Just so's you lot know...
Basically, Facebook, the "MySpace" for posh students only...
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 12:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Bhumibol Adulyadej (Lucretia My Reflection), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 12:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 12:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 12:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 12:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 12:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― olenska (olenska), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:08 (seventeen years ago) link
Like I said, all US college students do this these days.
It's different from MySpace b/c you have to have an email with the associated university to have a page. if you have a utexas.edu email you can't link up to people at ugeorgia.edu. if you're just gmail.com then you can't do either.
― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:11 (seventeen years ago) link
AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! :)
― Bhumibol Adulyadej (Lucretia My Reflection), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― teh_kit has 21 friends (g-kit), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Bhumibol Adulyadej (Lucretia My Reflection), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Bhumibol Adulyadej (Lucretia My Reflection), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:32 (seventeen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%27s_use_in_investigations
wikipedia:
Privacy Settings
Facebook contains privacy settings that individuals can set to prevent school administrators or other groups from accessing their profiles or photos. Under the "My Privacy" settings page, a facebook user can select which of the following groups are allowed to view a page:
* Undergrads * Grad Students * Alumni * Faculty * Staff
However, there is no guarantee that school administrators or law enforcement agencies will not choose to identify themselves falsely on Facebook, or that they cannot gain access to profile information via other means.
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Bhumibol Adulyadej (Lucretia My Reflection), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:39 (seventeen years ago) link
1. My girlfriend just graduated from college last year (2005) and doesn't have a Friendster or MySpace profile but does have a Facebook profile. This makes me feel old. However, I think what she likes about Facebook is that it is relatively closed off to the outside world, whereas I don't generally care what yahoos have a gander at my drunken photos.
2. I was at a frat party at the Univ. of Chicago a couple months ago ... an ILXor invited me, and I went for the anthropological experience as much as anything, really. Anyway, so I'm talking to this BMOC in a felt cowboy hat, who's somehow convinced that I had been dancing with this girl he has a crush on named Allison. (The only girl I'd been dancing with was this gawky philosophy major named Ethel who hurriedly told me within the first minute, "By the way, I don't wanna hook up with you, I have a boyfriend." Whatever!) I try to deny it at first, but he's not upset or anything, his attitude is more like "good for you, bro -- she's fuckin' hot, isn't she?" -- so eventually I agree that yes, I was dancing with Allison. "You know what you can do for me?" he slurs. "You can have her look me up on Facebook. That's Bret. With one T." At which point I laughed out loud.
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:51 (seventeen years ago) link
i would expect most streetwise students would probably lock out snooping staff via the privacy settings
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:51 (seventeen years ago) link
??
― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― jng (jng), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― olenska (olenska), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:11 (seventeen years ago) link
Says you. I've had mine for nearly 10 years after graduation by now.
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx immer wieder (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:15 (seventeen years ago) link
The sad truth is that I think it would make me feel lonely, and out of it! And I have a perfectly good LIVEJOURNAL for that arf arf ARF.
― Bhumibol Adulyadej (Lucretia My Reflection), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:15 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost
― jng (jng), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx immer wieder (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:23 (seventeen years ago) link
Yes. He seemed to know everyone and was walking around making sure people were having a good time.
I never signed up for an alumni e-mail account, and now I'm unsure of how to do so, but the only people I'd know on Facebook are young punks like deej, anyway.
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:30 (seventeen years ago) link
a bit like MEETING THEM, HOLDING CONVERSATIONS, THAT KIND OF SHIT.
― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:31 (seventeen years ago) link
It's far classier than myspace because you can't change your page much. No background music. No videos. This is good.
Very recently though, there has been a very noticeable trend (in Berkeley at least...can't speak for the nation) to make your profile super-private and only visable to friends. People are either getting wary, or snobby, I'm not sure which.
― starke (starke), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link
1. My brother is a grad student and when he TAs a class, he always checks out his students' Facebook profiles and is sometimes surprised at what they're willing to divulge. (Then he stores this information in an Excel spreadsheet ... oh wait.)
2. I have a cousin who just finished his freshman year at Northern Illinois University. He tells me that as soon as he received his school e-mail address last summer, he immediately signed up on Facebook and found that dozens of other incoming students had done so as well. In fact, the ability to notate your dorm and room number within your profile meant that he knew nearly everyone in his hall before they ever actually met face to face.
3. Haha, my dad moderated a panel about Facebook last month.
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― robots in love (robotsinlove), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 15:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― robots in love (robotsinlove), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 15:12 (seventeen years ago) link
There's an annoying girl at my job who has some serious growing up to do. One of her many horrifying common behaviors is playing "house" at the job and designating different coworkers as different members of her family. For a while she had a huge crush on me, and thus I became the husband. Whenever new people were hired, she'd excitedly hug me and exclaim in her nasal voice, "This is Derek, he's my husband! He's the best husband in the world!" Then she'd switch to a more serious tone to warn the girls that they'd better not flirt with me. Terrifying. Of course, she wanted to marry me on Facebook. After weeks of continually reminding me that I have yet to click "yes" that we are indeed married, I finally gave in and did it. After a while, trying to finally give her the message that I'm not interested, I switched to being married with another one of our coworkers, a girl I'm good friends with but my "wife" hated. When she saw that I'd switched the status, she had a real break down. Female co-workers told me about her heart break over the incident.
In conclusion, jesus christ, be glad you're not on Facebook.
― like murderinging (modestmickey), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 15:42 (seventeen years ago) link
Certain features that make it really useful for college students. You can list your classes in your profile and the page can create a list for you of people in your classes. You can easily find people in your class to ask them questions about upcoming tests, what the homework was, etc. Also, unlike MySpace, there's more local community centered stuff since the only people on Facebook I interact with are fellow UNCC students and I don't see anyone from Harvard. For example there's groups with local interest like "I LOVE " rather than just "I LOVE LIMP BIZKIT." Like other people mentioned, there's the announcing/organizing events too.
― like murderinging (modestmickey), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link
MORE IMPORTANT THAN TEXTING?!?!?!?!??!
― matlewis (matlewis), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link
That is pretty harsh.
― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link
Au contraire. I think a lot of people use it for exactly that reason. That's the impression I've gotten, anyway.
― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― adam (adam), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link
hi, do you know the internet?
― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 16:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― like murderinging (modestmickey), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― jeffrey (johnson), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― starke (starke), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― starke (starke), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link
It's not that social networking replaces your social life, it just... mediates it. Instead of personally inviting people to parties via word of mouth/telephone/email or just throwing it up on a flyer, you're sending it to a reasonably targeted, much larger group than you'd be comfortable calling. The downside is that pretty soon you're doing the majority of communication through there, any "event" that can vary from a party or concert to two people sitting around drunk turns into some "scandalous" photo diary, and there's the online backchannel that sucks everyone in.
I've been around people where there's this obnoxious feedback loop where they're pretty much trying to come up with new people to befriend and more pictures/content to put up on things like myspace, and half of what they talk about is myspace. Urgh.
― business up front, party entrance at side door (mike h.), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 18:20 (seventeen years ago) link
Still, why is word of mouth/telephone/email an inherently better form of communication? I agree that it's a "larger group than you'd be comfortable calling" but I think that's very likely a good thing. For example, tonight I'm going to play soccer with a casual friend from a class. He invited me and the rest of the group with a facebook message. It would have been awkward for an acquaintance to call/email, and probably would have never happened.
― starke (starke), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 18:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― lemin (lemin), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 19:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― starke (starke), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 19:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― business up front, party entrance at side door (mike h.), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 20:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― lemin (lemin), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link
I had a friend whose girlfriend changed her facebook relationship status to "single" in order to make him jealous, or something.
― 31g (31g), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 20:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― lemin (lemin), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link
putting yr actual girlfriend/boyfriend as 'wife' or 'husband' on facebook is kind of crepey though, surely it should refer only to actual married spouses or to best friends.
― permanent revolution (cis), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 21:18 (seventeen years ago) link
which reminds me ... enrique, are you still gonna be in glasgow this weekend?
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 21:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― adam (adam), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 21:34 (seventeen years ago) link
haha this is true.
― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 21:39 (seventeen years ago) link
I know a fair amount of Johnston & Wales -- a local culinary school -- on there.
― like murderinging (modestmickey), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 22:42 (seventeen years ago) link
i don't know anyone obsessed with it, though. thank heavens.
― Maria (Maria), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 23:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 08:58 (seventeen years ago) link
http://badge.facebook.com/badge/36910239.80.948704031.png
― Scourage (Haberdager), Sunday, 20 August 2006 00:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Maria (Maria), Sunday, 20 August 2006 01:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― clotpoll (Clotpoll), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 03:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 03:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 03:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― clotpoll (Clotpoll), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 03:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 03:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 03:28 (seventeen years ago) link
...
YesterdayBrian is single. 12:19pm
― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 03:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― like murderinging (modestmickey), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 13:21 (seventeen years ago) link
Molly Daniel is hating facebook right about now. 9:59am
Molly Daniel joined the group I hate the new facebook. 9:39am
Molly Daniel joined the group Students against Facebook's "Mini-Feed". 4:52am
Danielle Cohen joined the group WE HATE THE NEW FACEBOOK FACELIFT. 3:39am
Ann Marie Coddington added new photos. 3:19am
Lauren "Philly" Grimsley wrote a new note. 2:59amTHIS IS WACK!!!THIS FACEBOOK SHIT IS WACK...CUZ ACCORDING TO FACEBOOK I KNOW WHAT U DID ONE MINUTE AGO, 3 HOURS AGO ANDDD THIS WEEKEND!!!Continue reading...
― like murderinging (modestmickey), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 13:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 13:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 13:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 13:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 14:03 (seventeen years ago) link
It spread this summer beyond Trinity in Ireland. And resulted in much "Oh no! PLebs!" type comments.Bebo is more popular here for the reason that you can find your old school friends and facebook wasn't available to anyone with anything less than an (a)tcd.ie address. Radio stations, music things etc have bebo pages rather than MySpace, which seemed a bit odd to me. I committed beboicide a while back. Considering commiting Facebookicide.
That said it's been handy for me, esp now that people I know are scattered to the winds, to toronto and cambridge and london and shit. There's no option for saying you're a drop out though..
The new changes are horrible. I mean it was a bit weird before that you could check who's profile had changed, go see and not notice or realise what had changed. But this is odd. It should be possible to disable it.
― Major Alfonso (Major Alfonso), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 14:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 14:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 14:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 15:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 16:31 (seventeen years ago) link
Next time someone slates Mansun remember these words.
― Major Alfonso (Major Alfonso), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link
I'll grow out of Mansun at my own speed, tyvm.
― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link
And I couldn't give a rat crap roulade when you grow up!
hehe
― Major Alfonso (Major Alfonso), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 17:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 6 September 2006 21:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Major Alfonso (Major Alfonso), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 21:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― joseph (joseph), Thursday, 7 September 2006 02:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Thursday, 7 September 2006 02:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 7 September 2006 05:09 (seventeen years ago) link
Hi John,
Now you can join Facebook! You tried to register last April, before we allowed everyone to sign up.
To register for Facebook using any email address, go to:
http://register.facebook.com
Thanks,The Facebook Team
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 18:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― like murderinging (modestmickey), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 18:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 18:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― like murderinging (modestmickey), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 19:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 19:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 19:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― like murderinging (modestmickey), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 01:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 02:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― roc u like a § (ex machina), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 05:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 05:54 (seventeen years ago) link
So now the concept of waitlisting students has spread to their social networking sites. Beautiful.
I couldn't find an old friend of mine last week searching his name on myspace when it hit me, "______ has always been a bit too conceited and way too social to not have any social e-profile networking thingamajigger...but he wouldn't be on myspace anyway...too popular...doesn't show elite status or isn't some club...if only there was some other sites just like myspace but seemed to be more about distancing yourself from the unwashed masFACEBOOK DOT COM!"
I checked out the site and sure enough I found him. Just goes to show how far mean generalizations about people will get you in life.
― Cunga (Cunga), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 06:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 08:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― rrrobyn, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Gukbe, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― molly mummenschanz, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― rrrobyn, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― max, Thursday, 1 March 2007 23:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― unfished business, Thursday, 1 March 2007 23:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Drooone, Monday, 30 April 2007 23:12 (sixteen years ago) link
― Trayce, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 00:00 (sixteen years ago) link
― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 00:01 (sixteen years ago) link
― Trayce, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 00:02 (sixteen years ago) link
― admrl, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 00:07 (sixteen years ago) link
― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 00:11 (sixteen years ago) link
― admrl, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 00:16 (sixteen years ago) link
― Trayce, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 00:25 (sixteen years ago) link
― rrrobyn, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 02:20 (sixteen years ago) link
― max, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 02:45 (sixteen years ago) link
― the table is the table, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 03:25 (sixteen years ago) link
join the IRM appreciation group.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 03:27 (sixteen years ago) link
― rrrobyn, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 03:40 (sixteen years ago) link
― get bent, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 03:42 (sixteen years ago) link
― get bent, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 03:43 (sixteen years ago) link
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― Matt DC, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 08:21 (sixteen years ago) link
― max, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 08:41 (sixteen years ago) link
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― max, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:35 (sixteen years ago) link
― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:36 (sixteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:41 (sixteen years ago) link
― Mark G, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:44 (sixteen years ago) link
― max, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:44 (sixteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:44 (sixteen years ago) link
― ian, Thursday, 3 May 2007 20:40 (sixteen years ago) link
― admrl, Thursday, 3 May 2007 22:31 (sixteen years ago) link
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― admrl, Thursday, 3 May 2007 22:40 (sixteen years ago) link
― rrrobyn, Thursday, 3 May 2007 22:41 (sixteen years ago) link
― Sara R-C, Thursday, 3 May 2007 22:42 (sixteen years ago) link
― admrl, Thursday, 3 May 2007 22:43 (sixteen years ago) link
I am Facebook now.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 May 2007 22:45 (sixteen years ago) link
― admrl, Thursday, 3 May 2007 22:47 (sixteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 May 2007 22:55 (sixteen years ago) link
― the next grozart, Friday, 4 May 2007 08:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh hey, Nuvvieworld! sweetness.
Also, I'm not appreciating the amount of jocks I went to school with accosting me on facebook.
"let's catch up for a beer etc". No.
― Drooone, Monday, 21 May 2007 05:07 (sixteen years ago) link
I was sucked in to join by a friend just so I could look at her O/S pics. What I find odd is random strangers adding as a friend. wtf is that all about?
― Hard like armour, Monday, 21 May 2007 06:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Still haven't joined (pats self on back)!
― Tape Store, Monday, 21 May 2007 06:53 (sixteen years ago) link
I joined about two weeks ago, and am quite addicted at the moment, but I can feel the novelty starting to wear off already (I'm running out of friends to add for one thing).
― chap, Monday, 21 May 2007 11:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Joined for 5 mins last week. Account already deleted. No interest in interacting with people from the past sort of thing. I've stayed in touch with those I wanted to.
I'll probably rejoin another boring Friday!
― kv_nol, Monday, 21 May 2007 11:25 (sixteen years ago) link
quite funny thing by charlie brooker in G2 today.
― the next grozart, Monday, 21 May 2007 11:30 (sixteen years ago) link
I knew he'd regret mentioning it in last week's column.
I've stayed in touch with those I wanted to.
I've heard this argument a lot, but I'm a bit rubbish at staying in touch, so it's actually proved useful for me in catching up with people. Also, I've found some people I used to quite like who I'd forgotten about.
― chap, Monday, 21 May 2007 11:45 (sixteen years ago) link
I feel that I made the effort. There are times when I feel guilty but what can you do? I can't keep up contact with everyone I liked, can I. Also I use things like that to find out about people, I don't want people finding out anything about me! [/paranoia]
― kv_nol, Monday, 21 May 2007 12:25 (sixteen years ago) link
charlie brooker's just an unfrozen caveman columnist. you can't expect him to master these whiz-bang doodads. i mean, what are they like??
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 21 May 2007 12:35 (sixteen years ago) link
So, i'm getting a bit tired of the dudes i know on facebook Is it 1) somewhat crepey to be approaching random ilxors to be "friends" on this fucking thing?
or 2)muygoodbutstillslightlycrepeytimes?
― Drooone, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 01:24 (sixteen years ago) link
if these ilxors know who you are, i.e., you are regularly interacting with people on ilx, then not so crepey, i don't know, maybe depends on time known too
what is crepey is poking, to me. why not just send a msg saying hi? i don't understand it.
― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 01:31 (sixteen years ago) link
The "hilarious" innuendo that goes with poking is upsetting.
― Drooone, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 01:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Just found an ex of mine I haven't seen for five years. DO I SEND HER A MESSAGE? God, the anguish.
― chap, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 01:37 (sixteen years ago) link
I have never poked anyone nor been poked
― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 01:37 (sixteen years ago) link
chap you should friend her and detail that "We hooked up and it was torturously awkward"
I also hate the hilairrriousness of dudes status updates. This one wank i know currently has his as: 'is starting to get over fielding calls from models who want to get dirty on his arse.'.
it was previously: 'is wondering why he is doing multi-coloured turds'.
NOT FUNNY, my friend.
― Drooone, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 01:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Bizarro. So far I'm just mostly using it as a good myspace analog.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 01:42 (sixteen years ago) link
so now it's just Evil Ned on myspace?
― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 01:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Nah, just cloning.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 01:44 (sixteen years ago) link
I think I'll do it tomorrow. A 2.30AM message would have 'crazy internet stalker from the past' written all over it.
― chap, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 01:44 (sixteen years ago) link
if you figured out cloning, ned, the internet would have to be renamed the interned
― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 01:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Give me time.
(Unrelated rofflyness -- from a recent Momus comment on his LJ re:ILX :
I'm not going to launch into a diatribe about how it's all polls now, or how you have to be Ned Raggett to fit in, or how idle watercooler-style chatter has banished the intelligent discourse.
Hooray! Oh wait.)
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 01:47 (sixteen years ago) link
My sister's ex just added me as a friend. Now I have 2 friends. I am so popular.
― Hard like armour, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 01:50 (sixteen years ago) link
i cant find any friends on this thing!
― chaki, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 01:52 (sixteen years ago) link
did they all tell you their last name was smith?
― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 01:54 (sixteen years ago) link
You can find me, surely!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 01:55 (sixteen years ago) link
found you!
― chaki, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 01:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Yay!
Stepping out, will be back later, etc.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 01:57 (sixteen years ago) link
so does one 'poke back'? like, out of curiousity? (pos know this person? hm, memory not so helpful)
― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 02:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Don't poke, write a "please to explain poke" message to it.
― Drooone, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 02:09 (sixteen years ago) link
hm
― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 02:14 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm a fan of less effort on my part hence poking back holy crap i am totally procrastinating
― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 02:18 (sixteen years ago) link
I think the poke-back is a little too lols and chummy, keeping distance with a "how do I know you?" is how I would approach this grave dilemma.
― Drooone, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 02:20 (sixteen years ago) link
i am lols and chummy these days
― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 02:24 (sixteen years ago) link
sort of
― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 02:31 (sixteen years ago) link
This photo is further proof that that guy I was whining about before is a twat. On the left. (sorry abt the whining, btw) http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j171/mdanielwalter/1.jpg
― Drooone, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 03:56 (sixteen years ago) link
they had better be listening to Christopher Cross
― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 03:58 (sixteen years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/95/Yachtrockep1.jpg/250px-Yachtrockep1.jpg
― Drooone, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 04:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Is he a twat because he has a six pack or because he is on a fuck-off big boat posing on the Harbour?
― Hard like armour, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 04:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Ok, first he's a twat because every single thing he says on facebook is forged in the fiery pit of lolzheeelarity. second the vizor. third at school he was a scrawny tiny little coxswain now he's sporting a sweeet kind of flabby twopack or something and obviously here to show it off and party.
― Drooone, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 04:51 (sixteen years ago) link
that's all I got.
maybe i'm the twat.
― Drooone, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 04:52 (sixteen years ago) link
..It's his facebook profile photo btw.
― Drooone, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 05:04 (sixteen years ago) link
did this guy beat you up or something?
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 06:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Ha, no, he's about a foot shorter than me. We used to be good m8s, but drifted apart etc etc.
― Drooone, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 06:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Coxswain. Private school I presume.
― Hard like armour, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 06:21 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah m8. JEEPS m8
― Drooone, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 06:24 (sixteen years ago) link
What's with the matching shorts?
― Hard like armour, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 06:29 (sixteen years ago) link
I think if you poke someone back, then they can see your profile for a bit, and you can see theirs. I think.
Is anyone using Virb? It's like a prettier version of myspace but with flickr/video integration. I'm not convinced it offers enough that is new, and there are only about ten people on it, but it's definitely nicer to use. (http://www.virb.com/missekawasaki/)
― emil.y, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 08:26 (sixteen years ago) link
everyone add me!! im c0ry sk1ar.
― chaki, Thursday, 24 May 2007 01:55 (sixteen years ago) link
i thought your name was chaki
― lfam, Thursday, 24 May 2007 02:46 (sixteen years ago) link
still do not understand pokes will add chaki
― rrrobyn, Thursday, 24 May 2007 03:05 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't get the pokes, either. The one person I've poked is my husband. (Oh, how that SOUNDS.) But neither of us get it.
Chaki, I will add you! (You may reject me at will.)
― Sara R-C, Thursday, 24 May 2007 03:37 (sixteen years ago) link
ok, i'm now here now. hunt for j3remy s41m0n.
― kingfish, Thursday, 24 May 2007 04:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Ha ha just joined ILX/M group. Sadly this means that people will now find where I spend my day and get all my jokes! Maybe I should unsubscribe just to be safe!
― kv_nol, Thursday, 24 May 2007 09:14 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't get the pokes, either. The one person I've poked is my husband.
Yes, me and my boyfriend poke each other several times a day. Wait, what?
― emil.y, Thursday, 24 May 2007 09:16 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2223261784
― braveclub, Thursday, 24 May 2007 09:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Dear god how I hate humanity sometimes...
― kv_nol, Thursday, 24 May 2007 10:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Does "I hooked up with..." imply a sexual relationship or not?
― Alba, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 18:05 (sixteen years ago) link
it's only used ironically
― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 18:09 (sixteen years ago) link
not from this angle
― Will M., Tuesday, 12 June 2007 18:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes, me and my boyfriend poke each other several times a day.
hahaha. You kids and your boundless energy.
― Sara R-C, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 18:12 (sixteen years ago) link
finally joined facebook this afternoon and I am frankly amazed how many ppl contacted me in a v short period of time, compared with myspace where I find i get friended in dribs and drabs (and mainly by bands these days, tho I don't mind that).
― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 25 June 2007 14:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Still won't do it.
I mean, my boss is on Facebook. 'Nuff said.
― Masonic Boom, Monday, 25 June 2007 14:15 (sixteen years ago) link
What is the ILX0r group? How do I join it?
Does anyone else find this more incomprehensible than MySpace/Friendster. I have no idea what to do.
― Ms Misery, Monday, 25 June 2007 14:17 (sixteen years ago) link
"Hooked up with" does imply snogged/boffed, but most people use it as a joke.
I have managed to avoid being friended by ex-school people by using my name that only came into being a couple of years after I left. Ha!
― emil.y, Monday, 25 June 2007 14:17 (sixteen years ago) link
"hooked up with" has the virtue of being open to interpretation, and a casual, short-lived sexual relationship is definitely one of those interpretations
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 25 June 2007 14:18 (sixteen years ago) link
I used my internet psuedonym which confused old college friends. But I really don't want to use my real name. I don't know why, this seems more adult and almost every one else is.
― Ms Misery, Monday, 25 June 2007 14:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Facebook is easy for me, but I think it's harder for new people to get a handle on now that they've got all the new features and "applications" (ugh)
― Curt1s Stephens, Monday, 25 June 2007 14:19 (sixteen years ago) link
people don't use pseudonyms on Facebook, if you want to be less searchable just use your last initial instead of your last name, or something like that. Personal FB pages don't show up on Google, and only FB members who are in your network/are your friends can see your page.
― Curt1s Stephens, Monday, 25 June 2007 14:21 (sixteen years ago) link
I finally relented a week or 2 ago and signed up after being hassled by several friends to join as "everyone we know is on it". But actually pretty much only the friends who were hassling me are on it! I joined the ILM group. No-one from my past who I either wanted to get in touch with or wanted to avoid has turned up yet.
― Colonel Poo, Monday, 25 June 2007 14:22 (sixteen years ago) link
I might try the last inital. I wanted to use MsMisery as nearly everybody knows me as that. Real-life friends I've known in the past few years know me as Samantha as well but not people I was in school with 12 years ago. :(
What is the ILx group called? I could only find my college.
― Ms Misery, Monday, 25 June 2007 14:23 (sixteen years ago) link
"I Love Music"
― Curt1s Stephens, Monday, 25 June 2007 14:23 (sixteen years ago) link
yes, where's the ILX group?
― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 25 June 2007 14:24 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm not ILM.
― Ms Misery, Monday, 25 June 2007 14:25 (sixteen years ago) link
i am the small ILM
― blueski, Monday, 25 June 2007 14:27 (sixteen years ago) link
i finally got on there on friday, so bored was i at work. i was tempted to tick 'we dated' when Dan friended me - i'm mad me.
don't really get this 'poking' thing.
― blueski, Monday, 25 June 2007 14:29 (sixteen years ago) link
ah.....
― That one guy that quit, Monday, 25 June 2007 14:32 (sixteen years ago) link
guess it's a bit like winking on okcupid....
― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 25 June 2007 14:48 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't think I'd mind being friended by ex school ppl now. Time is a great healer! I would imagine that if I was tho it would follow the same pattern as with Friends Reunited, a couple of emails back an forth to ascertain what we were doing these days and that would be that.
does anyone bother w/ friends reunited anymore? (i'm guessing not)
― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 09:10 (sixteen years ago) link
I am your friend, Mark!!
