That DESPERATE Friend Request Message
There’s all sorts of contacts we have in Second Life.
Some will be business contacts, some will be acquaintances, some will be friends of someone you had the hots for and even though you don’t even like that person you now feel too bad to remove them from your list because you stil have the hots for their best friend. Some of them will be people who randomly go around asking everyone to be friends (I decline those) and some will be stalkers and psychos (I mute those, generally).
But they all have one thing in common. Either they or you are very likely to have sent a request saying….”Would you be my friend?” Because, let’s face it, how many of us bother to change the defaults?
The Loner's Club had a new logo....
But that default message makes each and every one of us sound like desperate loners sitting alone in the pixel playground. It sounds like the kind of thing the weird kid who had no friends would say to one of the popular kids as he ran over to within a few yards of him to collect his ball. “Would you be my friend?” In real life, if anyone approached me and said that the answer would be NO. And you know what, really…. what’s better than that? I vote for NOTHING. I think that it is sufficient to say that such-and-such-a-body sent you a friend request. No personal message needed. Because even if you delete the personal message and send it without one, then it just seems lazy. Now, instead of being that desperate friend collector, you are too lazy to even give a shit about sending this person a personal message. But NOTHING you replace it with will sound good either.
Can I buy you a drink? [No, moron. My avatar doesn't drink. Neither does yours.]
Wanna hang out some time? [Why, you're so pathetic you have nobody else to hang out with? Are you hitting on me?]
We have a lot in common! [Sure, apart from the fact that I don't go around telling strangers that we have a lot in common]
I’m friends with your girlfriend. [Right.... which means we have to be friends because??]
Will be easier to get in touch with you if you’re on my list! [So is it that you're incapable or just too damn lazy to open people search?]
See… they don’t work. Linden Lab… REMOVE THE MESSAGE OPTION! It’s damaging my cool.
Would anybody like to be friends?
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Shinigami Kayo
I suppose partnering is out of the question if you won’t friend me out of the blue.
Ravishal Bentham
Damn, I thought Shini wanted me
. Me shuffles off all dejected-like.
Adric Antfarm
I get them and I don’t get it. The first thing I do is make it so you can’t see when I am online so it’s silly.
Oh shit. Yes. Busted. All those times you waited for me I was online.
I see a partner box filled in and I wonder how hairy your wife’s chest is.
I know my persona has been unclear perhaps, but being BFF with you peeps is just under a second Obama term on the list. The list on which your kiss is on. Because your kiss is on the list of the best things in life.
First mention of Hall and Oates here.
I rock.
Dale Innis
I agree the default message is silly; the default being blank would definitely be an improvement. But I like being able to write something when it’s appropriate. Things like “Hi I’m Linda’s alt” or “This is Dood17′s bf who he said would be friending you” or “pls accept so i can TP u to th party” or whatever.
‘course, come to think of’ it, they could always IM that to you before sending the friend request. So hm… Never mind.
christian
it hurts to fail.in luv
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