The whole truth and nothing but
It was following a messy breakup, I was lonely vulnerable and emotional and had turned to drink and drugs and had run out of drugs (though that is never an excuse). I was whiling away the heavy comedown waiting to pass out and torturing myself by purusing the lovers lost (or might have beens) and the stellar careers of my former classmates on Friends Reunited (this was a few years back during the few seconds it had novelty value) - you know the type "working on the 45th floor of Canary Wharf" from the kid who had trouble in maths (always knew you were a banker - come on Osama!), "Happily married with beautiful kids" from the class minger (ahh - well deserved, hope they're yours). The best non pithy tagline was from a guy who had followed his dream and become a photpornographer for an adult magazine, and to prove it his profile pic showed him on a beach being chased by a bevvy of beauties Benny Hill style, but even this didn't cheer me up, so depressed I vowed never to touch FR again and went to bed - if only...

During the next week at work I began to get a few messages from people I hadn't heard from in years asking how I was - I ignored the first few being a wanker, but I received more cryptic messages, their tone concerned and the senders seemed to know way too much about me. Eventually my paranoia prompted me to reply with a WTF response. "Dude, check your FR profile!" was the reply so I did. It was a no holds barred story of all the failures in my life, the six year ruined relationship, the incomplete degree the descent into drink and drugs including the short spell at HMP. Nothing was overlooked. I read with horror and a dawning memory of being so annoyed by all the optimism, happy lives and down right lies on FR that it was time for some TRUTH - I believe I may have even found it cathartic at the time. Since then I have always been wary of the twin evils of drink and social networking - waay worse than drunk texting. I changed my profile to "Still alive" to allay any concerns to the contrary and left it at that.

I have not been back there since and am a lot happier now :o)
(jmaxi returned again on, Thu 11 Sep 2008, 17:26, 1 reply)

On my FR...
I am awesome and adventurous.

If only. I spend most of my time reading this site, but I can't have bragging rights to that, eh.
(TheSnark oh, c'mon, like you didn't see me coming, Thu 11 Sep 2008, 17:44, closed)