The Inbox of an Accidental Facebook Voyeur
“Just wanted to let you know it seems like your always on my mind these days,” someone wrote to me last night on Facebook. “Sorry if thats creepy but what can I say.” It was creepy, but mostly because the message wasn’t intended for me, and its sender is an Iowa high-school student whom I’ve never met.
An as-yet-unexplained Facebook glitch flooded my inbox last night and this morning with 128 private messages written by complete strangers to their friends–or, in the case of the person who wrote, “I might kill you for this,” their enemies. The misdirected missives range from mundane logistics (“hey whats ur adress so i can send u my bat mitzvah invites?”) to family squabbles (“Until I start hearing some thank yous from you, I will be unable to give you rides home after dance”) to love triangles (“I am EXTREMELY jealous of you”) to unrequited-love notes in foreign languages (“léger nuage de malaise hé oui, entre nous deux”).
