Psychopath wants to be "friends" on Facebook

[Don Genaro]

This afternoon I received a disturbing friend request on facebook. I was a little shocked at first- particularly when I read that “Saiko Guy” (Psycho Guy) wanted to be friends on facebook. Then I thought it must be some sort of joke- or maybe it was someone genuine, attempting to educate on psychopathy. I clicked on the profile and found the following quite disturbing info:

If I sent you a friend request and you're wondering whether to accept it, well, you already did; I'm only sending requests to people with whom I'm already connected from my main account. Kindly add this one though, as I can post stuff from here that I can't post from there.

I am reproducing the full text of “About Saiko Guy” below. From the profile, I could make out that we have one mutual friend.
As can be seen in the post below, Saiko Guy sees himself/herself as a misunderstood psychopath and sees a lot of false information being bandied about on the web about psychopathy. I told a friend about it and she said it sounded like somebody injecting poison- trying to put doubts into peoples’ minds; sowing seeds of doubt in the minds of mutual friends on facebook. It sounds plausible. It certainly got me doubting. Who might it be? How many others have received this request? If I post about it, will people think it’s me? Also, since this person seems to have a heavy dose of narcissism, I thought that making a post on the topic would be giving them what they want. I don’t know- it’s weird. Has anybody else received a friend request from this person? Here’s the bio:

If I sent you a friend request and you're wondering whether to accept it, well, you already did; I'm only sending requests to people with whom I'm already connected from my main account. Kindly add this one though, as I can post stuff from here that I can't post from there.

I created this page because there's a lot of clueless disinformation that I see about psychopathy. As an intelligent and educated psychopath, I want to help.

After all, it's all about me, and you're screwing it up.

No, Saiko Guy is not my legal name, but Facebook, kindly don't delete this profile, since it *does* represent a real person, namely, me. The absence of a legal name is for my protection against the rampaging bigotries of paranoid histrionics. I am quite well-known, and it may harm my work if I publicise my psychopathy to all and sundry.

Dear super-sleuths who think you can find out who I am… Well, maybe you can, maybe you can't, but I'd rather you didn't. If you absolutely must ego-trip yourself over this, then the safe outlet for your own desire for admiration here is in telling me, privately, that you guessed who I am. I'll not confirm or deny (unless I trust you, in which case, you can probably recognise me quite easily anyway) but you can feel accomplished without pissing me off.

On the Hare PCL-R, I score somewhere between 31 and 38, depending on analysis. Yes, this is a self-assessment. I'm intelligent and well-informed, know my own mind better than others do, and would benefit nothing beyond a rather dubious merit badge by getting a clinician to do it. I would, however, stand to potentially lose things by getting such an analysis. So, I rather rely on my own good mind.

I am a friendly sort of person, and am quite used to friends insisting I'm not a psychopath (apart from the few who know me better). However, nobody knows my full mind as I do, and I withold most of it anyway, as I fear most people would recoil in disgust if they knew me as I do.

However! I am probably a nicer person than most people you meet. Almost certainly more law-abiding, too.

Quick FAQ:

Q: Can you feel emotions?
A: Yes, but not all of them, and not like you do. Unless you're a psychopath, obviously.

Q: Can you form lasting connections with people?
A: Depends on your definitions of "lasting" and "connections".

Q: Do you have morals?
A: No. I do, however, have something of a code of conduct. Since I am an admiration junky, I avoid disappointing my admirers.

Q: Are you evil?
A: I don't believe in good or evil. I'm a pragmatist.

Since you probably scrolled straight down to the visually interesting part of this text field, the FAQ, I'll recap: I made this page in order to correct misconceptions about psychopathy. I made it a profile rather than an official page, as this way is more versatile. Also, anything I say about me here is true, so this profile does represent me, albeit omitting a lot of information, for my safety.

Again, if I sent you a friend request and you're wondering whether to accept it, well, you already did; I'm only sending requests to people with whom I'm already connected from my main account. Kindly add this one though, as I can post stuff from here that I can't post from there.

 

[Don Genaro]

Here's the profile link btw: _https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003547028368

 

[truth seeker]

Maybe I'm missing something but just because someone sends you a friend request doesn't mean you've already accepted it - otherwise they wouldn't need you to add them.

If it was me, I'd ignore it if I didn't already accept. If I did accept, I'd unfriend. If they sent me a message, I'd block. It sounds to me as if this person is playing games. In short, it's a hook. I think your friend is right. My thoughts.

 

[Don Genaro]

Yeah, I haven't accepted and don't intend to. Like I said, the unnerving part was the statement- "If I'm sending you this request, then you're already on my list." But then, as you say, my friend is probably right. It might just to be to cause doubt and uncertainty...

 

[truth seeker]

The part I found particularly obnoxious was:

If I sent you a friend request and you're wondering whether to accept it, well, you already did

As if the person has no choice? That's a bit cheeky in my opinion.

 

[The rabbit]

i think a person can read your posts while awaiting friend acceptance. If you reject friendship then they cant read your postings or at least I hope thats how it works.