― C J, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 09:11 (sixteen years ago) link
I look at Friends Reunited (very) occasionally when they send me an email saying someone has updated their details - which usually is a lie!
There is no-one from my year at school on Facebook, but loads from the years either side. Curious.
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 09:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Not for a long, long time (xpost x 2).
I've just had an email from someone I've never heard of in my life wanting to add me as a "friend" to Facebook. The cheek of it. It's a disgrace.
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 09:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Myspace is for Proles. Let us over throw the bourgeois Facebook, all power to the soviets, etc.
― Ed, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 09:13 (sixteen years ago) link
That might have been me, Marcello :)
― C J, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 09:14 (sixteen years ago) link
No it wasn't a CJ.
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 09:15 (sixteen years ago) link
the whole point of facebook is a bunch of randoms calling each other friends.
― That one guy that quit, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 09:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Registered for Facebook last Friday, immediately re-established contact with people I hadn't seen for 5-6 years. And that's without just randomly typing names of old friends in the search box (which I obviously intend to do next). So it's done its job for old geezers like me, I suppose.
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 09:18 (sixteen years ago) link
the take-up in the last, like, month of two seems to be huge, based on total lack of statistics.
― That one guy that quit, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 09:19 (sixteen years ago) link
FR was oddly therapeutic for me since it first came up just after Laura died, so it was quite reassuring when people I hadn't seen for 20+ years got in touch and I had to tell them what had happened and they were all very nice and understanding about it though I haven't really kept in touch with any of them since because, well if you know "Do You Remember Walter?" by the Kinks that sums it up pretty acutely.
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 09:21 (sixteen years ago) link
If my emailer "CW" was in fact CJ then fair do's and thanks, but being added as a "friend" by people I don't know is pretty creepy, like people coming up to me in the street wanting to hug me or something (not that that ever happens) - you just want to run as far away from it/them as possible.
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 09:22 (sixteen years ago) link
it's probably an ilxor, MC. this is kind of what you sign up for with facebook!!
― That one guy that quit, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 09:23 (sixteen years ago) link
fair do's, Marcello Carlin
― RJG, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 09:25 (sixteen years ago) link
like people coming up to me in the street wanting to hug me or something (not that that ever happens)
I'm reasonably happy with it, but I see it more as a random person coming up to me and starting a conversation in a pub, which happens quite a lot! So i guess a person's reaction to being friended by someone who is not in fact their friend is largely governed by which real life situation they think it is most like....
― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 09:26 (sixteen years ago) link
i think for most people i know, it's limited to actual friends. for me at the very least people i've met a few times and like (as opposed to "people i see every weekend"). i've had a few friend requests which i didn't recognise but it was usually because i'd forgotten them rather than didn't know them in the first place.
it does seem to have exploded in the last few months rather and is the first of this type of site that i could actually see being a part of everyday life for normal people in the same way that, i dunno, a mobile phone is - the events thing is really such a handy way of keeping upt-o-date w/ your diary.
pseudonyms on facebook = lame.
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 09:41 (sixteen years ago) link
what is dud is PRs friending you and then HASSLING YOU VIA THE MEDIUM OF FACEBOOK
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 09:42 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't mind people getting in touch with me via the blog or ILx or wherever - after all, that's how I met my fiancee! - but the whole MySpace/Facebook "friend" business doesn't really gel; for me the randomness of "friending" in that context is just one step up from URGENT RESPONSE REQUIRED TO NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT CRISIS-type spam.
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 09:43 (sixteen years ago) link
tell it to little terry lennox
― blueski, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 09:44 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't mean "random" in a bad way entirely -- but i wouldn't call someone i'd met a few times a friend (or not 'actual friend'), necessarily. i guess it depends. i only just put my real email addy up, not really sure if i want in.
― That one guy that quit, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 09:45 (sixteen years ago) link
fear of random weirdos friending you seems to take up about 50% of the chat around facebook, compared to about 1% of actual stuff which happens on facebook. and if you don't like it just deny them!
i have done, repeatedly
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 09:46 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't mean "random" in a bad way entirely -- but i wouldn't call someone i'd met a few times a friend (or not 'actual friend')
well no, neither would i, but facebook friend != actual friend. it's a useful way to keep in contact w/ people who'd otherwise be relegated to "i remember a nice conversation with this person at this party that time" and, you know, make more actual friends
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 09:47 (sixteen years ago) link
i gave in to the peer pressure and registered a few weeks ago. Haven't met any random weirdos or creeps from the past yet.
― Roz, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 10:11 (sixteen years ago) link
myspace>>>>facebook
facebook is basically oldschooltie shit. though, the explosion on facebook has suddenly made myspace look dated and even empty. myspace feels a tiny bit like makeoutclub or lipstickandcigarettes now
― 696, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 10:26 (sixteen years ago) link
facebook is better designed than clunky myspace, if only because it's newer, and despite lacking the 'pizazz' of the latter.
it's the third time i've gone through the process of 'adding friends' after friendster and then these two. progress eh.
with Friends Re-united I could pretty much tell before looking which people in my year at school were going to be on there and which ones would never be on there.
― blueski, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 10:42 (sixteen years ago) link
696 otm. but myspace looked horrible and was shitty to use.
― That one guy that quit, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 10:44 (sixteen years ago) link
not including flickr or last.fm
― blueski, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 10:47 (sixteen years ago) link
i could live with bad design but the worst thing about myspace was music exploding on you when you didn't want it.
― Roz, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 10:50 (sixteen years ago) link
oh yeah, bands embedding their videos in windows media somewhere down the page which then played automatically at the same time you're trying to listen to the tracks in the audio player. stupid.
― blueski, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 10:52 (sixteen years ago) link
i.e. bad design
― blueski, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 10:53 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah i really meant bad design as in horizontally-scrolling pages, unreadable fonts, shitty backgrounds etc but that works too.
― Roz, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 10:57 (sixteen years ago) link
^ agree with all the above. i ended up kind of liking the bad design (again kind of reminded me of makeoutclub) though, all the same, it feels like it should have bad design
― 696, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 10:59 (sixteen years ago) link
i already have a myspazz and i was avoiding facebook, but i got conned into joining by the lure of being able to see photos of a certain friend. but that's the whole problem with it - you can't go perving at anyone's profile unless you're their friend. and apart from my best friend who lives in the states, and an old and vague acquaintance in the uk, my only other facebook buddies are my freakin' workmates (which is pretty lame).
i like myspace. mostly because of a conversation i had on another book forum about a crazy white supremacist who stalked me there, which then led to becoming myspazz friends with someone from that forum, which then led to bestfriendship and possible true love. and another good friend of mine is someone i met on myspazz, and he lives in my city.
and the myspazz crazies who send creepy messages make for good stories at the pub. i had one guy ask me to be his mistress, because he wanted to perform errands and bring gifts to a superior woman.
― Rubyred, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 11:01 (sixteen years ago) link
i dunno what makeoutclub is.
― That one guy that quit, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 11:02 (sixteen years ago) link
making out is great though.
― That one guy that quit, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 11:03 (sixteen years ago) link
in terms of how i use it, myspace is barely any different from facebook, except a) more people on facebook b) facebook LOOKS BETTER and also WORKS most of the time - to defend myspazz on these grounds is ridiculous c) less as in no lame bands/whores trying to friend you, i don't understand what ways myspazz could possibly be considered superior except through force of habit
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 11:04 (sixteen years ago) link
facebook reminds me of school and it has my workmates on it
― 696, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 11:05 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't really have massive issues with either of those
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 11:06 (sixteen years ago) link
i like that you can make myspace pages look all fucked up and shit with pictures.
― That one guy that quit, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 11:14 (sixteen years ago) link
when i'm bored at work i jazz up my 'spazz page... i mean, it's hardly brain surgery, it's just a bit of a piss. one of the best things about it is how many great artists i've discovered. because my profile is quite arts-centred, and i have a ton of pictures up, it seems to attract a lot of people with similar tastes, which then leads to discovering new artists who have profiles. i avoiding putting any personal pics, or pics of myself, up for a long time, but then they got the new photo album set-up, which allows you to block anyone but friends from viewing them.
myspace and facebook seem to have very different motives - fb is more for connecting with people you actually know (or used to know) while the 'spazz is more for meeting new people.
― Rubyred, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 11:42 (sixteen years ago) link
i already have a myspazz and i was avoiding facebook, but i got conned into joining by the lure of being able to see photos of a certain friend. but that's the whole problem with it - you can't go perving at anyone's profile unless you're their friend.
― bernard snowy, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 12:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Facebook is much better than MySpace for all of the design reasons just mentioned, but unless you're a student, there are still way more people on MySpace. When I joined a year ago, I had to add my 23-year-old gf's roommates just to look like I knew people. This does seem to be slowly changing, though.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 13:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Fuck'em both. Maybe FB because I'm a university dropout so i can't get in. Myspace is just. Urrgh (and not only designwise, also the way you have to interact).
― nathalie, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 13:25 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm a bit worried that FB is going to become more and more like myspace -- but even if it does at least it (probably) won't have the disgusting level of customization that leads people to overlay translucent graphics and paste in lots of oversized pictures/text and render their profile completely unreadable
― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 13:25 (sixteen years ago) link
I think anyone can join FB, nath. Not just uni kids. It's my first day there .... would you like to be my friend??
― C J, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 13:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Lex, I don't like the ideas of strangers or near-strangers knowing too many personal details about me. With a real name, a school, etc. it could be too easy to track me down IRL. The world's a strange place these days.
myspace feels a tiny bit like makeoutclub or lipstickandcigarettes now
You mean it feels like Friendster did when MySpace exploded?
― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 13:28 (sixteen years ago) link
CJ, sorry, I am not that interested in FB. Just doesn't seem to appeal to me. Another social circle. Nah. I liked Friendster, that was okay,but the rest can go eat dick shit.
― nathalie, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 13:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Dick shit? STRIKE THROUGH, you moron.
― nathalie, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 13:30 (sixteen years ago) link
dick shit sounds unbelievably foul
― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 13:32 (sixteen years ago) link
OMG the synchronicity: someone just invited me on FB. I'll probably give in. I'm a total wimp. ;-)
Yes, Sam, I know. I tried to avoid that fuck or suck thread as well but to no avail. :-)
― nathalie, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 13:33 (sixteen years ago) link
i understand this but you don't have to put your school in, i haven't (though i have joined my school's group), and if you're rigorous with the privacy settings all that strangers can actually see is your name and your picture (and there are lots of profile pictures which don't give any clues as to what the person actually looks like...)
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 13:40 (sixteen years ago) link
What have I done. I already regret it.
― nathalie, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 13:40 (sixteen years ago) link
At this point the school association is the only benefit I see! I mean I can associate with ILX0Rs here and on Flickr so it's not like I need another place to link up with you weirdos. ;)
― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 13:42 (sixteen years ago) link
not really, friendsters design was kind of sober, myspace more like moc etc
― 696, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 13:59 (sixteen years ago) link
I meant more in terms of use. I remember it took MySpace a while to get going but when it did Friendster was abandoned. Obv. that's not happened to MySpace yet but it could be coming.
― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 14:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Myspace does lose what remains of its appeal pretty fast once you've got a few friends on Fcbk.
I'm mostly just glad to not be bombarded with terrible bands and Cool Videos uploaded by mongs.
― Michael Philip Philip Philip philip Annoyman, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 14:05 (sixteen years ago) link
you can block all requests from bands etc. and you can also disable the automatic music player.
― Rubyred, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 14:20 (sixteen years ago) link
I have done this before but for someone reason this often doesn't stick.
Whatever, I've finally ditched MySpace. It all became too junior high. lame.
― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 14:21 (sixteen years ago) link
I have about twice as many Facebook friends than Myspace friends in a tiny portion of the time, there must be something about it that appeals to people who aren't anywhere else on the Internet. Perhaps its the privacy thing.
I still get a bit weirded out at having so many FB friends on one page on the internet, when previously I was used to having them separated into carefully delineated groups for different periods of my life.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 14:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Why did Myspace beat out Friendster? Was there really that much difference between the two? Was Myspace just a copycat that struck it lucky or is there some bigger reason?
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 14:33 (sixteen years ago) link
MySpace had more features than Friendster. Blogging, etc.
― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 14:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Ya - I've noticed some odd worlds colliding within my friends on FB. may or may not be a good thing.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 14:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Matt has loads of hot girls on his facebook friends list.
― blueski, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 14:40 (sixteen years ago) link
the last few times i've logged into myspazz i've got the "sorry! unexpected error!" message - how can you love a site which fundamentally doesn't work, when a functional alternative which does exactly the same thing is available?
all my friends in one place = convenient. though it is apparently weird to want all your friends to be friends with all your other friends.
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 14:41 (sixteen years ago) link
MySpace didn't really blow up until bands started using it but in the six months before that I think it did attract people BECAUSE it was messier/noisier than Friendster which was somewhat sober as gareth says and this is also true of facebook - the pendulum swings back.
― blueski, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 14:41 (sixteen years ago) link
though it is apparently weird to want all your friends to be friends with all your other friends.
idealistic yo
― blueski, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 14:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Lots of bosses are now turning up on Facebook, which has me checking out the tightness of that limited profile thing
― stet, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 14:46 (sixteen years ago) link
i always make sure i have a cool boss who wouldn't take umbrage with anything i write on there.
― blueski, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 14:47 (sixteen years ago) link
i said this already but im reposting it--we had a lot of these myspace vs. facebook discussions upthread:
i dont like the idea of facebook getting all democratized and ugly like myspace (and having a ton of "entities" like companies/bands have their own profiles instead of just "groups").
keep it clean and efficient and fascist--and well-designed--and there wont be a problem.
― max, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 14:48 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah all the new companies and applications are a bit much. Tho I like having my last.fm on FB.
― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 14:52 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost democratized -> idiots like me (uni dropouts) being accepted?
― nathalie, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 14:52 (sixteen years ago) link
CAn bands do pages now?
― Ed, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 14:53 (sixteen years ago) link
I hope not. I don't want to be a part of another MySpace.
― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 14:54 (sixteen years ago) link
i hope not
(they can do groups)
xp
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 14:55 (sixteen years ago) link
it's not so much the democratization/opening of FB to non-students as the corporate presence, for me anyway. I mean, over time FB would be open to more non-students than students anyway, as more and more original 'book members graduate
― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 14:55 (sixteen years ago) link
i marvel at the stupidity of anyone who puts anything on their facebook/myspazz page which they wouldn't want their boss to see!
(or pity them if their boss takes serious umbrage to pictures of their employees drunk in their spare time)
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 14:56 (sixteen years ago) link
I just took a look around to see if I could find any other people who I knew from my major. Besides feeling pangs everytime I saw someone listing their class as '10 or '11 (mine is '96) I was amazed at how many listed their dorm and ROOM NUMBER as their residence. I could see this without even being their friend. Madness.
― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 14:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Besides feeling pangs everytime I saw someone listing their class as '10 or '11
hi dere
― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 14:59 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah but ms. misery, most schools allow you to find your classmates' room numbers via their own website. facebook isn't really providing any information that isn't already out there and accessible, and it actual has much better privacy controls than most schoolwide student directories.
― max, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 15:01 (sixteen years ago) link
I have to say I like Facebook for putting me back in touch with a Russian friend now teaching English in China (strange but true).
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 15:01 (sixteen years ago) link
xxxxpost by democratization i mostly meant the insane "customizability" of myspace pages which allowed 12 year old idiots the ability to make their pages entirely unreadble
― max, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 15:02 (sixteen years ago) link
the applications don't bother me because at least facebook requires them to be designed within the parameters of the site's general aesthetic.
i dont know why everyone uses ilike instead of last.fm tho
― max, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 15:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, it just annoyed me that it was so bound up with the idea of shilling shit bands
― Michael Philip Philip Philip philip Annoyman, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 15:03 (sixteen years ago) link
<i>myspace and facebook seem to have very different motives - fb is more for connecting with people you actually know (or used to know) while the 'spazz is more for meeting new people</i>
'xactly. i've never even considered myspace, and doubt i ever will. iresisted facebook for some time there, despite getting invites from increasingly unlikely mates ... i finally gave in and have already found myself in contact with a dude i was friends with when i was six or seven, and haven't seen in the best part of 20 years. so it's been worth it for that alone. plus various other people from my past who i like, and am pleased to be able to keep in some form of simple contact with.
stet's right about the limited-profile thing, but hey. it's really simple: if you value your privacy that much, don't, umm, post shit about yourself on the internet. at all.
FB is very much the bourgeois ex-student social network of choice, innit? it's totally exploded among my meeja chumz in glasgow and london in the last fortnight. maybe it'll be a passing fad; i dunno. right now i just like the fact that it's a really good way of keeping up with a shitload of old friends.
(fuck: IT dude just came round to tell me the server was back up and stood staring at a collapsed browser window [1] with "can i say you're my girlfriend on facebook?" plastered across it. christ knows what he thinks i'm up to.)
[1] mac OS 9, since you ask :(
― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 15:04 (sixteen years ago) link
xxxxxpost
Our directory doesn't appear to do so. Also you have to know someone's name to look them up in a directory and you don't see a photo. Kids be dumb.
― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 15:07 (sixteen years ago) link
man... it took a lot of time and effort to make my page entirely unreadable. :(
― g-kit, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 15:09 (sixteen years ago) link
you have to know someone's name to look them up on facebook, too...
― max, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 15:10 (sixteen years ago) link
I actually stay in touch with people more regularly through MySpace, which unlike most of creation I really have no problem with (though a lot of that has to do with Greasemonkey making things very handy for me). That said others prefer Facebook more, it's whatever works.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 15:10 (sixteen years ago) link
That's what I'm saying . . .I just did a search for my major and hundreds of people came up. I could see their name, photo, networks or whatever and residence. Most people just had something like "Austin, TX" but some had "Blanton Rm 406". Dumb. I didn't know them or their names. Yes I'm part of the same University network but that's not hard to join.
― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 15:12 (sixteen years ago) link
or their friends' name
2xpost
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 15:12 (sixteen years ago) link
at my college, a "facebook" was like a telephone directory except with PHOTOS of everybody, and the whole point was to find the deets of someone you'd only seen at a party, or somebody cute in your english lit class that you were too shy to approach
i see no indication that Facebook can be used the same way, in fact it seems like it functions in the opposite way: the only people whose details are accessible are people you already know! bo-ring
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 15:13 (sixteen years ago) link
it's the way it acts as a social diary which makes it potentially more than just a fad/way to pass time at work - it's really handy for planning anything from meals out with four or five people, to big parties, to even holidays - all the details on one handy page rather than a mass email which gets lost in the inbox. and this is why people are joining up, too! they don't want to be out of the loop.
fb also put me back in touch with someone from The Past, who i'd had no other way of contacting, which is really brilliant and more than myspazz ever did for me.
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 15:16 (sixteen years ago) link
I am up to four or five 'I've added you as a friend on Facebook...' mails a week now.
― Ed, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 15:16 (sixteen years ago) link
i dunno, i think youre mostly being paranoid ms. misery. all this shit is out there for the dedicated stalker even in facebook's absence.
― max, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 15:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Tho I like having my last.fm on FB.
yes! but that's about the only app I currently like.
― Roz, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 15:18 (sixteen years ago) link
I think MySpace put me in touch with too many people from the past. Once all those weirdos find me on FB I'll probably abandon it too.
FWIW when I was in college we kept in touch by carving messages on rocks and leaving them at the creek where everyone washed their tunics.
xxpost, perhaps I am being a bit paranoid but there is something to say about young people being too trusting of the this technology.
― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 15:18 (sixteen years ago) link
i have pseudonyms because i don't wanna be found! srsly facebook sounds like my worst nightmare.
― g-kit, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 15:19 (sixteen years ago) link
i dont think its a question of trusting the technology so much as trusting yr classmates/friends. fwiw id say its mostly a minority of people who actually have their addresses/dorm rooms in those fields (or who keep those fields updated)
― max, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 15:22 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah I'm kind of all "if I'd wanted to stay in touch with you, I would have just stayed in touch, thxbye."
that said, I've had a couple of repressed memories track me down on that god-forsaken myspace. hahahawesome... :\
― will, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 15:24 (sixteen years ago) link
You are probably right. But for cute blonde Jenna over in Carothers dorm it could be all I'm in ur room sniffin ur panties and explioting ur fresh young credit.
― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 15:26 (sixteen years ago) link
a lot of the people from eg school whose company i've most enjoyed recently are the people i didn't really get along with at school, while a lot of my actual friends from then who i've conscientiously kept in touch with, i now find quite awkward to communicate with. gosh what a torturous sentence that was. but anyway, gist of it = people change, and the people whose company is pleasurable and useful now aren't nec those you expect, and nor should they be
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 15:34 (sixteen years ago) link
meh... i'll take the risk.
― g-kit, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 15:37 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm really lousy at keeping in touch with people, so something like Facebook might turn out to be useful for someone like me. As I said upthread though, seems like not many people I know are on it anyway.
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 15:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Not true, you can look up the details of anyone at your university who chooses to make those details public to the entire university (most people do)
― jessie monster, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 15:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Like I just said to my colleague, my social network works perfectly well on email
― Ed, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 15:42 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost but the point is that where with the paper facebook you found the picture to get the name, with online facebook you need a name to find the picture
― max, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 15:42 (sixteen years ago) link
You really can't beat rocks.
― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 15:43 (sixteen years ago) link
i totally agree. i can think of only one person who i've lost contact with that i would like to be in touch with again.
the kind of myspazz profile you have tends to dictate the kind of people you meet. i don't actually encounter that many weirdos; i only accept friend reqs from people who make the effort to write me an interesting msg; and i periodically cull my friend list of people i haven't stayed in contact with. and srsly, i've met some absolutely awesome people thru 'spaz that i wouldn't have otherwise encountered.
― Rubyred, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 15:43 (sixteen years ago) link
that's true, although there are WAYS xxpost
― jessie monster, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 15:43 (sixteen years ago) link
I just prefer facebook because myspace is ugly and broken a lot.
yeah, i refuse to join myspace on design principle
― max, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 15:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Facebook could be pretty awesome with the api and whatnot
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 15:49 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost If you mean by design otherwise perfectly sane adults putting hideously loud backgrounds and sparkly Zwinkys on their pages, then yes I agree. MySpace is like the worse of GeoCities and LiveJournal combined.
― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 15:49 (sixteen years ago) link
ok, i wasn't going to do this but i remembered i put my 'spaz url on my ilx profile-thingy anyway... for all you haters: http://myspace.com/red_rubies79 go and have a laugh if you want. feel free to take the piss.
[although i've just added some art slideshows and they seem to be slow to download, but that could just be my computer]
― Rubyred, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 15:50 (sixteen years ago) link
If you mean by design otherwise perfectly sane adults putting hideously loud backgrounds and sparkly Zwinkys on their pages, then yes I agree
hehe :D
― g-kit, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 15:52 (sixteen years ago) link
There's all sort of folks i've met irl that i don't have the time to keep in touch with. FB is awesome for that. and also for letting me know which ex's literally want nothing to do with me!
big time xposts
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 15:53 (sixteen years ago) link
This actually annoys me, if people are organising things I prefer it if they do it by email.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 15:56 (sixteen years ago) link
a lot of the people from eg school whose company i've most enjoyed recently are the people i didn't really get along with at school, while a lot of my actual friends from then who i've conscientiously kept in touch with, i now find quite awkward to communicate with
absolutely OTM. i have no problem with people from my "past" seeking me out. if it turns out we like each other in 2007, great; if not ... what, are we gonna start giving each other fucking chinese burns and bogwashes?
(actually ... that's one they should put in superpoke.)
― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 15:57 (sixteen years ago) link
fwiw: with one exception, all the ilx0rs i've added as FB friends are ppl i know in real life. does this make me rude and standoffish? it's not meant to. i'm still a little unsure about the etiquette of "friending" people you don't really know.
― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 15:58 (sixteen years ago) link
(whereas on last.fm, for instance, it's never been a consideration.)
― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 15:59 (sixteen years ago) link
that's one they should put in superpoke.
Fuck supering a poke. (The whole poke thing is kinda weird -- just say hi, gawdammit!)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 16:00 (sixteen years ago) link
I refuse to join MySpace on MURDOCH EVIL principles.
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 16:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, I'm a little weird about adding ILXors, too. I'll say yes to those who ask me, but I don't add others unless I've met them IRL. I was the same way on Friendster and MySpace.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 16:02 (sixteen years ago) link
The past two months on facebook for me
- friends with 19 yr old uni students on my course - old friends from school appear (ie people in their late 20s) - people I know from my gap years appear (people in their late 20s/early 30s) - people I used to work with pop along (people either about to hit their 30s or in them) - bosses appear (old)
(And now - the cooler people I know, people like my trendy early 20s cousin, are defecting from myspace)
From where I'm, er, poking it seems fb has morphed very rapidly into a more grown-up/varied space just within the last few weeks.
A head-mashing collision of worlds, but has been a handy way for me to update my address book and say hi to people I was crap at keeping up with when I was much busier than I am now and not in the mood for chat.
― Zoe Espera, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 16:24 (sixteen years ago) link
^ 8080. I'm just not quite used to granularity of it all yet. It's not about posting shit you don't want your boss to see, it's the unease of a party when both your mates and your boss are there. You have different social registers for these people.
― stet, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 16:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Precisely. I did feel very out of place on there when it was just me and uni mates writing 'wot time is the oral exam lol I forgot!!!!!" Was more at ease when friends my age appeared but, yes, the boss thing feels slightly gatecrashy - not cos they're mostly older but because there's obv a professional relationship there and now I'm supposed to call them my 'friend' and vice versa. Although some of the bosses I've seen making 'friends' with colleagues are probably more likely to write inappropriate stuff than I am.
― Zoe Espera, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 16:38 (sixteen years ago) link
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/519PAH2SC0L._SS500_.jpg
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 16:39 (sixteen years ago) link
I thought that said "pubics"
― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 16:40 (sixteen years ago) link
None of my bosses are on Facebook. I'll take this as a good thing.
― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 16:40 (sixteen years ago) link
you guys know that you can set specific parameters for privacy on a person-by-person basis? so your boss, for example, doesn't have you see that your interests include "pedophilia" or "arson"?
― max, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 17:56 (sixteen years ago) link
why would you want to censor that
― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 18:12 (sixteen years ago) link
max works at a daycare with no fire exits.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 18:15 (sixteen years ago) link
no fire exits makes it harder for arsonists to get in, see
― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 18:18 (sixteen years ago) link
your interests include "pedophilia" or "arson"?
But that would be the only thing we have in common! Seriously my bosses are far too old to care about shit like Facebook.
― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 18:27 (sixteen years ago) link
people with myspace accounts should be culled. -- Roughage Crew (Enrique), Tuesday, June 27, 2006 6:37 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link
damn i should chillax
― That one guy that quit, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 19:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Most everyone at work jumped on the FB bandwagon, so they could be "hip like the students." They strong-armed me into signing up. I had to explain what a poke was to my boss, and then show her how to send a personal message.
It was depressing.
― molly mummenschanz, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 19:50 (sixteen years ago) link
I just signed up for this today, totally different world to myspace. It's like a more grown-up bebo really, and I never warmed to bebo. It'll take some time to get used to.
― Chris in Belfast, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 21:24 (sixteen years ago) link
How Facebook could crush MySpace, Yahoo!, and Google (from Slate.com).
― jaymc, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 21:40 (sixteen years ago) link
zoe, i'm intrigued as to which "bosses" you mean ;)
it's the unease of a party when both your mates and your boss are there. You have different social registers for these people
er. i don't, really. there are subtleties and niceties, but it's all one big swirling vortex round grimly's social sphere.
― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 22:17 (sixteen years ago) link
The typical Facebooker spends hours each day sending messages, posting "notes" or blog entries, and uploading photos, along with trolling for freshmen girls who love the Decemberists.
journalists be hyperbolizin
― That one guy that quit, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 22:21 (sixteen years ago) link
some people on there have like 20-30 comments a day, most of which are the same message
"wow sounds like you had a great time!!! how was steve?? work is really busy at the moment! im off to Madrid in August!!! How cool is that????!!"
― 696, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 09:04 (sixteen years ago) link
feels like being in a town centre pub in somewhere like Hatfield
"im really excited about the wedding!! photos look amazing!! have you seen any of the old gang around at all?!!! mikey is still just the same!!"
― 696, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 09:09 (sixteen years ago) link
WELCOME TO THE REVOLUTION
― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 09:11 (sixteen years ago) link
6968080
― Ed, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 09:14 (sixteen years ago) link
which incidentally was my telephone number in 1985
― Ed, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 09:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Ed how was last night!!! sorry i couldnt make it round!! I had to work late!! crazy busy! what are you doing this weekend??? Is it ok if i bring round the macbook so you can do that cloning thing!! We'll have to meet up for drinks soon!! I'm busy all week and then its Dezzers stag on friday which should be AMAZING!!! How about sat??
― 696, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 09:21 (sixteen years ago) link
I deleted my MySpace Account. I feel much cleaner now.
― nathalie, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 09:22 (sixteen years ago) link
but 696 you must know these people if you can read their messages... surely you don't mind it that much.
― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 09:22 (sixteen years ago) link
he's looking for insider info on the housing crash
"I just paid £95,000 for a 2 bedroom buy to let in Croydon! WICKED!! I'm in the $$$$s now!"
― acrobat, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 09:24 (sixteen years ago) link
fwiw: with one exception, all the ilx0rspeople I've added as FB friends are ppl i know in real life. does this make me rude and standoffish? it's not meant to.
I would be exactly the same! I don't need to keep up with strangers and their doings...
― kv_nol, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 09:27 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't need a public internet site to keep up with people i properly know though...
― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 09:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Sat could be good but I might be on for some beers up north (North of Luton!!!!! Scary!!!!!!! LOL!!!!!!!), go clubbin' with the Lads. Buzz me friday see if there underwater or not.
― Ed, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 09:35 (sixteen years ago) link
<i>i don't need a public internet site to keep up with people i properly know though...</i>
ach, i don't *need* one. but it's kinda fun. also: experiments with private internet sites (no, rly) haven't been resoundingly successful.
i'm not saying facebook is revolutionary -- it's palpably not. i think its current popularity will wane quickly. but fuck it. it's put me in touch with a couple of old friends, and it suits my purposes well.
― grimly fiendish, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 10:58 (sixteen years ago) link
i'd probably be fine with it but it sort of makes complicated situations public and more complicated....
― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 11:00 (sixteen years ago) link
r u on last.fm?
― blueski, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 11:02 (sixteen years ago) link
lol
― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 11:05 (sixteen years ago) link
"Facebook users who like to control who gets to see your account details, take note: political views, religious back ground and other sensitive details may be wide open to prying eyes even though you've configured your profile so its viewable only to designated friends.
That's because the user setting that allows only designated friends to view a user's profile has no effect on whether the contents of that profile can be searched by the Facebook community at large. Users who want to block their profiles from being searched must go through an additional step."
more - http://paranoia.dubfire.net/2007/06/go-fish-is-facebook-violating-european.html
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 11:37 (sixteen years ago) link
it wasn't a joke :(
― blueski, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 11:39 (sixteen years ago) link
i keep adding people from my degree course at university who i've not seen since then. probably silly but nice to see old faces again at least.
― blueski, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 12:02 (sixteen years ago) link
i can't find the i love music group on FB. :-(
― nathalie, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 12:06 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2200160366
I keep meaning to join it, but I don't want people I know to think I love music :/
― Michael Philip Philip Philip philip Annoyman, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 12:08 (sixteen years ago) link
I may have already exaggerated my love of Ivan Campo in that regard
― Michael Philip Philip Philip philip Annoyman, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 12:09 (sixteen years ago) link
I am the small Pogatetz
― blueski, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 12:12 (sixteen years ago) link
-- blueski, Wednesday, June 27, 2007 6:02 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
i'm halfway to quitting it because this just leads to headaches and/or aforementioned randoms. i'm being a bit prissy about it i guess.
― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 12:15 (sixteen years ago) link
I've started getting former school mates bringing the "AIN'T SIN YOU FOR AGES" to what was previously a contended quip-trading circle-jerk between a bunch of people I already spend a lot of time with. It's all turning from gold into shit.
― Michael Philip Philip Philip philip Annoyman, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 12:18 (sixteen years ago) link
contented, I mean
― Michael Philip Philip Philip philip Annoyman, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 12:19 (sixteen years ago) link
it's only as complicated as you want to make it.
― blueski, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 12:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Maybe I don't really know what I want, Steve
― Michael Philip Philip Philip philip Annoyman, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 12:20 (sixteen years ago) link
in these crazy times i can't say i blame you. but thanks for friending me.
― blueski, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 12:21 (sixteen years ago) link
two mutual friends~!
― Michael Philip Philip Philip philip Annoyman, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 12:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Somebody start an ILx group. I feel like a liar in the ILM one.
― Ms Misery, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 13:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Ok, should do that. I don't listen to enough musickness these days.
― nathalie, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 13:35 (sixteen years ago) link
ILE on FB.
― nathalie, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 13:38 (sixteen years ago) link
nope
― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 13:41 (sixteen years ago) link
he's right.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 13:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah I would do it but I really have no clue how. I can barely join groups.
― Ms Misery, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 13:42 (sixteen years ago) link
:-( I made it a closed group. So if you change your mind, I will reject you anyway. Actually if you (no matter who) prefers it is an open group, I'll switch.
― nathalie, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 13:43 (sixteen years ago) link
waht
― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 13:43 (sixteen years ago) link
*note to self* insert appropriate emoticons showing you are joking.
― nathalie, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 13:45 (sixteen years ago) link
I couldn't find it. . .
― Ms Misery, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 13:46 (sixteen years ago) link
(Open group: can we deal with open relationships?)
― nathalie, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 13:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Urgh. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2382779449
Would that work?
anyone else with a myspace who has resisted facebook feel like they may have backed the wrong horse...
― acrobat, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 13:48 (sixteen years ago) link
I have too much Facebook crossover with work to join an ILE group I think... When worlds collide!
― Archel, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 13:48 (sixteen years ago) link
they probably have a red face right now
― 696, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 13:48 (sixteen years ago) link
there seem to be some odd features on facebook which I can envisage as being ILE threads, like the foodfight option. AFAIK, there has never been an ILE thread called "this is the thread where we have a food fight" but it's being realised by ilxors on facebook as I type (and w/ pics of the food handily provided so you don't have to faff around searching for 'em on google images).
― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 13:54 (sixteen years ago) link
an ex cow-orker has invited me to become a zombie and go round chomping ppl, bizarrely....
― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 13:55 (sixteen years ago) link
how wonderful life is on a perennial rag week
― 696, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 13:56 (sixteen years ago) link
some weird dude just friended me
― blueski, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 14:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Hooray, have joined ILE!
― Ms Misery, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 14:06 (sixteen years ago) link
I am a zombie! I have no minions as yet though.
I joined ILX group :)
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 14:07 (sixteen years ago) link
I thought the Louis "Jigger" Jagger Appreciation Society was ILE's unofficial group
― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 14:27 (sixteen years ago) link
I think it was but is now full of LJ's IRL friends or something.
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 14:27 (sixteen years ago) link
haha
I thought it was other way round!
― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 14:29 (sixteen years ago) link
I've just sent a request to join the ILE group!
― C J, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 14:38 (sixteen years ago) link
One of us (collectively).
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 14:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Me too! I'm still not sure of the point of this, but CJ hit me with a haggis, which seems suitably bizarre enough to count as fun.
― ailsa, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 15:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Ooh I have ILX friend now!
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 15:50 (sixteen years ago) link
I am going to sulk until you start having fun on ILX where you all belong.
― Ed, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 15:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Henry joined the group Flipmode Squad. 4:03pm lol
― blueski, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 16:22 (sixteen years ago) link
If I had my druthers, I would say I'd hooked up with all of friends, just for shits and giggles, but my coworkers, on FB, might think that's weird.
― molly mummenschanz, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 17:01 (sixteen years ago) link
i was gonna do that, don't really know why i didn't.
― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 17:02 (sixteen years ago) link
i have sent in mah request.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 17:04 (sixteen years ago) link
it can be vaguely creepy if it's not obviously a joke. :/
― jessie monster, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 17:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, exactly. My coworkers, who are "ready to embrace social networking" because their big librarian conference told them to do so, probably wouldn't be hip to the fact that's it's an obvious joke.
― molly mummenschanz, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 17:08 (sixteen years ago) link
that's the main reason why i didn't
― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 17:09 (sixteen years ago) link
But, the major bonus of having coworkers on FB, is that I can be wasting excessive amounts of time on it, but if someone walks by and sees my screen, they'll think, "oh! it's work-related! she's networking like all the kids do!"
(NB: there is a major age gap between me and my officemates)
― molly mummenschanz, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 17:10 (sixteen years ago) link
This morning my big boss came up while I was friending Nath. haha! whatever.
― Ms Misery, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 17:22 (sixteen years ago) link
He knows I'm cool. ;-)
― stevienixed, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 17:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah your big question mark screams productive networking. As did the Victoria Secret's ad that was up next to it.
― Ms Misery, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 17:56 (sixteen years ago) link
:-) I uploaded a pic now!
― stevienixed, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 18:01 (sixteen years ago) link
ach, what the hell. i'll chuck my request in too ;)
― grimly fiendish, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 21:08 (sixteen years ago) link
kenan, you are now in my myspazzy hall of fame. i sent you an initiation message.
― Rubyred, Thursday, 28 June 2007 00:41 (sixteen years ago) link
hall of fame shame
― Rubyred, Thursday, 28 June 2007 01:38 (sixteen years ago) link
er. i don't, really. there are subtleties and niceties, but it's all one big swirling vortex round grimly's social sphere. Aye, and you're probably the only person I know like this, tbh. Still, there are subjects you'll only talk about with certain people, surely? But there's no way to reflect that with FB.
Flickr does this quite well with its per-picture friends/family/public thing, whereas with FB it's either on or off - your friend can see your wall or they can't. You can't have everyone but your boss see "killing my boss" as a status, for a stupid example.
― stet, Thursday, 28 June 2007 03:02 (sixteen years ago) link
if a subject is only for the ears/eyes of certain people, why would you even consider putting it on facebook?
gareth, myspazz comments are hardly any less inane!
― lex pretend, Thursday, 28 June 2007 06:46 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.myglitterz.com/comments/weekend/6-22_02.gif
― 696, Thursday, 28 June 2007 08:57 (sixteen years ago) link
stet: yes, you're dead on -- i'd like a degree more subtlety with my FB privacy. unless i'm getting it wrong, all i can do is set up one limited profile and then say, right, these people can see that.
which isn't ideal: what i'd like is to be able to set up, say, three different limited profiles for three different people. it is a bit all-or-nothing right now.
like i say, though: ultimately, it's a public forum. so yes, there are going to be some things that even i wouldn't say, no matter what privacy options i might be offered. i mean, you and me, we know to our cost how damaging it can be when the wrong information gets into the wrong hands, perhaps because you someone decides, in a move of unprecedented madness, to paste a private e-mail onto the pasteboard next to page two of a newsp ... ah, never mind :) :) :)
― grimly fiendish, Thursday, 28 June 2007 09:00 (sixteen years ago) link
GF what you can do is make sure that when you're searched as an individual or they send an email they can't see your status or any other info, not even your friends. Also please to give more info re. pasteboard screw up!
I've got mine seriously limited but as TH pointed out, I'll still be in stats searches etc. I'm liking this at the moment, it's a lot better than Myspace anyway.
― kv_nol, Thursday, 28 June 2007 09:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Apparently it's bad form to delete messages on your own wall but I think I might make an exception in the case of a uni mate who's scrawled YES TO GET THE NEW RADIOHEAD STUFF JUST GO TO BIT TORR....etc etc.
Yes pls more info on pasteboard.
― Zoe Espera, Thursday, 28 June 2007 09:49 (sixteen years ago) link
yes, i can imagine radiohead's lawyers have been poised over your profile for weeks now, just waiting to ... umm ... sorry, why would you be remotely worried?
:)
― grimly fiendish, Thursday, 28 June 2007 10:04 (sixteen years ago) link
unless radiohead's lawyers have never heard of bittorrent. or the new album.
― grimly fiendish, Thursday, 28 June 2007 10:05 (sixteen years ago) link
(as for the pasteboard thing: no fucking WAY.)
Radiohead's lawyers live in my broom cupboard.
Actually I was more bothered about the wife sending me public gifts. He's new, please excuse.
― Zoe Espera, Thursday, 28 June 2007 10:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Haha, yes I did think re: pasteboard actually I think I don't need to know...
― Zoe Espera, Thursday, 28 June 2007 10:07 (sixteen years ago) link
I am pushing for a graffiti application to be added to the new production system, so I can draw cocks on the pasteboard of grimly's pages.
― Alba, Thursday, 28 June 2007 10:13 (sixteen years ago) link
why has facebook suddenly exploded in popularity in the last 2 weeks?
― Ronan, Thursday, 28 June 2007 10:17 (sixteen years ago) link
it's all down to us.
― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 28 June 2007 10:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Facebook was always insanely popular with people of my age group. Even non-uni students are more likely than not to have an account; I've been able to track down and reunite with virtually all my primary school friends at the mere click of a button. There's been a recent explosion of non-university, non-school-leaver accounts, so now pretty much all demographics are covered (except, for some reason, 'parents'), but since early 2005, it's been pretty much compulsory for students.
― Just got offed, Thursday, 28 June 2007 10:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah exactly...I know it's been popular always.
But in the last two weeks this thread has been revived here and I've got about 6 friend requests on it. And then read on a blog "So I finally signed up for Facebook".
WHY?
― Ronan, Thursday, 28 June 2007 10:33 (sixteen years ago) link
HIVEMIND. I dunno, I signed up 2 weeks ago because some friends were bugging me to (as I said upthread), but it seems I am part of some huge general trend.
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 28 June 2007 10:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Waitaminute. Radiohead leaked?
― kv_nol, Thursday, 28 June 2007 10:42 (sixteen years ago) link
"studio mixes"
I only know this because of someone's fb status...
― Zoe Espera, Thursday, 28 June 2007 10:46 (sixteen years ago) link
It's like Day of the Triffids - we'll all go blind because of this.
I "poked" the one old schoolfriend who I wish I'd kept in touch with and he responded by friending me. Which led to me writing a summary of the last 17 years of my life in an email to him at 1:30 this morning. I finished by 1:32, obv.
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 28 June 2007 10:53 (sixteen years ago) link
hehe....it is kinda creepy the way it has everyone's full name.
I got friended by someone I met for about 2 minutes in a bar with friends a few weeks ago and the people she was with are all in the main picture with full names.
― Ronan, Thursday, 28 June 2007 10:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Ah right. Cheers Zoe.
― kv_nol, Thursday, 28 June 2007 10:54 (sixteen years ago) link
You get a couple of web and press articles on Facebook just because MySpace talk getting boring. Then other papers and magazines see this and jump on bandwagon. All in turn convincing more people out there to join it which in turn prompts more media coverage. I think this is the only reason for the explosion - we've seen it work this way with other things before.
― blueski, Thursday, 28 June 2007 10:58 (sixteen years ago) link
southall hasn't posted his social networking meets ID cards scare stories on here has he? he should. they're very scary.
― acrobat, Thursday, 28 June 2007 11:00 (sixteen years ago) link
I know. Makes me wonder I made ILE group closed cause of 90 procent of the *applicants* I didn't know their name!
― nathalie, Thursday, 28 June 2007 11:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Which led to me writing a summary of the last 17 years of my life in an email to him at 1:30 this morning. I finished by 1:32, obv
hahahah: i said exactly the same thing to the dude from school, ie: "how am i going to condense 15 years into one e-mail? er ... worryingly easily, i fear."
the place is filling up with my cousins now. it's quite worrying.
― grimly fiendish, Thursday, 28 June 2007 12:24 (sixteen years ago) link
guys i got a facebook invite from Darramouss
― g-kit, Thursday, 28 June 2007 12:26 (sixteen years ago) link
I was thinking about this while bored the other day - if ILX was deleted tomorrow, how many people I really like here would I stick in touch with? Probably not many, outside London, and maybe not all of them.
This is partly why the "if I really liked them I would have stayed in touch with them in the first place" line doesn't quite hold for me. It happens time and time again that, when the context for friendships vanishes, many of the friendships themselves don't migrate or adapt. Maybe the really close ones but that's about it. Especially when you drunkenly lose your phone and all your numbers once a year like I do.
Where Facebook has been so successful is creating a context for a lot of old/dormant/current friendships to migrate to, and possibly stick there. Far more than MySpace/Friendsreunited/anything else.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 28 June 2007 12:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Especially when you drunkenly lose your phone and all your numbers once a year like I do
once a month more like and that's generous. did you lose it at glasto?
― lex pretend, Thursday, 28 June 2007 12:45 (sixteen years ago) link
I agree. I lost touch with a some people just from having lived in 7 cities and moved house many times within an 8-year period. I've been surprised at the lack of awkwardness when re-acquainting myself with a couple of people. There's been no excuses made for why we lost touch. I think a lot of my awkward feeling of 'oh no not them' when I see some old friends pop up on fb is nothing to do with me not liking the blast-from-the-past thing but my own guilt about failing to even say hi for years and years.
― Zoe Espera, Thursday, 28 June 2007 12:48 (sixteen years ago) link
its glastonbury not glasto, chiz chiz more champers what?
― 696, Thursday, 28 June 2007 12:48 (sixteen years ago) link
abbreviations are not the sole privilege of the leisure classes
― blueski, Thursday, 28 June 2007 12:50 (sixteen years ago) link
my Uni friend Giles said so.
Pompey fans to thread.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 28 June 2007 12:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Actually, no, Pompey fans fuck off.
abbreviations are fine
just not 'glasto'
― 696, Thursday, 28 June 2007 12:55 (sixteen years ago) link
what's wrong with champagne?! i mean champers dahling
― lex pretend, Thursday, 28 June 2007 12:56 (sixteen years ago) link
It is not real ale and doesn't come with with free flat cap and ferret.
― Ed, Thursday, 28 June 2007 12:58 (sixteen years ago) link
all of those are really bad things though
― lex pretend, Thursday, 28 June 2007 12:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Idea of drinking champagne >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> actually drinking champagne. Most overrated boozestuff ever except possibly cider.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 28 June 2007 13:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Not in the tipsy topsy world of 696.
― Ed, Thursday, 28 June 2007 13:00 (sixteen years ago) link
people rate cider?
― 696, Thursday, 28 June 2007 13:00 (sixteen years ago) link
girls in flat caps=quality
― 696, Thursday, 28 June 2007 13:01 (sixteen years ago) link
- real ale makes you fat and doesn't taste nice, give me pimm's any day - flat caps are for old men, i do not like old men - ferrets are ugly and smell and bite
― lex pretend, Thursday, 28 June 2007 13:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Where do you stand on ferrets, 696?
I rate cider over champagne.
― Ed, Thursday, 28 June 2007 13:01 (sixteen years ago) link
i would never stand on a ferret, ed
id kick a horse in the face though, if you paid me £20
― 696, Thursday, 28 June 2007 13:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Is that John Willie's 'os? The one what won the the Grand National?
― Ed, Thursday, 28 June 2007 13:04 (sixteen years ago) link
c'mon gareth, say "glastuhr"
― blueski, Thursday, 28 June 2007 13:06 (sixteen years ago) link
that is written glastuhr' you middle class oik.
― Ed, Thursday, 28 June 2007 13:07 (sixteen years ago) link
should i tell everyone which STDs i have in my profile?
― 696, Thursday, 28 June 2007 13:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Why, are you looking to collect a full set?
― Ed, Thursday, 28 June 2007 13:09 (sixteen years ago) link
let them be pleasantly surprised
― blueski, Thursday, 28 June 2007 13:09 (sixteen years ago) link
I really don't see how Facebook is drastically better than Friendster, except in terms of being able to anticipate users' needs and integrate new features (once MySpace came along, Friendster was always trying to play catch-up when it came to things like blogs and "top friends"). But as far as its ability to preserve contact with friends, what's the difference? I still don't have as many friends on Facebook (or even MySpace) as I did on Friendster at its peak. Whereas Friendster was so novel at the time, I get the feeling that a lot of people are cautious about joining yet another social-networking site at this point.
― jaymc, Thursday, 28 June 2007 13:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Dude, the number of people (in the UK, at least), who have ever heard of Friendster, let alone been registered with it, is minuscule next to newly expolded Facebook. I don't think there's any "not another one" issue with take-up among the general population.
― Alba, Thursday, 28 June 2007 13:30 (sixteen years ago) link
zoe otm re: guilt upthread.
I was thinking about this while bored the other day - if ILX was deleted tomorrow, how many people I really like here would I stick in touch with?
::cries::
Yeah I'm not 100% comfortable with the full name stuff yet. And I love champagne for the record. Drunk with a straw. Ferrets do smell
― Ms Misery, Thursday, 28 June 2007 13:41 (sixteen years ago) link
WITH A STRAW!!! Get thee hence woman.
Also you are all wrong about champagne, it can be the most perfect drink in the world. Cider just kills brain cells and makes a piece of string an acceptable belt.
― kv_nol, Thursday, 28 June 2007 13:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Those !!! were meant to be ??? by the way.
The full name stuff is a bit weird for people like me who are used to pseudonyms, yeah. I still don't really like the idea of people being able to find me online for some reason. Also it means apart from a couple of people on ILX who I've met IRL no-one will have any idea who I am in the ILE group :)
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 28 June 2007 13:54 (sixteen years ago) link
u_u would you believe that I don't know your full name. Feel free to webmail it to me and I will friend you. If you don't do this the feeling of rejection will drive me to drink*
*Not really. That would be the alcoholism...
― kv_nol, Thursday, 28 June 2007 13:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Also it means apart from a couple of people on ILX who I've met IRL no-one will have any idea who I am in the ILE group :)
Exactly. I was looking at the group members yesterday and aside from a few that were obvious, I had no idea who half the people in there were!
― ENBB, Thursday, 28 June 2007 14:01 (sixteen years ago) link
haha enbb when you facebooked me it took me a week before i realized who you were! (of course i automatically agreed to the friendship b/c "mutual friends: ned raggett)
― max, Thursday, 28 June 2007 14:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, ok - this is funny. So one day I was looking at my fb friends and was like wait, when did I friend up these three random people (one of whom was you) from ILX? So I went to look at my history and realized that I'd done it when drunk and didn't remember doing so. Whoops!
― ENBB, Thursday, 28 June 2007 14:19 (sixteen years ago) link
I am the Pokemon kitties.
― Ms Misery, Thursday, 28 June 2007 14:19 (sixteen years ago) link
hahaha well im nonetheless honored to be yr friend
― max, Thursday, 28 June 2007 14:22 (sixteen years ago) link
In that case, I've just added you MM. Although, I would never had thought that was you because I had no idea that was your real name!
― ENBB, Thursday, 28 June 2007 14:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Max, likewise. :-)
― ENBB, Thursday, 28 June 2007 14:23 (sixteen years ago) link
I put my internet name up there at first but then my college friends were "wtf?"
― Ms Misery, Thursday, 28 June 2007 14:28 (sixteen years ago) link
kv_nol I just poked you :)
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 28 June 2007 14:36 (sixteen years ago) link
saucy
― Ed, Thursday, 28 June 2007 14:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Oooo sir!
― kv_nol, Thursday, 28 June 2007 14:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Perverts, all of you.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 28 June 2007 14:43 (sixteen years ago) link
You just jealous! I'll poke you now!
― kv_nol, Thursday, 28 June 2007 14:45 (sixteen years ago) link
LOL "you have poked Ned Raggett"
i'm such an ILX Star Chaser!
