The Random Add.

When logging onto Facebook, there's only three things that I look at straight away; notifications, the most recent posts on the news feed and of coarse, any new friend requests. I remember getting a random add every few days on Myspace, sometimes more, but Facebook seems to be more about adding people you actually know to catch up with what's been happening in their lives, finding out about upcoming parties or events and plain old talking to people. Why do people add randoms though? Do they add them for someone to talk to, to make a new friend? Do they add them because they have heard about them through another friend and they want to see what they are about? Maybe they want to look at the persons pictures because they think that they are some sort of amazing looking sexual god or goddess...probably the last one for majority of people that have added me randomly.

One of the most awkward things about a random add is what to say to them. I normally say something like, 'heyyy, thanks for the add, do i know you or randomm? :) xx' but I recently realised how dicky that sounds. Think about it; you are asking a person weather you know them or not, surely you would know if you know them or not so why ask if you know that it's a random. So what do you say? And what do you do if you ask if they are a random add and they're like 'random? I met you at that party last night, don't you remember me?' because then you'll just feel like a dick for not remembering them and they'll feel like a piece of shit and a very unmemorable person.

So how can you say hello to a random add, 'hey, just a random add?' still, you are asking them if they are a random, and it sounds a little too brief, you could always skip to 'heyy, how are you?' but then your missing the key factor of who the hell is this person? The last random add I got I sat there for ages trying to think of what to say before I realised that I could just say nothing because I will probably never meet them anyway so who cares? I saw them that night at a party, didn't see that one coming; awkward times.

I have nearly four hundred friends on Facebook, and I think that I know pretty much everyone on it. I mean, I have never gone through it to check how many I don't know but I am pretty sure I know about eighty to ninety percent of them. I know that there are a fair people who have added me that I have never talked to but they go to my school, and I have added people that go to my school that I haven't talked to or anything but does that count as a random add or is that something different?

All I know is that the random add is an awkward and mysterious thing. They never really go anywhere, but they sure are fun to fuck with.