Pros on Facebook

[christos_liaskos]

As well as a ttwarehouse member, I am also a Facebook member. Since I am a keen tennis player and have been around tennis for almost ten years I have got to know various players my age who have had a go at making at as pros. None of these players have got very far but it is interesting to see the links they have which go almost all the way to the top of the rankings. Alot of the British players I know will have met low ranked British pros.

After clicking on one of my friends 'friends lists', I noticed that amongst her friends was Jamie Murray. She also had many other British pros listed as friends but many of you wont have heard of them since they are low ranked.

I then clicked on Jamie Murray's 'friends list' and two names that stood out to me where British no3 Alex Bogdanovic and American Amer Delic and his doubles partner Eric Butorac. Again, there was a whole host of lower ranked players in there as well but are not worth mentioning.

When I clicked on Delic's 'friends list' I found the following US players: Shenay Perry, Alex Kuznetsov, Ryan Sweeting.

I didnt bother clicking on those names because I figured that if there were higher ranked players on Facebook such as Roddick, Blake or even someone like Fish then they would have been on Delic's list of friends.

Its interesting to see how a chain can be made from me, someone who plays tennis 2 or 3 times a week, to Wimbledon Mixed Doubles Champions and Grand Slam players. I have to say I was disappointed not to find Jelena Jankovic listed as one of Murray's friends :grin: .

 

[christos_liaskos]

Turns out Donald Young is on Facebook too. My friend looks like she added him today.

I know these guys travel all over the world and meet alot of people but these tennis players have hundreds of people listed as friends. Its ridiculous! Young has 786! He's only a kid for god's sake, as if he knows all those people and i really doubt my friend has ever really met him and if she has then they certainly wont be friends. These guys just seem to be adding every single person that they have ever walked past from tournaments back from when they were 10 years old or something stupid.

 

[armand]

Yep I hit with some top juniors and it's pretty cool that after a few clicks, I find myself at the top 100 of the ATP!

And Donald Young a facebook *****? Figures, Zing!

 

[Forehand Forever]

Phillip Bester has one too if you look at Donald Young's friends.

I don't want to add them though.

 

[arodnadal]

is donald young's the one that says he went to mcintosh high school?

 

[arodnadal]

i found novak djokovic's on scoville jenkins list of friends!!! except his name is found as djokovic novak

 

[Vision84]

Turns out Donald Young is on Facebook too. My friend looks like she added him today.

I know these guys travel all over the world and meet alot of people but these tennis players have hundreds of people listed as friends. Its ridiculous! Young has 786! He's only a kid for god's sake, as if he knows all those people and i really doubt my friend has ever really met him and if she has then they certainly wont be friends. These guys just seem to be adding every single person that they have ever walked past from tournaments back from when they were 10 years old or something stupid.

Facebook is a popularity contest.

 

[KBalla08]

ive been friends with donald young forever on facebook lol

 

[babolat15]

this is hilarious. i mite get a facebook

 

[ShcMad]

I requested to be friends with Benjamin Becker, but he never accepted the request.

Also, I think Justin Gimelstob has facebook also.

 

[Tennisace1]

haha dont worry he did the same to me. Yeah paul hanley has one as well, scoville jenkins, Yves Allegro Jonathan Eysseric

 

[christos_liaskos]

It took time for my thread to get some replies but i knew you guys would have some experience with facebook, you are all posting on a tennis forum after all :grin:

 

[samrocksmyshire]

now, let's count how many people are on myspace.

 

[christos_liaskos]

now, let's count how many people are on myspace.

Its all about facebook, forget myspace and all the other rubbish :grin:

 

[ShcMad]

haha dont worry he did the same to me. Yeah paul hanley has one as well, scoville jenkins, Yves Allegro Jonathan Eysseric

Yeah, I saw Paul Hanley's name while surfing on facebook, too. I also found Sam Querrey, Wesley Moodie, and Ashley Harkleroad are on Facebook.

