Hilarious: Trying To Turn Facebook Friends Into Real-Life Friends
Guy drops in on his Facebook "friends":
At one point, Gregg wanted to fly me to New Orleans to drop in on yet another one of the Sadly Loserish people (see chapter 9 of I See Rude People) whose identity I'd manage to unmask. I thought that would be hilarious but he was taking me to Paris and I thought it was too expensive on top of that. (I'm the fiscal conservative in our relationship!)
What I do like to do is take the cheaper, non-TSA-groped route to saying hello to, for example, jerks who make illegal political robocalls to me. (They're illegal under California law without a live person first asking you whether you want to hear the recorded message.) I found the home phone number of a woman who owns the company, and every time I got a call, I'd call her at home and chew her out. It was extremely satisfying. She should consider herself lucky I didn't decide to call her at 5 a.m. when I wake up for my deadline days.
Perfect justice! How long before the calls stopped?
Bradley J. Fikes at November 23, 2013 8:58 AM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2013/11/23/trying_to_turn.html#comment-4072330">comment from Bradley J. FikesThe ones where I called telemarketers stopped instantly.
I didn't want to tell the woman who owned the political robocalling company who I was because I wanted to keep calling her -- to show her how intrusive it is to get a call at your home that is not for you. Every call I got from her company got her a call from me. She would likely have had to change her home number to stop getting them because my phone reads "blocked number."
Amy Alkon at November 23, 2013 9:40 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBfsdkGeMc8
The DJ chatter lasts just a few seconds, and they giggle over it but not too badly.
Marginally unsafe for work.
DaveG at November 24, 2013 2:23 PM
I have to say, if someone came over unannounced and introduced themselves as a Facebook friend that I'd never met, I'd probably unfriend him. Coming over unannounced is the height of rudeness.
On the other hand, if someone called me up, introduced himself as a Facebook friend that I'd never met, and then said he'd like to get together some time, I'd certainly free up some time to meet him.
The first guy was a very good sport about this. Nicer than I would have been.
Patrick at November 24, 2013 5:01 PM
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