I don’t really get this fascination with FaceBook.

I’ve been signed up on FaceBook for a long time.  I love the word games.   Text Twirl and Word Twist are two of my favorites.  I loved kicking the asses of my friends on FaceBook who are all smarter and better spellers than I.  I had to stop doing that because I was staying up too late and I was tired the next day.

Recently, I’ve begun to be “friended” by people I knew many, many years ago.  If I know you, and you friend me, I’ll generally approve it.  It seems rude not to.  If you ask a questions, I’ll answer.  But honestly I feel like I know far too much about some people these days, so I don’t generally ask a lot of probing questions of others.  I don’t think I’ve friended anyone who wasn’t picked out of my e-mail address book by FaceBook.  I tried to be circumspect about those and only pick people I actually knew.

I’ve been friended by people I remember from my childhood and teen-aged years.  I’ve been friended by a few people who I have little or no memory of but their friends are all people I went to high school with, so I approved them. They have all been nice experiences and some were down right pleasant.

Then a few weeks ago, I got friended by a guy I dated a few times when I was in high school.  I’m no spring chicken so we’re talking plus or minus 30 years ago.  And he put a comment on my “wall;” a true statement but not a question like, “how the hell are you?” or anything about himself.  I thought that odd.

This man has almost no information on his profile.  A name and a date of birth is all.  So I don’t have any idea whether he lives here or in Poughkeepsie.

Then he posted a “quiz” about me. Nothing terrible or bad, just kind of odd.

And then he posted another.

That second “quiz” freaked me the hell out.  I’ve got little kids.  I don’t know who this person is any longer.  Is he a college professor somewhere where with a wife and five kids and just doesn’t have the social skills to post a note saying, “hi! how the hell are ya?” or some psycho living in his car stealing internet access from Paneria.

Because a lot can happen in 30 years.  Just because I knew you and liked you then doen’t mean I’ll like you now.

I didn’t delete my profile in FaceBook.  But I thought about it for awhile.

So.  If you want to friend me in FaceBook.  I may be a little slow to respond these days.