― kv_nol, Thursday, 28 June 2007 14:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Ah, you rapscallion, you wastrel!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 28 June 2007 14:53 (sixteen years ago) link
I ignored a friend's 'zombie bite'. I mean come on
― blueski, Thursday, 28 June 2007 14:54 (sixteen years ago) link
haha enbb when you facebooked me it took me a week before i realized who you were!
^^ same!
I think it was the WDYLL thread that tipped me off actually!
― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 28 June 2007 15:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, CS - you were also friended the same drunken evening. Really, I should just stay away from the internets after imbibing.
― ENBB, Thursday, 28 June 2007 15:01 (sixteen years ago) link
ps - I was browsing the ILM group when said friending occurred.
― ENBB, Thursday, 28 June 2007 15:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Is it just a matter of Facebook being bigger then? I don't doubt that it is, and probably has been for some time given that it's practically compulsory among students (pretty much every single person I know under the age of 24 is on it), but I guess I don't see people my age (28) jumping on-board with the same fervor as they did with the other major social-networking sites. Perhaps this will change. I just haven't noticed it yet.
― jaymc, Thursday, 28 June 2007 15:06 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Ned Raggett, Thursday, 28 June 2007 15:53 (Thursday, 28 June 2007 15:53)
Chillax, I left the money on the nightstand under the alarm clock!
Blueski, wise choice!
― kv_nol, Thursday, 28 June 2007 15:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, CS - you were also friended the same drunken evening
I like how these sites have turned "friend" into a verb, completely separate from "befriend."
Erica did not friend me, though. :(
― jaymc, Thursday, 28 June 2007 15:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Facebook's just come along at the right time. Friendster and MySpace are pre-Web Too Pointy buzz.
― blueski, Thursday, 28 June 2007 15:08 (sixteen years ago) link
re 'friended' see also 'texted'
― blueski, Thursday, 28 June 2007 15:09 (sixteen years ago) link
I just accepted random request from some girl who likes to sew (what made me befriend her). On facebook, she can't post "thx for the add" .gifs with sparkly my little ponies, can she?
― molly mummenschanz, Thursday, 28 June 2007 15:10 (sixteen years ago) link
i should say, "one can't post..."
― molly mummenschanz, Thursday, 28 June 2007 15:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Jaymc, your friends just don't want to add you. It's cool.
"Oh shit! Here comes Jaymc." "Oh wow, stop talking about your Facebooks. He'll only want in like FRiendster and Myspace. Remember how cool they were before he went in? Exactly!" "HAI GUYS" "Hey Jaymc." "DO YOU LIKE FACEBOOK?" "No I am too cynical and not ready to jump in again." "OH."
(This is all meant in jest. Not very funny jest, I'll admit. Sorry Jaymc)
― kv_nol, Thursday, 28 June 2007 15:12 (sixteen years ago) link
one cannot.
― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 28 June 2007 15:12 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.cartoonbank.com/assets/1/124082_m.gif
― jaymc, Thursday, 28 June 2007 15:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Jaymc, consider yourself "be"friended.
Also, I was talking to a friend about FB recently and she was surprised I'd joined. She said she couldn't handle another networking site so I guess that is the attitude here, at least for some people. Whomever was talking about the UK thing was right though. Only one of my UK friends has a myspace whereas I've found loads of them on FB.
― ENBB, Thursday, 28 June 2007 15:21 (sixteen years ago) link
To be honest, I think it just boils down to Facebook being along at the right time and looking quite sober and having real names and real friends on it. For most people I know my age (28), Myspace etc still had that last vestige of "weird geeky internet stuff", while Facebook is just what people do, like texting or something.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 28 June 2007 15:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Myspace etc still had that last vestige of "weird geeky internet stuff"
Are you serious? For me the perception seems to be more "lame, kid stuff".
― Ms Misery, Thursday, 28 June 2007 15:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah. I remember mentioning Friendster to a group of teenage relatives who had just become enamored of MySpace and they looked at me like, "OK, whatever, old man."
― jaymc, Thursday, 28 June 2007 15:37 (sixteen years ago) link
AMATEUR SOCIOLOGY TIME: Brother 1 is at university. He and all of his friends are on Facebook. Brother 2 is at vocational sixth form college and will not be going to university. He and all of his friends are on Myspace.
― acrobat, Thursday, 28 June 2007 15:42 (sixteen years ago) link
myspace = lame kid stuff, as well as creepy old pervert stuff
― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 28 June 2007 15:43 (sixteen years ago) link
all bases covered
― blueski, Thursday, 28 June 2007 15:46 (sixteen years ago) link
does this mean media comentators are going to start saying "facebook generation" instead of "myspace generation". i'm not sure we'll cope.
― acrobat, Thursday, 28 June 2007 15:47 (sixteen years ago) link
I find this MySpace/Facebook class divide strange because most people I know are on both. But then most people I know/hang out with went to college so duh. Seems a one way thing (if you didn't go to college perhaps you're more likely to only use MySpace but if you did go you'll jump on all and any friending-based bandwagon site in the pursuit of cool and socio-cultural synchronicity.
― blueski, Thursday, 28 June 2007 15:51 (sixteen years ago) link
it's not strange considering FB, until very very very recently, was only open to college students (and high school students by invite only)
― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:06 (sixteen years ago) link
i know i just find it strange that a lot of university-going Facebook users wouldn't also have been on MySpace.
― blueski, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:11 (sixteen years ago) link
i've never even been tempted to get a myspace account! although maybe i'm an anomaly; my younger brother spends almost all his time on it and doesn't have a facebook account. he isn't a student yet, though, so it probably figures.
p.s. befriend me, if you like! you'll never have to request LJ in a dress pix ever again!
― Just got offed, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:15 (sixteen years ago) link
when Myspazz went mental in 2005 in my experience it was kind of "alternative" people or at least people into music who were on it in the main, whereas when I first became aware of facebook later that year it seemed to be a used by people with less sub-cultural baggage.
― acrobat, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:17 (sixteen years ago) link
you'll never have to request LJ in a dress pix ever again!
nor 'for the first time ever' i trust
― blueski, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:17 (sixteen years ago) link
when I first became aware of facebook later that year it seemed to be a used by people with less sub-cultural baggage.
a massive point in facebook's favour, this
― lex pretend, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:18 (sixteen years ago) link
MySpace phase 1: US collegers MySpace phase 2: shitty bands MySpace phase 3: me and everyone i know #1 MySpace phase 4: decent bands MySpace phase 5: me getting a new account cos old one was neglected and got culled MySpace phase 6: our parents, employment agencies, newborn babies, lolcats, facebook-induced backlasheroo
― blueski, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:20 (sixteen years ago) link
I generally agree with Steve M. that most people who are just now joining Facebook are probably already on MySpace. But I think that there are definitely some people who joined Facebook when they were in college and it was still students-only but who resisted MySpace because it was too much of a random free-for-all, lacked privacy, and wasn't as directly connected to a campus community. My girlfriend's one of them.
― jaymc, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:23 (sixteen years ago) link
I generally agree with Steve M. that most people who are just now joining Facebook are probably already on MySpace
Nah, not among my (non-internet) friends, anyway. None of them have ever been on any social networking site before.
The straights have taken over the asylum.
― Alba, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:24 (sixteen years ago) link
i guess there are a lot of people i know who do/would do Facebook but never MySpace, thinking about it more. Of my friends I'd say 50% are on both and the other 50 would be Facebook only. I don't know/have any chav MySpace-only friends.
― blueski, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:27 (sixteen years ago) link
got it in one, jim
― 696, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:28 (sixteen years ago) link
For the record I would like to note that I was using MySpace long before the bands came on. Regular Friendster users made the transition pretty early and although some bands made profiles, the "music" and "band" parts of MySpace came along after it was already pretty well along. (I was also long out of college).
― Ms Misery, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:29 (sixteen years ago) link
how is this not a good thing?
― lex pretend, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Scotty, what's left? Just the batteries. I can give you inpulse power in a couple minutes
...We don't HAVE a couple minutes
― 696, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:30 (sixteen years ago) link
myspace perhaps a lot more suited to people in the process of finding / developing their identity.
― acrobat, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:30 (sixteen years ago) link
scotty...SCOTTY!
Yeah, weird, I generally think of MySpace as the site for people who have never been on a social-networking site before and probably aren't interested in joining another one. Facebook would only be appealing if they enrolled in college/grad school.
― jaymc, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:30 (sixteen years ago) link
JOHNNY!
― blueski, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:38 (sixteen years ago) link
ilxors be talking about weird internet types....
― That one guy that quit, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Flipmode Squad group just isn't the same without you quitney :(
― blueski, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Girls Aloud
― That one guy that quit, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:51 (sixteen years ago) link
i took bands off because i thought my honest list of favourite artists was needlessly long - and the ones i took out were some pretty 'obvious' ones - no other reason.
i might add Althea & Donna tho - man I have all their SONG
― blueski, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:56 (sixteen years ago) link
never understand why peoples band lists are so long
― 696, Thursday, 28 June 2007 18:12 (sixteen years ago) link
I am trying to hide my nerd life from new girl I met. How long will it take?
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 28 June 2007 18:14 (sixteen years ago) link
step one: not knowing my last name
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 28 June 2007 18:15 (sixteen years ago) link
block her.
― That one guy that quit, Thursday, 28 June 2007 18:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Make sure she never hears of ILX
― Ms Misery, Thursday, 28 June 2007 18:16 (sixteen years ago) link
I hope you didn't tell her your name was Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, because there are only like 3 of those on the googleable internet
― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 28 June 2007 18:30 (sixteen years ago) link
We don't know each other's last names.
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 28 June 2007 18:36 (sixteen years ago) link
^^ thats always the best way:)
― 696, Thursday, 28 June 2007 18:37 (sixteen years ago) link
people's band lists are so long because they want to cast the most comprehensive possible net in which to snare gurls people using band names as search terms
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 28 June 2007 18:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Or because they're extremely anal (see: my band's MySpace page).
― jaymc, Thursday, 28 June 2007 18:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Or record-collecting music nerds.
― Ms Misery, Thursday, 28 June 2007 18:52 (sixteen years ago) link
oh, it gets you sex? anyone mind if i copy and paste theirs?
― 696, Thursday, 28 June 2007 19:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Or autopopulated their list
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 28 June 2007 19:06 (sixteen years ago) link
i faked my list.
an ilxor knows someone i knew irl, it's wild.
― That one guy that quit, Thursday, 28 June 2007 19:08 (sixteen years ago) link
w.r.t. f-book group 'I Love Music':
Group Unavailable
We're sorry, this group isn't available right now. Please try again later.
UH-OH
― Just got offed, Thursday, 28 June 2007 20:02 (sixteen years ago) link
try f-book group "i love music sandbox", perhaps?
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Thursday, 28 June 2007 20:11 (sixteen years ago) link
can't believe there's no ornaldo bloomps for presidnetn group
― That one guy that quit, Thursday, 28 June 2007 20:49 (sixteen years ago) link
i can. some memes go far enough.
― Just got offed, Thursday, 28 June 2007 20:54 (sixteen years ago) link
http://bani.anime.net/o_rly.jpg
― That one guy that quit, Thursday, 28 June 2007 20:58 (sixteen years ago) link
yes
I do need to edit mine down though, I keep trying :/
― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 28 June 2007 21:00 (sixteen years ago) link
argh u got me good, enrique
but u will not win ultimately because i am the small cat
*weeps*
― Just got offed, Thursday, 28 June 2007 21:02 (sixteen years ago) link
hot girls are always, always searching facebook for guys who like the same bands they do. how else do they get guys, after all?
― That one guy that quit, Thursday, 28 June 2007 21:04 (sixteen years ago) link
your logic is well sound
― blueski, Thursday, 28 June 2007 21:28 (sixteen years ago) link
i mean, srsly, how many hot progressive chicks must there be?
― Just got offed, Thursday, 28 June 2007 21:32 (sixteen years ago) link
maybe i will bond with a total stranger over a shared fondness for whoever the fuck's in my list.
― That one guy that quit, Thursday, 28 June 2007 21:39 (sixteen years ago) link
no you won't enrique, because you have a closed profile, so nobody but your friends can see your music list. i know this because we're from the same area (london) and i can't access your profile. breathe a sigh of relief, why don't you.
― Just got offed, Thursday, 28 June 2007 21:52 (sixteen years ago) link
shit has irl consequences bro.
― That one guy that quit, Thursday, 28 June 2007 21:53 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm working on rolling it out a bit.
― That one guy that quit, Thursday, 28 June 2007 21:54 (sixteen years ago) link
politics only go up to 'very liberal' = bullshit
― milo z, Thursday, 28 June 2007 21:54 (sixteen years ago) link
for realsies.
― That one guy that quit, Thursday, 28 June 2007 21:56 (sixteen years ago) link
nrq you are tripping over this so much it's kind of funny
― lex pretend, Thursday, 28 June 2007 21:58 (sixteen years ago) link
c'mon milo, you should only need 'liberal'! i guess in america, 'liberal' still means 'fucking conservative, but we probably need a better healthcare system'.
i've never had irl consequences from my public facebook profile, although i HAVE had (well-publicised) irl repercussions from ilx...
yeah, with regards 'rolling out', it seems you've been in cambridge all this time and never suggested a mini-FAP. i'm disappointed, nay, heartbroken. sadly, i'm now back in london. maybe next year. tissp can come along too!
― Just got offed, Thursday, 28 June 2007 21:59 (sixteen years ago) link
something which people should learn: just because a box is there does not mean you actually have to fill it in
― lex pretend, Thursday, 28 June 2007 22:01 (sixteen years ago) link
sorry jiggaman, i've been keeping things covert recently, hence facebook 'issues'. i filled out the box while it was still students early and didn't think of it again till a few months ago when i happened to check my student emails...
― That one guy that quit, Thursday, 28 June 2007 22:05 (sixteen years ago) link
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 28 June 2007 23:28 (sixteen years ago) link
i've never had irl consequences from my public facebook profile
My father freaked out a bit when my sister reported to him that I'd changed my religion from "A great record can save yr soul" to "Zen Buddhism."
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 28 June 2007 23:30 (sixteen years ago) link
i think the 'social networking for non-internet people' meme is right. facebook is down right now -- classic friday afternoon slacking syndrome. and i was just about to drop blue steel :(
― That one guy that quit, Friday, 29 June 2007 14:07 (sixteen years ago) link
signed up yesterday and now it's down. not a good start people.
― acrobat, Friday, 29 June 2007 14:09 (sixteen years ago) link
That's what you get for trying to test me, son.
― Dom Passantino, Friday, 29 June 2007 14:09 (sixteen years ago) link
It collapsed under the weight of sheer Passantino vitriol
― Michael Philip Philip Philip philip Annoyman, Friday, 29 June 2007 14:16 (sixteen years ago) link
I can't say I'm a fan of the political alignment choices either -- I ended up picking 'other' because nothing really exists that matches my general outlook (and thus a metaphor for my view vis-a-vis the two-party system as a whole, etc.)
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 29 June 2007 14:19 (sixteen years ago) link
― acrobat, Friday, 29 June 2007 14:19 (sixteen years ago) link
More reasons not to join.
― Ed, Friday, 29 June 2007 14:20 (sixteen years ago) link
there's a Libertarian option but no Socialist option
― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 29 June 2007 14:20 (sixteen years ago) link
or you can NOT FILL THAT BOX OUT if you object to it so much
― lex pretend, Friday, 29 June 2007 14:21 (sixteen years ago) link
oh man, that one looked like a set-up
― Michael Philip Philip Philip philip Annoyman, Friday, 29 June 2007 14:22 (sixteen years ago) link
that's another kind of censorship, the lex. there was an article about it in the etc etc
― That one guy that quit, Friday, 29 June 2007 14:22 (sixteen years ago) link
i put moderate just to mess with your minds
― blueski, Friday, 29 June 2007 14:58 (sixteen years ago) link
i wish theyd let you fill in a blank for political views like they do with religion
― max, Friday, 29 June 2007 16:08 (sixteen years ago) link
so i could continue to make FUNNY FUNNY JOKES
political views: indie
― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 29 June 2007 16:11 (sixteen years ago) link
A friend of mine is bent out of shape that there's no "marital status = widowed". I think she has a point. What should she write: "It's complicated with my husband dead and all"?
― Nubbelverbrennung, Friday, 29 June 2007 19:26 (sixteen years ago) link
I just learned that one of the founders of Facebook is a fan of my band. We're listed in his profile. Weird.
― jaymc, Friday, 29 June 2007 19:29 (sixteen years ago) link
you should add him to yr friends!
― Will M., Friday, 29 June 2007 19:31 (sixteen years ago) link
All people saying Myspazz, will they call FB FaceJizz or Facehooker in a few weeks time?
― stevienixed, Friday, 29 June 2007 20:49 (sixteen years ago) link
i like facejizz. i think i will refer to fb as that in the future.
― Rubyred, Saturday, 30 June 2007 00:15 (sixteen years ago) link
basefuck
― Michael Philip Philip Philip philip Annoyman, Saturday, 30 June 2007 00:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Facejizz is great! I'm definitely using that.
― emil.y, Saturday, 30 June 2007 00:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Wait, that sounds wrong somehow...
http://www.sementherapy.com/
― Rubyred, Saturday, 30 June 2007 00:59 (sixteen years ago) link
GAY-cebook
― max, Saturday, 30 June 2007 01:01 (sixteen years ago) link
facefuck
― Rubyred, Saturday, 30 June 2007 01:12 (sixteen years ago) link
facebooke
― lfam, Saturday, 30 June 2007 01:19 (sixteen years ago) link
ye olde facebooke
― Rubyred, Saturday, 30 June 2007 01:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Hey, your account is temporarily unavailable due to site maintenance. It should be available again within a few hours. We apologize for the inconvenience.
― acrobat, Saturday, 30 June 2007 11:41 (sixteen years ago) link
these claims remain dubious at best
― That one guy that quit, Saturday, 30 June 2007 11:42 (sixteen years ago) link
best error message I ever got was while searching was down; something to the effect of "We're sorry, this function is temporarily unavailable. Please try your search again in a little while, or right now."
― bernard snowy, Saturday, 30 June 2007 14:14 (sixteen years ago) link
ah, i never did reply to this thread. my computer's only letting me access ilx every three of four days atm, which seems a slightly harsh rate of censorship. i'll be gone all of next week too. aren't you lucky?
the vast flood of ilxors adding me as a friend is still only a steady trickle. c'mon! it's not like you don't know my name (and I'm still, to my knowledge, the only one on F-book, not that this isn't a cue for passantino to create a fake-LJ with amusing political views/sexual proclivities)...
― Just got offed, Sunday, 1 July 2007 00:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Only a few ILXors have friended me. You know you can friend them yourself if all else fails.
― Curt1s Stephens, Sunday, 1 July 2007 00:27 (sixteen years ago) link
All but one of my friends are from ILX. I should get out some more. Or my real-life non-ILX friends should get on teh interwebs more.
― ailsa, Sunday, 1 July 2007 00:30 (sixteen years ago) link
i like facefuck myself
― 696, Sunday, 1 July 2007 15:12 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^ and no, i cant, before you ask
― 696, Sunday, 1 July 2007 15:13 (sixteen years ago) link
i had an amusing blingee as my pic, for about two minutes.
― That one guy that quit, Sunday, 1 July 2007 15:19 (sixteen years ago) link
i had a picture of drax power station
― 696, Sunday, 1 July 2007 15:29 (sixteen years ago) link
i look at it sometimes
Drax lack the majesty of Didcot.
― Ed, Sunday, 1 July 2007 15:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Grain beats both
― Just got offed, Sunday, 1 July 2007 15:32 (sixteen years ago) link
ive just joined farcebook and found it a bit weird. kinda interesting to see where old school friends are and have them poke and add you and all that but kinda creepy all the same and theres certain schoolmates who i really dont wanna see ever again but you cant help it as theyre friends with other people you know. its also a bit farcical i think, lots of people have added me just for the sake of adding (and well prob vice versa), not for any other real reason. seems a bit pointless. im going to use it for networking with people ive never met in my life anyway.
― titchyschneiderMk2, Monday, 2 July 2007 11:51 (sixteen years ago) link
I have the same problem. All these people I'd happily left long behind certainly emerging from the woodwork, applying to be your "friend". Have we spoken in 5+ years? Are you likely to ever again make any attempt to contact me? Then wwe're not really friends are we? Better to be selective I reckon.
― Uptoeleven, Monday, 2 July 2007 12:44 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm just too busy trying to become a MUSICK EKSPERT
― nathalie, Monday, 2 July 2007 12:46 (sixteen years ago) link
i actually got sucked in and poked a few old school friends who i havent spoken to in years.
― titchyschneiderMk2, Monday, 2 July 2007 12:47 (sixteen years ago) link
worse than old school friends though is women you went out with who it didnt work out with poking you. WHY?
― titchyschneiderMk2, Monday, 2 July 2007 12:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Well, she wants to get JIZZY with you. I said JIZZY, yes, JIZZY.
― nathalie, Monday, 2 July 2007 12:49 (sixteen years ago) link
ha but no, i think she just wants me to click 'ADD' and bump up her friends list (although facebook doesnt seem nearly as bad for that as myspace).
― titchyschneiderMk2, Monday, 2 July 2007 12:55 (sixteen years ago) link
I repeat: JIZZY with ya! ;-)
― nathalie, Monday, 2 July 2007 12:57 (sixteen years ago) link
i added them anyway lol
― titchyschneiderMk2, Monday, 2 July 2007 12:57 (sixteen years ago) link
throw her a banana and add "stuff it" message
― nathalie, Monday, 2 July 2007 12:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Can you help me with something? If I want to find old friends, and I search their name and lots of people come up and it's not immediately apparent if any of them are who I'm looking for, how do I see their full profile?
― Mark C, Monday, 2 July 2007 13:00 (sixteen years ago) link
You can't. Send them a message or something and ask if they are who you think they are.
― Ms Misery, Monday, 2 July 2007 13:03 (sixteen years ago) link
I think you can click on a person's name and see a list of who their friends are .... that might narrow it down, if you recognise any of those names.
― C J, Monday, 2 July 2007 13:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Dear Mr Carlin
Are you Mr Carlin? If so I want to friend you. Please provide confirmation of identity, including full bank details, passport number and comprehensive list of all worldly goods and chattels.
Sincerely etc.
I think I get enough of those types of email from Nigeria...
― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 2 July 2007 13:08 (sixteen years ago) link
I've been seduced by FB for the past couple of weeks but now I am drifting back to the ILX fold.
― Hard like armour, Tuesday, 3 July 2007 04:13 (sixteen years ago) link
You can usually tell by looking at their friends list, I find. If you've got any people or places in common that's usually the giveaway.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 3 July 2007 08:04 (sixteen years ago) link
searching friends' friends, or looking for groups/networks people from the past might be in, is the better way of finding people.
the "find people via your email contacts list" reveals only that i have NO IDEA who most of the people in my gmail address book are.
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 3 July 2007 08:39 (sixteen years ago) link
"find people via your email contacts list" = "would you like to add everyone you've ever bought or sold something to on Amazon marketplace?"
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 3 July 2007 08:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Also: suddenly noticing that annoying PRs are really hot
― Michael Philip Philip Philip philip Annoyman, Tuesday, 3 July 2007 11:04 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^ this.
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 3 July 2007 11:08 (sixteen years ago) link
someone snubbed my friend add. how rude.
― titchyschneiderMk2, Tuesday, 3 July 2007 11:13 (sixteen years ago) link
who is it? i snub most people now unless i know them like properly.
― ken c, Tuesday, 3 July 2007 11:34 (sixteen years ago) link
*properly*
― nathalie, Tuesday, 3 July 2007 11:38 (sixteen years ago) link
someone i met once at a work related do... lots of people are adding me and i barely know them properly. maybe the person is part of a gimp S&M torture group and doesnt want me to see.
― titchyschneiderMk2, Tuesday, 3 July 2007 11:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Jizzy. ;-)
― nathalie, Tuesday, 3 July 2007 11:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Maybe they hate dubstep.
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 3 July 2007 11:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Ken, define properly. Nekkid pics?
― nathalie, Tuesday, 3 July 2007 11:51 (sixteen years ago) link
did nobody else get a message from Darramouss then
― g-kit, Tuesday, 3 July 2007 12:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Who? /Lex
― nathalie, Tuesday, 3 July 2007 12:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Are you on Kit? Are you my friend?
― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 3 July 2007 13:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah teh_kit, friend us!
― kv_nol, Tuesday, 3 July 2007 18:15 (sixteen years ago) link
BusinessWeek is on the case.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 3 July 2007 18:16 (sixteen years ago) link
For a second I thought you were claiming you and teh-kit were one. Confusing.
How was Berlin?
― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 3 July 2007 18:17 (sixteen years ago) link
ow maan, i have to deal with the zombie thing now.
― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 14:22 (sixteen years ago) link
When people poke you, are you supposed to poke them back? What's the point of it? There's no message with it or anything.
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 5 July 2007 13:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Poking is a way of saying hello i am here and i want to fuck you...but for people without the confidence to actually say or even imply it
― Filey Camp, Thursday, 5 July 2007 13:55 (sixteen years ago) link
You ask for money to be paypaled to you. A tenner normally unless it's without the glove, then it's twenty. (xpost)
― kv_nol, Thursday, 5 July 2007 13:56 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Filey Camp
oh shit. i poked my boss today.
― Rubyred, Thursday, 5 July 2007 13:57 (sixteen years ago) link
What? It's just letting'em know you're here/there.
― nathalie, Thursday, 5 July 2007 14:01 (sixteen years ago) link
that's a relief. because my boss is a married woman.
