An odd message

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:34:01 +1200

I received this rather odd message the other day (Facebook is a truly strange system). I’m not really sure what to make of it. There are quite a few oddities:

The message comes from a “Jason Reeves”, who I do not recall (but my memory isn’t great, and it was 14 years ago). A quick Google only turns up a Jason Reeves who works for a radio station in NZ (and wikipedia indicates that isn’t the same one).
The Facebook account is under the name “Jason Smith” (this name is also unfamiliar, although I think I would be more likely to remember the name “Reeves” than the name “Smith”).
I can’t find anything about the “NZER” organisation mentioned twice via Google. It’s pretty odd for a modern company to be nowhere in the first few pages of Google results. “NZER” is a bad name (because it clashes with “NZer”, as in “I am a NZer”), but even still it ought to have some sort of pagerank. (nzer.co.nz and nzer.org.nz and nzer.com do not seem relevant here).
I was indeed a Kamo High School student in 1996, and knew both Andrew and Simon (IIRC Andrew was only at KHS for a year or two). I haven’t heard from/about either since.
What possible use could my opinion of people I knew 14 years ago be? Even if there wasn’t such a gap in time, why would I as a peer be an appropriate person to make an academic evaluation? Surely a teacher would be a more appropriate choice.

I replied - basically just asking for more information - so we’ll see what happens now.

Odd on Tony Andrew Meyer

An odd message