Only on Facebook

[elettaria]

When you add friends on Facebook, it asks you how you know them. There are various categories, such as "Lived together" "Went to school together", and if you click on one of these categories you will be given further options. For the category "We dated", it asks, "How did it go?" and "And now?", with an option of "We aren't speaking" for the second question. I'm still trying to work out why an ex-couple who are no longer speaking would want to link up on Facebook.

Anyway, if you're someone I know at least vaguely and you want to add me on Facebook, comment here with you name (and identifying features if it's a common name) and I'll add you. All comments will be screened by default, but I'll unscreen them if they don't contain personal info. I don't respond to zombie bites and so forth, but I do respond to games of Scrabble and chatter on walls.

Comments

[darcydodo]

Actually, someone who added me on Facebook is someone for whom I would check the "we aren't speaking" option if I weren't being polite. I dithered for ages about adding him back at all.

[elettaria.livejournal.com]

Have you had any contact since, and was it an ex, out of curiosity?

A total dickhead whom I gladly left behind in Stratford tried to contact me on Facebook shortly after I joined. I promptly blocked him, with a shudder.

[darcydodo]

It was an ex, whom I've run into approximately once since we broke up nine-ish years ago; the thing is, while I'm not speaking to him, he doesn't have any compunctions about speaking to me, so he wrote me a note on Facebook. I just haven't replied to it.

[elettaria.livejournal.com]

How bizarre. Evidently another chap who just Doesn't Get The Message, like this guy from Stratford (who'd last e-mailed me over a year ago, a few months after I'd told him in no uncertain terms that I never wanted to hear from him again).

I'm doing rather nicely in Scrabble, to my joy. ghost_of_a_flea keeps trouncing me, he's won 7 out of 10 games so far.

[nonamoose.livejournal.com]

Cripes!!

I'm a bit aghast to hear that Stratfod guy has been in touch. Rather a lot of "Head up arse" syndrome with him, methinks!

Glad to hear that you're winning at Scrabble though :-)

[shreena.livejournal.com]

What happens if you reject someone as a friend on Facebook? I did it recently for someone who has never been anything other than rude to me and I'm curious as to whether she'll get a message telling her that I rejected her friend request or not.

[elettaria.livejournal.com]

I don't know what happens to the friend request, but once you block someone, neither of you can see the other's profile, it seems (unless he immediately got into yet another huff and blocked me, which doesn't seem worthwhile but he wasn't exactly sensible). You know that friend of mine I was complaining about who has been having an affair with this guy and denying it's an affair? Our last conversation was a bit strained, and she's either blocked me on Facebook or deleted her Facebook account. The former, I suspect.

[sweetrush.livejournal.com]

She gets nothing, as though you had just let it time out. She'll be able to try again a month later. I had someone who pestered me like that, which shows you why she's the kind of person I kept rejecting too :P