I've been getting an inordinate amount of friend requests on Facebook from middle-aged men I've never heard of lately. I'm usually a somewhat promiscuous with my befriending habits on Facebook, but when a strange guy who graduated from college the year I was born wants to be my "friend," I'm pretty turned off. I have only ever gotten a handful of these, because I think my relationshp status of "married" is actually a pretty good filter. But as it turns out a bad profile picture isn't - I just changed mine from the one at right to a more recent one that is out of focus and depicts me and my now crazy hair absent-mindedly nomming on a cocktail straw/Sara Anderson, F-Words. More here.

Recommended: Randy Stapilus, ex-Idaho political reporter extraordinaire, has begun a new posting series highlighting the top "reads" in the Northwest each day. Click here.

*Armistice Day/Fort Boise
*Bill Sali's excuses/Unequivocal Notion
*Election sets stage for salmon, dams forum/Rocky Barker
*Who elected Obama?/Clayton Cramer
*The GOP & un-Magnificent 7 franchise/Dennis Mansfield

Question: Has your Facebook account attracted any creepy strangers wanting to be friends?

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