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Some encounters can be novel and strange. Jessica Smith, 23, remembers the time someone she’d never heard of from Vassar tried to friend her. It happened when Smith was an undergraduate at George Washington University and had just started dating her boyfriend, Peter. Turned out the stranger was Peter’s ex.
“There was nothing friendly about this,” she says. “She only wanted to know about me.” When Smith didn’t fall for this probe — like it was the ex’s business how cute she might be, or clever — “a friend of hers friended me. Like that would trick me — ‘Ooo, a new friend from Vassar!’ It was weird. Really creepy.” Before social networks, “she wouldn’t have called me, or written me a letter.”
”Friends Indeed? - washingtonpost.com
I have a feeling this happens a lot. Similar type things have happened to friends of mine. Anyways, great article in WaPo about the real depths of friendship on Facebook.
