Scary Facebook Mobile glitch story time.
So I'm at the gym tonight, and I'm chatting with an acquaintance of mine, Sterling, showing him how my phone has a full browser, so I pull up Facebook and notice I have a new friend request and have been poked by someone. I click to see who poked me: Jennifer T. I don't know a Jennifer T., so I think, "Wait, did one of the Jennifers I know get married recently without me knowing?" I check the picture. I do not recognize this girl. And last I checked, nobody who isn't already my friend on Facebook can "poke" me, so I'm wondering what's up. To further investigate, I click the friend request to see who has added me, and it's Julie from California. I don't know Julie. It says we have 10 friends in common, so I click to see who they are. I don't know these people either. By this point, I'm puzzled, and Sterling has come around to look over my shoulder. I notice that my status reads: "Eddie 15th anniversary of my 35th birthday. Eeyow!" My name is not Eddie, and I'm not 50. Something is seriously awry.
Sterling suggests I go to the profile to see who it is. Apparently, I'm a hefty dude with a shaved head and a goatee wearing shades and lots of leather, including chaps. We go to more pictures, and I am apparently a biker dude with a family. By this time, I've realized my phone has somehow logged me into someone else's Facebook account. I clicked the Inbox. Sure enough: bunches of messages from people I don't know. Eddie's messages, apparently. Must...resist...urge...to read...
Of course, now the mischievous devil in me awakes and thinks, "Oh my gosh, I could have so much fun with this. I could set his status, read his e-mails, send inappropriate messages to random people on his friends list..." But of course I wouldn't do that. I'll respect his privacy. ...just one status update? Maybe just change it to "Eddie likes the way chaps feel with nothing else on" or "Eddie used to be Edith" or something like that? No, of course not. Maybe a "helpful" status, like "Eddie's account has been hijacked due to bad programming on the part of Facebook Mobile". No, I figure I'll just leave his status alone.
But how did this happen? I had logged into Facebook Mobile yesterday with no problem, and it has always automatically logged me in, and my phone had been in the house right up until I went to the gym, and I never left my phone alone for even a moment, so I don't know how anyone (especially someone apparently from California) could have had some fun and changed my phone's settings by logging in as someone else. Could this just be crossed wires either in Facebook Mobile's programming or in cell phone networks? And then it sinks in: if this is happening to me, when might someone less benevolent than myself magically log into my account and respect my privacy less than I'm respecting his?
Unsettling.
3 comments:
Imagine the fun someone could have be accidentally being logged on to your account?
Hilarious Eddie!
WEIRD. Hilarious, too, though. Eddie really left himself open to some cheap shots there just from his looks and lifestyle alone...pretty tempting...!!! You are a better man than me (especially since I am, in fact, a chick). I would probably read some of his messages and just mark them as unread afterwards. Wow. I am lame! ha! Can we still be friends?
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