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  • Feb. 17th, 2007 at 12:14 PM
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For everyone that is wondering why I added you as a friend -



Hello, my name is Greg and I live in Cincinnati, OH. This blog chronicles an experiment of sorts to see how much you can get from companies by simply asking. This post adds a little more detail.

If you don't want to read more, or aren't interested in reading this, leave a comment and I'll remove you from my friends list. I don't know if I have committed some serious livejournal faux pas but if I have bothered you I am sorry and I'll correct it as soon as possible.

I'd like to make a few things clear.

     ~ I won't be offended if you don't add me back.
     ~ I'm not doing this out of greed. It's a social experiment.
     ~ Also, I don't see anything wrong with friending strangers
      how else do you meet people.

With that said -

      To the person that left the Nick Zedd comment and deleted it. I still don't understand the reference, and I tried to leave you a comment but it said I was banned from your journal. So, yeah I guess I'll take that hike you suggested but I still don't know what to do. Do you want me to take you off my f-list? I thought the comment was funny, although I'm sure it would have been way more funny if I didn't have to wiki Nick Zedd. So, I guess I'm sorry we couldn't be friends.

And on that note I'd like to applogize in advance to anyone I have offended, or ticked off, or rubbed the wrong way, or et cetera.

To the rest of you Thanks! I appreciate your support.

Oh PS -
This is me

You can check out the Flicker here.

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[info]perigune wrote:
Feb. 17th, 2007 06:02 pm (UTC)
I admit, I did wonder why you choose me out of the pool of, what is it now, 11 million journals here? I'm guessing it was because we had common interests of poker and beer.

Yeah, some people here get touchy about being added to Friends lists. God knows why but they do. Oh well.
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[info]justaskforit wrote:
Feb. 17th, 2007 06:04 pm (UTC)
Did you get the Nick Zedd reference. I'm still puzzled.
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[info]perigune wrote:
Feb. 17th, 2007 07:28 pm (UTC)
No, I didn't get it either.
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[info]minniethemoocha wrote:
Feb. 18th, 2007 07:35 am (UTC)
Nick Zedd is some hipster artfart filmmmmmmaker from NYC as far as I can gather. Perhaps you fell askance of some hipster code of decorum. As the Phish kids used to say: Whatev.
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[info]robinhood wrote:
Feb. 17th, 2007 06:49 pm (UTC)
People are sort of weird like that. I dunno. I don't know why people get so bent out of shape over strangers randomly friending them. It's not like you have to friend them back. At worst it just means the numbers on your friends and friends of lists don't match up. :O OH NOES.
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[info]justaskforit wrote:
Feb. 17th, 2007 07:11 pm (UTC)
:) yeah I guess some people just like the symmetry
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[info]laerm wrote:
Feb. 18th, 2007 06:26 am (UTC)
well, as an example of why i'd be upset someone friended me who didn't know me: there's a guy who has me friended who posts a lot of racist, neo-nazi bullshit in his lj. i don't know who he is or why he found me or whatever. i don't want friends of mine, curious who else has friended me, to find his journal. straight up, it's pretty disgusting.
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[info]justaskforit wrote:
Feb. 18th, 2007 06:35 am (UTC)
I guess then you'd like me to remove you from my f-list?

Also it sounds like your Racist/Neo-Nazi problem should be reported to LJ because I'm sure he's broken the TOS. Just saying.
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[info]laerm wrote:
Feb. 18th, 2007 06:37 am (UTC)
meh, it's up to you. it honestly matters not to me whether or not you want to unfriend me or not. you're no nazi, as far as i can tell. ;)

