How did she even have so many friends from other grades then? Class is basically the only way I get to know people (not counting PC), though that still easily gives an age difference of three years between the youngest and oldest people in my group of friends.
Stalking like that sounds horrible really, it is one of the reasons I don't do social media. The only way I keep in touch with people besides meeting up irl is Skype and I recently made a new account (for unrelated reasons though) and just didn't add them again. Problem solved. Sort of.
Yeah, it really is. Now I don't see my those friends super often (we know each other from high school, but are spread over several places now), but every time one of those people gets being mentioned, something inside me is wanting to shout them to shut up. Board game days we organize occasionally are the worst when they appear as well, luckily that's not always, because it kind of ruins my mood.
I know what you mean, I'm terrible at starting conversations myself, I always feel like coming over as stupid just to say hi to someone I haven't really talked to. Either way, it looks like your non-scary mod count has increased by one. 8)