The one where ‘Friends’ predicts Facebook

They always said—by way of The Rembrandts, at least—that they’d be there for you. Turns out, they were there for Mark Zuckerberg, too.

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Their names alone already scream nerd.

Nevertheless, the two very best “Friends” seemed to demonstrate on the classic NBC sitcom that a geeky persona mixed with perhaps just the right amount of technology savvy is way sexier than any pickup line Joey ever tried.

OK—the only pickup line Joey ever tried.

As Redditors recently shared, it must have been the characters’ early adoption of social media that both Monica and Rachel were so attracted to.

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