Oops On Facebook

As you know, I am on Facebook too besides writing on this blog and the blog for our women's ministry at church. (I love playing a game called FarmTown on Facebook. It is a therapy for me. For the last week, I have been rearranging my farm. And, I think while I am doing something like "farming".) Well, I got it in my head to see if I could find some of the people that I use to "hang out" with in the 1980's at Ontario Vineyard Christian Fellowship, where I went to church. We had lots of fun, from what I remember, and it was a time of growth for me, as I went through a difficult time in my life. My husband (Kari's dad) and I had split up. Kari and I were trying to make it on our own. He ended up marrying someone else, while he was still married to me. Long story, and out of the movies... someday I will write a book.

Anyway, I was a mess, but these people really kept me going. So, I was trying to seek who I could remember of them out on Facebook. I could remember some names, but only the first names mostly. I would start with A, B, C, saying the letters out loud, trying to search my memory for their last names or parts of their names. One guy that was in the group was Dennis... I remembered his name was something like "Simpson", or "Simon". So I finally put the two names together... Simonson. I thought I had found him on Facebook so I requested to be friends with a message. It might not have been him... you really can't tell by a small little photo, but the smile and eyes etc where the same... and in the photo the man was in a suit. I had never seen Dennis in a suit. And, it is now 20 years plus later. But he looked like Dennis so I gave it a try.

He accepted me as a friend. I thought "Oh, it is Dennis!" But as I looked at his profile and information on the profile, while I ate my lunch, I wasn't sure again. All the information on his profile didn't add up to what I could remember about him. I have memories of his birthday was in the fall... October, I thought. But on the profile, it was in June. And it was 1963... well, I knew that wasn't right... my friend was a year or so older than me. I started to feel I had invaded someone's facebook I didn't know. So, I wrote a message to him and said, sorry, and Removed him as a friend. I felt so embarrassed that I had been wrong. The only thing that was possible was that he looked like him but that wasn't enough to convince me.

I didn't realize that I would be embarrassed again, because he wrote me a note and it said "You Know Me!!!" He said it was him and that all the info on is profile was bogus because of possible identity theft. Oops. All of a sudden I remembered the friendship we had many years ago... Dennis and I were friends, and we always learned things off each other, mainly because we were different. I like that about him. I would do things he didn't think I would, and I wouldn't "get" what he was doing either... yet I had a lot of respect for him and his ways different than my own. I have sent him another request, but so far no answer... We will see.