until now nobody offered us a Whopper in exchange for your feelings.”

This was just the sort of sentiment that Burger King and its advertising agency, Crispin Porter & Bogusky, were aiming to evoke when they set up the campaign. Burger King decided that it would do the talking for this article rather than its agency and delegated the task to Brian Gies, a vice president of marketing who said he was not a member of Facebook and therefore had not participated in the “Whopper Sacrifice.”

Mr. Gies explained the marketing team’s thinking about Facebook. “It seemed to us that it quickly evolved from quality of friends to quantity,” he said, “which was interesting to us because it felt like the virtual definition of a friend became something different than the friends that you’d want to hang out with.”

From there, Mr. Gies said, the team started wondering: “Do you really want to have all these people knowing what you’re up to and what you’re interested in? We wanted to be part of that conversation and part of that solution, and ‘Whopper Sacrifice’ was born.”

Facebook, which now has more than 150 million members, has clearly been built on the back of the culture of oversharing. Many members broadcast the mundane details of their lives through a “status update” feature, which lets people — nay, encourages them — to describe the contents of their lunch or the virulence of their bronchitis.

Even in this environment, however, deleting friends does not generate a notification of any sort, leaving members to discover they’ve been unfriended only when they find they no longer have access to someone’s profile. It can be a jarring experience, especially considering that the person who dumped you at some point either requested you as a friend or accepted your request (on Facebook, that is how friends are made). But members understand that such selective discretion is critical to the social-networking ecosystem.

“We believe that relationships change, and users should be able to have the friend list respect those changes without the pressure of a public notification,” Ms. Barker said.

Nor does Facebook care to be a party to what might be called punitive unfriending, banishing someone from your network for violating one or more of your personal rules of conduct. Perhaps someone annoys you by posting an obsessive number of status updates, or expresses himself in a way that you consider obnoxious?

Those were the excuses that Ehren S., a former co-worker of mine who apparently unfriended me sometime this past spring, offered up recently for giving me the digital heave-ho.

“I believe it was based on a passive-aggressive update of yours to which I sighed, kinda shook my head and pressed ‘delete from friends,’ ” she confessed by e-mail. “I find negativity a bit tiresome and don’t have the patience for it.”

Fine. Though forgive me for pointing out that Ehren, who asked that I not use her full name, initially tried to fib her way out of the awkwardness by saying she did it for a Whopper.

Last week the question of friendship decorum grew so vexing for Henry Blodget, the former securities analyst whose loud crash from Merrill Lynch helped lead him to a career as a blogger, that he publicly begged Facebook for a solution. Apparently, being barred from the securities industry doesn’t keep a guy from being inundated with friendship requests from complete strangers.

“I’ve occasionally thought about trying to solve this problem by ‘unfriending’ everyone who isn’t actually my friend, but that’s too horrible to contemplate,” Mr. Blodget wrote on his Web site, Silicon Alley Insider, on Sunday. “I don’t know how I’d get through the day if Facebook kept sending me e-mails about how people I didn’t even know were ‘unfriending’ me.”

Mr. Blodget asked Facebook to develop new friendship levels that would let users sort their acquaintances by degree of separation. He suggested categories like “ ‘personal friends’ or ‘work friends’ or ‘extra special friends’ or ‘BFFs’ or ‘friends you want to hear meaningless trivia about all day long,’ ” and implored, “Please give me the ability to put friends in these groups without telling them I have done so.”

On Facebook, as in life, no unfriending is as fraught with pitfalls as the one you really mean. Rachel Heavers, a stay-at-home mother in Arlington, Va., found that out when she angrily deleted a lifelong pal, “Marie,” in December during what she described as “a hormonal moment.”

“Our first kids were born two months apart, and we are both pregnant with our second, which are due three days apart,” she said.

The two had a falling out in December after Marie (her middle name) insisted that Mrs. Heavers’s daughter had swallowed one of her earrings (she hadn’t). The friends wound up arguing in the emergency room, and later agreed to take a break from each other.

Mrs. Heavers soon tired of seeing Marie on Facebook. During an emotional late-night moment, she clicked the “remove” button, expecting never to speak to Marie again.

“Now I really, really regret it,” said Mrs. Heavers, who is starting to reconcile with Marie but afraid to send out a new friendship invitation to her on Facebook: “I’m not sure if she’s even noticed yet that I’ve unfriended her.”
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krista4 said:
So I received a friend request from a good high-school friend with whom I'd lost touch--great! I looked through some of her pictures and saw a couple of a really hot guy in there and thought, "Good on her!" Then I realized it was her son. :bag:
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:goodposting: :eek: :lmao:
 
krista4 said:
Mr. Atwan, a recent graduate of Harvard (where Facebook got its start), recommends culling your friend list once a year to remove total strangers and other hangers-on. Keeping your numbers down gives you more leeway to be selective about whom you approve in the first place, he said.
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I actually do this about once every 6 months. It's always weird when I get a mini-feed update on someone who I haven't spoken to in like 3 years.
 