 

[christos_liaskos]

I know this is reviving an old thread but I noticed today that my friend on Facebook has added Maria Kirilenko!

I thinkk that has to be the most high profile player ive seen on then so far

 

[Andres]

John Isner is also on Facebook

 

[Fee]

Andres is on Facebook, that's the important info.

AG, are you in Australia yet, and has X bailed on your match?

 

[Vermillion]

I requested to be friends with Benjamin Becker, but he never accepted the request.

Also, I think Justin Gimelstob has facebook also.

benjamin becker only adds his baylor pals. And I'm not one of them

 

[katastrof]

Have you heard about the "six degrees of separation" theory?

It says the following: Consider the entire network of acquaintances on Earth. Each person is a node and each friendship/acquaintance is a connection. The theory suggests that if you pick two people from the Earth randomly, you can get to one person from the other in an average of six connections. Thus, a totally random person (out of the six billion population) is, on average, only six friends away from you.

I don't have to add that this applies to you and any tennis player as well.

There are some interesting experiments made on this subject, including the "Find Satoshi" puzzle (google this if interested), and there's also one based on the Facebook network.

Anyway, it's just an interesting thing that might chill your surprise a bit

 

[str33t]

I'm friends with Justin Gimelstob on MySpace haha.

 

[uni]

Yea, Im friends with John Isner

 

[Fee]

Justin adds everyone on Myspace except the fake player pages. He was even adding the porn chicks until I put a stop to that and required captchas for his account. He's neglecting that page, I should remind him to check in sometime this week.

 

[isuk@tennis]

Have you heard about the "six degrees of separation" theory?

i doubt some random person in africa or mainland china is connected to me with only 6 people between us

 

[hyperwarrior]

Tsonga also!

 

[firstservethenvolley]

Yea, Im friends with John Isner

He has 3800 friends. oh god.

 

[firstservethenvolley]

Gasquet too. Can't I just make a facebook like Roger Federer , put up his profile picture and join the Switzerland group? I highly doubt all of these are real pros. But I'd have to say Isner looks to be legit.

 

[christos_liaskos]

Gasquet too. Can't I just make a facebook like Roger Federer , put up his profile picture and join the Switzerland group? I highly doubt all of these are real pros. But I'd have to say Isner looks to be legit.

There definitely are plenty that arent real. For example I have searched for Roddick I while ago it came up with plenty of results, whether that was lots of people with the same name or lots of people making fake ones I dont know, my guess it was a bit off both.

Lower profile players though I reckon are real, like Kirilenko and Isner. Also, the fact that my friend who is a lower ranked tour player added Kirilenko means its a good chance that one is real.

 

[califsurferboy33]

ashley harkleroad is real, her page is real but good luck getting her to be your friend on there.

 

[forzainter]

He has 3800 friends. oh god.

Thats the thing, he won't know a lot of those people, I have a bebo page and have about 60 friends, but id rather have that 60 I know than 3000 people I don't know, its stupid.

 

[christos_liaskos]

Its not the first time ive revived this thread but I feel this is worthy news of bringing it back to life once again. After looking at my friends facebook page today I noticed one of her friends was NOVAK DJOKOVIC!!! Surely this isnt the one and only? (If you arent sure what I am talking about then read the first post in this thread, it explains the whole thing.)

My friend is home from her travels for a couple of weeks at the moment so when I get the chance I will ask her if its really him.

Also, if you search for Novak Djokovic in the search function on facebook it doesnt come up with the Novak Djokovic that my friend has added. Not sure if this means its genuine? After all, if there is a way of blocking people from finding you when they search your name then Novak may well have done that, I mean he wouldnt want thousands of people adding him as their friend.

 

[IanRichardson]

yeah im friends with him too. After the NCAA's last year I sent him a message telling him tough luck and stuff. We also happened to take lessons from one of the same guys so I mentioned him. He actually sent me a message back, I was shocked.