 

[ScarletBegonias]

Yeah, I haven't accepted and don't intend to. Like I said, the unnerving part was the statement- "If I'm sending you this request, then you're already on my list." But then, as you say, my friend is probably right. It might just to be to cause doubt and uncertainty...

This person could be lying just to try to play tricks on people. Who knows either way, but I figured I'd mention that.

i think a person can read your posts while awaiting friend acceptance. If you reject friendship then they cant read your postings or at least I hope thats how it works.

You can adjust the settings so that anybody who isn't your 'friend' can't see your posts. The same can be done for photos and other personal information.

 

[mkrnhr]

Psychopath or not, this person is a jerk, block her anyway :)

 

[Nienna]

Yeah, I haven't accepted and don't intend to. Like I said, the unnerving part was the statement- "If I'm sending you this request, then you're already on my list." But then, as you say, my friend is probably right. It might just to be to cause doubt and uncertainty...

This person could be lying just to try to play tricks on people. Who knows either way, but I figured I'd mention that.

i think a person can read your posts while awaiting friend acceptance. If you reject friendship then they cant read your postings or at least I hope thats how it works.

You can adjust the settings so that anybody who isn't your 'friend' can't see your posts. The same can be done for photos and other personal information.

Scarlet, you had a duplicate post and I deleted it, just so you know.

 

[suelarue]

The part I found particularly obnoxious was:

If I sent you a friend request and you're wondering whether to accept it, well, you already did

As if the person has no choice? That's a bit cheeky in my opinion.

Don Genaro, I received a request from "Saiko Guy" today as well and I definitely did not accept him. His profile was definitely disturbing.

I took the comment where he said "if you're wondering whether to accept it, well, you already did" to mean that I was already friends with this person and this was a separate account that they set up because they didn't feel like they could post about certain things on their other account. Either way, it made me uneasy and I denied the request.

 

[truth seeker]

Thanks for the clarification sue. :) if what you say is indeed the case, that definitely makes it even more disturbing.

edit: clarity

 

[anart]

I took the comment where he said "if you're wondering whether to accept it, well, you already did" to mean that I was already friends with this person and this was a separate account that they set up because they didn't feel like they could post about certain things on their other account. Either way, it made me uneasy and I denied the request.

So, you know he's a mutual friend of both of you. Does that narrow it down? He sounds to me like someone looking for attention - we get the type on the forum from time to time and they're basically just trolls looking for a reaction.

 

[Renaissance]

This guy recently commented on the Psychopaths Rule the World FB page:

Dear page admin(s),

Thanks for creating the page. I, for one, appreciate the mostly neutral atmosphere here unlike the usual "hang 'em high" climes on pages or groups devoted to the topic.

As a psychopath, I like attention, and I like attention to psychopathy, since it's a topic of personal interest to me. Not so keen on digital villagers with pitchforks, though.

Oh, I made this profile mostly so that I could comment on your page without compromising my safety. Hope you view that as a good thing ;)

Anyway, I'll be weighing in here and there with my news and views.

Best regards to you.

He's been banned for trolling at the very least.

I think he recently changed his name to "Saiko Guy" because I saw some of his comments earlier and I'm fairly certain they were under a different name and avatar.

When he says, "If I sent you a friend request and you're wondering whether to accept it, well, you already did" I also got the impression that he was implying that those he was sending a request to were already his friends under a different user name, but I also don't think that is necessarily so and he's probably full of it.

 

[Foxx]

I took the comment where he said "if you're wondering whether to accept it, well, you already did" to mean that I was already friends with this person and this was a separate account that they set up because they didn't feel like they could post about certain things on their other account. Either way, it made me uneasy and I denied the request.

So, you know he's a mutual friend of both of you. Does that narrow it down? He sounds to me like someone looking for attention - we get the type on the forum from time to time and they're basically just trolls looking for a reaction.

I'm not sure if those who have been friended by this person have a greater level of access to his details, but when I viewed the page I was unable to view his friends list (I had a similar idea to yours, though he hasn't tried to friend me).

 

[cubbex]

Maybe I'm missing something but just because someone sends you a friend request doesn't mean you've already accepted it - otherwise they wouldn't need you to add them.

If it was me, I'd ignore it if I didn't already accept. If I did accept, I'd unfriend. If they sent me a message, I'd block. It sounds to me as if this person is playing games. In short, it's a hook. I think your friend is right. My thoughts.

Indeed, that's not a psycho, a narcissist maybe, or some troll. I can act better as a psycho than him, I mean ignorant people would be shocked and believe everything he says, but well after knowing some people ... cool story saiko.

When he says, "If I sent you a friend request and you're wondering whether to accept it, well, you already did" I also got the impression that he was implying that those he was sending a request to were already his friends under a different user name, but I also don't think that is necessarily so and he's probably full of it.

As I understand on his profile bio he says that he sends request to those who he has in his "main" account, where he supposedly pretends to be a normal person.

Again, if I sent you a friend request and you're wondering whether to accept it, well, you already did; I'm only sending requests to people with whom I'm already connected from my main account. Kindly add this one though, as I can post stuff from here that I can't post from there.