So, what does a Talkbacker have to do to be your facebook friend, Crowley?

Totally random post that doesn't belong in this thread, but which I will post anyway because it is interesting:

www.alleyinsider.com/.../obama-victory-newspapers-going-for-more-than-100-on-ebay

Copies of the November 5th New York Times are selling for over $100 on ebay.

Yeah, Mike, that's unfair. We have an actual mutual friend and I can't add you as my friend! Bummer

this facebook updater committed the cardinal sin of facebook status updating: NOT CHANGING THE PRONOUNS!

You end up with confusing pronouns any time you use an update method that handles more than one site like Twitter or Ping.  

It's just too soon for an Obama tattoo. Then again, I'm still wavering on my plan to get a "Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Labor, Free Men" tattoo in Caslon Italic.

I keep getting these emails saying that somebody wants to add me as a Facebook "friend," which it turns out requires me to divulge shit I'd rather not to something called Facebook. Hence I don't have a Facebook page or any Facebook friends.

So, it turns out they aren't really my "friends" because friendship doesn't require such transactional voyeurism. I have friends whose names I do not even know. You don't need to know someone's name to be their friend (or their pseudonym, which implies they have something they'd rather not tell you). Conversely, knowing everything in the world about someone doesn't make me their "friend."

Why not call a "friend" what it is, which is a "contact"? Then all those people who want me to be their "friend" so they can spam me when they lose their job to see if I can throw any contract work at them might actually get a response. Why hide behind the word "friend"?

The keyboard's best key is, always has been, and always will be Del.