Weird tales from Myspace

[winneythepooh7]

My younger sister calls me up a little while ago.

She had a customer come in to her gallery this morning and say to her "You look sooooooooooooooo familiar. Do you have a sister named Winney?"

It turns out this is someone on my Myspace (never met her) who is another Social Worker.

I also found out this weekend that Ciderhill, a regular poster on QLC, dated the cousin of one of my really good friends, and saw my friend's profile on my Myspace.

Any weird 6-degree-tales from your Myspace?

ETA: I went to a get-together for a women's social group in my town in the beginning of the summer. One of the other women who showed turned out to be a former regular poster from QLC. She's also on my Myspace. Go figure.......

[TinyDancer]

Not any really weird stories. . . but it cracks me up when I go to parties at friends' houses and think it's odd how so many people I've never met before look so familiar. . . and then realize it's from myspace!

[leahhers]

I have a myspace webpage very simple nothing RATED R and this guy emails me tells me he liked my page and wanted to get to know me...his myspace page seemed very very simple and we got talking and he seems real nice but you hear all these horror stories meeting people from myspace I todl him I woud meet him in the city only but I STIll have my reservations

suggestions would be helpful

[Xander]

suggestions would be helpful
I met a girl through MySpace (who my friend fell in love with) and after hanging out with her twice, she wanted to introduce me to her family and told me she doesn't meet many guys worth dating, so her family is really excited to meet me..... plus lots of other crazy, waaay too intense situations... and I didn't have the courage to tell her I wasn't into her (she was freaking me out) as I didn't want to hurt her feelings, but I guess I did that anyway when I went out to coffee with her and was generally a jerk.... then didn't call her back... whoops. But I rather she hate me because I'm a jerk than feel rejected because I didn't like her. Does that make sense? In one example, she likes me and I don't like her = bad. In the other, she eventually doesn't like me, and I don't like her = liveable compromise...

Does this mean I'm a jerk, anyway? Even if I had her feelings in mind? Maybe it was cowardice rather than empathy, though. Who am I kidding, I'm totally a jerk. Blah.

Lesson: crazy people on MySpace. Bad.

[winneythepooh7]

Blah.

Lesson: crazy people on MySpace. Bad.

That is definitely true. The internet brings out the crazies in general.

[ebruening]

It's not necessarily a "weird" situation - just hurtful. I have a myspace page, which I use to keep in touch with friends who live out of state. I found out several months ago that someone I consider to be one of my best friends got married. We speak to each other on the phone almost weekly, and I consider her to be a very important person in my life. I was really hurt that I found out through myspace that she was getting married. Why didn't she just tell me? Maybe she was embarassed at not inviting me to the wedding.

[pisces2473]

Yeah, but you guys spoke weekly??? That's just wacked on her part.

[old_school_soul]

Yeah I was looking at someone's myspace page who's a poster on this board and found that one of her myspace friends goes to my gym and I had a crush on her!

[ebruening]

Yeah, but you guys spoke weekly??? That's just wacked on her part.

My thoughts exactly. To be quite honest, yes, I was upset at not being invited to her wedding. However, I'm much more hurt over not even being told that she was getting married. I sent her a card and a giftcard, anyway, just because she has been a very good friend in the past.

[pisces2473]

My thoughts exactly. To be quite honest, yes, I was upset at not being invited to her wedding. However, I'm much more hurt over not even being told that she was getting married. I sent her a card and a giftcard, anyway, just because she has been a very good friend in the past.
I can't imagine speaking to someone on a weekly basis and not telling them I was getting married. It's such a big part of life...and to "hide" that from someone...weird.

Do you know if there were extenuating circumstances for them getting married, and that's why she didn't want to tell you?

I'm sorry that this was so hurtful for you. Was she receptive to your gift?

[Kitty]

I deleted my myspace after an ex boyfriend found me on there and contacted me. I was also slightly weirded out by the fact that me and another ex were both friends of one of my friends..and were right next to each other in her top 8. Too weird.

[ebruening]

Do you know if there were extenuating circumstances for them getting married, and that's why she didn't want to tell you?

I'm sorry that this was so hurtful for you. Was she receptive to your gift?

I don't believe there were any other circumstances. She did meet and marry this guy rather quickly, in my opinion. However, I thought I was being very careful to be supportive about her relationship. He sounds like he treats her very well, and she sounds very happy.

I didn't hear anything from her on my gift. Truthfully, if I don't hear anything from someone I sent a gift to, I'm not comfortable asking them, "So, did you get my gift? Did you like it?" If I don't hear anything from someone I sent a gift to, I let it go, and don't ask any questions about it. (The QLC exchange was a bit different...I just wanted to know that the postal service made good on the delivery to my Secret Santa giftee.)

[pisces2473]

I don't believe there were any other circumstances. She did meet and marry this guy rather quickly, in my opinion. However, I thought I was being very careful to be supportive about her relationship. He sounds like he treats her very well, and she sounds very happy.
I didn't just mean pregnancy, btw ;) If you did everything you could to be supportive and stuff...then it's in her court. I'm sorry it turned out like this though, as I'm sure you are.

I didn't hear anything from her on my gift. Truthfully, if I don't hear anything from someone I sent a gift to, I'm not comfortable asking them, "So, did you get my gift? Did you like it?" If I don't hear anything from someone I sent a gift to, I let it go, and don't ask any questions about it. (The QLC exchange was a bit different...I just wanted to know that the postal service made good on the delivery to my Secret Santa giftee.)
LOL yeah, that can be way awkward! But no thank you note...that's plain rude!

[leahhers]

should I meet this guy from myspace, he seems nice and normal on the phone he is family oriented from talking to him

leah

[labrat2111]

This isn't a myspace thing but I found out a few weeks ago that my g/f's brother's wife works with my cousin. That was totally random because I met my g/f on the internet and she lives 2 hours from where I am and my cousin used to live in Texas but she moved back to the general area where my g/f lives about 5 years ago. Somehow she ends up working at the same vet's office as my g/f's brother's wife.

[wordsmith]

My only unusual myspace experience was that I found the page of a reasonably well-known writer whose work I respect a lot, and dropped him a line complimenting him on a newspaper op ed he'd written a couple of years ago that spoke to me, and he actually wrote me back with a non form-letter response and friended me. I thought that was so cool.

[pisces2473]

This isn't a myspace thing but I found out a few weeks ago that my g/f's brother's wife works with my cousin. That was totally random because I met my g/f on the internet and she lives 2 hours from where I am and my cousin used to live in Texas but she moved back to the general area where my g/f lives about 5 years ago. Somehow she ends up working at the same vet's office as my g/f's brother's wife.
That is a small world. At C's old job, he worked with a friend of my friend's husband. It was weird when they figured out that they had someone in common.