ooh, i got totally internet burned today. i added somebody from my carolina days as a friend on facebook (cleaning out some old stuff, i found a card, which reminded me of this particular person). i got an email confirmation saying we were friends ... but when i clicked the link, it said we weren't friends anymore.

total burn! super sad panda time.

Posted by roy on October 6, 2008 at 09:19 PM in Foolishness | 8 Comments

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Comment posted on October 6th, 2008 at 10:29 PM
Dude. Almost the exact same thing happened to me. Was cleaning my room and found an old postcard from an old "friend." I wanted to attempt to reestablish contact with him, and I added him as a friend on Facebook, but he never confirmed me.

Son of a bastard.
Comment posted on October 6th, 2008 at 10:48 PM
speaking of facebook, please invite me to your cartographers without borders group. i very much believe in this cause.
Comment posted on October 6th, 2008 at 10:57 PM
Actually, that group was created way back when groups were network specific, so I can't invite you. Although the irony of this group's segregation is quite delicious, I will create a new group for the organization and invite you.
Comment posted on October 6th, 2008 at 11:17 PM
lulz, that's superirony. thank you for creating a new group - i hope others can recognize the importance of this group as well.
Comment posted on October 6th, 2008 at 10:41 PM
is it better to have been confirmed friends and lost confirmation than never to have confirmed at all? (with apologies to lord tennyson)
Comment posted on October 6th, 2008 at 10:52 PM
Fascinating question. I'm not sure of the answer. Perhaps you were accidentally confirmed and then the subsequent unfriending was just correcting that mistake. In that case, I'd say they're about the same.

Or if the confirmation were intentional, I'm thinking that maybe that's worse. Because unfriending somebody is a more active rejection than not confirming somebody in the first place. But then again, the fact that you were confirmed at first could suggest that your person at least remembers you. I would bet that my guy just doesn't remember me, which is pretty bad. I don't know what to think. Facebook is so complicated.
Comment posted on October 6th, 2008 at 11:19 PM
i long for the simpler days ... when all we had was the group blog on the poop page.

we could have been the next collegehumor. rats!
Comment posted on October 6th, 2008 at 11:34 PM
You should resurrect the ol' poop.neopages.com; like the South, it shall rise again!