Everybody who went to that frickin' school remembers the first line. I
hated that pile of morbid brick and I still remember the first line. Of
course he may have been incensed that I was testing him, which is fine with
me. I never liked him that much anyway. <g>
--Bob Whitmire
Certified Neanderthal
On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 2:51 PM, Piers Hemy <piers@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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