Seems to me, Bob, that your friend simply couldn't remember the first line.
Maybe he thought you couldn't either. Of course, I express no opinion, as I
don't remember any of the lines.
Piers
On 7 Apr 2017 6:55 p.m., "Bob Whitmire" <fujixbob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Agree. If you didn't initiate a friend request, there's no reason why this
> fellow should have received one from you. <g> There are all sorts of
> variations on this game. If I get an e-mail notification that someone has
> put in a friend request to me on FB, I go to my FB page and check it. I
> still get caught from time to time. Last week I got a friend request from a
> guy I went to high school with. Right picture, right info. I accepted. A
> day or so later I noticed I had a message from him, one of those messenger
> things, not a post on my timeline. It was a 'how are you?' kind of thing. I
> say I was okay, 'you?' The response was interesting. He was fine and wanted
> to share some really good news with me. I wrote back and asked if he was
> real, or a robot. He said he was real. I figured he wasn't. So I asked for
> the first line of our high school song. I was almost instantaneously
> unfriended.
>
> Harumph. <g>
>
> --Bob Whitmire
> Certified Neanderthal
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 11:44 AM, Piers Hemy <piers@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Yes, John, I do remember Andrew Dacey.
> >
> > When you say you "received a Facebook message" I assume that it was an
> > email
> > purporting to come from Facebook, in which case someone's PC somewhere
> has
> > been compromised, allowing access to email addresses on the PC. My
> > expectation is that the email you have received is most likely not from
> > Facebook (even if it appears to have come from Facebook), and is
> attempting
> > to persuade you to confirm or deny the friendship (or have some kind of
> > interaction) by clicking on the link it provides. The link will NOT go to
> > Facebook, though it will certainly claim to do so.
> >
> > Whether or not you have a Facebook account, a link with Andrew, an
> > outstanding friend request or whatever is utterly irrelevant - whoever
> > crafted the email is assuming you most likely do exhibit one or more of
> > those attributes, and can be expected to click.
> >
> > Don't.
> >
> > Piers
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: olympus
> > [mailto:olympus-bounces+piers.hemy=gmail.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf
> > Of
> > John Hudson
> > Sent: 07 April 2017 15:09
> > To: Olympus Camera Discussion
> > Subject: [OM] OT : Facebook friend request
> >
> > Does anyone remember Andrew Dacey, a former, or an existing but lurking,
> > member of this list?
> >
> > To my knowledge his last known location was Halifax, Nova Scotia.
> >
> > This morning I received a Facebook message saying that :
> >
> > "Just a reminder that Andrew has confirmed your friend request and
> > you're now friends on Facebook."
> >
> >
> > The issue is that (1) I am not a Facebook user other than dropping by
> > the pages of a few family relatives, (2) I have never put a "friend"
> > request to Andrew, (3) Andrew has never put a "friend" request to me or
> > if he has I have never responded.
> >
> > So, does anyone have any idea about what might drive a spurious FB
> > message such as the one I received?
> >
> > Needless to say I have not, and will not, respond to the incoming
> message.
> >
> >
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