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Originally Posted by 33girl
I fail to see how it would be "weird" if you asked friends to contact one of their friends to pave the way for an introduction, and "not weird" to start up a conversation with a guy who you found through his fraternity's FB page. Which kind of proves my point, I guess.
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I think this shows the difference between "friends" and "facebook friends in common." I'll be honest, I'm FB friends with people who I haven't talked with in real life or on FB for years, and in a lot of cases it would be weird for me to suddenly contact them...so why am I friends with them on FB? No idea! I periodically go through and delete people, a fair number of whom request me back shortly after.
Short version: facebook and other means of electronic communication and social networking have effed up my generation's social norms...yes, it is a bit weird. I still think the OP would be out of line to contact this gentleman directly, but I think it's important to clarify the whole facebook social interaction thing.