I encountered my first potential sleaze bag on Facebook this morning. I was twiddling around my profile when I received a message in my inbox and lo and behold, it came from someone who I don't even know. An expat living in Singapore (supposedly) wanting to talk to me because I seem "cool".

Now, after close to 20 years, I know I'm one of the last people I could ever possibly meet to be "cool". I'm relatively studious (and generally studious people aren't cool), quiet and introverted (not cool either), sometimes snarky and sarcastic (not cool material too). In addition, I have an anal side of me that I have to reel in from correcting just about every single person's grammatical, pronunciation or spelling error. I refer you to Lynne Truss' "Eats, Shoots and Leaves".

So I have no idea what would prompt this person to possibly message me with the message that says something along the lines of "Hi, I'm new here and you seem cool. Want to talk?" Moreover, I'm pretty sure that this person is only seeing my limited profile (which is really nothing except for a profile picture, some basic information and a news feed). I mean, sorry man, I don't know you, so no, I don't really want to add you, the last thing I need would be to add anonymous people I don't know (as of now, I know all 94 people on my facebook to varying degrees but there is one commonality, that I've at least met them in person and have interacted with them enough to know they're not about to subject me to identity theft).

And if I were to jump the gun, I'd say this expat in Singapore might have the impression that what? Just because I'm obviously Asian, I'd suffer from a case of Pinkerton's Syndrome and basically worship him, placing him on an imaginary pedestal, thereby inflating his ego? Sorry man, NOT GONNA HAPPEN. I don't do good with inflating egos, BUT I am EXTREMELY GOOD at DEFLATING them!

Of course, being a tad more educated and reasonable, I WILL NOT jump the gun and give the guy the benefit of doubt, but I am sticking to my principle of only adding people I know on Facebook. So you've been warned.