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September 14, 2007
My boyfriend is NOT my friend
I've had a witty profile on Friendster for a very long time. Like all the other sites, I used it a lot in the beginning. Like all the other sites, I don't ever update it now. I keep it open, as friends have stumbled upon me through the site, and that's really useful, as are the reminders of friends' birthdays. Just like MySpace, though, it is unpleasant to view and buggy, and the messaging aspect is horrible.
When Derrick and I started dating, I changed my profile to 'dating.' I even found his profile and invited him to be my 'friend.'
Once we moved in together, I remembered to log on, change my profile to 'in a relationship, monogamous.' Under pending invites, it still showed my invite to him to be my 'friend.' No response.
"Haha, Derrick. That's so funny! You should sign onto Friendster and accept my invite! No, really!" He claimed that he never logged onto Friendster, and he was right. He never used it, except where he had ALREADY accepted the invite to be friends of one of my friends!!!! WTF!!!
Everyone knows I'm not obsessive. (Cough, cough). On the rare occasion I had to log onto the site, that flashing unaccepted invite would mock me, and I would click on his un-updated profile, the one that said he was still SINGLE and that I WASN'T HIS FRIEND.
Once we got domestically partnered last December, I laughingly told him he should update his Friendster profile. He laughed, and I pondered leaving him.
Finally, last week, he asked me what I wanted for my upcoming birthday. I told him I wanted him to be my domestic partner on Friendster, and he FINALLY, after ten thousand years, changed his status to domestically partnered. Everything is now perfect in the online world.
Posted by G at September 14, 2007 08:39 AM
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Regardless of labels, he's awfully adorable. Missed you last night. x
Posted by: bob at September 14, 2007 10:36 AM
You guys are together ten thousand years? Wow! I wouldn't even know what to buy for that anniversary! Well, congrats! That's terrific! ;)
Posted by: Jess at September 14, 2007 12:20 PM
"FINALLY, after ten thousand years"
This is why you teach math and teach it well.
One's status in the online world is everything.
Posted by: palochi at September 14, 2007 01:40 PM
i'm thinking the 10,000 year anniversary is plutonium.
Posted by: brian Nesbitt at September 14, 2007 02:21 PM
Sounds a lot like Facebook, actually.
Posted by: Randy McDonald at September 14, 2007 03:54 PM
Happy happy joy joy!
Posted by: Stash at September 14, 2007 05:03 PM
Ya know, that it such an awesome gift. Honestly.
Posted by: Matt at September 14, 2007 09:21 PM
Wow, ten thousand years! I've never made it past a thousand with anyone.
Posted by: Tony at September 15, 2007 08:12 AM
Too too funny. But what else will you be getting on your birthday?
Posted by: Raw-butt at September 15, 2007 01:32 PM