Google's rival social network, the not-very-popular Google+, attempts to solve this problem by letting you define and name different "circles" – eg, Family, Friends, Colleagues, Weirdos from the Internet.
I consumed Charizma, Madlib and all the other fantastic, drug and cartoon-adled weirdos from the label by the fistful.
The police have had no success, the therapists have had no success, even the murderous mobs haven't managed to scare the weirdos from the school gates.
She emailed me one day asking if I had any friends who would want to be her intern because she had only gotten weirdos from the open interviews.
Sometimes you see a wonderful weirdo from across the room and you wonder how they spend their time, their nights.
"Suddenly there was this freak festival where I could go play five sets a night for all of the rejects and weirdos from around the country," he says.
Young adults who have graduated high school, can vote, drive and legally drink alcohol (in Australia the drinking age is 18) have never walked on to campus fearing the weirdo from their economics tutorial might turn out to be a gun nut with a death wish.
After Mahros and the magical marble painting that wasn't magical at all, I was back to being the skeptical weirdo from New York.
At 73, he still bursts with energy and ideas even if he no longer looks like the spry, DayGlo weirdo from Tom Wolfe's book.
"I walk down the street and wonder if people aren't peering out the windows saying, 'Who is this weirdo from UConn?' It's hard to convince all these people to adopt these practices.
