Myspace and Facebook: Friend Request Declined

With all these Web sites around that promote making new friends and rekindling old friendships, I can understand how people become completely consumed by what's going on in the "Web world." However, there are some pitfalls associated with these forums such as spending hours at a time surfing through these sites looking at strangers, old loves and those you disliked. Also you could find yourself wandering what went wrong when a past friend denies you for request of online friendship. Here are some tips to get over this web world rejection and get on with real life.

#1 Go Ahead and be Paranoid
As soon as you feel rejected by your so called friend go ahead and request for their friendship again with an email attached. Hey, maybe they did not remember you and with your email, you can go down memory lane of those times the two of you had. However, this will and is desperate.

#2 Make a List and Blow It Up
You could do nothing and think about what you may have done in the past to offend that person. Make a list of friends that you two have in common and see if any single event will recall you memory of being a complete and total jerk to that person. When this task does not jar your memory go ahead call those mutual friends, but remember to be smooth about your inquisition. You do not want to solidify the possible assumption that you are a jerk by just asking your mutual friends your question without a few minuets of social banter. When that does not get you any real answers go ahead and start making a list of those you now dislike, since after a few phone calls you have found out that you were a total ass in the past, and now that you are really obsessed about the situation post it on your refrigerator to remind you of your "assholeness."

# 3 Check, Check
Repeatedly go to you site checking to see if maybe your friend request was accepted and all this worrying was for nothing. Besides the last time you remember speaking to this person was at least five years ago and even if you were not a jerk to that person, people do not change. You know, people get older but that weirdo from high school is most likely still weird and not popular. Go ahead and accept that concept because most jerks do. While you are at go and see if anyone is talking you and your phone calls to rekindle the past.

#4 Prove that You're Better
By now you are so fumed with bewilderment and a bitterness the next best thing to do is request friendships from being you never met and will never met in real life. Besides, how cool you are in web world is what really matters in life, who needs face to face social interaction. Keep in mind that this will give you a diverse group of friends and will make you look cultured and very popular. Now that you have so many new friends its time to revamp you profile page and make it look tight. This will show anyone who declined your friendship that you are so better off without them, because although they are not your friend they are totally checking you profile out.

#5 Welcome to the Real World
Once you have burned yourself out with making friends with strangers and realizing that you still have no friends, maybe its time to grow up and realize that people change. Although people do change over the years, the perception of a person stays the same so if you were a jerk in the past you are a jerk now and no one in web world or real world likes a jerk. Jerks are the ones that blow up a chat forum with repeated misspelled words that have nothing to do with the conversation at hand. Jerks are the ones in real life that knowing cut in front of you in line at Quik-Mart because their time is more important than your time. Jerks are the ones at your job that do barely enough to get by and are always talking crap around the office. Jerks are the ones that make life go around because without them normal people would not have a great story to tell at dinner parties about "the jerk who did ....." So go ahead and try out these tips, they will sure make for great banter at the bar.