Somewhat creeped out this morning...

So, yesterday I get a friend request from someone whose name I don't recognize. Rather than just hit "ignore" I check the profile to see if it's just someone I can't remember, or if it's a spambot or some comedian friend of a friend trying to build a fanbase. I see that this person graduated from my high school a year before I did. Wheels start turning, and I remember who it is. Not a good friend, but someone I did actually know and hung out with. (Truth be told, I went to her Senior Prom with her because the other four people she asked all said "no". It was a general dismal evening and was half the reason why I refused to attend my own Prom a year later).

This morning I wake up to find a slew of requests in my Facebook account. "Sexiest friends" "People I want to be stuck on a desert island with" "Favorite Friend" "Hot friend!" etc. etc. etc. 

Any one of these wouldn't bother me. You get an application, it wants you to invite people, so you invite a ton of folks. I get them all the time from folks as they add the apps. But that's clearly not what's happening here. Not all of them, not all in one night. 

I'm not really asking for advice, but it's remarkable in that this is the first time I've been creeped out by unwanted online attention. Given that I've been online since 1993, that's actually kind of amazing.

Still creepy, though.

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null said, (101 days ago)

I can't discern whether it's creepy, or just downright annoying. Honestly, some people (and I'm embarrassed to say, most of them are females) that add me on Facebook have this trigger happy approach to those apps.

Stagewalker said, (100 days ago)

it feels creepy because the nature of the apps I'm getting stuff from. It's not plant flowers for Obama apps, it's all dating and flirting stuff.

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