the well known stranger

it just occurred to me that i will probably soon bump into a complete stranger and treat him like a long-time acquaintance, just not remembering where i know him from, making a fool of myself. all thanks to those neat social network applications on the web.

the one i use, openBC, keeps showing me a random selections of my currently 2,644 “contacts of contacts”. their names and faces will get stored somewhere in my brain, probably without a reference to openBC, just to compromise me in the moment of truth. as i know them all via just one person chances run high that i will meet many of them eventually.

i shiver in anticipation ;-)