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Oh, crap. Pictures from that one Halloween party I went to have been tagged on Facebook.

Nothing scandalous, unless you count the one where I'm wearing a tricornered hat, holding a hookah, and making a horrible face. Or the one where I'm grinning stupidly and brandishing my cell phone while standing along with a few dozen other people behind the dude who came dressed as the Verizon guy. Seriously, it's The Network.

Yeah, that was a fun night.

However, point is, people from my professional life have started friending me. Until recently, my profile picture was a contestant from America's Next Top Model (shut. up.) who looks nothing like me. It was amusing for a little while, then I switched to an actual picture of myself. Unfortunately, my common-as-muck name wasn't common enough to keep me from getting tracked down. And I don't know what to do.

I joined Facebook to keep in touch with friends from school, not for a business networking tool. All the suits are late on the bandwagon, having only recently realized that HAY, social networking isn't just for middle-schoolers. In theory, I s'pose I could add businesspeople back and keep them on a filter that doesn't let them see my pictures, my status, what level of pirate I am, etc. Only, that can't be done on an individual basis--I would have to keep everyone I'm friends with through that network on the same filter. So the people I know through school would be unaffected, but people I know through my city, friends and business contacts alike, would be blocked off.

Not a horribly big deal, but it kind of irks me.

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I just disable access to my pictures and don't put anything there that I wouldn't mind my mother seeing. I don't let anyone see my status anyway and I don't have any of the add-ons. My facebook page is very boring.

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Pirates is my only guilty pleasure on there. Reminds me of old-school Oregon Trail and it's good, mindless fun during lulls at work when I'm not writing fic on the sly. And yeah, I think I'm just gonna filter instead of flat-out refusing to add anyone.

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Pirates is my only guilty pleasure on there. Reminds me of old-school Oregon Trail

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You are an evil temptress and I hate you. :P I don't even know what this Pirates thing is and now I want it.

Hee! Basically you sail the seas and plunder villages instead of fording rivers, etc. I'm surprised no one's thrown a bomb and invited you to join yet; apparently no-skills-necessary pirate games appeal to a lot of people.

I just reject any and every invitation like that that I get on Facebook. I'm probably not my friends' favorite person, but then they're probably not paying much attention to who they're inviting.

Word. There are a couple of worthwhile ones, like Causes, where you can drum up support for different charities and the like, but for the most part all the snazzy new widgets and games are annoying as hell. Those, I tend to block.

I don't have Facebook (or MySpace) at all because I don't want to worry about things like that. I'm sure it's addicting as crack, but I don't feel like I am missing out. I get agitated enough when there are drunk pictures of me on people's Flickrs.

Which ANTM contestant? :)

I try not to get myself into situations where humiliating pictures might be taken, but if something dubious surfaces, I'll just untag myself or have it taken down. And...it was some girl named Spontaniouse from the current cycle who didn't make the final cut. Yeah, I know, I know...

At least you have those options. I think if I asked my friends to take down their pictures it would actually offend them. I don't mind all THAT much, it's just that some of them have no concept of "try to choose the most flattering shot and omit the really bad ones". Boys, what can you do with them.

Wow, uh, that's some name. :) I can't find a picture of her online, but hey, you are talking to someone currently obsessed with a contestant from a gazillion cycles ago who has spent ages unearthing every corner of the internet to find information, and is contemplating visiting the purported bar said contestant works at. When I get into something, I like to go all out.

I haven't watched the current cycle yet, I somehow can only watch the show in marathon format. I'm sure I'll see it at some point.

I'm guessing Kahlen, hm? =) And behold!

Yes, Kahlen. It's really interesting to go back and watch her on the show because the shy persona the editors gave her seems so different from the indie party girl she seems to be in real life. I live for my obsessions, and I expect this to go away in due time, but for now it is a good time-killer. She just made her MySpace private, though, way to spoil my fun.

Spontaniouse is pretty.. why was she cut? I still can't believe someone actually has a name like that.

ANTM is such a train wreck, but sometimes I can't help checking up on it. My roommates and I used to watch cycle two religiously, back when it was still at least something approaching a modeling show as opposed to a reality show. I still think Shandi was adorable, speaking of indie hipster contestants.

Spontaniouse didn't seem to have a single intelligent thought in her head. The little screen time she had was pretty painful.

I've never seen the first two cycles, so it would be interesting to see an actual modeling show because I don't see much of one now. In my copious reading of ANTM as of late I've read about Shandi, and her indie cred seems unimpeachable. I still prefer Kahlen though. :)

Haha.. so she was your Facebook icon why?

To make my friends to a double-take and flaunt my maturity. =) Cycle 2 seemed the most legit to me, back when the show still taking itself seriously. Seems both Kahlen and Shandi left the modeling world to get bad tattoos and DJ or bartend, however (wow, you do have an arsenal of Kahlen icons, don't you?).

Most excellent. I'll have to look for the Cycle 2 marathon because they air 1-2 cycles per weekend on MTV these days. I don't know what happened to Shandi, but according to the questionably reliable reality television forums, I learn that Kahlen tried to make it as a model but couldn't get signed because she was too short. So instead she got an unflattering haircut and bad tattoos. I still love her, though.

Yes, too many icons, and most of them bad. That's what happens when you let me loose with screencaps and the stupid LJ icon maker. (I love this one. I don't know what's more adorable, her or the kitten.)

I forgot that this is your other journal and that you probably haven't seen my endless barrage of posts with Kahlen icons. :P It's fortunate for you.

I haven't updated/logged on to my Facebook in ages. I've never found those sorts of pages as addicting as some people seem to find them. Anyways, I'd just use a filter, or whatever Facebook calls them, to limit access to your profile.

Yep, that's the plan, I think. I never go on MySpace, but Facebook is a good way to keep up with my friends from college and high school.

And I definitely just typed hugh school for a second there. Oy. Does not compute.