And now for the subject of this post: John Isner= Him

 

[christos_liaskos]

yeah im friends with him too. After the NCAA's last year I sent him a message telling him tough luck and stuff. We also happened to take lessons from one of the same guys so I mentioned him. He actually sent me a message back, I was shocked.

Sorry to sound dumb lol but who are you actually talking about?

 

[IanRichardson]

Sorry to sound dumb lol but who are you actually talking about?

you arent dumb, I am, thats what happens when you are half ass posting in class... I was talking about john isner, I will edit that.

 

[christos_liaskos]

you arent dumb, I am, thats what happens when you are half ass posting in class... I was talking about john isner, I will edit that.

I thought it was probably him, thought i'd better check though. I didnt think you were possibly talking about Djokovic lol, I wasnt aware he had been playin NCAA last year haha

 

[bleno567]

somdev devvarman has a facebook as well (if you consider him to be a pro).

 

[Rhino]

Justin adds everyone on Myspace except the fake player pages. He was even adding the porn chicks until I put a stop to that and required captchas for his account. He's neglecting that page, I should remind him to check in sometime this week.

fee is like Mel in 'Flight Of The Conchords"

 

[diegaa]

JMDP has a facebook site as well.

 

[Andres]

Lo tenes agregado? xD

 

[Lotto]

I don't know about facebook but I am on something similar, it's called Bebo, I don't know if any of you have heard of it, but apparently the "real" Rafa Nadal and "Roger Federer" are on it and they are the only pro tennis players and the only Roger and Rafa. They're profiles are on private but I added them and they accepted. I talked to "Rafa" on msn and kept plagueing him about tennis so he blocked me on msn and bebo. I also kept asking "Roger" loads of questions about his racquet, and training and all of this and he blocked me aswell

I highly doubt these are real but "Roger" is only on when theres a break in the tournaments and I met an austrailian journalist on bebo who swears that they are real and is apparently meeting with Rafa in London during Wimbledon, so I don't know.

Thoughts?

 

[diegaa]

Lo tenes agregado? xD

y si, le mande el request... soy un looser.

 

[Andres]

I don't know about facebook but I am on something similar, it's called Bebo, I don't know if any of you have heard of it, but apparently the "real" Rafa Nadal and "Roger Federer" are on it and they are the only pro tennis players and the only Roger and Rafa. They're profiles are on private but I added them and they accepted. I talked to "Rafa" on msn and kept plagueing him about tennis so he blocked me on msn and bebo. I also kept asking "Roger" loads of questions about his racquet, and training and all of this and he blocked me aswell

I highly doubt these are real but "Roger" is only on when theres a break in the tournaments and I met an austrailian journalist on bebo who swears that they are real and is apparently meeting with Rafa in London during Wimbledon, so I don't know.

Thoughts?

You're naive.

 

[fleabitten]

You're naive.

Ouch.
Wow, is this a test?
Who's on first?

 

[TheTruth]

Its all about facebook, forget myspace and all the other rubbish :grin:

Why? What's the difference between Facebook and MySpace?

 

[Stchamps]

I am now friends with John Isner on facebook.

 

[figsman]

is facebook that much better than myspace?
I have found many profiles to claim to be Nadal's on myspace.

 

[Stchamps]

Facebook is more of a high school / college scene (and now getting a little older because of college graduates)

It feels a little more private and it's not "looking for love add me as a friend" like myspace is.

 

[Fee]

is facebook that much better than myspace?
I have found many profiles to claim to be Nadal's on myspace.

I think Myspace is more private, but its so gawdy with the personalized layouts and such. Facebook has been opened to everyone and it's now become a money making venture for the owners so it has it's problems too I suppose. I use Bebo, but hardly anyone I know does.

 

[christos_liaskos]

OK, so after spotting Djokovic on my friends list a couple of days ago, now she added tursunov! I cant wait until i see her to find out what's going on here

 

[crazytennis]

Facebook is more of a high school / college scene (and now getting a little older because of college graduates)

It feels a little more private and it's not "looking for love add me as a friend" like myspace is.

Agreed. (10 chars)