Facebook Etiquette

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Okay, how do you handle it when somebody messages you on facebook and you don't have a fuckin' clue who they are even though they obviously know you. I mean, I recognize her last name, as a matter of fact her relation, probably sister, is married to my cousin, who I don't speak to. I was rather infamous back in the day but shit I don't know what to say to her I never remember even talking to her. Besides it's not like I'm the most chatty person in the world. She's talking to me like we were good friends and hung out all the time and remembering my "hot" car and parties... and I don't have a fuckin' clue that I ever even saw her.

I'm usually a douche. I just say "who are you?... I don't really remember you?"Most people don't care. It's a well known fact at my school that I'm not good with names or faces. Eventually if you're important enough, people will be remembered. I just take the straight forward approach and ask them.

I love facebook, but the more legitimate friends I pick up, the more this happens. The first thing I always do is to look at the common friends to get a clue how I should know them. Then, if I'm allowed, I poke around on their page. Usually that leads to an "oh yeah...that's them!" Sometimes it doesn't. I actually only have one person that I don't remember from real life, although we have a ton of friends in common and were at the same college around the same time.The problem I have is with people sending friend requests who I know but don't really care to communicate with. I generally accept, just to be nice, but they're just another "friend" on facebook.

I think it's pretty kosher to politely ask someone to refresh your memory. It's also polite to refresh someone else's memory right from the start with a "don't know if you remember but I was bla bla bla"

I have nearly 250 f/b friends. I personally know almost all of them in the real world. A few are on-line friends and there are one or two who just chose to introduce themselves to me due to some group or application.

Now, my life today would be quite different if I hadn't accepted a friend request from a complete stranger in '07. We both belonged to a group that was just about random goofing around. She sent me a message to tell me that my posts were hilarious. We're now friends in the real world, I see her often. Here's the big part though... her best friend and I became friends, then we bacame more very recently. As a matter of fact, she dropped the "L-bomb" on me last week and I couldn't be happier. Yes, a random friend request of Facebook changed my life.... so there

Okay, since your in love does that mean I get Lish?

Is this the pretty lady you showed me a few weeks back? Im very very happy for you!

yeah, that's her

although that mutual friend who introduced us is so happy about the situation that she keeps re-posting pictures of the pair of us that she has "dressed up" using Corelis that good f/b etiquette?

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Okay, since your in love does that mean I get Lish?

Would that make me 'sloppy seconds'? :frowning:

Never my dear, but I'll take ya anyway I can get ya.

not sloppy seconds but I've definatly set the bar high!! but really, Lish has outlasted dozens of my relationships so I doubt that story is over yet