It was two years ago that I first logged on to Facebook. Back then everyone had about 80 friends and maybe three photos. Now, like most of you, I have almost 500 friends, been tagged in over 200 photos and I’m still not sure who most of these people are. But I’m an addict and check my account at least twice a day. So when my friend Justin said he wanted to set me up with his friend, Megan, it didn’t come as a surprise that he was going to “suggest her as a friend” to me on Facebook for our initial connection.

Apparently I was supposed to initially meet Megan for a casual Sunday lunch with Justin and his girlfriend, Jess, but when I couldn’t make it over there, Jess spent the whole hour talking me up. In other words, I accidentally made myself unavailable, mysterious and thanks to Jess, very attractive. So I went through my Facebook photo album to find the most flattering shot of my face, one that didn’t make me look too drunk. I posted it as my profile picture then thought really hard about a cool slightly ironic status update that appears spontaneous. Megan accepted my friend request, we sent off a few messages and made plans for after work drinks the following Friday…That was easy.

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