Not a social networking gaff but a texting faux pas, close enough..
Right, I shall have to set the scene for this one. My phone was buggered. Amongst many things the phonebook wouldnt work so to send a text to someone I had to physically type in their numbers every time. I became quite good at remembering numbers that i'd typed in a trillion times so I didnt need to look them up I could just reel them off from memory.

Now then.. After an evening on the lash I was perfoming the tricky art of texting two people:

1. The boyfriend- had been away for a couple of weeks so I hadnt seen him. We were talking about the good times, yes, THOSE good times.

2. An aquaintance- lets call him Nick, as that is his name. I knew him through a friend and I was trying to get in the good books as I'd asked him to recommend me for a job at his company that I really reeeeaallly wanted, to which he'd kindly agreed. So I was talking to him about how brilliant and competant i am (HA) and how I rarely go out drinking (HA) and about how I had work the next day (unfortunately true) and how good I was at that etc.

Now for the predicatable bit, I got a message off both of them at the same time. Decided to text the fella back 1st. Typed a rather intimate and extremely rude message in immense detail about what we were to be getting upto when he returns home, I recall it being about 3 pages long. I then without even realising sent it to Nick. I couldn't be bothered to text him back so I just went straight to sleep after I sent it.

I awoke with a fuzzy head and no messages :( (sent items broke as well) I text Nick explaining that I'd fallen asleep the night before and enquired about interviews and the such like.

No response.

The next day the boyfriend returned home and we started to discuss our late night rudey messages and discovered that he had never recieved mine. How very odd I thought. Precisely on cue I recieved an e-mail from Nick, something along the lines of:

MY NAME,

Unfortunately I shall no longer be providing a recommendation for you. I think your manipulative messages have shown your true character and I do not think that an employee who would be willing to use sexual tactics to further themselves in our company would be welcomed by my present collegues or management.

BOLLOCKS

Still got the job though, and left 4 months later because it was a pile of monkey work. I love my job now :)

Me and boyfriend broke up because he had a bad habit of sleeping with other people. twat.

I explained everything to Nick before the interview. He understood. He also shamed my by showing me what I had said. Turns out he was a good friend of boyfriend as a kid. He got fired after I left for being a druggie. He's clean now. We're really good friends.

END
(i should have joined myspace, Sat 13 Sep 2008, 18:23, 2 replies)

Txting
I sent my partner a intimate txt message, to my mate whose name happens to be first on my phone.
So the solution is ummm don't cheat on anybody whose name starts with A, or have your work number under A.
(muzzvsworld, Sun 14 Sep 2008, 5:35, closed)

Re Txting
I heard a good one the other day about the perils of predictive txt. It seems 'Do you want to get food in the crown?' actually comes out as 'Do you want to get done in the brown?'.
Not sure if this has been mentioned on here before.
(northerncock, Sun 14 Sep 2008, 19:33, closed)