― Rubyred, Thursday, 5 July 2007 14:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Live a little </crepe>
― kv_nol, Thursday, 5 July 2007 14:13 (sixteen years ago) link
<a href="http://warwick.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2223261784">Two hundred thousand members can't be wrong.</a>
― aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, Thursday, 5 July 2007 14:19 (sixteen years ago) link
There are a bunch of people on FB from ILX that I would like to friend but think it would through them off because they wouldn't know who I was. What to do?
― ENBB, Thursday, 5 July 2007 14:20 (sixteen years ago) link
I think a poke to a non-friend allows them to see your profile for a limited period ("yes, it is me - I sat next to you in Geography in 1983 and now I like embroidery and Wolf Eyes"); if they poke you back you can see their profile. From such jabbing beautiful "friend"ships are rekindled. Any subsequent pokes are for laffs.
There are apparently 686,000 Londoners on Facebook.
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 5 July 2007 14:22 (sixteen years ago) link
So far I only have ILX0rs I've actually met in IRL as friends, but that's not a conscious decision on my part. I don't think I've actually added any ILX0rs yet anyway, they've added me. I was the same as you, wasn't sure if I should or not!
xpost the pokes I was talking about were from people who are already friends, so it wasn't to add me or anything, that's why I wondered what it was for.
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 5 July 2007 14:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Did you add me yet, I cannot recall.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 5 July 2007 14:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Ned - Me or CP? You were one of my first FB friends.
― ENBB, Thursday, 5 July 2007 14:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Ned trying to brag he has a gazillion friends on FB. ;-)
― nathalie, Thursday, 5 July 2007 14:56 (sixteen years ago) link
former left-wing comrade is now in the "I WILL BE A BILLIONAIRE" group, who's a self-employed investor/stock trader.
Facebook, why u shatter memories/illusions?
― milo z, Thursday, 5 July 2007 20:11 (sixteen years ago) link
is a 'self-employed investor/stock trader' - feel like scare quotes are a necessity there.
― milo z, Thursday, 5 July 2007 20:12 (sixteen years ago) link
i got poked, poked them back, never heard back from them again. which is how i like it. usually the etiquette seems to be that you get poked, then add the person.
― titchyschneiderMk2, Thursday, 5 July 2007 20:21 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm a zombie - thanks Trish!
― Hard like armour, Friday, 6 July 2007 00:03 (sixteen years ago) link
She tried to get me too but I ducked. Take that zombie Trish!
― kv_nol, Friday, 6 July 2007 00:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Every second dude on there has the "hilarious" Chuck Norris application. Makes me slightly angry.
Also, add mee. If you like. M4rk W4lt3r.
― Drooone, Friday, 6 July 2007 00:18 (sixteen years ago) link
^In the ilm group.
Haven't joined ILM group as would feel like an imposter because I only pop on there every now and again.
― Hard like armour, Friday, 6 July 2007 00:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, i guess it should have been an ilxor group. ah well.
― Drooone, Friday, 6 July 2007 00:29 (sixteen years ago) link
There's an ILX group too!
― ENBB, Friday, 6 July 2007 00:31 (sixteen years ago) link
sweet nectar.
― Drooone, Friday, 6 July 2007 00:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Just get onboard http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2382779449
― Hard like armour, Friday, 6 July 2007 00:33 (sixteen years ago) link
It's private or whatever. Was the ilm one private?
― Drooone, Friday, 6 July 2007 00:34 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't know, I can't remember. I think you just submit a request to join this one and then Nathalie approves it.
― ENBB, Friday, 6 July 2007 00:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Lovely. Submitted. and eagerly anticipating acceptance.
― Drooone, Friday, 6 July 2007 00:40 (sixteen years ago) link
As am I.
― Nathan, Friday, 6 July 2007 03:09 (sixteen years ago) link
I've poked a few of you. The ones I could figure out.
― Hard like armour, Friday, 6 July 2007 03:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Ned - Me or CP?
CP
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 6 July 2007 03:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Hey, you're all just chumps to me.
It's a daft application, because it operates like a pyramid scheme. But I have to beat Mister M, I just have to!
Not that it's a competition.
I applied to join the ilxor group ages ago, but Nathalie has not confirmed me.
― accentmonkey, Friday, 6 July 2007 07:06 (sixteen years ago) link
I just applied to join. You're listed as a member when I look at them. (although it only shows me 34, and some of the people that should be according to the thread^^^ do not seem to be like Ned, and the good Colonel.)
― aldo, Friday, 6 July 2007 07:59 (sixteen years ago) link
WTF. :-( I didn't receive any of you guys. Send me another application or should I just "open" the group? Okay, just opened the group so if I failed to approve you, then try again. :-)
― nathalie, Friday, 6 July 2007 08:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Obviously... I dunno, I don't like that kind of thing, I just want to be friends with people I 'know' not everyone I come in contact with. I am so misanthropic sometimes!
― kv_nol, Friday, 6 July 2007 08:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh, I'm sure I know more people than him. It is the thing that always annoys him, the fact that he is the colossal nerd who is a leet blackbelt sys admin type, yet I have more friends on the internet than he does.
― accentmonkey, Friday, 6 July 2007 08:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Ned, you have been added!
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 6 July 2007 10:46 (sixteen years ago) link
i got poked by my boss! she's married w/a small child
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 6 July 2007 10:47 (sixteen years ago) link
― RJG, Friday, 6 July 2007 11:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Incest legalized. Ewie!
― nathalie, Friday, 6 July 2007 12:03 (sixteen years ago) link
i know i asked to join the ILX group. i think nath allowed me in. can't remember, and can't check 'cos am at work using steam-powered browser of all fucking doom.
can't say the groups/associated discussions do much for me, really. two weeks in (is it? i think) and i'm still just enjoying the fact that a) it's a lazy-ass way to keep in touch with dudes around the globe, and b) the fact that a (second) GRATE LONG-LOST FRIEND popped up the other day, with typical insouciance, and it made my fucking month to hear from him. srsly: this is the dude who got me into SO MUCH music when i was 15/16; the last time i saw him, we were in a dodgy club back home and someone was dropping a bottle on his head. i've tried to get in touch with him a couple of times; having him suddenly appear from nowhere and add me as a friend was glorious.
so yeh, i still like this thing. how long before the backlash?
― grimly fiendish, Sunday, 8 July 2007 21:23 (sixteen years ago) link
theres no point in me poking anyone from ilx as no one would know who on earth i am.
― titchyschneiderMk2, Sunday, 8 July 2007 21:28 (sixteen years ago) link
You'd probably be surprised. Get over teh fear and give it a try!
― kv_nol, Sunday, 8 July 2007 21:31 (sixteen years ago) link
but i like my anonymity ;)
― titchyschneiderMk2, Sunday, 8 July 2007 21:32 (sixteen years ago) link
i've come around to it a bit, has reconnected me a bit with a couple of people. otoh it has sort of revealed to me how easily i've cut people out : /
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Sunday, 8 July 2007 21:34 (sixteen years ago) link
im warming to it... some people im adding just for the sake of it but its nice to see what theyre up to and just poke each other for no reason over and over.
― titchyschneiderMk2, Sunday, 8 July 2007 21:35 (sixteen years ago) link
"otoh it has sort of revealed to me how easily i've cut people out" just made me remember some people i havent seen for an age and lo and behold theyre on here...
― titchyschneiderMk2, Sunday, 8 July 2007 21:39 (sixteen years ago) link
What is the point of poking people? I don't want to poke any of my friends, particularly, but I might if I knew the point of it.
― ailsa, Sunday, 8 July 2007 21:50 (sixteen years ago) link
I think it's just a way to say hi without having to think of a specific message to send.
― accentmonkey, Sunday, 8 July 2007 21:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Let's see.
i suppose its the equivalent of passing someone you know in the street and just nodding at them.
― titchyschneiderMk2, Sunday, 8 July 2007 21:57 (sixteen years ago) link
I've just poked accentmonkey, so we shall see. Report back, please.
― ailsa, Sunday, 8 July 2007 21:59 (sixteen years ago) link
i need to create a fake ID on facebook then i will poke every single one of you til your dying days
― titchyschneiderMk2, Sunday, 8 July 2007 22:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Pervert.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 8 July 2007 22:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Why does it need to be fake? Surely your anonymity will protect you?
Also Ned just loves pokes, the dirty tart...
― kv_nol, Sunday, 8 July 2007 23:22 (sixteen years ago) link
(I think I might be unfriended now. One to many 'poke' jokes at Ned's expense)
― kv_nol, Sunday, 8 July 2007 23:23 (sixteen years ago) link
I got a notification with a picture of a finger on it to say that Ailsa had poked me, and asking me if I wanted to poke her back. But our math teacher is, like, a real hardass? So I decided not to.
― accentmonkey, Monday, 9 July 2007 07:01 (sixteen years ago) link
How do I get round this mobile notification thing? I don't want to have to input that 'cathchpa' (sp?) code each time I add someone but it says it can only send the mobile verification code to an American or Canadian mobile phone. I did a google and if I email them saying I'm blind they'll email me the code but I'm not blind.
― NI, Monday, 9 July 2007 10:41 (sixteen years ago) link
mobile notification?
― nathalie, Monday, 9 July 2007 11:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, to verify that you are who you say you are (and thus stop you having to input a code each time you add someone) Facebook send a code to your mobile phone which you then need to input in the 'mobile confirmation' box. At the moment it seems that it's only for US and Canadian mobiles but does anyone know a way round this for UK people?
― NI, Monday, 9 July 2007 11:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Someone I knew many years ago just became friends with our old classmate. I want to write to him but can't think what to say! ARGH!
― kv_nol, Monday, 9 July 2007 12:13 (sixteen years ago) link
i just got sent a friend request from this guy i had a brief fling with about five years ago. he found me through another guy who also just sent me a friend request, a guy i met randomly on myspace and who lives in my city. fucking hell, this world is just too small sometimes. i don't really want to be friends with either of these guys, really, but it seems just too rude to deny the requests. i hate facebook. but the guy i had the fling with borrowed some books off me before we split up and never returned them, so maybe i'll get them back now.
― Rubyred, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 03:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Maybe you should set it so they can only see your 'limited' profile. That might send a bit of a "don't think about getting too chummy" vibe from the outset.
― Drooone, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 03:14 (sixteen years ago) link
i just had an interesting message exchange with the fling guy... he's married and living in japan teaching english! which is funny, because i'm thinking about doing the japan thing next year. his contract runs out in aug 2008 and he thinks he can hook me up as his replacement... very interesting...
― Rubyred, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 03:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Cool. So not weird at all.
― Drooone, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 03:33 (sixteen years ago) link
he's also promised to buy replacements for the books he borrowed and send them to me. but i doubt that will actually happen.
― Rubyred, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 03:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Facebook 'poke' leads to awkward one-nighter
― Hard like armour, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 06:14 (sixteen years ago) link
marc loi, facebook satirist.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 08:31 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't think I'll ever be joining Facebook, despite having been invited to by one friend recently. Its one online area I don't feel like I belong in for various reasons.
― Trayce, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 06:53 (sixteen years ago) link
G***** W**** wrote at 12:04am can you get rid of that terry lennox guy.. I assume he is just a spammer or something. CAn you not just delete him from your friends or is facebook heading towards myspace spamtastic land?"
― 696, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 07:18 (sixteen years ago) link
G***** W**** otm
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 08:02 (sixteen years ago) link
well get rid of him then
― 696, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 08:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Right, well I bit the bullt, and registered.
Now what?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 12:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Waste lots of time adding applications.
― nathalie, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 12:51 (sixteen years ago) link
OK.
Maybe that's why it's so quiet here!
― Mark G, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 12:53 (sixteen years ago) link
and waste some more time deleting them again.
― Hard like armour, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 22:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Jon Swift friended me!
― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 13 July 2007 02:01 (sixteen years ago) link
is it possible to export facebook contacts to, say, the address book on my mac? it occurred to me that this would be useful, and the same idea seems to have occurred to other people too, some of whom did something about it, for example:
http://wwww.tuaw.com/2007/04/03/facebooksync/
unfortunately, it seems that i'm a month too late:
http://www.fsbsoftware.com/
does anyone know anywhere where i could find this or similar? i tried some obvious torrent sites, but with no success...
― toby, Friday, 13 July 2007 16:26 (sixteen years ago) link
facebook is now weirding me out. too much school :/
― grimly fiendish, Friday, 13 July 2007 21:55 (sixteen years ago) link
i got send a friend request quite randomly by an english guy. turns out he was searching for a nz friend and the search engine threw up my name (true? or a line? i dunno). so we got talking and now he wants to take me out for coffee (he lives in my city). but he's an adrenalin junkie and i'm a lazy bitch. maybe he's just trawling the net for potential shags??
― Rubyred, Friday, 13 July 2007 22:57 (sixteen years ago) link
would that be so bad?
― Filey Camp, Saturday, 14 July 2007 00:05 (sixteen years ago) link
no.
― Rubyred, Saturday, 14 July 2007 00:34 (sixteen years ago) link
but he won't be getting a shag from me.
― Rubyred, Saturday, 14 July 2007 00:35 (sixteen years ago) link
my facebook relationship status is 'complicated'. so hopefully that preempts any unwanted player-moves.
― Rubyred, Saturday, 14 July 2007 00:36 (sixteen years ago) link
you think so? why? 'complicated' doesnt necessarily suggest that to me
― Filey Camp, Saturday, 14 July 2007 06:37 (sixteen years ago) link
exactly. complicated relationship vs easy shag.
― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 14 July 2007 09:16 (sixteen years ago) link
not that i'm saying you're easy :) i just mean, which would most people choose? or think that a potential facebook hook-up might want?
(me: probably the complicated relationship. at least, based on historical example. but hey. i'm just weird.)
― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 14 July 2007 09:19 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Trayce, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 06:53 (3 days ago) Link
Why, because most of the population are young enough to be your children?
ZING! ZOOM-ZOOM-ZOOM!
I kid, Trayce, you know I do.
― Mikey Bidness, Saturday, 14 July 2007 09:29 (sixteen years ago) link
um, doesnt complicated mean kind of non-monogamous, which means, (hopefully) no strings easy hookup time? cuz theyre going to stick with the other person (otherwise, they'd just be single)
― Filey Camp, Saturday, 14 July 2007 11:55 (sixteen years ago) link
one of my friends who claims 'complicated' status is having a fucking kid and moving in with the one he's 'complicated' with. i think it's usually a desperate bid to appear interesting.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Saturday, 14 July 2007 11:58 (sixteen years ago) link
(jokes bruv)
it's complicated
― RJG, Saturday, 14 July 2007 12:02 (sixteen years ago) link
it always is, with some people.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Saturday, 14 July 2007 12:04 (sixteen years ago) link
my 'complicated' status is for a couple of reasons: firstly, because i'm in this more-than-friends thing with someone who lives in another country. we have no exclusive relationship, but he's the shizzle and i have no interest in casual flings with anyone else. secondly, i won't rule out meeting someone and falling for them, but the truth is that i'm totally into someone else, and i don't want to lie about it. at least this way, the subject comes up right away, so the other person knows where they stand.
-- Filey Camp good point --- i hadn't considered this!!
― Rubyred, Saturday, 14 July 2007 12:14 (sixteen years ago) link
i think it's usually a desperate bid to appear interesting.
shit, i hadn't considered this, either :(
― Rubyred, Saturday, 14 July 2007 12:15 (sixteen years ago) link
it sure is complicated
― Filey Camp, Saturday, 14 July 2007 12:22 (sixteen years ago) link
tell me about it.
― Rubyred, Saturday, 14 July 2007 12:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Mikey why arent you out shooting lasers at James and Nick's haids?
― Trayce, Saturday, 14 July 2007 12:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh wait you posted that 3 hours ago, nm.
I've discovered someone that i considered a good friend has signed up and friended lots of my friends but not me. Can't help feeling it's like being back at primary school.
― leigh, Saturday, 14 July 2007 14:47 (sixteen years ago) link
leigh, a lot of times I just friend people whose names turn up in context of wall posts, etc
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Saturday, 14 July 2007 23:58 (sixteen years ago) link
E****** B***** joined the group Boris for London Mayor.
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 19 July 2007 15:08 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2424562713&ref=mf
There's a place you can go
― That mong guy that's shit, Thursday, 19 July 2007 16:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Holy fuck I'm happy i tracked down teh "People that HATE those frangipani car stickers and people that own them" group.
― Drooone, Friday, 20 July 2007 00:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Why the hell did I just join this thing?
It is already confusing me. Apparently I am a vampire now.
― Trayce, Friday, 20 July 2007 00:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Nice work, Trayce!
― Drooone, Friday, 20 July 2007 00:32 (sixteen years ago) link
I have to bite other people! This thing looks like such a damn timesink.
― Trayce, Friday, 20 July 2007 00:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah I avoid stupid shit like that. and that zombie thing. Come on, that bullshit's for 12 yr olds. I'm a real man, I have fortune cookie app.
― Drooone, Friday, 20 July 2007 00:34 (sixteen years ago) link
that stuff is weird and annoying. i got made a zombie, but i can't really be bothered with it - it seems kinda pointless. but then i'm worried about hurting people's feelings :(
― Rubyredd, Friday, 20 July 2007 00:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah I got asked to side with ninjas or some crap and I've already ignored that one geez.
― Trayce, Friday, 20 July 2007 01:00 (sixteen years ago) link
there seems to be a ton of that stuff - food fights, stupid quizzes etc. at least myspazz doesn't have that kinda lame shit (although it has all sorts of other lame shits).
― Rubyredd, Friday, 20 July 2007 01:02 (sixteen years ago) link
I like ninjas.
― Drooone, Friday, 20 July 2007 01:03 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm afraid of zombies.
Facebook's Scrabble application ("Scrabulous") is my new favorite time-waster.
― Sara R-C, Friday, 20 July 2007 01:07 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah I am getting really annoyed by all the apps - the only ones I've used are graffiti wall and today I added catbook. it lets you post as your cat and that has to be good for at least.. minutes of entertainment.
― Kim, Friday, 20 July 2007 01:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Finding people you used to know five, ten, fifteen years ago on facebook/myspace: C or D? (Hint: Dud)
― Cunga, Friday, 20 July 2007 01:29 (sixteen years ago) link
lolz. this happened the other day. But the individual involved looks like this though: http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j171/mdanielwalter/z.jpg
So it was acceptable
― Drooone, Friday, 20 July 2007 01:36 (sixteen years ago) link
lolz facebook "apps" are the dumbest fucking things ever. i'd rather waste my time masturbating to that picture ^^^
― the table is the table, Friday, 20 July 2007 01:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Drooone's inbox now currently full of 'introduce me to your friend plz' messages.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 20 July 2007 01:47 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2424562713&ref=mfThere's a place you can go
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 20 July 2007 13:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Scrabulous is the bomb now that it's on a new server.
― blueski, Friday, 20 July 2007 14:00 (sixteen years ago) link
daaaaamn, drooone.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 20 July 2007 14:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Friend Wheel application = k-classic.
Is there Facebook Pong yet?
― Matt DC, Friday, 20 July 2007 14:33 (sixteen years ago) link
it's silly tho, you can play all these games online together anyway, set up friend leagues or whatever. more effort tho eh.
― blueski, Friday, 20 July 2007 15:50 (sixteen years ago) link
I keep adding apps and then deleting'em a day later. Still, I rrrreally like FB. Much more fun than MySplat.
― nathalie, Friday, 20 July 2007 15:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Hey now.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 20 July 2007 15:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Steve yeah that's true but it's very good for Facebook themselves in that people spend bludy ages on the site at any one time. Even more time than they did before that is.
― Matt DC, Friday, 20 July 2007 16:12 (sixteen years ago) link
I add an app then I delete an app. There should be an app for this.
― jel --, Friday, 20 July 2007 17:02 (sixteen years ago) link
My friend wheel looks like an incomplete death star! Hooray!
― jel --, Friday, 20 July 2007 17:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Can I say you're my girlfriend on Facebook?
― admrl, Friday, 20 July 2007 17:07 (sixteen years ago) link
I wanted to keep it a secret.
― jel --, Friday, 20 July 2007 17:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Hey Ned, have you looked at Wikipedia today?:
"Did you know....that the nickname Ned arose from an instance of rebracketing, as children interpreted the term of endearment "mine Ed" as "my Ned"?"
― Mark C, Friday, 20 July 2007 17:12 (sixteen years ago) link
see also Ellie --> Nellie, I'd imagine.
you know the thing I find weirdest abt facebook? The gifts for a dollar thing. Speshly as they're not real gifts! Mind you, Today's Gift is a stinky skunk. Who'd want to send anyone a Stinky Skunk, real or virtual???
― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 09:57 (sixteen years ago) link
yeh the gift thing is just bizarre
― blueski, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 10:15 (sixteen years ago) link
More proof that Americans are just wacky:
Sexual Offenders List Indiana By Jason Ward This application shows you the picture,name and address of registered sex offenders for your hometown in Indiana, plus you can easily check to see if the offender is on Facebook.
One would imagine there are lawsuit possibilities in this.
― mitya, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 11:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Instead of joining a pro-Boris Johnson group, why not join a “I was privately educated and would like to retain the unfair advantages handed out to me in life” group instead?
Actually Dom, I was thinking of starting one of those...
― CharlieNo4, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 13:12 (sixteen years ago) link
I'd join
― Mark C, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 13:12 (sixteen years ago) link
i added the last.fm 'what are you listening to now' app, but it's frozen on the songs i was listening to about an hour ago. wtf??
― Rubyredd, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 13:32 (sixteen years ago) link
click the "recent tracks" tab, it'll refresh the list
― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 13:33 (sixteen years ago) link
ummm... there is no 'recent tracks' tab... unless i'm blind...
― Rubyredd, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 13:36 (sixteen years ago) link
hrmmm you must have different version of the app than I do :/
― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 13:36 (sixteen years ago) link
it's only frozen on my profile page. if i go into my apps it has current tracks. i'm very CONFUSED.
― Rubyredd, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 13:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Uh oh
― kv_nol, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 15:47 (sixteen years ago) link
THE INTRIGUE
like justin broadrick all those years ago, however, i sometimes wonder whether it'd be such a bad thing if we all got swept off the streets facebook
― Just got offed, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 16:33 (sixteen years ago) link
my game of Scrabble over facebook with Archel looks set to enter its third day....
― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 16:34 (sixteen years ago) link
i sometimes wonder whether it'd be such a bad thing if we all got swept off facebook
nooooo I love Facebook :(
― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 16:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Is it custom for someone in a school network to add EVERYONE in their school as friends? I am not a young person so I don't know, but it strikes me as odd.
― admrl, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 16:38 (sixteen years ago) link
i speak out purely for effect; facebook is, alas, a depressingly vital cog in my social organisation.
― Just got offed, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 16:44 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost not at my school. It's a waste to have thousands of meaningless "friends."
― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 16:46 (sixteen years ago) link
http://i15.tinypic.com/4oq1h74.jpg
― jhøshea, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 16:47 (sixteen years ago) link
I thought I'd posted here asking about whether we had a Fantasty Football Mini-League? Seems I haven't, so, do we?
― ailsa, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 21:39 (sixteen years ago) link
I added the "Daily Book of Mormon Passage" application. Thought it wd be major roffles. But i was rong.
― Drooone, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 22:02 (sixteen years ago) link
I have a Facebook Fantasy League team, but I probably won't bother with it much.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 22:07 (sixteen years ago) link
I seem to have mostly ended up with old IRC friends I honestly havent seen in years, which is kind of good I guess. No school friends, but I wouldnt want that anyway.
Facebook feels so isolated because it is so locked down.
― Trayce, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 22:26 (sixteen years ago) link
fucking fuck FUCK an old ex has just found me on facebook. he sent me a couple of messages, and in case i'd forgotten (which i hadn't) i've been reminded of just how incredibly stupid this guy is. oh, the shame :(
but i accepted his friend request because my fucking mother raised me with good manners.
― Rubyredd, Thursday, 26 July 2007 13:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Oops. You can unfriend him. I don't think a message gets sent!
― kv_nol, Thursday, 26 July 2007 13:09 (sixteen years ago) link
I think there's an option to remove people from your friend list. USE IT!!!
xpost :)
― C J, Thursday, 26 July 2007 13:09 (sixteen years ago) link
i know. i should have just ignored him. i mean, he's not friends with any of my friends and he lives in sydney, so i'm never going to run into him. but my mum has seriously ingrained a guilt complex in me about being unjustifiably rude.
now he's telling me how 'great' i look... i was good friends with one of his best mates and when i said 'hey if i send him a message will he remember me?' he replied with something like 'of course he will, who could forget you?' ewwwwwwwww
― Rubyredd, Thursday, 26 July 2007 13:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh dear...
― kv_nol, Thursday, 26 July 2007 13:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Jason is Tied after, working Hard, afterwork. 11:54pm
DEAD POET'S SOCIETY I'm a man, but even I cryed
COYOTE UGLY Even Girls, will Like it
i can't believe i dated this guy for almost 6 months. admittedly, i was quite yound and silly.
― Rubyredd, Thursday, 26 July 2007 13:25 (sixteen years ago) link
*young
how embarrassing.
"yound" is a combination of young and wounded.
― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 26 July 2007 13:29 (sixteen years ago) link
ummm...yes, that's exactly what i meant ;)
thanks GG
― Rubyredd, Thursday, 26 July 2007 13:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Jason is Tied after, working Hard, afterwork.
Beckett meets BDSM
― Just got offed, Thursday, 26 July 2007 13:36 (sixteen years ago) link
^^awesome :)
― Rubyredd, Thursday, 26 July 2007 13:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Daily Book of Mormon Passage app no longer there :(
― Jena, Thursday, 26 July 2007 13:49 (sixteen years ago) link
the Book of Mormon has a character in it called Moron - fact.
― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 26 July 2007 13:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Why the hell is everyone now using facebook as an email replacement? Lame. Stop it.
― ledge, Friday, 27 July 2007 15:20 (sixteen years ago) link
-- ledge, Friday, July 27, 2007 11:20 AM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
srsly
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 27 July 2007 15:28 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^^^ this
Really irritating as it takes forever to load!
