Sometimes They Write Back...

I love Facebook. I think we all love Facebook. Let's forget the fact that I'm really a social networking whore and focus on the matter at hand here.

Today, I'm on Facebook on my laptop for the first time in nearly a week. Yes, I can get on via the iPhone app (and readily do so), but there are obvious features you can only get in the full browser. Most notably is the "People You May Know" tool, that shows you friends of friends (usually only if you have more than one mutual friend in common).

I'm going through the list, hitting the little "X" boxes to close names I don't remember and I come across a picture that I couldn't pass up. It was a beautiful, blond, Australian model and actress. I was enchanted.

So, I shoot off a text message to Devon, who is listed as a mutual friend.

"Hey, who is this Tania girl on your Facebook? She's hot."

"I don't know her," she said. "She must have added me because I'm a casting director. You should email her."

Now, I've tried cold-contacting girls in the past and it usually doesn't go over to well, but I decided to try it here. Besides, what's the worst that can happen?

"Hello there," I began. "We have some mutual friends in common and I ran across your profile and just wanted to let you know that I think you are very beautiful and probably just as talented an actress."

It was short. It was simple. It was non-threatening (for both of us). And it was gutsy.

And what do you know? She wrote me back. We had a pleasant conversation via email and, with any luck, she will be back in Los Angeles (from Perth, Australia) sometime soon and I will get to meet her in person. God, I love being impulsive.


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