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description to sign up now. I'm kind of weird about social media these days. I used to be really into Facebook when I first moved to college.

It kept me in touch with my friends and family back home, and it was nice feeling like I wasn't so far away from them.

Building up a collection of photos, checking into places, sharing every little detail of my life

so that everyone could see how great I was doing. My entire world was online for all to see.

And because I'm dumb, I was pretty liberal about my privacy setting too. So one day I get this message request from someone I have never heard

of before. It just said, hey, I checked their profile to see if they were in the same class as me or something, but it turned

out we had no mutuals and they lived on the other side of the country.

So as you can imagine, I am pretty confused as to why they are messaging me, but I'm also curious.

So I just reply, hey, do we know each other?

I don't know what I was expecting him to say when I saw that he was typing a reply and I

remember thinking that maybe he was looking for someone with the same name as me or

something but then his response pops up and all it said was, I'm going to kill you.

With the cowboy emoji on the end.

I stare at the message for a few seconds, not scared at all.

Just like, what the heck?

I then take another look at the guy's profile, seeing a bunch more pictures of him wielding knives in the woods somewhere.

I mean, that was at least a little intimidating, but what really got me were all these rants that he had posted about how much

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