― kv_nol, Friday, 27 July 2007 15:45 (sixteen years ago) link
on the money
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 27 July 2007 15:48 (sixteen years ago) link
"Let me check my email - oh it says I have a new message on facebook. Let me check facebook" - repeat until crying blood. I guess as a way of increasing lack of productivity at work it's pretty successful. Except I don't check facebook at work anymore so I can't even read the messages, another reason to cut it out.
― ledge, Friday, 27 July 2007 15:49 (sixteen years ago) link
I blame lamers dazzled by shiny new internet gewgaw.
― ledge, Friday, 27 July 2007 15:50 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm quite impressed that I can add a GG Allin & the Scumfucs song to my profile, though.
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 27 July 2007 15:55 (sixteen years ago) link
City ban on Facebook By Mark Prigg and Sophie Borland, Evening Standard 27.07.07
About face: leading City firms such as Dresdner Kleinwort have blocked networking sites
More than two thirds of London companies - led by top City firms - are now banning or restricting the use of internet site Facebook over fears that staff are wasting time on it.
Many firms have now warned employees that "Facebooking" during office hours is a sackable offence.
An Evening Standard straw poll of major employers found that more than 70 per cent of the businesses, including banks, law firms, utility companies and government departments, have banned or limited access to social networking sites. Recent figures showed London has overtaken Toronto as the city with the most Facebook users in the world.
More than 826,000 people are registered on the site, a figure that has doubled since May.
The site was first banned by several American and Canadian companies who noticed the large amounts of time employees were spending on it.
A study found British users spend on average 191 minutes a month on Facebook and dozens of people have admitted to "Facebook addiction", where they check on their friends, and often exes, compulsively.
Our study found British Gas, the Met, Lloyds TSB and Bristows law firm all had internet filters preventing sites such as
Facebook, MySpace, Bebo and Hotmail being viewed at work.
A spokesman for Credit Suisse said: "Staff are forbidden from accessing the site while at work as it is thought that they are wasting company time and money."
A member of staff at investor Dresdner Kleinwort said: "The ban is widespread across all banking offices."
A spokesman for the law consultant-firm ELAS said companies-were well within their rights to sack staff for logging on to Facebook and that the site had caused numerous problems.
"Most contracts nowadays have a clause which restricts internet use to business-use only," he said.
"A manager could quite easily sack someone if they caught them using these social networking sites during office hours. Unless you can argue it is an important work tool, people should not be accessing these sites during work time."
Some companies have imposed "Facebook time" for employees.
"We have imposed a partial ban, allowing employees to access it during their lunch hour," said Amanda Turner of IT recruitment company MDA resources.
"We did have a problem with people using it for far longer than they should."
The internet site, which now has four million users in Britain, was set up in 2004 by 23-year-old American student Mark Zuckerberg.
He is facing a legal threat from a rival website, ConnectU, the owners of which allege they and Zuckerberg conceived Facebook while at Harvard University.
― admrl, Friday, 27 July 2007 22:47 (sixteen years ago) link
We have successfully persuaded our bosses that using Facebook is a vital part of our job.
― Matt DC, Monday, 30 July 2007 12:52 (sixteen years ago) link
So back to ILX it is.
I assume the same people who used Friendster as an email account. I never understand why they did. Maybe they wanted to live in their little seperate universe?
Uh, you can change the settings for email alerts, y'know. Which I did. No more clutter. Well, FB clutter that is.
― nathalie, Monday, 30 July 2007 12:57 (sixteen years ago) link
ok, this is weird. everytime i click on my notifications i end up in someone else's account.
― acrobat, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 08:55 (sixteen years ago) link
My company has just blocked facebook as a restricted site. I can't tell if that's because they've noticed me using it (I am guaranteed to be the only one here), or it's blocked by the rules of our new corporate parents (timing is a little too right for that). I wonder what else they may start to block...
― mitya, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 08:58 (sixteen years ago) link
A few of my friends actually prefer to have their big group social arrangement discussions conducted over Facebook now, possibly because it's threaded and keeps email inboxes from being overwhelmed. I'm not really convinced by that just yet.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 09:21 (sixteen years ago) link
ok even weirder. when i go back to facebook there are mystery emails in the login form. for now i have c*lld*nielle@y*hoo.com.
― acrobat, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 09:46 (sixteen years ago) link
now i'm gemm*.skilb*ck@m*tronetalli*nce.com this must be a network thing
― acrobat, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 10:04 (sixteen years ago) link
has this ever happened to anyone else?
― acrobat, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 10:05 (sixteen years ago) link
i can't get into it at all at the moment.
― blueski, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 10:32 (sixteen years ago) link
We're not acrobats, so no, never happened to me.
― nathalie, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 11:19 (sixteen years ago) link
At least you're not Steven Mangan any more, nice change of pace maybe
― That mong guy that's shit, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 11:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Maybe you have split facebookness? Y'know, in real life split personality syndrome.
― nathalie, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 11:28 (sixteen years ago) link
It's better than being Dom Passantino but not as good as being Steven Mangan. Swings and roundabouts.
― acrobat, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 11:31 (sixteen years ago) link
anyone else not able to access their profile?
― blueski, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 11:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Mines all skew-whiff with various bits of it obscured, but all the bits that are accessible seem to be working OK.
― Dr.C, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 11:56 (sixteen years ago) link
And there are white blocks obscuring bits of my photos :(
― Dr.C, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 12:06 (sixteen years ago) link
my facebook page:
http://image.bayimg.com/aaejlaabl.jpg
(psyche)
― czn, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 12:11 (sixteen years ago) link
that's from facebook extreme stress test.
― czn, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 12:12 (sixteen years ago) link
jesus christ, is that really your profile???
― Rubyredd, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 12:15 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost - oh, ok. my internet connection is running at a snail's pace so that link took forever to load. which means that if one of my friends ever had a profile like that one above (and some seem to be getting dangerously close) i would never visit it.
― Rubyredd, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 12:19 (sixteen years ago) link
At this rate, my cat is going to end up with more friends on Facebook than me. Although I don't understand how you can have something cutesy enough to let your cats be friends with each other, but not cutesy enough for them to send messages to each other or write on each others' walls.
― accentmonkey, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 12:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Cozen, are you sure yu don't want to stay on MySpace?
― nathalie, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 12:25 (sixteen years ago) link
i've somehow racked up 39 friends but they consist mostly of old high school acquaintances, ex shags, old uni acquaintances, and a handful of real friends. and ned ;)
― Rubyredd, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 12:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Hah! I managed to get about 70 friends. All people I know from here, Kindamuzik and a mailing list. haha
― nathalie, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 12:29 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm enjoying the voyeuristic nature of it though - seeing what's going on in other people's lives.
but i'm also finding myself feeling quite embarrassed by the fact that every single one of my old acquaintances is travelling extensively/making lots of money/happily ensconced in a relationship.
meanwhile, i am still in my home country, working two crap jobs and going to school. and single.
― Rubyredd, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 12:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Traveling: they are escaping their problems.
In a relationship: the other is probably fooling around.
Making lots of money: They have to or the mob will slit their throat because they can't pay off their debts accumulated through online betting.
;-)
― nathalie, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 12:33 (sixteen years ago) link
oh, nathalie - you're awesome!
― Rubyredd, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 12:41 (sixteen years ago) link
I have searched for maybe 75 people from my school, univ, work past and present, friends, neighbours, band-mates, family.....
...and have found only 2 people outside of ILX who are on Facebook. For various reasons I'm not sure that I want them as friends anyway.
Loads of people I've asked have never even heard of it. I'm trying to figure out what that means (apart from the fact that I am old and everyone I know is old too).
― Dr.C, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 12:42 (sixteen years ago) link
acrobat, mine was doing that earlier as well.
i am mainly using mine for playing scrabble btw.
― CarsmileSteve, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 12:48 (sixteen years ago) link
ha. it's freaking me out because i keep ending up in other peoples inboxes.
― acrobat, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 12:51 (sixteen years ago) link
i had a big ass message i sent completely vanish into the void :( facebroke
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 13:35 (sixteen years ago) link
that happens on myspace all the time too, so i've taken to writing in a notepad file or cutting and repasting them.
― Rubyredd, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 13:39 (sixteen years ago) link
hi new friend mark c!!!
;)
facebook is funny shit
― Rubyredd, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 13:49 (sixteen years ago) link
"Hey, your account is temporarily unavailable due to site maintenance. It should be available again within a few hours. We apologize for the inconvenience."
been saying this since last night
― blueski, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 13:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Seems fine for me.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 13:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Facebook doesn't want to be Stevem's friend!
― kv_nol, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 14:09 (sixteen years ago) link
2 Ghetto Scrabulous 4 Dem
― blueski, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 14:12 (sixteen years ago) link
i just joined the ILE group. let the games begin!
― Rubyredd, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 14:21 (sixteen years ago) link
ok, now i have full access to the account of someone called katie hobbs but no access to my own.
― acrobat, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 14:45 (sixteen years ago) link
to the account? hoo. the fun you could have.
i sincerely hope nobody is having the same fun with mine.
― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 14:51 (sixteen years ago) link
might be worth dropping facebook a line and saying, er, dudes, this isn't good.
if you're going to go on a wrecking spree, do it first, natch :)
― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 14:52 (sixteen years ago) link
i'd guess they probably have an idea, it does seem to be happening a lot...
― CarsmileSteve, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 15:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Hi Ruby R!
Facebook is working fine for me. Possibly too well.
― Mark C, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 15:05 (sixteen years ago) link
What's the rule about letting people go? Is there a notification that gets sent to them?
― kv_nol, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 15:38 (sixteen years ago) link
apparently not - when i mentioned upthread that i had accepted a friend req from an old moronic ex out of politeness CJ (i think) told me that you can unfriend people and they don't get a notification.
― Rubyredd, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 15:42 (sixteen years ago) link
scrabulous is ruining my life.
― molly mummenschanz, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 15:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Ah, okay so. Scrabulous is the devil.
― kv_nol, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 15:55 (sixteen years ago) link
It's not that bad! come on folx.
― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 15:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Given that I have no self-control, I can't stop playing.
― molly mummenschanz, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 15:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Well me neither. but I've also managed to submit a design mock up for one site and nearly finish building another since this madness has become. Granted I have the manic, ADD-riddled mind of a young child hopped up on chocolate and coke so the paces suits me well.
― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 16:02 (sixteen years ago) link
That said, I will wait awhile before taking my turn with Molly to give her some breathing space. :)
― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 16:03 (sixteen years ago) link
wtf?? the ILE group is 'currently unavailable'. so much for my attempts to stalk all your asses out.
― Rubyredd, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 16:05 (sixteen years ago) link
my quadrupulous bingo droppage over the last 24 hours is the only thing keeping me going right now in light of last night's PC death. at least they've let me back on now.
― blueski, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 16:06 (sixteen years ago) link
FB can be quirky. though not nearly so as MySpew.
What's your name ruby? (if you want to post it here)
― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 16:06 (sixteen years ago) link
just1n3 paul
:) okay i'm off to sleep for realz this time.
― Rubyredd, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 16:11 (sixteen years ago) link
A coworker of mine got a friend request (wich she accepted) from on old friend of her brothers (old as in they hadn't seen each other in years). He then proceed to send an unsolicited email to another (rather attractive) coworker of mine; whom he'd never even met before! neither of the girls were amused. i was tho.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 17:04 (sixteen years ago) link
The last thing I did before it died was start a game of Scrabulous with you. I'm not sure I want it to come back up now :-(
― ailsa, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 18:32 (sixteen years ago) link
It's back.
― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 18:40 (sixteen years ago) link
official statement:
"This morning, we temporarily took down the Facebook site to fix a bug we identified earlier today. This was not the result of a security breach. Specifically, the bug caused some third party proxy servers to cache otherwise inaccessible content. The result was that an isolated group of users could see some pages that were not intended for them. The site has now been restored, and we apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused."
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 14:25 (sixteen years ago) link
It's not letting me send messages to people now, annoyingly.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 14:28 (sixteen years ago) link
people from school friending me and the snowball effect (once you accept their request you feel you should anyone else on their list you also went to school with) is freaking me out right now.
― blueski, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 14:28 (sixteen years ago) link
nobody from my school seems to be on it. I am assuming this is because I'm old.
― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 14:34 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm collecting ilxors like baseball cards - eventually, when i have enough, i'm gonna sell them off to some poor fb loser with no friends.
― Rubyredd, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 14:36 (sixteen years ago) link
mods be playing ban tricks on ya. ;-)
― stevienixed, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 14:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Thinking similarly here.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 14:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Here cause we're still catching up. They are at the point of discovering electricity.
― stevienixed, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 14:40 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't have schoolfriends' email addies (or they mine) on the whole so that problem hasn't come up, fortch.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 14:53 (sixteen years ago) link
that doesn't matter at all - you can just search by name. some lovely old friends have found me in this way.
― CharlieNo4, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 14:57 (sixteen years ago) link
500+ profiles
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 15:00 (sixteen years ago) link
I cant find any of my old missing friends, it makes me sad panda.
― Trayce, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 15:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Trayce OTM :(
― kv_nol, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 15:17 (sixteen years ago) link
wish i had locked my profile up to friends only sooner
― blueski, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 15:20 (sixteen years ago) link
First thing I did. Hell, I don't even want my friends to know but ya gots ta chuck 'em a bone occasionally knowhutumsayin'?
― kv_nol, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 15:27 (sixteen years ago) link
I am a shameless whore. I'll be anyone's friend.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 15:29 (sixteen years ago) link
stevem dyou mean people can't find you by searching for your name?
that's actually a pretty good idea. i've had to block extended family members and stuff.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 15:32 (sixteen years ago) link
I love the weird random groups:
Single women who own cats but aren't crazy Network: Global Size: 4 members
... four sounds right!
and then there's this piece of work!
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 15:43 (sixteen years ago) link
i found these searching for "chairman meow"
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 15:44 (sixteen years ago) link
I have joined both my primary school and secondary school groups today and it has pretty much confirmed what I said upthread; there is only one person in the secondary school group that I know, the vast majority are either at uni now or graduated in the last couple of years.
― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 2 August 2007 11:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Haha - my latest friend has Rowetta as one of his friends.
― Dr.C, Thursday, 2 August 2007 11:30 (sixteen years ago) link
I want you to get Beryl to join, so I can be her friend.
― C J, Thursday, 2 August 2007 11:38 (sixteen years ago) link
brainwave
― blueski, Thursday, 2 August 2007 11:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh she'd love to fwend you, CJ!
"I don't know 'oo you are sweetie, but the kettle's always on 'ere, darlin'"
Seriously, I just looked and I think she IS on facebook, but hasn't got started yet. No fwends yet :( I'll ask her later. But I'm not letting you lot loose on her!
― Dr.C, Thursday, 2 August 2007 11:48 (sixteen years ago) link
LOL people posting their phone numbers where anyone can see.
― jessie monster, Thursday, 2 August 2007 13:14 (sixteen years ago) link
There's a whole bunch of people I can't befriend on Facebook because I don't know their real names. Sad? Yes.
― accentmonkey, Thursday, 2 August 2007 13:21 (sixteen years ago) link
what about those who have gotten married. include maiden names people!
― Ms Misery, Thursday, 2 August 2007 13:24 (sixteen years ago) link
You tease. (xxxpost)
Accentmonkey, problem is that I can't spell the surnames and have no way of checking. I am sad panda :(
― kv_nol, Thursday, 2 August 2007 13:28 (sixteen years ago) link
-- That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, August 1, 2007 3:53 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Link
bugger it.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Monday, 6 August 2007 18:46 (sixteen years ago) link
umm, my facebook news feed is going crazy. It's saying things like "9 of your friends have written on so-and-so's wall", when like one person has actually written on it.
What's the deal? Have other people noticed this? oh god.
― Drooone, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 00:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Okay someone from school has just tried to friend me - I've not seen him since the age of 16. Usually I am prepared to give people from school the benefit of the doubt, even if I didn't like them at the time. Then I read his profile, including choice cuts like:
"Religious Views: 102% agnostic -2% catholic 100% millwall"
"Favorite Books: Do androids dream of electic sheep? other than that biographies of heroes of mine. The bible, because it's really really funny. razzle, readers wives, h & e "
and in particular:
"Interests: Football, other things too, like football, millwall, naked swedish ladies table tennis (with or without the ball), topless farts, knob gags, growing my beard. "
As I said, I am usually willing to give people from school the benefit of the doubt - in this case I am considering deleting my Facebook profile, leaving the country and having reconstructive surgery so that he can never find me.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 08:53 (sixteen years ago) link
knob gags? is that what I think it is?
― nathalie, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 09:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Haha I dont think anyone from school will find me, unless they know my email address which is very unlikely.
Today I sent a msg to an old housemate of mine from Canberra. I'm pretty sure its him, he has an unusual name. I hope he replies, it'd be cool to catch up with him.
― Trayce, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 09:20 (sixteen years ago) link
I had my first message from an ex-girlfriend a couple of days ago. But she finished with me because she decided she was gay (yes, I'm that bad) so there's no awkwardness around it, it was actually a pleasant surprise.
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 09:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh dear. I just rofled. Sorry CP.
― kv_nol, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 09:48 (sixteen years ago) link
No.
But she finished with me because she decided she was gay
This has happened to me too. She's now married. To my then best friend.
― Mark C, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 09:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Actually that's disingenuous. He wasn't my best friend until a year or so after I dated her.
― Mark C, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 09:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh she really is gay, it wasn't a line. She lives in Brighton now, even!
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 09:56 (sixteen years ago) link
stevie nixed, we are now friends! interestingly, we list exactly the same 'activities'... ;)
plz don't challenge me to scrabble! i sux big time, and am getting some practise in with my equally suxy friend before i can engage with others.
― Rubyredd, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 09:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Colonel, mine really was gay too! After me, she desultorily tried to lose her virginity to some other guy, it didn't work, and she then exclusively dated women for several years. Interestingly, her first long term girlfriend then date my best friend after they split up, and it was only when the third part of the triangle joined together that they settled down and got married. Interestingly, they never had a threesome.
― Mark C, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 10:18 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost Oh god, I SUXOR EVEN BADLIER at Scrabble! And you like the same Bukowski books as I do! HURRAH! :-) And yes, as few/little activity as possible.hah!
― nathalie, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 10:20 (sixteen years ago) link
we are obviously the awesomest people, then!
― Rubyredd, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 10:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Now that is complicated!
xpost to Mark C
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 10:24 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost Naturellement!
― nathalie, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 10:27 (sixteen years ago) link
and we both have excellent taste in spectacle frames ;)
― Rubyredd, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 10:29 (sixteen years ago) link
i think it might be time to delete my myspaz profile (now that i'm a fb addict): this fucking KID just sent me a friend request - http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=135259671. because obviously he could tell from my profile that i want to be friends with a 15yr old school boy.
― Rubyredd, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 11:07 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost Ah we need'em to read all those GREBT books! :-) And I also deleted the MySpace profile. Go on, you can do it!
― nathalie, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 11:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes, I deleted my myspace profile too. I really lost it with them when they started showing me ads while I was logging in (or they were trying to, anyway).
― accentmonkey, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 11:22 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm seriously considering it - most of my good friends/internet friends on there are people i speak with on other boards/forums/aim/email, so it seems kinda unnecessary to still have it. but i like the slideshows for all my favourite art, and i like the blog where i get to post my friend's poetry and writing.
definitely considering it, though...
― Rubyredd, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 11:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Is information on the rate of deletions of profiles on social networking sites in the public domain? I think it's an interesting topic. we are always hearing abt the growth in the no. of users of facebook, myspace or whatever but presumably this doesn't take deletions into a/c.
it's surely more common for social networking profiles to become dormant rather than be deleted tho. I haven't done anything on my myspace for ages apart from read incoming messages and friend requests but I have no plans to delete the profile.
― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 11:26 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm liking this virtual cd rack thing, hopefully some dudes I went to school with will now finally realise how pretentious I am.
― W4LTER, Thursday, 16 August 2007 05:59 (sixteen years ago) link
because obviously he could tell from my profile that i want to be friends with a 15yr old school boy.
-- Rubyredd, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 11:07 (1 week ago) Bookmark Link
Hey, if you win the fuk poll, that'll only be the first!
― Mark G, Thursday, 16 August 2007 08:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Okay srsly who in their right mind puts 'Looking For: A Relationship' on their profile?
― Matt DC, Monday, 20 August 2007 12:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Obv not you. :-) I don't know, I wouldn't do it personally, but why not? If you are indeed looking for a relationship, why not post that? If I had been single, I'd want the option: "Piss off, I like being single" option
― nathalie, Monday, 20 August 2007 12:15 (sixteen years ago) link
my particular favourite is looking for: whatever i can get
― Rubyredd, Monday, 20 August 2007 12:17 (sixteen years ago) link
^^ whats wrong with that?
― Filey Camp, Monday, 20 August 2007 12:23 (sixteen years ago) link
nothing! that's why i said it's my *favourite*
― Rubyredd, Monday, 20 August 2007 12:26 (sixteen years ago) link
oh! yes, i see, its a pretty good way to approach anything
― Filey Camp, Monday, 20 August 2007 12:32 (sixteen years ago) link
thatcherkids?
― acrobat, Monday, 20 August 2007 12:35 (sixteen years ago) link
hi dom
― Filey Camp, Monday, 20 August 2007 12:36 (sixteen years ago) link
marcello
― acrobat, Monday, 20 August 2007 12:45 (sixteen years ago) link
i get mixed up
― Filey Camp, Monday, 20 August 2007 12:45 (sixteen years ago) link
it's ok
― acrobat, Monday, 20 August 2007 12:46 (sixteen years ago) link
I think I have "looking for: Random Play" on my profile. Yes, so I am jealous of people who have iPod Shuffles.
― ken c, Monday, 20 August 2007 12:48 (sixteen years ago) link
work has blocked facebook so i have to live vicariously through this thread.
actually can someone tell me some "news" from my facebook page?
― ken c, Monday, 20 August 2007 12:49 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm on it, ken...
― Rubyredd, Monday, 20 August 2007 12:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Didn't you feel someone ate you; you mangina you?
― nathalie, Monday, 20 August 2007 12:57 (sixteen years ago) link
WHich fits perfectly with Justine's on it line. You tart you!
*blushes*
*coyly bats eyelashes*
― Rubyredd, Monday, 20 August 2007 12:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Displaying 10 stories.See All. Yesterday Ken and Jim Park are now friends. 4:26amKen removed the Superlatives application. 3:32amKen added the Superlatives application. 3:31amKen drew on Tricia's Graffiti wall. 3:27amDraw on Tricia's wall or on Ken's wallKen is the mangina from China. 3:17amKen and Calumn Shearer are now friends. 2:43am August 19 Ken and Madeleine McNeil are now friends. 10:02pmKen and Niclas Holme are now friends. 3:46amKen and Julian Churchill are now friends. 12:58amKen and Sonja Vujovic are now friends. 12:54am
― Rubyredd, Monday, 20 August 2007 13:00 (sixteen years ago) link
12:30 Justine in on Ken's Mangina 12:31 Stevie Nixed threw a condom at Ken
ROWR!
― nathalie, Monday, 20 August 2007 13:02 (sixteen years ago) link
stevie nixed removed "pron" from her interests stevie nixed added "philosophy" to her interests
i saw this the other day and it gave me a chuckle ;)
― Rubyredd, Monday, 20 August 2007 13:05 (sixteen years ago) link
stevie nixed, i want a song dedication from you!
― Rubyredd, Monday, 20 August 2007 13:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Ah did I delete that from my interests? Shit, have to add it again. Probably hormonal imbalance caused that unnecessary deletion. :-)
Song dedication coming up!
― nathalie, Monday, 20 August 2007 13:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Er, do you think those people on Ken's page really want their full names on a googleable site?
― ailsa, Monday, 20 August 2007 13:12 (sixteen years ago) link
just think, their perspective employers could find out that they're all friends of KEN!
― ken c, Monday, 20 August 2007 13:18 (sixteen years ago) link
perspective prospective employers
― ken c, Monday, 20 August 2007 13:19 (sixteen years ago) link
S'pose. I just don't like people using my full name anywhere on teh internets as I am paranoid about everything.
― ailsa, Monday, 20 August 2007 13:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Their perspective employers?
http://www.supercentral.org/lk/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/hall-perspective-1.jpg
xposts
― emil.y, Monday, 20 August 2007 13:21 (sixteen years ago) link
would that hinder or help their chances of future employment?
xxpost
― Rubyredd, Monday, 20 August 2007 13:21 (sixteen years ago) link
I should think help, cos it's never about what you know, but WHO you know. and knowing a mangina has to my knowledge never hindered the career of anybody, no matter from what angle you look at it (see what i did there! perspective, see??)
― ken c, Monday, 20 August 2007 13:24 (sixteen years ago) link
If you're blocked from using Facebook at work but can see your iGoogle homepage, there's a gadget you can add that'll let you know of any friend requests, messages, that type of thing.
― nate woolls, Monday, 20 August 2007 13:25 (sixteen years ago) link
but no Graffiti or Scrabulous!! :(
― ken c, Monday, 20 August 2007 13:26 (sixteen years ago) link
i have sent you a very special song dedication, ken ;) ;)
nathalie, the song you sent me isn't playing :(
― Rubyredd, Monday, 20 August 2007 13:26 (sixteen years ago) link
oh man! Now I have something to look forward to when I get home :)
― ken c, Monday, 20 August 2007 13:27 (sixteen years ago) link
no graffiti so mspaint will have to curb my drawing needs for now.
this is our wedding, look. i don't know why you had a quizzical pose there. http://lolrider.com/images/wedding.jpg
― ken c, Monday, 20 August 2007 13:36 (sixteen years ago) link
did we have 'masquerade' as our theme??
i always stroll round with a quizzical look on my face.