Steve Tasker for Prez said:
krista4 said:
Mr. Atwan, a recent graduate of Harvard (where Facebook got its start), recommends culling your friend list once a year to remove total strangers and other hangers-on. Keeping your numbers down gives you more leeway to be selective about whom you approve in the first place, he said.
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I actually do this about once every 6 months. It's always weird when I get a mini-feed update on someone who I haven't spoken to in like 3 years.
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Do they get notified if i unfriend someone?I really dont get the point of people friending me because they kinda sorta remember my name from high school.I suppose its my fault for clicking Accept in the first place. But half the time I click accept its so i can go look at pics to figure out who the f they are in the first place. :shrug:
 
Keerock said:
Early_10 said:
I opened an account as an agreement with my teenage son to being able to monitor his account. I log on once a month to find friend requests from people I'm happy to have forgotten and 120 ridiculous coffees and beers and shet. Nice to be able to catch up with friends that have moved out of province but if I spend 30 minutes once a month there, thats it.
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This is exactly what I did. :facebooknanny:I got requests from some relatives in CA that I don't get to talk to too much, so that was cool. However, I also regrettably accepted requests from neighbors who insist on updating the world on their decorating conquests and social calendars :shrug:
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Again, the "Less About" feature is a huge sanity saver. :lmao:
 
Denver Cat Lover said:
Steve Tasker for Prez said:
krista4 said:
Mr. Atwan, a recent graduate of Harvard (where Facebook got its start), recommends culling your friend list once a year to remove total strangers and other hangers-on. Keeping your numbers down gives you more leeway to be selective about whom you approve in the first place, he said.
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I actually do this about once every 6 months. It's always weird when I get a mini-feed update on someone who I haven't spoken to in like 3 years.
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Do they get notified if i unfriend someone?I really dont get the point of people friending me because they kinda sorta remember my name from high school.I suppose its my fault for clicking Accept in the first place. But half the time I click accept its so i can go look at pics to figure out who the f they are in the first place. :tinfoilhat:
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No, no notification on unfriending.I thought when you sent a friend request to someone it gives them temporary access to your page. Is that not right?
 
Disco Stu said:
Keerock said:
Early_10 said:
I opened an account as an agreement with my teenage son to being able to monitor his account. I log on once a month to find friend requests from people I'm happy to have forgotten and 120 ridiculous coffees and beers and shet. Nice to be able to catch up with friends that have moved out of province but if I spend 30 minutes once a month there, thats it.
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This is exactly what I did. :facebooknanny:I got requests from some relatives in CA that I don't get to talk to too much, so that was cool. However, I also regrettably accepted requests from neighbors who insist on updating the world on their decorating conquests and social calendars :lmao:
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Again, the "Less About" feature is a huge sanity saver. :thumbup:
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Tell me more about this "Less About" feature...Also, what the hell is a snowball fight?

 
FatMax said:
General Malaise said:
BR33ZE said:
Can someone briefly explain the benefits of facebook to a non-facebook person?Thx.
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You get to see how all your ex-girlfriends turned out.
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I still haven't been able to figure out how to do that without friending them.
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I sent a friend request to one when I first joined. She ignored it. Kind of made me a tiny bit sad. I just left it alone. Then, on Monday, I got an email saying she accepted!!! :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: Turns out she doesn't check very often. My buddy from HS actually got blocked by his HS GF. It still makes me laugh to think about.
 
General Malaise said:
Disco Stu said:
Keerock said:
Early_10 said:
I opened an account as an agreement with my teenage son to being able to monitor his account. I log on once a month to find friend requests from people I'm happy to have forgotten and 120 ridiculous coffees and beers and shet. Nice to be able to catch up with friends that have moved out of province but if I spend 30 minutes once a month there, thats it.
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This is exactly what I did. :facebooknanny:I got requests from some relatives in CA that I don't get to talk to too much, so that was cool. However, I also regrettably accepted requests from neighbors who insist on updating the world on their decorating conquests and social calendars :tinfoilhat:
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Again, the "Less About" feature is a huge sanity saver. ;)
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Tell me more about this "Less About" feature...Also, what the hell is a snowball fight?
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On the home page mouse over someone's update. You'll see a little blue pencil(?) thing pop up. Click on that. Then you can select "less about" (or "more about" if you're so inclined).A snowball fight typically involves throwing balls of snow at other people. I don't have any actual snow on my computer, so virtual snowball fights are one of the many weird facebook things I ignore.

 
Speaking of weird facebook requests, what's with the "pass a drink" thing? My buddy's wife has sent me four... I think she's trying to get me drunk.

 
General Malaise said:
FatMax said:
General Malaise said:
BR33ZE said:
Can someone briefly explain the benefits of facebook to a non-facebook person?Thx.
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You get to see how all your ex-girlfriends turned out.
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I still haven't been able to figure out how to do that without friending them.
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I sent a friend request to one when I first joined. She ignored it. Kind of made me a tiny bit sad. I just left it alone. Then, on Monday, I got an email saying she accepted!!! :pickle: :pickle: :pickle: Turns out she doesn't check very often. My buddy from HS actually got blocked by his HS GF. It still makes me laugh to think about.
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I just counted and have 14 guys I've dated and one ex-husband as Facebook friends, not including my current boyfriend. :bag: In my defense, I'm still friends with all but one of them, and in that case I friended him just to see pics of his new fiance.
 
pantagrapher said:
Have we all done our 25 Random Things, ladies?
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I finally gave in a couple of nights ago because I was sick of being "tagged". Now I would like a do-over.Oh, and on that front, I also spent about two hours Tuesday night consoling my stepmother via e-mail because my brother wrote the most syrupy, sappy (but nice) 25 random things ever, talking about how lucky he was and how much he loved this or that person, and of everyone in our family (including several dead people), she is the only person he didn't mention.pantagrapher, why are you not my Facebook friend, BTW?
 
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