The topic for discussion today is: those random foreigners that add you on facebook.
Sometimes they're from India, sometimes they're from China, Indonesia, Malaysia, and on the off chance (I've had only one occasion), Brazil. But they're mostly from India.
The question isn't why they add you. The answer to that is simple: they are lonely people, in need of friends in their newly discovered cyber world, and they've chosen you for that role. Who knows why they chose me. But the question is, HOW. Seriously, out of all the millions of people on facebook, you have 27 friends. Why am I one of them? Did I advertise that I was looking for a foreign penpal whilst in some drunken stupor? Because I definitely do not remember if I did. And you'd hope that that isn't something one forgets.
Here's how it goes. You get an invite, contemplate accepting, sometimes you leave it for a while. Then you're like, oh what the hell, and you accept. Days pass. Months pass. Years...that theory hasn't been tested yet.
Anyway, after a while, you forget you've even accepted their invite. And then one day out of the blue, you're just scrolling down the newsfeed, stalking someone's photos or half way through writting a message when they start talking to you. They say things like 'hey wassup how r u whats going on?' over and over again until you reply with something along the lines of "WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU?"
And then they're like, 'oh sorry are you busy. how is life? u live in perth? my brother he is in perth.'
Yeah. I talk to randoms.
