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Facebook - what is this friends stuff about?

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    Facebook - what is this friends stuff about?

    Joined Facebook when I was considering going on a CUK bash once but never bothered to do anything apart from register.

    Keep getting emails recently "x wants to be your friend" Can somebody a bit more with it explain why anyone would want to be a "friend" to somebody who has never been bothered to post a single personal detail. Is it just would be spammers or what?
    bloggoth

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    Ignore them Xog, them's for boring normal people.

    Unless you fancy a snack.

    (Of course they might be CUK regulars in disguise - who knows?)
    "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
    - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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      #3
      Originally posted by xoggoth View Post

      Keep getting emails recently "x wants to be your friend" Can somebody a bit more with it explain why anyone would want to be a "friend" to somebody who has never been bothered to post a single personal detail. Is it just would be spammers or what?
      They're probably sex-crazed net stalkers.

      Next thing you know they'll be creeping round to your back garden and flashing you through the conservatory windows.
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        #4
        Originally posted by Lightship
        Aren't photos from some of the meet-ups posted to a private CUK Facebook group?
        Yep.
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          #5
          Originally posted by Zippy View Post
          Yep.
          I tried clicking that and nothing happened

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            #6
            Originally posted by xoggoth View Post
            Joined Facebook when I was considering going on a CUK bash once but never bothered to do anything apart from register.

            Keep getting emails recently "x wants to be your friend" Can somebody a bit more with it explain why anyone would want to be a "friend" to somebody who has never been bothered to post a single personal detail. Is it just would be spammers or what?
            As soon as I signed up I got some of those from people all around the world with the same name as me. WTF is that all about?

            I closed my account shortly afterwards. Which is why I missed the one I was probably sent by Audrey Tautou.

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              #7
              Originally posted by xoggoth View Post
              Joined Facebook when I was considering going on a CUK bash once
              You should come, they're much better than you might think

              Originally posted by xoggoth View Post
              Keep getting emails recently "x wants to be your friend"
              They're just people who like to share. They'll share all kinds of stuff with you: viruses, trojans, porn that you have to actually pay for.

              Also, if you give them credit card details, you'll find that they like to share those too, usually with people living in the former USSR who have an insatiable thirst for expensive goods

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                #8
                Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post
                They're probably sex-crazed net stalkers.

                Next thing you know they'll be creeping round to your back garden and flashing you through the conservatory windows.
                Now you're getting him excited!

                No good will come of this I'll warrant!
                Last edited by SupremeSpod; 30 July 2010, 06:07.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post
                  I'm a sex-crazed net stalker.

                  Next thing you know I'll be creeping round to your back garden and flashing you through the conservatory windows.
                  FTFY
                  Never has a man been heard to say on his death bed that he wishes he'd spent more time in the office.

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