yeah, you'd think, but because it's all in portuguese, lj seems reticent to do anything about it.
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[info]justaskforit wrote:
Feb. 18th, 2007 06:40 am (UTC)
You speak portuguese? Thanks pretty cool. I had a friend I used to work with that came over when he was little. Tried teaching it to me, never really held. It seemed tough.
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[info]justaskforit wrote:
Feb. 18th, 2007 06:42 am (UTC)
Oh I friended you based on a shared interest in beer, music, and pranks, BTW not some random clickity-click.
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[info]robinhood wrote:
Feb. 19th, 2007 12:46 am (UTC)
I admit, that does make sense. That would bother me too.
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[info]krss wrote:
Feb. 17th, 2007 06:54 pm (UTC)
I can't speak for everyone, but I have been added by strangers who proved to be freaks in the bad sense of the word-- one guy's posts and icons were really disgusting, one other person made shocking posts just for the fun of pissing people off (and stalked the ones who were pissed off), there was one who kept adding and deleting people just to annoy them by getting that notification all the time, and so on..

But you definitely are not one of those, which is why I added you back. =)
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[info]justaskforit wrote:
Feb. 17th, 2007 07:11 pm (UTC)
I didn't think about that. Livejournal needs a credibility system, so people can weed out jerks.
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[info]krss wrote:
Feb. 17th, 2007 07:12 pm (UTC)
Yes, that would be a good idea.
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[info]robotdeer wrote:
Feb. 18th, 2007 06:03 am (UTC)
what is going on?
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[info]justaskforit wrote:
Feb. 18th, 2007 06:23 am (UTC)
Check Here :)
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[info]robotdeer wrote:
Feb. 18th, 2007 09:11 am (UTC)
neat idea!
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[info]laerm wrote:
Feb. 18th, 2007 06:23 am (UTC)
er, yeah...
so that actually doesn't answer what adding me as a friend was supposed to do for you. or, for that matter, why me.

i won't be following your progress, but good luck on your attempt to bilk companies out of their products - try and do something good with it, other than accumulating more consumer goods (which you'll end up throwing away, putting in storage, or putting on ebay eventually, i bet).
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[info]justaskforit wrote:
Feb. 18th, 2007 06:33 am (UTC)
Re: er, yeah...
I don't know about "bilk" especially because in common usage it would mean at least to me, that I somehow cheated the companies I make requests of out of their products.

This couldn't be farther from the truth considering I am completely upfront with them about my intentions and situations.

I've stated I'm not going to sell anything. The order in which the "consumer goods" will go is Family -> Friends -> And then anyone that needs it. In fact I've considered putting the "consumer goods" up on here for someone to request.

But thanks for the comment and the input.

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[info]justaskforit wrote:
Feb. 18th, 2007 06:38 am (UTC)
In addition:
[Posted in response to a question from [info]jenlight]
"...you need to have a lot of LJ friends. How does that enhance the experiment?"

Well... A few things.

First, having a large group of readers* I think will influence companies to give when they generally wouldn't. It gives the effort credibility that wouldn't be there if the "interest" was absent.

*Readers: Although this term may be considered facecious because adding a friend in lj doesn't mean anything really, it doesn't mean someone will read your posts, or have any interest. Basically all it is does is gets a bit of attention maybe from the person you friended.

Secondly, the experiment may not just be limited to the stated purpose of this blog. It could be that the "asking" part is a confederate effort in the macro-experiment.

Or I'm just vain and want people to watch me get stuff :P

Or better yet I want to meet new people, and do something interesting, and get something thats both intangible and tangible out of it at the same time.

But to be honest I don't really know, although I don't think anyone could accuse me of not thinking it through.

Great question though!
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[info]xjustdizzyx wrote:
Feb. 18th, 2007 08:36 am (UTC)

Can I donate from my company or do I have to be asked?
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[info]justaskforit wrote:
Feb. 18th, 2007 04:26 pm (UTC)
Sure. I mean as long as you don't sell poisonous snakes or velocoraptors or something like that :)

Send me an email at justaskblog@gmail.com so I can make a formal request.

Thanks
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[info]hooper_x wrote:
Feb. 18th, 2007 02:53 pm (UTC)
Clearly, you friended me because I'm fucking awesome.

