Have you ever been recognized by a stranger and confronted because of facebook?

No, but we discovered something potentially illegal about my nephew’s wife who has left him but not divorced him.

Freeee-ky. What a precarious digital world we live in. One of the reasons I hide behind Darth, there <.

You mean someone recognized you in real life because they’d seen your Facebook page? And they said something about it? Weird. I’ve never had that happen to me.

That’s why I don’t share my photo online.

Once a girl found me on facebook and friended me because she thought I was cute and I was friends with a bunch of her friends. We ended up becoming really great friends.

Whoa! What a trip!!!

Think I might be making some changes…

omfg! I was just thinking about this today!

delirium, that sounds really creepy.

Scary. I have a myspace page (to keep on eye on my kids on there), but I keep it private.

Yes. I found it a bit creepy as well.
On the flip side, I’ve recognized people from Livejournal,
Flickr, Ebay, Friendster, Myspace, Facebook, etc.
Apparently, it’s a very small online world.

No, but I have wondered if I would ever someday run into a fellow Flutherite…One day i thought I did.

I wish I would run into a jelly!

@Del, wait, you’re saying a stranger was stalking around on your public profile, remembered you, and confronted you? What was the confrontation about? I can get why you’d be a jerk to him. Wow. Can you fill us in a little more? I’m not sure I really get what happened.

I’ve been confronted a lot in real life, it doesn’t bother me.

@tinyvamp, I haven’t seen you in awhile, good to see you!

I didn’t know you could see pages of people you weren’t friends with. What did he say?

I would suggest that if you don’t want to be recognized, don’t display your picture where thousands + will view it. My husband should have thought about that before I found his ( portraying himself as single with no children).

Was this someone in your network, or in a friend’s network? I have one or two people that I’ve met through facebook that I later ran into at social events, but we both knew we were going to be there, and were looking for each other.

My wife’s old high school classmates are kinda like that.

She had one try to friend her. She ignored. Then the person sent a message. She ignored that. Then the person actually called our house directly.

Makes you wonder what’s so all-fired important about getting in touch with someone you haven’t talked to in 10 years that now you gotta stalk ‘em. Ugh.

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Some people just need to up and realize that how people use Facebook is totally up to each person. It’s not rude if someone ignores a friend request. They might just be using Facebook for keeping in touch a certain classification of folks (current friends IRL, or online buddies, or business acquaintances, or whatever.)

I don’t have a public profile and I don’t friend people I don’t know, but when I got into college and friended all the people in the groups for school, I would recognize those people but we never actually became friends in real life. My only story, similar to robmandu’s, is that I had a boyfriend before facebook was around and we broke up not too amicably. A few years later, he found me on facebook through some mutual friends, and sent me a friend request, which I just ignored, because I had no interest in reconnecting with him, especially on the internet. About six months later, I ended up near where he went to school, and a friend suggested I get coffee with him. I wasn’t too sure, but he texted me and we set something up. The morning of, he calls and cancels, claiming he was “busy” with school work (even though it was spring break…), and said I should call him the net time I was around. Annoyed, I just said “whatever, talk to you some other time,” but before I hung up, he asked me to friend him back on facebook. I hung up and laughed because he obviously paid a lot more attention to it than I did, and actually asked me to friend him back. I think he just wants to look at my pictures, haha.

Uh, complete stranger who IMed me and I was a bit of a bitch to make ‘em go away. Interaction went something like.
“Your cute!”
Me: “Thanks, but no thanks.”
And it went downhill from there.

THEN some guy greets me in the grocery store and said “Hey, are you a sculptor?”
And things went downhill from there.

Oh, hell. That would freak me right the F out.

It’s so different being a guy, I think. I wouldn’t feel at all threatened – I’d be intrigued and flattered if I got comments like that. Must be very very different. Thanks for closing the loop, Del.

I didn’t mind the compliment. I based the thanks but no thanks primarily on the fact that he said ‘your’ and not ‘you’re’.

The grammerian shutdown: No recovery.

I misspelled “grammarian.” Three demerits

Hahahaha, this is just not your day.

I HAD TO

nice