If you're not a gay man, you may not know who Colby Keller is. To get you up to speed: he has sex with other men on camera. That's cool! No judgies! He's also got a popular blog (NSFW, obvs) and is pretty popular among all walks of gay dudes. I mean, he's hot, so it's certainly understandable! Usually guys like Colby Keller fall into a category I refer to as "Real World hot." Not like, the real world, but The Real World. The guys are on that show are insanely buff and only exist, at least in my eyes, on The Real World. (Or, you know, in gay porn.)

So imagine my surprise when he popped up unexpectedly in my Facebook feed today. I mean, again, I'm not really complaining. But the concept that he is a real person is so foreign to me, because I'm not generally in the same social circles as porn stars. Sure, Facebook once suggested that I might know comedian and SNL writer John Mulaney, but that seemed more legit because he's a comedian, and they're basically normal people with neuroses and problems just like me! And yeah, once Facebook suggested Wallace Shawn, but I figured that was more of weird look into my personality. (I really like Wallace Shawn.)

Anyway. I clicked over to Colby Keller's Facebook page (why not?) and saw that we have a lot of mutual friends. Twenty-six of them! And it made me wonder: are people just going around adding their favorite pornographic actors as their friends. I mean, I suppose it's not so crazy, as they seem to be doing the same thing with bloggers. (Of our 26 mutual friends? I only actually know nine of them.) What a crazy world in which we live, where "friendship" means so little! And possibly so much!

So here I am, wondering, "Should I add Colby Keller as a friend?" How would one go about doing so? Just by clicking "Add Friend" and hoping he says yes? Or should I put a more personal spin on it and send a message, too? "Hey bud, I've seen your butthole and I bet we like some of the same movies or something. Poke me sometime! LOL!" 


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