― Rubyredd, Monday, 20 August 2007 13:38 (sixteen years ago) link
i think it may have been a nuclear fallout theme.. illustrated by multicoloured dots, as nuclear fallouts are usually represented.
― ken c, Monday, 20 August 2007 13:44 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Rubyredd, Monday, August 20, 2007 1:17 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link
-- Filey Camp, Monday, August 20, 2007 1:23 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link
-- Rubyredd, Monday, August 20, 2007 1:26 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link
-- Filey Camp, Monday, August 20, 2007 1:32 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link
could sound a bit, i dunno, desperate?
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Monday, 20 August 2007 13:48 (sixteen years ago) link
looking for: whuddya got
― blueski, Monday, 20 August 2007 13:51 (sixteen years ago) link
looking for: You. Yes I mean YOU!
― ken c, Monday, 20 August 2007 14:04 (sixteen years ago) link
xxpost Oh NOES! People wanting a bit of action!
Justine. :-( I'll try again. Or can I send you an MP3 file? It's a cover of Joni M by dEUS' Tom Barman. He's ROWR. :-)
― nathalie, Monday, 20 August 2007 14:07 (sixteen years ago) link
I interpret "whatever I can get" as "you know, beer, sweets, drinking cider in fields, good times with cool people, that sort of thing" rather than "I will fuck anything with a pulse".
― Matt DC, Monday, 20 August 2007 14:09 (sixteen years ago) link
that would all come under 'Friendship' surely. 'Random play' sounds so vague and poorly phrased also.
― blueski, Monday, 20 August 2007 14:11 (sixteen years ago) link
whatever i can get: as mdc says, undefined could be anything good times friendship: uhh, sounds a bit twee random play: casual sex
― Filey Camp, Monday, 20 August 2007 14:15 (sixteen years ago) link
i read 'WICG' as 'casual sex' and 'random play' as 'dicking around on facebook'. i *guess* friendship *could* sound twee.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Monday, 20 August 2007 14:18 (sixteen years ago) link
I always assumed Random Play meant casual sex and WICG meant 'if you don't want to go out with me, at least shag me'.
― emil.y, Monday, 20 August 2007 14:20 (sixteen years ago) link
if everyone on FB is interpreting 'random play' to mean that they might as well just have it say 'casual sex'.
― blueski, Monday, 20 August 2007 14:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, I also love a bit of the humping a dead body. Srsly "whatever I can get" could be interpreted as "serious relationship, one night stand, orgies,... I AM OPEN FOR ANYTHING!"
― nathalie, Monday, 20 August 2007 14:27 (sixteen years ago) link
LOL being friended by someone I haven't seen since primary school who appears to now be (literally) an aspiring FHM High Street Honey. Classy!
― Matt DC, Monday, 20 August 2007 14:29 (sixteen years ago) link
FHM?
― nathalie, Monday, 20 August 2007 14:31 (sixteen years ago) link
"for him magazine", i think it originally stood for.
"fucking hell; men" might be better.
kinda like nuts or zoo but with aspirations towards GQ. which makes it about vile as vile can be.
― grimly fiendish, Monday, 20 August 2007 14:34 (sixteen years ago) link
link please matt, can i add her and say i know her through you?
― ken c, Monday, 20 August 2007 14:35 (sixteen years ago) link
(there's probably some small newsagent behind the station in amsterdam that orders a few copies in and sells them in brown paper bags, hidden inside hardcore dutch porn, nath.)
― grimly fiendish, Monday, 20 August 2007 14:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Another girl from my (strict, Catholic) secondary school ended up doing pr0n as I remember. Mercifully not on Facebook.
― Matt DC, Monday, 20 August 2007 14:41 (sixteen years ago) link
have you tried searching her name?
― ken c, Monday, 20 August 2007 14:45 (sixteen years ago) link
ken. take a cold shower, dude.
― grimly fiendish, Monday, 20 August 2007 14:55 (sixteen years ago) link
or buy a copy of FHM.
― grimly fiendish, Monday, 20 August 2007 14:56 (sixteen years ago) link
he found out when he was renting a stack of Pr0n at the local videoshop.
― nathalie, Monday, 20 August 2007 14:56 (sixteen years ago) link
i deleted all my 'what are you looking for' stuff when i realised i was entering a period of my relationship with a facebooking friend that i couldn't (and wouldn't want to) define within even their vague parameters. some things should be private (i know thats a very 20th century sentiment, but...)
― stevie, Monday, 20 August 2007 15:08 (sixteen years ago) link
I deleted my 'what are you looking for' stuff when I realised I didn't actually have to put anything in there. I mean, I'm married and putting "friendship" as above seems a bit twee.
― Colonel Poo, Monday, 20 August 2007 15:23 (sixteen years ago) link
I always find the sex thing strange. Why not put "gender" in there.
― nathalie, Monday, 20 August 2007 15:25 (sixteen years ago) link
argh just found a load of my old workmates from 6-7 years ago. this is good but one of them set up a group for ex-employees which inevitably includes our ex boss who was a massive tosspot much of the time.
― blueski, Monday, 20 August 2007 15:28 (sixteen years ago) link
now you can tell him!
― Dr.C, Monday, 20 August 2007 15:33 (sixteen years ago) link
-- nathalie, Monday, 20 August 2007 15:25 (11 minutes ago) Link
Prolly 'cause sex and gender aren't always the same thing, and we need to make sure the more predatory members of our nation's frats know exactly what they're getting into.
― jessie monster, Monday, 20 August 2007 15:40 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, i got confused when there was no "yes please" option like innit.
― ken c, Monday, 20 August 2007 15:48 (sixteen years ago) link
and also, i discovered near the start of my facebook career, that changing your gender is not considered by facebook as an important enough event for the newsfeed!!!
― ken c, Monday, 20 August 2007 15:49 (sixteen years ago) link
A couple days ago one of my friends told me, "I wanted to tell you, since a couple other people know already, that if I were to post my relationship status on facebook, it wouldn't say single anymore." She could've said "I wanted to tell you that I'm dating someone," but didn't. What does that SAY about our TIMES?
― Maria, Monday, 20 August 2007 18:24 (sixteen years ago) link
haha that's the kind of thing i say when i am embarrassed abt some similar declaration -- i go SO round the house w/it that everyone is left less the wiser than when i started ("wtf, either mark is dating or he is redecorating the bathroom or... something is difft, unless it isn't?")
= it sez nothing abt our times except some ppl (ie me) are circumlocutory ninnies sometimes
― mark s, Monday, 20 August 2007 18:27 (sixteen years ago) link
tell me what's going on on facebook today please!
― ken c, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 11:59 (sixteen years ago) link
nothing new in your news feed, ken. did you like my song?
― Rubyredd, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 12:05 (sixteen years ago) link
nothing new? so it's old hat that he's gangbanged by a bunch of pink rabbits?
― nathalie, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 12:06 (sixteen years ago) link
oh shit, i forgot to mention that. thanks nath :)
― Rubyredd, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 12:10 (sixteen years ago) link
The song was smashing justine! And I'm glad there was some pink rabbit gangbang action on my newsfeed!
What's happening with your feeds?
― ken c, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 12:35 (sixteen years ago) link
"justine and w4lter are now friends"
i think i have more ilxors as friends on facebook, than any IRL friends. but i love you all!
i'm waiting for my song dedication, ken.
― Rubyredd, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 13:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Haha, I have just found a gap in the facebook block - i can't access the main bits, but i can use the applications!
― ken c, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 13:18 (sixteen years ago) link
i love my song, ken :)
― Rubyredd, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 13:44 (sixteen years ago) link
:))
oh man, scrabulous works too! just as i thought i was starting to become more productive at work again..
― ken c, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 13:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Good, play yr shot then.
(anyone else want to challenge me, feel free, I need distractions from packing away all my clothes)
― ailsa, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 13:50 (sixteen years ago) link
the shot has been played!
― ken c, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 14:03 (sixteen years ago) link
facebook groups really are just a way for you to collect a bunch of opinions you agree with to present in a column on your profile know where you stand on things i guess. not including the "jokey" ones.
― blueski, Thursday, 23 August 2007 14:01 (sixteen years ago) link
that's bollocks, the holloway road/cally road appreciation society is a really close-knit, informative community!
― ken c, Thursday, 23 August 2007 14:11 (sixteen years ago) link
didnt know about that one, i'm in the 'hooray for holloway' group though!
― Filey Camp, Thursday, 23 August 2007 14:13 (sixteen years ago) link
hey, i live on holloway road in WELLINGTON - can i still join one of those groups??
― Rubyredd, Thursday, 23 August 2007 14:15 (sixteen years ago) link
you should join the one i'm in - there are loads of great photos, including the FACEBOOK BINGO.
― ken c, Thursday, 23 August 2007 14:30 (sixteen years ago) link
my street sign was featured in peter jackson's "the frighteners". it's my sole claim to (lame) fame.
― Rubyredd, Thursday, 23 August 2007 14:33 (sixteen years ago) link
anything good on my facebook today?
― ken c, Friday, 24 August 2007 14:47 (sixteen years ago) link
i'll check
― Rubyredd, Friday, 24 August 2007 14:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Just1ne P4ul wrote at 2:41am so are we eloping to vegas or what? i've always wanted to be married by an elvis impersonator. Wall-to-Wall - Write on My Wall - Delete Sh4r0n L3ach (London) wrote at 12:21am GUSTATION???? Message S0nja Vuj0vic (UCL) wrote at 7:46pm on August 23rd, 2007 HI Ken!
I'm really good - Edinburgh is great, especially now with the festival on. Actually, I only just moved up in July so still settling in. How are you? Still working a UCLH? Message Em1ly R0bins0n (Knoxville, TN) wrote at 2:13pm on August 23rd, 2007 aw, you are listening to blur
those times will be in the fucked cuz NZ is like a week ahead of britain or something.
― Rubyredd, Friday, 24 August 2007 14:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Bizarro.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 24 August 2007 14:55 (sixteen years ago) link
They'd probably make for pretty good epitaphs
"humoured friends, liked electronic music, hated Boris Johnson"
― That mong guy that's shit, Friday, 24 August 2007 15:05 (sixteen years ago) link
"liked Clement Atlee, hated the hoff and Boris Johnson, posted to ILX"
― acrobat, Friday, 24 August 2007 15:09 (sixteen years ago) link
ooh is it really that late in NZ?
― ken c, Friday, 24 August 2007 15:20 (sixteen years ago) link
also: i'm creating an event for a marriage on facebook when i get home and you're invited
― ken c, Friday, 24 August 2007 15:21 (sixteen years ago) link
it's september 1st, 3:23am in NZ.
i like the sound of this event.
― Rubyredd, Friday, 24 August 2007 15:24 (sixteen years ago) link
people who joined this http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=4649994421 should really join this http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2219762655
― ledge, Friday, 24 August 2007 15:53 (sixteen years ago) link
OTM
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 24 August 2007 16:10 (sixteen years ago) link
why are there SO many copies of the same SO-SO group SO much? SO retarded
― blueski, Friday, 24 August 2007 17:01 (sixteen years ago) link
What the fukk is the go with "Jedi vs Sith" and zombies and pirates and all that horseshit?? Are they actually "fun"? Is there a point to these things? Is there any skill involved?
I don't understand :/
― W4LTER, Monday, 27 August 2007 06:58 (sixteen years ago) link
The pirate-ninjas thing sounds like a pyramid scheme to me, except nobody gets paid. Saw a guy shilling for an America vs Canada one earlier... "First to a million members wins!" No, you don't. The Internet: Making the Internet sadder, one day at a time.
And what is with the gifts?
I'm never an early adopter, though. So if any of those applications and customizations are worth anything, I won't know 'til 7 months later.
― Kerm, Monday, 27 August 2007 08:50 (sixteen years ago) link
WHO WUD WIN CHUCK NORRIS OR A ROBOT
The whole student pirate thing is utterly, utterly pointless, and fucking irritating. And so many people do it!
― Just got offed, Monday, 27 August 2007 08:56 (sixteen years ago) link
ezzactly.
― W4LTER, Monday, 27 August 2007 09:41 (sixteen years ago) link
ex-arrrr-ctly
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 27 August 2007 09:42 (sixteen years ago) link
none of this changes my opinion of ninjas
― latebloomer, Monday, 27 August 2007 09:49 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost - It's just such a fucking hackneyed, lame, unimaginative means of adopting a frivolous alternative character. If you're not going to be yourself, at least be something original.
If you could genuinely pull off being a ninja, however, you have my maddest props.
― Just got offed, Monday, 27 August 2007 09:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Maddest props?
― nathalie, Monday, 27 August 2007 09:52 (sixteen years ago) link
I keep imaging you saying this while gyrating.
― nathalie, Monday, 27 August 2007 09:58 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mad+props
― Just got offed, Monday, 27 August 2007 09:59 (sixteen years ago) link
http://photos-b.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sctm/v65/28/120/36909752/n36909752_32887061_1889.jpg
― energy flash gordon, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 11:52 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost Oh I know what it means, but as English is still my second language, some things just sound really... weird/funny.
― nathalie, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 12:00 (sixteen years ago) link
tell me facebook news please xx first to do it will get mad props from me.
― ken c, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 12:49 (sixteen years ago) link
no news for you
except that nathalie is going to be my bridesmaid
― Rubyredd, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 12:53 (sixteen years ago) link
oh wow, has she been invited to our event yet?
― ken c, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 13:09 (sixteen years ago) link
(mad props, btw!)
(does props stand for proposals?)
― ken c, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 13:10 (sixteen years ago) link
no it is just prop as in propping something up
― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 13:22 (sixteen years ago) link
well, nathalie saw the message i left on your wall - which was damnit, i haven't maybe i should ask stevie nixed. you should buy my wedding ring from her jewelry store :)
and she agreed to be bridesmaid. so i'm guessing she's coming.
― Rubyredd, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 13:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Hurrah!
I still need to get my blue tux.
― ken c, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 13:40 (sixteen years ago) link
and my plane ticket.
― Rubyredd, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 13:49 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm seeing Ken tonight, Rubes, want me to lean on him about anything on your behalf? I can resurrect my internet hardman guise for one night only if he's messing you about...
― Mark C, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 14:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Mark C is going to contribute some funds towards our wedding tonight.
― ken c, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 14:17 (sixteen years ago) link
actually, i've just had another marriage proposal... and this one is willing to fly to NZ to follow through on it...
― Rubyredd, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 14:31 (sixteen years ago) link
btw, how was your holiday, mr mark?
― Rubyredd, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 14:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Nath, does you store have a website where we may shop from afar?
― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 14:36 (sixteen years ago) link
ken, nath is so eager to see us married she offered us FREE rings ;)
― Rubyredd, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 14:37 (sixteen years ago) link
no it is just prop as in propping something up-- Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 13:22 (1 hour ago) Link
-- Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 13:22 (1 hour ago) Link
― bernard snowy, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 14:43 (sixteen years ago) link
more ILXers should add the Political Compass app
i wish i could block all the 'fun 'n games' app invites from friends tho
― blueski, Thursday, 30 August 2007 12:01 (sixteen years ago) link
You could join the "Stop asking me to use wanky new applications" group. Not that that'll achieve anything.
― ledge, Thursday, 30 August 2007 12:03 (sixteen years ago) link
yes yes, FREE RINGS. I wanna see you guys married! :-)
― nathalie, Thursday, 30 August 2007 12:41 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah it is annoying how many of my friends facebook asserts want me to add wanky new applications. i thought i picked smarter friends.
― Maria, Thursday, 30 August 2007 12:53 (sixteen years ago) link
How do I turn off being updated of what my friends did with their wanky applications? I don't care who J**** T****** is nominating as mostly likely to end up in prison or whatever.
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 30 August 2007 14:07 (sixteen years ago) link
you can change your settings for your newsfeed preferences, just turn the applications update right down?
i can't believe in just over 2 weeks' time i'll be married!
― ken c, Thursday, 30 August 2007 14:09 (sixteen years ago) link
I would do that, but there's isn't an applications update on the newsfeed preferences.
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 30 August 2007 14:13 (sixteen years ago) link
soz :(
― ken c, Thursday, 30 August 2007 14:22 (sixteen years ago) link
i've just checked - what about those tick boxes on the side?
― ken c, Thursday, 30 August 2007 14:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Which tick boxes?
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 30 August 2007 14:27 (sixteen years ago) link
tick boxes, mite fights
― Just got offed, Thursday, 30 August 2007 14:34 (sixteen years ago) link
how do you feel about reading your friends wall-to-wall's with each other?
― blueski, Thursday, 30 August 2007 15:03 (sixteen years ago) link
I feel like a crotchety old man who wants to shout "keep your private conversations in your inboxes! Use the in-game messaging for scrabble talk! Stop using facebook where email will do!"
― ledge, Thursday, 30 August 2007 15:08 (sixteen years ago) link
facebook is full of jizz-gargling arsefaces.
― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 30 August 2007 15:09 (sixteen years ago) link
the other day i found out a guy from my year at school died last year via 2 other friends wall-to-wall.
― blueski, Thursday, 30 August 2007 15:15 (sixteen years ago) link
sorry ken, you've been relegated to plan B - i've just gotten hitched to someone else.
― Rubyredd, Friday, 31 August 2007 02:44 (sixteen years ago) link
damn! i thought it was forever ;)
who is the lucky fella?
― ken c, Friday, 31 August 2007 10:12 (sixteen years ago) link
can someone explain to me the point of 'poking'? It doesn't seem to have any function?
― gem, Friday, 31 August 2007 11:37 (sixteen years ago) link
i only poke when poked; rather than being a means to acknowledge another's presence, it seems to be more a means to remind another of one's own presence. i.e. ppl be attention-seekin'/horny
― Just got offed, Friday, 31 August 2007 11:40 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't really get the point of the aquariums and gifts an superpokes and whatnot either. actually I'm struggling a bit with the point of facebook itself. perhaps all of my confusion can be explained by me joining the 'unlike 99.99% of users I was born in the 70s' group.
― gem, Friday, 31 August 2007 11:42 (sixteen years ago) link
also no one has suggested horniness to me! The only people who poke me are female friends who I've known for years at a stretch. Don't tell me I'm being rejected on yet another interface...
― gem, Friday, 31 August 2007 11:44 (sixteen years ago) link
my friend's 30 next week and there's gonna be a lot more people from school there thanks to facebook.
won't know if this is good or bad til after the party but will be nice to see some if not all of them i think.
― blueski, Friday, 31 August 2007 11:59 (sixteen years ago) link
i think the point of poking is it allows whoever you poked to see your profile page for a week; i guess it's kinda giving people who you want to friend a chance to friend you first - and save you the humiliation of rejection if you friend them and they deny you (well, that's what i've used it for)
― Rubyredd, Friday, 31 August 2007 13:43 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.base58.com/ilx/londonflyer.jpg
she reminds me of someone - but who?
― blueski, Friday, 31 August 2007 15:34 (sixteen years ago) link
misha barton
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 31 August 2007 15:38 (sixteen years ago) link
i never have poked, but got offered 'superpoke' application. fuck poking.
Girl looks like Ally with ginger hair.
― Matt DC, Friday, 31 August 2007 15:40 (sixteen years ago) link
""keep your private conversations in your inboxes! Use the in-game messaging for scrabble talk! Stop using facebook where email will do!""
i say this all the time.
― titchyschneiderMk2, Friday, 31 August 2007 15:40 (sixteen years ago) link
I'll be really curious to see if ILx lasts until we're all in our sixties. I can't even imagine the level of moaning over trivial annoyances by that point.
― Ms Misery, Friday, 31 August 2007 15:43 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0,,2-13-1443_2174104,00.html
― Mark C, Monday, 3 September 2007 11:25 (sixteen years ago) link
i think the point of poking is it allows whoever you poked to see your profile page for a week
rilly? i didn't know that.
― CharlieNo4, Monday, 3 September 2007 12:09 (sixteen years ago) link
so it turns out they didn't want to have sex with you after all :(
― blueski, Monday, 3 September 2007 12:20 (sixteen years ago) link
the only offers of sex i get from facebook are from people who haven't seen my profile. make of that what you will!
― CharlieNo4, Monday, 3 September 2007 12:22 (sixteen years ago) link
hahaha We'll be slapping eachother with cyber incontince pads by then.
― nathalie, Monday, 3 September 2007 13:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Oookay, that was something I didn't want in my head. Please delete previous post.
I'm afraid of what the movie compatibility results will be with my wife. Our tastes seem to be diverging these days.
― Rock Hardy, Monday, 3 September 2007 16:33 (sixteen years ago) link
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/conservatives/story/0,,2162833,00.html
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 12:15 (sixteen years ago) link
'young professionals'
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 12:16 (sixteen years ago) link
i can see cameron pursuing facebook as an outlet, and it working for him, in a way that myspace just wouldn't have worked, whereas for certain elements of the right in the us, myspace would work a lot better (though prob by proxy),..i dunno if theres something still prim/proper/stuffy about the right here in a way that is less so about the us?
― Filey Camp, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 12:39 (sixteen years ago) link
I think it's because doing anything on MySpace looks like bandwagon jumping regardless of the party doing it, whereas Facebook is beginning to be taken seriously as a medium for communication like, say text messaging.
Alternatively TS: "A place for friends" vs "a social utility".
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 13:00 (sixteen years ago) link
hmm fc. is anyone angling for the working class vote? wasn't thatcher's truimph fueled by wooing traditional labour voters over?
― acrobat, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 13:04 (sixteen years ago) link
you can't win without working-class votes.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 13:06 (sixteen years ago) link
i suppose facebook young professionals are tomorrow's middle england-y mondeo men though.
but no one seems to be courting them in any overt way.
― acrobat, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 13:07 (sixteen years ago) link
i dunno if theres something still prim/proper/stuffy about the right here in a way that is less so about the us?
bigger culture in the States - more permutations?
― blueski, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 13:32 (sixteen years ago) link
i am planning a trip with a not close friend over facebook, and i thought it was kind of silly that we were not just using e-mail until i realized that our school e-mails were closed after graduation and we actually don't know how to get in touch outside facebook anymore! and suddenly it makes sense.
― Maria, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 13:42 (sixteen years ago) link
suddenly it makes sense.
To ask eachother's new email address? ;-)
― nathalie, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 13:43 (sixteen years ago) link
we could do that, but why bother at this point? facebook's working!
― Maria, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 13:44 (sixteen years ago) link
any updates for me today?
― ken c, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 13:49 (sixteen years ago) link
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I don't like how funny these dudes try to be.
― W4LTER, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 00:46 (sixteen years ago) link
This makes me very depressed. A lot of old friends are on Facebook and it hurts to see them all still friends, while I have been forgotten
― Carlos, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 12:15 (sixteen years ago) link
maybe now they'll remember you?
― blueski, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 12:16 (sixteen years ago) link
I am too scared to show my face, maybe they think I am a loser
― Carlos, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 12:18 (sixteen years ago) link
better to know than to forever wonder
― blueski, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 12:19 (sixteen years ago) link
I just discovered my cousin's on FB. It was really... strange. Like two worlds colliding, really. I added her and we've been messaging back and forth.
― nathalie, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 12:20 (sixteen years ago) link
my cousins are all over the bloody thing. it's quite good fun.
― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 12:22 (sixteen years ago) link
ken's application is amazing
― ken c, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 12:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Same here grimly. Shocked at their spelling though!
― kv_nol, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 12:23 (sixteen years ago) link
i blocked my cousins.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 12:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Par for the course with you, I'm sure.
― kv_nol, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 12:28 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost me too. :-( I mean, she only spelled one word wrong, but I also noticed how "internetty" she wrote. VEry strange. But then I realize it's my fault, I'm a bit oldfashioned when it comes to spelling and text messaging, I PH34R.
Ken, what's the app DO?
― nathalie, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 12:29 (sixteen years ago) link
My mother joined Facebook, friended me, and now writes stuff on my wall constantly. Surely this is the kind of awkward social situation one is supposed to transcend post high school.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 14:55 (sixteen years ago) link
that is just wrong. facebook should be logan's runned.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 14:57 (sixteen years ago) link
and then you have to move on...to 'facelift'
― Just got offed, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 14:58 (sixteen years ago) link
your host on 'just a minute' this week was louis jagger
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 14:59 (sixteen years ago) link
REPETITION!
― Mark G, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 15:01 (sixteen years ago) link
my sister just joined. i feel a bit guilty about only letting her see my limited profile but...will she know that's all she's seeing? i think not. so fuck it. she doesn't know a single one of my friends so it really doesn't matter...
― CharlieNo4, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 15:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Ha my little sister refuses to friend any family members or mutual friends so we can't spy on her!
― kv_nol, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 15:05 (sixteen years ago) link
i knew it was weak from the moment i pressed 'submit', enrique, but that's LOW
― Just got offed, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 15:22 (sixteen years ago) link
My mom labeled knowing about myspace a waste of time. So I doubt she'll be getting on FB. Thank GOD.
― nathalie, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 15:30 (sixteen years ago) link
my sister is 40 with three kids (two teens). i'm more worried about the teens finding me tbh...
― CharlieNo4, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 15:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Is that on the wrong thread, L?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 15:42 (sixteen years ago) link
hmmmm.
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200710/facebook
― kenan, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 16:23 (sixteen years ago) link
"I like it because it's something for everyone (until everyone is on it)." Lather, rinse, repeat.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 16:27 (sixteen years ago) link
CIO: english newspaper columnists in their late 20's or older being all "i just joined facebook, here are some of the things i can do, the old social order is dead, lol poking"
― Just got offed, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 16:30 (sixteen years ago) link
The experience is initially unnerving, but once you get the hang of it, you start feeling like you’re part of some great undulating, pulsing virtual experiment—like that scene in Wim Wenders’s Wings of Desire when Cassiel and Damiel wander Berlin hearing the innermost thoughts of everyone around them, except funnier and less pretentious.
I wish that sentence was funnier ans less pretentious.
