Originally, friends was going to be filmed with the actual friends and not actors. This idea was unfortunately scrapped when Joey Tribbiani declined the role in favour of his role in days of our lives.
Fortunately they were able to find very convincing look-a likes. Here's Joey Tribbiani and Matt LeBlanc for example.
I think it's really disgusting that facebook owns the two largest messaging apps, taking whatever of my data they want from them.
I'd love to be able to use the open-source alternative telegram, but the issue is that literally no-one I know uses them and I don't want to force people to download an app to be able to talk with me.
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