The wonders of Facebook

I love facebook for 2 reasons:


1. When I'm feeling fat and gross, it holds my hand and tells me I'm being silly.  In actuality, it makes me feel better to see photos of former classmates who really did cross that line into the land of fat and gross.  In this magical land, humans purchase 5 liters of Coca-Cola, at Wal-Mart, with a check, at 4:00 in the afternoon, while sporting flannel pajama pants and a T-shirt that says "WWE 1997".   


2. It connects to me to the world in the most strangest of ways.  Case in point:  today I received a Facebook message from a man who lives in Rome.  His name and email address happen to be only 1 letter different than mine.  My name is Michelle (with two L's) and his is Michele (with one L).  We also share the same last name.  Apparently our travel agent screwed up my email address while sending us some flight confirmations for our honeymoon.  These emails mistakenly went to my new Italian friend, Michele.  


This was his message:

Hi Michelle, I know you may not believe it, but I have received couple of e-mails with flight tickets to Rome for you and Adam (I guess the guy in the photo). Now, the strange thing is my e-mail adress is michele.pacifico@gmail.com, quite similar to yours I guess (but I am male). Moreover I am Italian and I live in Rome, where you are supposed to land, I guess. 

Initially I thought to classical e-mail phishing. Now I think this may be one of the strangest case I've heard so far, in which happen to have the same name.

Please let me have your e-mail adresses and I'll forward you the documents.

At first, I thought it was a crazy email scam person trying to steal all my money.  I checked his profile, and it seemed legit.  How weird, right?   Ironically, he lives in Rome and we are going to Italy on our honeymoon.  I did what any sane person would do - sent him a message with a zillion questions about where one would find the best food in Rome.

Naturally, My mind is on food.