If you are on Facebook, do you ever check the OTHER message
box? This is the spot where The Zuckman’s staffers (or more likely, the site
robots) tend to tuck notes that come in from non-friend users. Some are simply
spam, while many of those messages are astonishing or alarming. Others are
altogether hilarious.
Lately, the OTHER messages box on Facebook has been called
MESSAGE REQUESTS. But it’s no less scary.
20 doozies
Here are a few gems from the OTHER messages box, quoted
without corrections of spelling or grammar. Bear in mind: These are from total
strangers. OK, they are from much-stranger-than-strangers. And they go back a
bit. (It’s been a while since I’ve sorted, deleted, or reported stuff from the
mailbox of mire.)
- “Help! I would want know you
please.”
- “I search for friend we lost
contact for long time, but I find your page instead.”
- “how are you today? It's nice that people can socialise using FB
method, I am not often here but I would like us to know each other more
better,”
- “I am impatiently waiting
your answer.”
- “You arrested my eyes.”
- “i looking for serious
relationship for ever and am not here to joke with any one”
- “You wish I get a chance.”
- “I draw to people who quirky... do you
mind if we can get be connected?”
- “I bet if they are elect
Miss Face Book … she has be you.”
- “i must confess you are the
one that cross my hearth.”
- “So sorry if contracting you
here is wrong.”
- “i wildly like to know you to better, sir.
I do hope hear you soonest.”
- “OMG. You are indeed appetizing.”
- “My fortune need bank
transfer. Rule world with me.”
- “one thing you have to know
is you queen ammong all.”
- “Please, can we be best of
friends? my instinct tells me that your friendship will bring more joy my
life.”
- “I will hoping to hear from
you so that I tell you more about my self.”
- “Dear my best friend in past
life.”
- “Please don’t think it as fake message.
My name is …”
- “Hello? Hello? Hello?
Are you as creeped out as I am? And who was
that last one, Adele?
Gotta say it: I don’t answer these
mysterious missives. Heck, I usually don’t even read ‘em. This time, I scanned
the first lines from the message listing for the purpose of this article. I
opened a few to pull out the quotes listed above. And then I wanted to call a
Hazmat team and schedule an emergency session in a decon chamber.
That
OTHER/MESSAGE REQUEST box is a quagmire!
Sure, I know I should never even venture
into the OTHER message box on Facebook. On the other hand, I occasionally find
real messages tucked into that spot. Sometimes genuine folks may send
well-meaning and informative notes without actually becoming Facebook friends. As
such, their messages may be placed in that box.
So I steel my nerves and take a look once
in a while to see what has piled up. But I still feel as if I need a bottle of
brain bleach afterwards.
Best beware of the OTHER/MESSAGE REQUEST
box on Facebook.
Here’s
something especially funny.
I’ve compared notes with a few friends (of
all ages and shapes and sizes and descriptions) and found they have received
many of the same messages (verbatim) from the same people! Do we dare hope a
mutual friend or two may have been pranking us all?
Images:
Adapted by this user from public domain
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