The Facebook Girl

Facebook creeping. We've all done it, and we'll continue to do it as long as Facebook maintains its reign as the social network king.

Mark Zuckerberg is a pretty smart guy, you know, dropping out of an ivy league college and all. He knows that when he adds profiles of people you might now in your News Feed, there's a likely chance you'll click on their profile and add them too. Each new friend you add allows the social network to grow and eventually puts money back in the bank for Zucker-buck.

But when Facebook grants power to us normal folk, we can't help but use this power to our full creepy potential. That's why we end up scrolling through pictures of these alleged mutual friends that are actually a complete strangers. Hence, the name Facebook creeper we give to ourselves.

Now, if you're silently muttering to yourself that you've never done this--you're in denial. If you don't have a Facebook, well, you're just living under a rock. And if you're thinking "wow, I do that WAY too much," then you frighten me. Facebook creeping is okay, it's a natural part of being a social networker. But being a perverted creeper on Facebook that stalks anyone and everyone because you have no real friends is taking it way too far.

Anyways, this is the story of that one Facebook girl I finally met.

But the funniest part of this story is my ignorant assurance that I would never actually meet this girl, even though she consistently pops into my Facebook News Feed because we have "mutual friends." Silly me.

Where did I meet her you ask? Oh, you know...at church. Yes, I met the girl with the summer bikini profile picture she keeps up until January right after mass. Very appropriate.

So, where's the lesson in all of this? Be careful who you Facebook creep. You might actually end up meeting them one day, and if you're like me...the only thing you'll be able to think about upon meeting them is their awkward statuses and their self-obsessed profile picture you creeped on one day.

Alas, the joys of meeting a perfect stranger.

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