Two incidences in one day and both online – gotta be careful with those ids. I was browsing a friend’s flickr site and one of her contacts is someone who used to work here so I had a look (I thought) at her page of, I have to say, wonderful pictures. I even sent a comment saying how much I was enjoying her latest upload. She appeared to have been on a recent visit to New York and the photos were great. Some of her others were a bit weird. I was then about to write to my friend and ask when and why the contact had gone to New York when I came across another photo in Queens which said it was her home turf. I was baffled – she was American? I then went back to my friend’s flickr page and lo and behold there were two contacts with the same name – almost. Oops. Wrong person. Sigh.
Later that evening I logged into Yahoo Messenger, something I rarely do these days, and there was an old chat friend online so we had a brief chat and he mentioned he had a Myspace page and told me his ID. I went to the page, added him as a friend, and then looked with some puzzlement at the age and location. I asked my friend if he put a different age to his real age or moved. He was confused. I then asked for his proper URL which was different. His ID was unusual so I assumed the ID was part of the URL, but no – I had just asked to be friends with a complete stranger. Sigh, again.
Finding those photos of New York didn’t help my current state of mind. It came on top of watching “Grand Theft Auto 4″ and hearing the music on its radio stations. (The graphics on that game are incredible – so realistic.) The location of the game is based on New York and on one of the radio stations I recognised a song sung by a friend of you-know-who (if you followed my blog at Blogigo). Sure enough there are three bands on that same station, LCHC, some band members of which he is close friends with. F***.
Then I started missing him all over again. My last email to him met with no response (as usual). And yet he says he wants me to write to him.
Ah well, anyway, I won’t start going on about him again, don’t worry. It would have been far easier if he’d lived in an obscure town…
I’ve been asked to join someone on Bebo but I’m not sure… think I will stay clear of the social networking sites (I know this sounds strange coming from a confirmed blogger!) Sounds as though it makes life simpler, as there’s no risk of me getting the wrong people… though once I emailed a friend, typing in what I thought I remembered her email as, and it was someone else with the same name. Happened twice, actually… both were AOL addresses, different friends. Fortunately I had sent short ‘are you there?’ type emails rather than reams of gossip.
Bebo doesn’t seem as bad as Myspace or Facebook. I prefer it although I don’t use it much. I dislike Facebook the most because of its juvenile ‘applications’ (like ‘poking’ friends or sending them a virtual gift) and because it broadcasts basically everything you do while on the site.