-hx
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[info]hooper_x wrote:
Feb. 18th, 2007 03:06 pm (UTC)
actually, I bet music labels, especially smaller indie, rock, rap, or metal ones, give sampler CDs.
also from the fiancee: Dove, the soap company (as opposed to dove, the death metal label) readily sends out samples.

-hx
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[info]justaskforit wrote:
Feb. 18th, 2007 04:30 pm (UTC)
Re: actually, I bet music labels, especially smaller indie, rock, rap, or metal ones, give sampler C
I've given that some thought and just yesterday put Proctor and Gamble on the request list. Although thinking about it didn't P&G sell off the Dove line? I'll have to find out who owns it now if thats the case.
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[info]justaskforit wrote:
Feb. 18th, 2007 04:28 pm (UTC)
Yeah, I mean it was so obvious that I didn't think it had to be mentioned. ;)
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[info]gaddio wrote:
Feb. 19th, 2007 12:58 am (UTC)
I'm guessing you added me because we both like WOXY and live in a similar area? Regardless, very interested to see what all you are able to get for free.
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[info]justaskforit wrote:
Feb. 19th, 2007 07:42 pm (UTC)
are you on the message boards over at WOXY?
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[info]gaddio wrote:
Feb. 20th, 2007 02:29 am (UTC)
I was once upon a time but not anymore. I spend too much time a) working or b) on indie torrents
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[info]shadesong wrote:
Feb. 19th, 2007 07:03 pm (UTC)
Curious as to how you found me/why you added me, but not disturbed. :) Good luck in your quest!
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[info]justaskforit wrote:
Feb. 19th, 2007 07:49 pm (UTC)
I'm pretty sure it was a mutual interest in defenestration.

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[info]b_hulsmans wrote:
Feb. 20th, 2007 12:35 pm (UTC)
no idea why you friended me but that's ok :-) Cool project you have going on here...

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[info]justaskforit wrote:
Feb. 21st, 2007 05:19 pm (UTC)
Thanks, and I'm pretty sure it was our shared interest in "evil genius"
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[info]b_hulsmans wrote:
Feb. 21st, 2007 05:20 pm (UTC)
ah who doesn't love being an evil genius
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[info]empolarbear wrote:
Feb. 20th, 2007 05:06 pm (UTC)
I'm guessing you added me because of defenestration as well, haha. I gotta run right now, but I'll probably add you back later. Ta ta.
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[info]justaskforit wrote:
Feb. 21st, 2007 05:20 pm (UTC)
Its weird how friendly all the defenestration people are... hrmm.

Thanks!
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[info]justjuls wrote:
Feb. 20th, 2007 08:23 pm (UTC)
I thought perhaps because I went to U of C and used to live in Clifton? And eat Skyline and Graeter's? :) I think your project sounds interesting!
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[info]justaskforit wrote:
Feb. 21st, 2007 05:21 pm (UTC)
Go Bearcats!
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[info]raevensdemise wrote:
Feb. 26th, 2007 07:13 am (UTC)
Aloha,
Interesting project, but please take me off your friends list.

Nothing personal, but this isn' t Myspace, and by and large, my friends-only posts are directed at a specific audience, not the general public.
Good luck with your goal!
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[info]justaskforit wrote:
Feb. 26th, 2007 11:16 pm (UTC)
No problem, although I was a little miffed by the MySpace comment. :P
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[info]sonormalithurts wrote:
Feb. 26th, 2007 11:50 pm (UTC)
You just added everyone on the defenestration list, didn't you? :D

Please remove me, good luck with this & so on.
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[info]justaskforit wrote:
Feb. 27th, 2007 12:21 am (UTC)
Defenestration and others. Done and Done, thanks.
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[info]mrcellophaney2j wrote:
Mar. 2nd, 2007 06:34 pm (UTC)
Please remove me from your friend's list. Thank you.
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