Will you be my friend?

Now Playing : "In The Crossfire" - Starsailor

Are you on Facebook?

I bet you most likely are.

Well, so am I.

Will you be my friend?

I confess; I update my Facebook account everyday (if SuperPoke counts as updating). I didn't use to have this so-called obsession and I certainly wasn't like so with Friendster but the fact is that 

Facebook. Is. Just. Really. Fun.

But you know, whether in Friendster or Facebook, there will be weird people lurking about. Are you the kind of person who would just add anybody and everybody (enemies excluded) as a "friend" even though you two have never met, never talked, never seen one another?

I get people wanting to add me as a friend many times (not on a bragfest here, mind you) and 9 out of 10 times, I have no heckedy-heck idea who the person is! I mean, have we met?? Did we bump into each other at the cinema?? Did you fix my car at the shop?? Did I try to hit on you while drunk at a club?? Personally, if I don't know you, really, please don't be all pretentious and add me as your friend in hopes of showing off to your pals what a big collection of female friends you've got. 

But wait, before you call me a stuck-up bitch, hear me out; how would you feel if one day I walked up to you and you didn't know me and I swung my arm around you and chirp "Howzit goin' there, buddy ol' pal??"

I think you'd run.

Far, far away.

Still, if you really insist on being a friend indeed, how about a little "hello"? Maybe actually take steps to being a friend. Unfortunately, this nearly always never happens. 

Maybe the term "friend" has a totally different concept in these communities.