International Creeping

One of my favorite DJ's is Berlin's Boys Noize.  I follow his page on Facebook to keep up to date on new tracks and tours as there's not a ton of German tech house played on Boston's radio stations.  I've seen him spin a few times and always wanted to get one of his hats that have his record company's logo on the front, but they were never for sale at the swag booth or online.  Finally on the Facebook page there was an announcement that the hats would be released soon.  Once they went up on sale I was disappointed to find that a snap-back Starter hat cost 47 USD before shipping from Europe.  I posted something along the lines of "BOYS NOIZE RULEZ! but how fast is the shipping and is it gonna get squished on the trip across the ocean?"  I never got a reply, but I did manage to get a friend request from a random German kid who I had no idea who he was, but noticed he had been posting on the thread for the hats.  I have done my share of creeping around friends of friends online before, but this was a new level for me.  It's still kind of cool to realize how connected we are to everyone who has computer access, but at the same time scary that some weird European has any interest in befriending someone in another country based on a thumbnail (mine is currently a picture of me 1 biting a pb&j, not sure what the appeal is there?).