I have a tendency to be socially disfunctional.  As in, I tend to assume that my idea of friendship is everyone else's idea of friendship, and I fail to grasp the subtle grades of frienships between 'acquaintance' and 'buddy'.  

Anyway, after being burned a little because I failed to recognize those distinctions on Facebook, I just found a really old... I guess it would be aquaintance.  We were roommates a decade ago, he buggered off to a different town (for lots of awesome reasons), and I rarely ever heard from him again.  So, now he's a facebook friend with several people I know, though I haven't seen many of them in a really long time either.

The end result of this ramble is,  I sent him a facebook email instead of instantly friending him like I might have before being burned by my lack of facebook social skills.  Still, I'm torn; maybe I shouldn't have emailed  him either.  Hell.  If he replies, that's nice, if he doesn't, then too bad.

Now I just need to keep telling myself that.