Network Socializing- The improbable scenarios

How, might i dare ask, do two people come about becoming friends purely through a social network (say Friendster, Facebook, Myspace, Livejournal, etc. etc.)
How do conversations start?
"Oh i see you have added a testimonial on my page, thanks for doing that you are the best person in the world. BTW i Love you"
Or maybe
"Wow we're such good poke buddies (its the only thing we do right?) why don't we take it a step further and be ass poking buddies?"

Fine fine so not all of them go that way but i'm just curious... how exactly do you make friends on a social network? How do you make the first contact and what the heck do you say to that person? How on earth do you discover things in common to talk about? (other than spying on each other's profiles). I'm interested cuz i've heard about all sorts of Facebook and Friendster buddies and maybe these crazed-socialites could enlighten me (its sort of sad that i know no one at OSU eventhough i'm in that network but hey, its going to be 4 months before go there) on how to be a monster network-online socializer.

However, one must be warned about the large numbers of posers, narcisissts, camera-hoggers, pedophiles, serial rapists, perverts, hairy sugar daddies, mistresses-for-hire, ovary merchants, pimps, floozies, prostitutes, amateur porn stars, webcam strippers, psychopaths, cannibals, receational stalkers, obsessive stalkers, sociopaths, identity theives, cat-loving hippies, excessive abortionists, mormons, ninjas, yippies, satanic worshippers, cult leaders, preachers, crazy evolutionists and sexmaniacs with an assortment of fetishes. Not to say they can't be fun or interesting people (try putting the preacher and the evolutionists in the same room).

But anyway, yea, somebody, tales of how you met the love of your life through the internet?

Note: I promise i'll fix the comment link so that it actually works. =D

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Exclamation_popcorn reflected on life at 11:23 AM