Everybody Is Kung Fu Fighting.
Those cats were fast as lightning…

So, now you guys realize that not only do I give masterful dating advice, but I’m 3-0 on my football picks so far. I told you the Saints were going to beat the Lions. I told you the Jets were going to beat the Patriots. I also told you the Colts would squeak by the Dolphins last night.

Not only am I going to find you your next relationship and get you laid on your next date, but I’m actually going to put money into your pockets. I’m 3-0 already, so check back on Friday for my next pick…

Let’s talk today about Facebook fighting. How many of you are on Facebook?

For those of you who are, be sure to add me as a friend. I love seeing what my readers are up to in their life.

Today we’re going to talk about another phenomenon: Facebook fighting. Sing along to that tune with these words:
Everybody was Facebook fighting.
Those words are fast as lightening
Whenever you add a new friend of the opposite sex
You’re going to start brawling…

A friend of mine emailed me yesterday to say he and his girlfriend were fighting. Apparently his girlfriend saw that he added a friend on Facebook who was female, she wondered ‘who is this woman,’ and it caused a big fight. His girlfriend thought it was some girl he had the hots for that he added as a friend.

C’mon! Look at almost anyone’s Facebook friends. There is usually about 500 of them, and people usually only actually communicate with about one percent of those people.

I have thousands of friends on Facebook, but I couldn’t tell you about even one hundred of them. I know that Jim Almond had trouble chewing some nuts yesterday and was choking. I know someone else had hemorrhoids and decided to share that with everyone on Facebook.

I know yet another person (who supposedly is my friend) is having trouble with insomnia and wants to know how to get rid of it. I can tell him how to get rid of it. Get off Facebook late at night!

Really, though, so many people are Facebook fighting just like my friend emailed to me about what happened with his girlfriend. I mean, some new girl befriended him and his girlfriend thought he was having an affair.

People are changing their relationship status on a daily basis on Facebook. How many times do you look at someone’s page and see their relationship status listed as “It’s complicated?” Sure, it’s complicated, but do you need to tell the whole world?

Some things are private. Why do you need to announce to the whole world that you’re having problems in your relationship?

I love when people say on Facebook that they’re single again. Now that’s marketing. What a great place to date.

Facebook actually is a great place to date. Do you know why?

People put up their real picture (unlike on match.com), not their fantasy picture of how they looked ten years ago or their “body-less picture” with just their head showing. People actually put up their real photos because they think their friends are the only ones looking at them.

People don’t like a cheesy dating profile like they see so often on match.com. Facebook is also great because people tell you their real age and what they really do for a living. It seems like everyone on match.com is 29 or 39 years old, in great shape and wealthy.

On Facebook you get the truth. It’s a much better place to date because it’s not meant for dating (or is it?). People are Facebook fighting, but they’re also Facebook dating.

So, really, you should not air your dirty laundry on the Internet. No one should fight on the Internet.

I’ve heard of people breaking up on Facebook. Someone will go to their significant other’s page and all of a sudden discover they’ve been de-friended and blocked.

The Internet is wonderful and social networking sites like Facebook are wonderful for reconnecting and finding old friends. They should, however, never be used for airing your dirty laundry.

If you are Facebook fighting — and for those of you who don’t have the tune in your head already — check out this video and fight out why everyone used to be Kung Fu Fighting and are now Facebook fighting.

If you really want to see what Facebook can do to relationships check out this funny video.

A lot of us tend to repeat the past. We tend to date the same people over and over again. We tend to accumulate the same type of friends. We do these things without understanding how and why we do them.

Your past unlocks a lot of answers to a lot of questions you have in your mind. There’s a lot of great things in your past, including all the great friends and memories you’ve left behind.

The greatest thing about Facebook is all the people with whom you can reconnect. Yesterday I put up some old pictures from my childhood (like the one above), then spent a lot of the day talking to old high school and college friends to whom I sent them. I know that by posting those pictures, that I put as big a smile on their faces as looking at those pictures put on mine.

So let’s not forget the past for two reasons. First, it holds clues to your behavior — good and bad — that you need to acknowledge. Some people make the same mistakes over and over again due to bad programming they had in their past. Second, it holds beautiful memories of great things and people that have been part of your life.

In today’s podcast, I’m going to talk about the memories and the lessons of the past. Click here to check it out now:

Talking about the past, my old friend Kimberly Dawn Neumann is trying to win a year’s worth of rent for an apartment in Manhattan and I’d love for you to vote for her to win this apartment. The link to go vote for her is: http://www.daffys.com/#/the-apartment/the-finalists/

She’s an amazing woman and a friend of mine, and she deserves this apartment. It only takes about one minute to vote, so please do me a favor and go vote for her!

Also, another friend of mine named Marni is putting together a free teleseminar called “Ask David Wygant.” It’s free. You can register at www.askdavidwygant.com. Once you’re registered, you can just listen or ask me a question about anything.

So enjoy today and enjoy some memories. Oh, and I promise I won’t have Barbra Streisand’s song “Memories” playing in the background on the podcast.