Facebook?

[JMC]

Greetings! I used to be a frequent reader of these forums and an occasional poster. I also have read Michele's books twice, and have learned a lot about marriage, divorce and midlife crisis. I firmly believe, as well as a counselor with whom I visited, that my ex-wife is in the midst of MLC. I now gravitate to this particular forum, but only rarely. I continue to GAL.

About a month ago a friend of mine sent me an email requesting me to look at his Facebook page. Well I did not realize that by looking at his page and filling in some information to do so, that I was then signing up for my own Facebook page. I certainly did not want this and have never put any photos on the page, but I did receive some emails requesting me to acknowledge some mutual friends of my original friend who asked me to look at his page. For those who do not know how it works, an email comes to your home address alerting you that someone would like to be your friend. You then have to log on to Facebook and either confirm that you know that person, or hit ignore. I simply hit confirm and have pretty much left it alone. I believe my friends got the hint that I was not really interested in spending much time on the site.

You can imagine my surprise the other day when I received an email alerting me that my ex wanted me to acknowledge her as a friend on Facebook. I almost fell out of my chair. I called a few friends and she evidently had requested them as well. This is the same woman who continues to live with one of the men with whom she cheated on me (my 26 year old daughter refers to him as chain-smoking white trash, but that is just one person's opinion).

I acknowledged her request, which then allows me to look at her page. I am now one of 11 friends, and I know most of the others. She has no 'friends' on this site that I uncovered after she dropped the bomb, including the OM with whom she is living (she drives his car and has not worked since Jan. 08, but evidently plans to go to the local community college and get a 2-yr nursing degree. She has a bachelors and claims she will then be an RN).

It appears she has invested a lot of time downloading photos, filling in her favorite activities, etc.. This is all very confusing to me, and I do not know how to interpret this change of events. Anyone else hear of something crazy like this? I realize this particular forum does not garner as much traffic as some of the others, but I figured I would post here as this is about the only forum I visit when I do look at this site.

Thanks for any thoughts!