You're No Friend Of Mine: "Friends" on Facebook, Or Bugs In The System

I receive "friend" requests every day on Facebook, as I am sure many of you do. Often I ignore "spam" friends, this time the name was so interesting I decided to ask this stranger was that was asking to be "friend" (see my opening line below). Now, I leave it up to you to figure out how the story below even got started...how does one ask to be my friend without knowing? Unless of course Facebook has been ridden with bugs, viruses, hacked beyond belief, which I am sure is the case. With a few more stories like the one below, Facebook will start to fade, and todays $15 Billion valuation will be tomorrow's Pointcast (for those of you that remember that story). Can Marc Z and his "friends" prevent the downfall? Possibly, but they need to get serious about stopping the friend pollution.

who r u? why r u friending me?

Between Edye Cook-Skidmore and You

 

Jacob Ner-David

2:26pm Jan 25th

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Edye Cook-Skidmore

7:36pm Jan 25th

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I have no idea how I requested you.  I am new to facebook.  My son is Seth Cook are you at Aish?

 

Jacob Ner-David

11:17pm Jan 27th

no, not at aish. And I do not know your son...

 

Edye Cook-Skidmore

Today at 6:03pm

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Sorry I have no idea how I would have requested you. I get to Jerusalem at least once a year to see my son. Maybe we have a friend in common? Take care!

Comments

[Michael Rubin]

I haven't had this happen (yet) on Facebook but it happens all the time on MySpace (which I never use-I joined it to see tour dates for bands) and on rare occasions, LinkedIn.

Wow-Pointcast...I remember hogging ISDN bandwidth downloading updates...memories of the early 90's...

Michael