By Jay Jones, July 25, 2008
Duck fans, we want you to be more than simply visitors to Duck Sports News. We want you to be our friends!
If have a Facebook account and think asking us to be your friend means that our friendship is moving a little too fast, we also have a Duck Sports News.com group you can join.
But, hopefully, we can be both friends and in the same group! Wouldn’t that be cool?
Come on, everybody is doing it!
Here’s my profile on Facebook.
And here’s the Duck Sports News.com group. Through the DSN group, you can ask RW to be your friend, too.
Invite your Facebook friends, as well. Let’s see how big the DSN group can get.
As a side note, and slightly immature social experiment, I’m going to ask The Oregonian’s John Canzano to be my friend.
I’ll let you know if he quickly responds, or wants to take it slow.
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Tags: Duck Sports News, Ducks, Facebook, Football, John Canzano, University of Oregon
Jay Says:
July 25th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
I’ve asked John Canzano to be my friend. Now, let’s see what happens.
Please, won’t you be my friend, John Canzano?
Jay
DSN
Jay Says:
July 26th, 2008 at 11:46 am
12 hours have past. Mr. Canzano is not my friend, yet.
Jay
DSN
Zachary Vishanoff Says:
July 26th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
I hope the Facebook gimmick does a Enron dive soon!
Jay Says:
July 26th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
Zach -
You’re on Facebook. Will you be my friend?
No word from Mr. Canzano.
Jay
DSN
Jay Says:
July 26th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
24 hours. John is still not my friend.
Jay
DSN
R. Dazzle Says:
July 27th, 2008 at 1:12 am
It depends on what you mean by ‘friend’. Now if you mean ‘companionable influence’, then yes that could apply. If you mean a sportsmanlike comraderie, then yes, I imagine you’d score.
But if you mean some sports agenda filled with soul related comment and even a thought toward beginning a written dialog of agreement? And on anything related to the DUCKS? Then NO. Don’t expect much. Got it?
(So shhhh — now know this: when he playfully accepts, you can be all aglow with thanks! Then watch the next hand VERY carefully!)
Jay Says:
July 27th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
R. Dazzle -
36 hours and counting and John still is not my friend.
But if he accepts, then what do I do?
Jay
DSN
R. Dazzle Says:
July 27th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
36 plus hours and still no response?? That’s not a good sign, Jay. Still, you have some time. He could be busy, you know (likely excuse!). Until you hit the 72 hour marker, you’re fine.
What you do when he does accept is to not answer right away. Make him wait by letting him know YOU are now busy with all your OTHER new Facebook friends! (You do have other Facebook friends, right?? This is crucial. He’s got to know he’s missing out. It fuels a competitive urge. Do you suppose Mr. Canzano is competitive…?)
And he can’t know that you’ve been counting the hours waiting for him to accept your Facebook invitation (even though you have). Once he gets a look at all your other new friends, he’ll be suitably curious.
A note here: if you don’t HAVE other new friends, do what lots of people do (I hear) and make them up! A little cut n’ paste and some cool jpg’s…voila! New friends! And they can be sportswriters, fans, wannabes…even megadonors! It’s kinda like those photo frames you buy and there’s a nice fictitious family photo inside that might look better than your own family, so you display it that way. That is, until your mother arrives for a visit. Same thing.
Now… heaven forbid, but if the 72 hour time-frame comes and goes, you’re going to have to let go of the dream. I know it might be tough, but you know you’re worth it and he’s the one missing out. There are other terrific Facebook Friends out there. You’ll just have to find them. But let’s not go there just yet.
I hope that helps. I’d like to stick around to see how this develops, but I’m off to vacation starting tomorrow for a couple weeks. Don’t you just LOVE August? Vacation, football, Olympics…Ciao !!
Jay Says:
July 28th, 2008 at 12:07 am
John Canzano is now my Facebook friend!
Zachary Vishanoff Says:
July 28th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
I only signed up for that gimmick to find a friend and it did not work. Lets be non facebooked friends instead eh? The technological hivemind utopia is a slippery slope. who needs friends when all these robots can care for us like in the Jetsons right? these pages will be morphed to mandatory criminal profiles soon. The thought police and Roboduck come after that. face book needs new more diverse categories choices :foe fiend, freak, also