What's the Hullabaloo?

[_harmony]

I just can't believe someone like Liz would put any sort of faith into someone like Pahoran. The dude is certifiable.

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Dr. Cam

No, he's not. Under absolutely no criteria is he certifiable.

[Anonymous]

Maybe so. In my opinion, no one should have friends on their Facebook with people they don't personally know, but that's just me.

I don't know that we personally know each other, liz, but we are Facebook friends.

I have plenty of friends on my Facebook I don't well as well as I know you. Sometimes people friend me because they've seen my exchanges with their friends, or their friends have suggested me as an interesting person to friend. Sometimes they are people I don't know personally but whose work I like, so I friended them (I now regularly correspond with a couple of actors and authors I "met" this way). Others are people I've friended with whom I have professional interests and connections in common.

Before Facebook offered the "subscription" mode, friending someone was the only way to keep up with their posts, and so public figures often had very large friend counts as people were interested in what they were saying. And as you know Facebook suggests "friends" to you every time you log on based on interests and friends in common. DCP has been suggested to me this way thousands of times. I'm sure lots of people interested in contemporary Mormonism have friended him because of that. That JE was listed as a friend on DCP's page does not strike me as the "huge coincidence" it did you. In fact I don't think it would strike many people who use Facebook regularly and are familiar with its conventions as anything other than the result of Facebook's whole "friending" schtick.

Also, as I'm sure you know, when someone unfriends you on Facebook, you don't get any notice of it. You probably don't even notice it happened until well after the fact if at all. So your comment:

I would also like to note that after Dan unfriended him, Chino made no attempt to send a message to Dan, and ask why he had been unfriended.

seems pretty odd to me.

Edited to add: obviously people use Facebook differently. But this still seems like the flimsiest of connections and suspicions to me.

[_Kishkumen]

Also, as I'm sure you know, when someone unfriends you on Facebook, you don't get any notice of it. You probably don't even notice it happened until well after the fact if at all. So your comment:

I would also like to note that after Dan unfriended him, Chino made no attempt to send a message to Dan, and ask why he had been unfriended.

seems pretty odd to me.

That's because it is pure sophistry.

[_Yoda]

Maybe so. In my opinion, no one should have friends on their Facebook with people they don't personally know, but that's just me.

I don't know that we personally know each other, liz, but we are Facebook friends.

I have plenty of friends on my Facebook I don't well as well as I know you. Sometimes people friend me because they've seen my exchanges with their friends, or their friends have suggested me as an interesting person to friend. Sometimes they are people I don't know personally but whose work I like, so I friended them (I now regularly correspond with a couple of actors and authors I "met" this way). Others are people I've friended with whom I have professional interests and connections in common.

Before Facebook offered the "subscription" mode, friending someone was the only way to keep up with their posts, and so public figures often had very large friend counts as people were interested in what they were saying. And as you know Facebook suggests "friends" to you every time you log on based on interests and friends in common. DCP has been suggested to me this way thousands of times. I'm sure lots of people interested in contemporary Mormonism have friended him because of that. That JE was listed as a friend on DCP's page does not strike me as the "huge coincidence" it did you. In fact I don't think it would strike many people who use Facebook regularly and are familiar with its conventions as anything other than the result of Facebook's whole "friending" schtick.

Also, as I'm sure you know, when someone unfriends you on Facebook, you don't get any notice of it. You probably don't even notice it happened until well after the fact if at all. So your comment:

I would also like to note that after Dan unfriended him, Chino made no attempt to send a message to Dan, and ask why he had been unfriended.

seems pretty odd to me.

Edited to add: obviously people use Facebook differently. But this still seems like the flimsiest of connections and suspicions to me.

Although I have a Facebook account, I don't use Facebook that much, and I am not really as familiar with it as I probably should be. When I stated "knowing" someone, I just mean that it is odd to be friends with someone when you don't even know who they are. Now, in the case of celebrity status, it is a little different. However, more times than not, celebrities have two separate accounts...one for business and/or fans, and one which is their REAL personal account where they give information such as "my grandson is teething", etc. I never really saw Dan as having that type of celebrity status, but, maybe he does. If that is the case, then he should consider having more than one account.

I honestly did not know about how it worked when you de-friended someone until you just told me. I thought that some type of notification went out.

[_Drifting]

No, I don't know who else is on DCP's list that he doesn't know. Would I have singled Chino Blanco out if it weren't for the theory about him being Scratch? No.

Thanks for clarifying.