Do I add you, or do I wait for you to notice me?

Do I add you, or do I wait for you to notice me?

So, I am sick of feeling apprehensive, self-conscious and weird. I hate feeling like a teenage stalker, but yet, I can’t stay away. With all the new media involving Internet social sites, how do I know when I have gone from social butterfly, to social disaster and embarrassment? I am of course talking about the Facebook Quasi-Friend.

I have friends that I have no qualms about adding as "friend" immediately, but there are others....those that you knew 5 or so years ago, or friends of friends that you remember, but you are not sure if they would remember you--that you just do not know what to do with.
Its the same passive-aggressive song and dance that you do when you go back to your hometown and go to the local bar...ahem, The Oui, when you see people that you know EXACTLY who they are, but you really don't’ know what to say to them, so you take the high road and just pretend to not see them.

So, whats a girl to do? Do I add you and assume that you don’t REALLY think that I care that much about what you are doing, or are you going to think...."why is this bitch adding me as a friend?....I don't really remember how I know her, but we went to the same high school, so I guess I knew her, but whatever...weirdo."

THIS is the new dilemma of always being online. I even have the option of checking my Facebook from my iPhone whilst I am supposed to be teaching young, impressionable minds. BAH!
So, at the end of the day, we just Facebook stalk those whom we are patiently waiting for THEIR add. Ironically, they are probably doing the same to us.

And we all live awkwardly ever after.

UPDATE (7/25/08): After experiencing this stalker-esque phenomenon day after day and having Facebook add their "People You May Know" application...yes, I DO know them!! But do they know me?!?! I have decided to coin this phrase "Facebook Addxiety." There-it's trademarked. TMZ will be jealous.