Nothing worth writing has happened to me this week. However, today I received a weird message from some guy on Facebook. This made me think of how many messages like this I’ve received since I’ve lived over here. Receiving messages like this has become pretty routine but it still amazes me that these people waste their time writing! Even, I’m not bored enough to even think of replying.
Anyway, today’s message was:
“Hi friend, good morning , how Are you? really you so nice friend , i hope we will become best friend ,just i want to ask you, where you from?take care , you have nice day” It is amazing to me that this guy thinks I’m a “nice friend” and wants to be my “best friend” when he knows nothing about me and has never even met me!
As I really didn’t have anything more exciting to do, I decided to find a few older examples to include here too. I’ll start with the weirdest of the bunch:
“Hi Amanda,
I was looking on facebook about any one have read this book “The Sad Truth” to tell me what their opinion about it. I just not a very good since of picking up the right book and my problem is if I start to read a book I have to finish it even if it was boring!!
My favorite books are:
- A thousands splendid suns
- Angels Ashes
- eat, pray, love
Sorry to send you this message without any interdiction.
Mohamed Salah”
Less than 24 hours later, he wrote again:
“Amanda,
I know there must be a hundreds of men hitting on you here on the facebook obviously because you are look pretty, but I really wanted to hear your opinion about that book.
Ignoring me is really not nice and makes me feel bad, you don’t wanna makes me feel bad, do you?
Mohamed”
So, I blocked him after the second message. How in the world did he expect me to respond in a timely manner if he thought I had hundreds of other messages to respond to?
Here are a few more examples:
“u look so cute… my name is shakil…living at abu dhabi…can u make me ur frnd pls…thnx.” [Interestingly, the name on the profile was Nasir.]
“hi how are you…. u r sooooo adorable 
i’m so interested to be friend of u 
“
“I am from India and working in UAE from last 10 months..i am with construction co. where r u working? coming week i will shift to Abudhabi. Friends?” [Well, at least he told me something about himself. By the way, people here often say “shifting” instead of “moving.”]
“hello amanda. how are you? :) byyy”
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