Allen Becker wants to be my friend. Who TF is Allen Becker?

I can't remember if I blogged about this before and I'm too lazy to go back and check, so if this is a repeat I apologize. Actually, I take that back. I don't care if I'm repeating myself. You don't have to read it.

Facebook.
I am a member. I can't decide if I like it or not. I rarely check it, only if I get an email saying somebody left me a message, whatever. What I don't like is all the extra crap - quizzes, green badges, blah blah blah. I also don't get it when somebody wants to be my friend on facebook and I don't know the person. What? Do they just randomly send out friend requests? I don't get it. I also don't get people sending me friend requests who I might have known (like people from high school that weren't in my class and never said more than two words to me). Is there some sort of friend competition - the one with the most friends is the coolest? Honestly, I don't want to be "friends" with all these random people. I don't care what they're doing. I don't need to network. Is that why these people feel the need to send out friend requests to anybody they might have known in their entire lives - networking? Am I weird for not wanting to be Facebook friends with everybody? I have had one cool thing happen from joining Facebook - hearing from an old high school boyfriend. He was my first long-term relationship (more than a year in high school is considered long term I think) and my first in other things as well (hint hint). So it was fun to hear from him and learn that he's married, just had a baby, etc. Plus it's not like I had a whole lot of other past relationships with men - I started dating TGD soon after I broke up with "my first" (cuz it was just meant to be, but that's fodder for another post).