One of the curiosities of Facebook is the way acquisition of new friends and joining of FB groups is reported in our personal newsfeed.
It makes me smile, and sometimes laugh out loud, to read that "John Smith" and "Tiffany Jones" joined the group "My favorite color is purple". "John" is my friend from grade 2 and "Tiffany" is my next-door neighbor's granddaughter. There is no way they know each other, of course, and we live thousands of miles apart, but Facebook makes it sound like the two of them joined forces in their love of purple after consulting each other about it!
It gets even stranger when an old friend from your childhood Sunday school class in New York and your second cousin's son's girlfriend's brother - who lives in southern Italy - both "are now friends with "Bill Johnson", who is someone you don't even know. Talk about 6 degrees of separation!
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