― kenan, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 16:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Meanwhile Apparently last month Bebo overtook Google as the most-viewed website in the UK
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 16:37 (sixteen years ago) link
There was an amusing Talk of the Town piece in the New Yorker last week about a freshman-orientation workshop at NYU that teaches students who conduct most of their social interactions on Facebook how to interact with people IRL.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 16:38 (sixteen years ago) link
kenan otm
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 16:54 (sixteen years ago) link
That article in The Atlantic is pretty good, but contrary to the author, I think all the new gadgets that have started cluttering up people’s pages are a harbinger of impending doom. I bet it’s only a matter of time before people start adding music and irritating GIFs to their pages, to say nothing of auto-playing video clips and epilepsy-inducing colour-schemes.
― Jeb, Thursday, 20 September 2007 00:50 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.facebook.com/friends.php?id=653621937
― negotiable, Thursday, 27 September 2007 06:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Ruh roh scrappy
― kv_nol, Thursday, 27 September 2007 15:52 (sixteen years ago) link
"swatted away collywobbles " what the?
― sunny successor, Thursday, 27 September 2007 16:41 (sixteen years ago) link
I went away for five days and got about twenty app requests argh. When will people learn not to press "select all"?
― Roz, Thursday, 27 September 2007 17:23 (sixteen years ago) link
My mother is now aware of Facebook as I had forwarded pics my cousin posted on her profile.
Mom: "Oh, yes, I read a piece aboutr that in the NYT, they said it was a potential threat for pornography and luring teenagers into it." (Sth like that.)
Me: "?"
― stevienixed, Thursday, 27 September 2007 17:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Roz very much OTM!
― kv_nol, Friday, 28 September 2007 08:22 (sixteen years ago) link
-- That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 14:57 (2 weeks ago) Link
I thought that too but then my neices and cousins were saying to me "Why aren't you on facebook so we can laugh at you being so old" (actually they only said the first bit to my face). So now I am. http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=581671453 And my only friends are my nieces. And two other people.
― Ned Trifle II, Friday, 28 September 2007 08:42 (sixteen years ago) link
stevenixed's mum OTM.
― ken c, Friday, 28 September 2007 12:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Fuck an X Me application. "Someone decided to hug you" "you decided to hug someone". No, I didn't, stop spamming me.
― Colonel Poo, Monday, 1 October 2007 13:21 (sixteen years ago) link
so they're getting sued now?
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Monday, 1 October 2007 13:44 (sixteen years ago) link
updates for me today, guys?
― ken c, Monday, 1 October 2007 14:14 (sixteen years ago) link
my fucken phd supervisor is on facebook. really want to quit it.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Monday, 1 October 2007 15:12 (sixteen years ago) link
you should hit it first.
― ken c, Monday, 1 October 2007 15:24 (sixteen years ago) link
p.s. i didn't you know are on facebook
Oh noes it is broken :( Who is this mysterious individual who has poked me? Sigh.
― kv_nol, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 07:59 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm thinking of getting off Facebook, already. Too many people I don't really like but have to pretend to care about! Cousins! Exes! Friends of friends!
Too much like real life. Do not want.
― accentmonkey, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 08:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Is anyone else's login saying its down for maintenance "for a few hours" wtf?
― Trayce, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 09:04 (sixteen years ago) link
noo..oh
― Mark G, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 09:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah it just happened then. And then if you retry it says yr password is wrong. But it isnt.
― Trayce, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 09:09 (sixteen years ago) link
is your caps lock on?
― ken c, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 09:12 (sixteen years ago) link
I just get thrown back to the login page time after time. :(
― Raw Patrick, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 09:12 (sixteen years ago) link
No I really was doing it right... its working now. Weird.
― Trayce, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 09:30 (sixteen years ago) link
-- kv_nol, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 08:59 (Tuesday, 2 October 2007 08:59)
Accentmonkey, was there one person you added and all this stuff followed on? I had that and am thinking of quietly telling them irl that I think they're great but I'm letting them go because I'm sick of people going: "Oh here's x, oh and there's y. Let's add them both."
― kv_nol, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 09:35 (sixteen years ago) link
I added my first bf who i havent seenin 15 years and now I kind of regret it... he's just so different to me now it is weirding me the fuck out.
― Trayce, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 09:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Then un-add him. No need for drama, he won't be hurt. You can also put him on limited profile and reduce the amount of news you get from him.
― kv_nol, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 09:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Eh, its no big deal. Ive added a heap of ppl I never engage with. Its not like I do anything deadly important on FB :)
― Trayce, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 10:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Wait, how do I limit the news I get from people? Cos I'm really fuckin sick of getting status updates from school menks every ten seconds going "IS WISHING THAT CERTAIN PPL WOULD JUST BE HONEST GOD MEN ARE SO STUPID"
― That mong guy that's shit, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 10:10 (sixteen years ago) link
the top right of your news feed there is 'preferences' - click on that and there are a bunch of dials you can adjust. just turn them all down and you'll get no news at all.
― Rubyredd, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 10:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Chrz!
― That mong guy that's shit, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 10:17 (sixteen years ago) link
if only there was a dial you could turn down on all the stupid apps. wtf is the point of being a ninja, werewolf or vampire? why would i want to come to an imaginary happy hour?
― Rubyredd, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 10:29 (sixteen years ago) link
I just ignore most of em.
― Trayce, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 10:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Tho I have scrab, sudoku and astrolgy/tarot apps... and i like the ask a question thing, thats created some amusing creativity from friends. My latest question is "lads: are you impressed by a girl who can out-belch you?"
Only my ex has answered it so far though :(
I would be, Trayce!
I removed the Ask A Question app because it seemed to have asked questions automatically for me, which was annoying.
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 11:00 (sixteen years ago) link
I removed it because I couldn't find a way to get it to stop emailing me every time one of my FB friends asked a question, and even now I keep getting noitifications in FB to tell me that so-and-so has asked a question. I'm sick of it.
― accentmonkey, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 11:04 (sixteen years ago) link
I think you can turn some of that off... people are nongs and leave everyone ticked when they ask a q'n.
― Trayce, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 11:09 (sixteen years ago) link
ken c has asked a question "shall i turn the notifications for ask a question off"
― ken c, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 11:16 (sixteen years ago) link
I have been avoiding Facebook because a) it annoyed me by being students-only when I wasn't a student, b) assumed myspacesque "who can win most friends by how hot their pouting emo teenage bathroom mirror photo is" competition reasons, and c) it seems kind of OLD now and if I can't be an early adopter then I don't want to know etc, but last weekend I met some people I hadn't seen in ages and would kind of like to see again, and they asked if I was on it, and joining up now to say hi seems marginally less creepy than trying to google up an email address, maybe.
Oh God, I find livejournal super-depressing for this reason so maybe I should be happy with not getting to spy on their Facebooks. Everyone I ever knew or thought seemed interesting even though they were too cool to talk to me from like 4 or 5 separate groups of long-lost friends is now in the same LJ friend circle (and there was me trying not to mix a couple of the groups when I knew them under the assumption that they wouldn't get on).
Meanwhile I don't see any of them except some of the too-cool types from a distance and one once-friend I bump into maybe twice a year who gives me that busy "oh yeah, I used to know you, but I have much better stuff happening in my life now" vibe each time. Then again maybe she would be nice and chatty except she thinks I'm giving off that vibe too? Arghs etc.
― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 11:36 (sixteen years ago) link
dude pouting bathroom mirror photos are GRATE!
― ken c, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 11:59 (sixteen years ago) link
ken who are these two american girls you are in the shower with? did you pick them up in vegas?
― Rubyredd, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 12:04 (sixteen years ago) link
i can't log in either. and i have a MESSAGE from a crush awaiting me inside. facebook, y u torture me like dis?
― stevie, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 12:06 (sixteen years ago) link
OH WOW poor you!! i'm not having any trouble logging in over here.
― Rubyredd, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 12:08 (sixteen years ago) link
i picked up those two american girls when i was in a mars bar eating competition (i ate 6 in half an hour!), this was the day after i unearthed a bomb while working on a site
― ken c, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 12:31 (sixteen years ago) link
i hope a crush will have messaged me next time i log in :\
― ken c, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 12:32 (sixteen years ago) link
* After the maintenance is over, you will still be able to login with the same password * Your profile and account will not be affected by the maintenance * There is no need to notify Facebook of the site maintenance. We're the ones doing the work, so if you see this notice, it means that we're already aware of the issue. * We don't do site maintenance on all accounts at the same time, so it is possible that some of your friends will be able to access the site while your account is unavailable.
― stevie, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 12:35 (sixteen years ago) link
fucking hell, phd supervisor has friended a mutual friend.
this shit is wrong.
but it's too late to block him now. i just hope he has the good sense and tact not to friend me.
there is a time for earnest academic discussion of bullshit old movies no-one cares about, and there is a place for mondeo pop and... they're not in the same place.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 09:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Dude I've seen I Love Film, I'm calling bullshit.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 10:09 (sixteen years ago) link
no crush has messaged me yet :\
― ken c, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 10:14 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm too shy and scared of rejection for facebook.
― Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 10:17 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm too easily swayed by peer pressure *not* to be on Facebook
― Forest Pines Mk2, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 10:24 (sixteen years ago) link
i'd totally reject you ned trifle ii as we had never met
― ken c, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 10:26 (sixteen years ago) link
although sometimes i make exceptions so you may get lucky
― ken c, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 10:27 (sixteen years ago) link
i think this glimmer of hope of becoming my facebook friend should be enough for you to join.
― ken c, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 10:28 (sixteen years ago) link
You can let him see just a limited profile. Check your privacy settings...
― kv_nol, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 10:38 (sixteen years ago) link
or just not accept his friending
― ken c, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 10:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Stone cold rejection is an option, yes. Perhaps not the politest mind!
― kv_nol, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 11:01 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm figuring out what to do in this situation. The person tries to get you to befriend them, and you choose ignore. Then you see them in real life and they go 'hey! You didn't befriend me!' and you act all confused and say 'oh, sorry, some spammer was trying to befriend me last week, I must have hit the wrong button. Send the request again.'
If they never say anything, you never have to worry.
― accentmonkey, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 12:05 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm already in it ken and, of course, it is your rejection I fear the most.
― Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 12:16 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost instead of rejecting per se i've currently left about 10 requests in limbo.
― ken c, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 12:21 (sixteen years ago) link
it was just that the last time i rejected somebody, they came back with a request again - so if i leave everything in limbo at least i won't get another notification that i don't need if they do.
it's getting increasingly annoying having 10 friend requests pending though so maybe i should actually just reject it all.
― ken c, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 12:23 (sixteen years ago) link
I wish there was an "abjure" option. I just really like that word.
― accentmonkey, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 12:27 (sixteen years ago) link
this has just appeared:
"My Band
Are YOU in a band? Promote it on your Facebook Page w/ MyBand!"
...is this the killer blow to myspace???
― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 12:41 (sixteen years ago) link
i thought my band has been there for ages! i looked it up because i wanted to make a similar application myself. but it seems to have like 10 people using it to last time i looked.
― ken c, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 12:47 (sixteen years ago) link
The 'Friend Groups' thing that Facebook are supposed to be launching rsn could solve some of your problems, accentmonkey. You can friend someone, and then add them to the group "wish I hadn't friended this person", where they never see your updates and you don't see theirs.
― Ray, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 13:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes, that sounds like exactly what I want.
― accentmonkey, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 14:04 (sixteen years ago) link
...is this the killer blow to myspace facebook ???
-- Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 12:41
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 15:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Top Movies in the London network. 1 Pulp Fiction 2 Shawshank Redemption 3 Dirty Dancing 4 Anchorman 5 Fight Club
which says to me people aged 25-35.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Sunday, 14 October 2007 14:33 (sixteen years ago) link
I heard an awful tale at lunch today. One of my colleagues missed someone's wedding coz they had sent out the invitations via facebook rather than in the traditional way.
― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 18 October 2007 15:18 (sixteen years ago) link
wtf i've just been added by an extremely hot girl, i check her profile and a) there is no information except the basic 'interested in, relationship status, DOB, hometown' shizzle at the top, and b) i am, at time of writing, her only friend.
is this some sort of joke? does dom really have that much spare time?
― Just got offed, Saturday, 20 October 2007 20:59 (sixteen years ago) link
You're in there.
― Ned Trifle II, Saturday, 20 October 2007 22:48 (sixteen years ago) link
OK, I'm still her only friend. OWN UP, SOMEONE.
― Just got offed, Sunday, 21 October 2007 08:50 (sixteen years ago) link
it's yr mom dude
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 21 October 2007 09:06 (sixteen years ago) link
I was going to have a look but you've got 544 friends! That's more friends than I've had in my entire life. In fact that's more people than I've known in my entire life. I am depressed.
― Ned Trifle II, Sunday, 21 October 2007 09:06 (sixteen years ago) link
There's a chance it might be my 16 year-old brother playing an elaborate stunt, but it doesn't really strike me as his style.
― Just got offed, Sunday, 21 October 2007 09:14 (sixteen years ago) link
And old, faint high school acquaintance found me on facebook, and tonight I was forced to personally message her. It was the last straw.
I 'member you! :)
But plz, no more werewolves, vampires, pirates, zombies, mummies, dragons, unicorns, satyrs, bigfoots, chupacabras, loch ness monsters, centaurs, sphinxes, angels, krakens, or hippogriffs.
― kenan, Thursday, 25 October 2007 08:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Most depressing message I have received so far from an old school person:
"Hi Matt, not much has happened in the last 12 years, apart from me getting older. How are you?"
I didn't really know how to respond.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 25 October 2007 08:40 (sixteen years ago) link
First fake Luna - took a little while...
― Matt DC, Thursday, 25 October 2007 08:41 (sixteen years ago) link
I had a friend request from someone with the same name as me, so I added him. The next day I removed him, it was way too confusing.
― Mark G, Thursday, 25 October 2007 08:46 (sixteen years ago) link
ok i don't want to get too jon williams on this girl, except that I do. I was just chatting with someone else who went to school with us -- her facebook profile photo is of her in a wedding dress, and she's been married for THREE YEARS. And her list of "want to read books" looks like this:
http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/want_to_read.png
― kenan, Thursday, 25 October 2007 09:02 (sixteen years ago) link
i mean, holy crap on a cracker.
Well, you can't say she aesthetically inconsistent, at least.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 25 October 2007 09:07 (sixteen years ago) link
true, true
― kenan, Thursday, 25 October 2007 09:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Also no comment yet on the news that Microsoft has spent $240m on a 1.6% stake in Facebook? That values it at $15bn, for a site that's expected to make maybe $150m of revenue this year.
If I were Mark Zuckerberg I would sell the whole thing now and laugh all the way to the bank when the thing fails to make anywhere near as much money as people are hoping.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 25 October 2007 09:31 (sixteen years ago) link
or sit on it until it becomes useful
― kenan, Thursday, 25 October 2007 09:44 (sixteen years ago) link
but maybe you're right, maybe open-sourcing a social network will only make more zombies, so to speak. How's th IM app working? Anybody using it? Any word on email integration?
― kenan, Thursday, 25 October 2007 09:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Kenan, so she likes Stephen King huh? (I'm not one to speak tho as my book collection is very inconsistent.)
― nathalie, Thursday, 25 October 2007 09:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Well yeah, email integraton and so forth is the next logical step. I presume what Microsoft is trying to do is find a way to take on Google as the portal through which people access the web and organise their online lives, without trying to beat Google at its own game.
I'm pretty sure that within a year, all Microsoft applications will be fully operable through Facebook in some form or another, maybe Google Docs style. That could lead to a lot of people spending a lot of time on the site.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 25 October 2007 10:02 (sixteen years ago) link
do people actually use google docs a lot? (this is a genuine question)
if anyone wants to make money they should buy scrabulous cos that's what people do solely on facebook these days!
― ken c, Thursday, 25 October 2007 10:09 (sixteen years ago) link
I use Google Docs but very VERY rarely.
― nathalie, Thursday, 25 October 2007 10:15 (sixteen years ago) link
so she likes Stephen King huh?
christ almighty, apparently.
my point, nath, is that someone who never reads anything OR EVEN ASPIRES TO READ anything outside of three authors is intellectually stunted. Obviously!(?) I mean, maybe if the three authors were not King, Nora Roberts and Anne Rice.
xpost.
all Microsoft applications will be fully operable through Facebook in some form or another, maybe Google Docs style
but MS apps are already operable through the web, it's just nobody uses them like that -- it's frustrating. People in my company bitch about the poor quality of their web-based Outlook access, or how they can open a word doc on one machine but not another (well, there's a very simple explanation for that, they're idiots, but i'll save that rant for later).
The thing is that most businesses use MS Office, and MS office does not work so well on the web (if at all). It just don't, sorry microsoft. Your code is inscrutable, and no one can develop for the web at all with MS products except by using MS products. Which is a clusterfuck that will continue for a while, if my company is any indication, but it's no model for the future.
― kenan, Thursday, 25 October 2007 10:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Dude, at least she reads.
― Mark C, Thursday, 25 October 2007 10:19 (sixteen years ago) link
reading is overrated
― ken c, Thursday, 25 October 2007 10:22 (sixteen years ago) link
reading schlock horror and soft porn is... well... rated exactly right.
― kenan, Thursday, 25 October 2007 10:24 (sixteen years ago) link
I suppose we could congratulate her on gratuating into adult sublect matter, if not reading level? I dunno. Yeah, at least she can read. I mean, at least she reads.
― kenan, Thursday, 25 October 2007 10:25 (sixteen years ago) link
but can she spell?
― Mark G, Thursday, 25 October 2007 10:26 (sixteen years ago) link
spelling is sublective
― ken c, Thursday, 25 October 2007 10:27 (sixteen years ago) link
oh fubk both of you
― kenan, Thursday, 25 October 2007 10:27 (sixteen years ago) link
maybe you should test her by playing her in scrabulous, kenan!
― ken c, Thursday, 25 October 2007 10:28 (sixteen years ago) link
but word of caution: imagine the humiliation of losing to a stephen king reader..
― ken c, Thursday, 25 October 2007 10:29 (sixteen years ago) link
hey hey, that's just ugly. Let's not drag something as personal as scrabble into this.
― kenan, Thursday, 25 October 2007 10:29 (sixteen years ago) link
The worst book I've read in recent times was a Stephen King book (I had to read it for work). It was SO BAD.
― Mark C, Thursday, 25 October 2007 10:31 (sixteen years ago) link
I remember a Steven King interview where he talked about how he doesn't really know how his books are going to end, he justs starts with an IDEA, and then just lets that IDEA take him where it will. I think it was Truman Capote who called that "typing."
― kenan, Thursday, 25 October 2007 10:36 (sixteen years ago) link
web-based Outlook is like going back in time 10 years
― Alan, Thursday, 25 October 2007 10:44 (sixteen years ago) link
"Yes," your friendly local IT guy will argue, "But it's THE BEST of 10 years ago!"
― kenan, Thursday, 25 October 2007 10:53 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm going to have to start doing this. One of my old co-workers seeme to be adding EVERY APPLICATION UNDER THE SUN and sending me crap. He even sent me some stop smoking message the other day. Grrrrr.
― ENBB, Thursday, 25 October 2007 13:43 (sixteen years ago) link
It's too easy... every frickin' application gives you this automatic screen to "send to your friends!" with a list of your friends and every one of them checked.
― kenan, Thursday, 25 October 2007 13:45 (sixteen years ago) link
I know but I make the effort to uncheck those things so that I don't piss people off. Why can't he? /vent.
― ENBB, Thursday, 25 October 2007 14:01 (sixteen years ago) link
because it's specifically designed to seem like more of a pain in the ass NOT to send a message to everyone in the world (even if that's not actually true)
― kenan, Thursday, 25 October 2007 14:23 (sixteen years ago) link
And the horrible thing: I CAN NOT UNCHECK ALL most of the time. :-(((((((( I'll have to try Firefox to see if this is due to Safari or something. Sometimes I uncheck them all seperately but most of the time I'm too lazy and send it to you guys. Sorry. Really. :-(
my point, nath, is that someone who never reads anything OR EVEN ASPIRES TO READ anything outside of three authors is intellectually stunted.
I hate to agree, but you're right. :-(
― stevienixed, Thursday, 25 October 2007 14:32 (sixteen years ago) link
just seen this on facebook, or, at least a link to it:
"Are You Sexy ? Enter your date and time of birth and find out now! "
er, rly?
― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 25 October 2007 14:33 (sixteen years ago) link
I tend to "unclick everyone" button then reselect.. usually one Stvynx.. (gets too many mesages all the same no doubt)
― Mark G, Thursday, 25 October 2007 14:34 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost yeah and if it's earlier than the eighties, then it's not got love for you...
My sister asked me if I'm on Facebook, I found her profile and my mum is one of her friends... this means if I add my sister I will be Facebook friends with my mum. There's not really any reason why I wouldn't want my mum to see my profile but it still feels a bit odd! Hmm.
Also xpost to people having trouble with applications wanting to send to all your friends, you know you can skip that step right?
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 10:35 (sixteen years ago) link
no, they don't seem to.
i don't want to be a fucking zombie, werewolf or vampire, or add any other cunting stupid feature. pls to naff off.
― Upt0eleven, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 10:37 (sixteen years ago) link
colonel -- i've had that problem. just pre-emptively block your mum.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 10:47 (sixteen years ago) link
mumblocking?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 10:58 (sixteen years ago) link
pre-emptively cock-block your mum
― ken c, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 10:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh great, now my friend's cousin is posting anti-immigration "funnies" on my "Fun Wall". I think I may have to remove that application, unless I can block certain people from posting on it...
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 12:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Friend's cousins on your friends list??
― Alba, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 13:22 (sixteen years ago) link
I know, I know. His dad friended me as well. I do know them all, have been out drinking with them etc. Seemed rude not to.
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 14:34 (sixteen years ago) link
'Ken Livingstone and Chris Kamara are now friends'
― Matt DC, Monday, 12 November 2007 17:20 (sixteen years ago) link
I wish celebs were on Facebook, putting gossip bloggers out of business...
http://www.pixelbuddy.com/images/broken_heart.gif Jake Gyllenhaal is no longer in a relationship.
― Will M., Monday, 12 November 2007 17:25 (sixteen years ago) link
aww imagine the broken heart was where it belonged there
I have now rejected one individual's friend request three times. I almost feel bad but there's a reason I haven't spoken to him for 7 years. He was a cockfarmer then and by all accounts, having seen his uber-twattish professionally taken pictures (in many of which he is shirtless) on someone else's account, he is still a cockfarmer now. and he has a terrible terrible tache too.
― Upt0eleven, Thursday, 15 November 2007 11:22 (sixteen years ago) link
no luv for the selleck
― darraghmac, Thursday, 15 November 2007 11:25 (sixteen years ago) link
i should have blocked my sister. her social life is not something i want to know about.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Monday, 19 November 2007 16:07 (sixteen years ago) link
lolololololololol
my brothers aren't interested in f-book thank heavens. although they are not yet 18 so maybe there is time yet.
― Just got offed, Monday, 19 November 2007 16:10 (sixteen years ago) link
GET THEM ON ILX.
― Matt DC, Monday, 19 November 2007 16:11 (sixteen years ago) link
one of them is a long-time lurker, but if he joins it will be as an ILM-specific thing. he is a lot more mature and discreet than me in many ways. he is very experienced with internet dialogue and will fit in seamlessly, only posting about things he is an expert on. the other one will not join ilx. i can say that with confidence.
if the first brother joins ilx, i will not draw any attention to him, and you will not be able to tell who he is.
― Just got offed, Monday, 19 November 2007 16:21 (sixteen years ago) link
ok, wtf, my mom is on facebook now. how did i find out? she's friends w my aunt. argh!
― stevienixed, Tuesday, 20 November 2007 02:54 (sixteen years ago) link
I remember a Steven King interview where he talked about how he doesn't really know how his books are going to end, he justs starts with an IDEA, and then just lets that IDEA take him where it will.
WHOA I tried that and it's like throwing armpit hair into a bottomless tunnel, ie pointless.
― Abbott, Tuesday, 20 November 2007 23:28 (sixteen years ago) link
You need different hair.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 November 2007 23:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Your favorite musicians and businesses are here. Your favorite bands, businesses, and products are coming to Facebook. Check out Dave Matthews Band, become a fan of (RED), or search for your favorite brands. You can also find out about what your friends like through the new "Fan of..." box on their profiles.
― Mark G, Thursday, 22 November 2007 11:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Syria: not a fan
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 24 November 2007 17:56 (sixteen years ago) link
This was my first Thanksgiving away from home, and after a phone call with most of the extended family gathering, I ended up facebook friending my aunt and both her kids to see the pictures they posted the next day. Crazy!
― Maria, Saturday, 24 November 2007 19:23 (sixteen years ago) link
and also to make them werewolves.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Saturday, 24 November 2007 20:06 (sixteen years ago) link
haha my brother-in-law's uncle is a weird dude to begin with but now i'm seeing strange comments from him on my sister's facebook page. it's freaking me out that he's going to find me next! alsdkgj!
― tehresa, Saturday, 24 November 2007 20:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Apparently your activity on other websites may soon show up on Facebook's news feed. I was forwarded an e-mail from my girlfriend's co-worker that said that after he bought something on Amazon, a comment about the purchase then appeared on Facebook, even though he uses a different e-mail address for each site. MoveOn.org is starting a petition against this blatant privacy violation, and they've created a Facebook group as well.
More from the NYTimes.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 23:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah this is part of the new advertising model cooked up to attempt to justify Facebook's ridiculous overvaluation (see also becoming a 'fan' of things). *Apparently* you can opt out of this somewhere but I'm going to be keeping an eye on my newsfeed whenever I buy something.
There is a huge potential backlash here.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 23:31 (sixteen years ago) link
I went to my privacy settings to see if I could turn this off, and it said that no websites had tried sending my data to Facebook yet, so there was nothing I could do, even preemptively.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 23:34 (sixteen years ago) link
I just saw this via kv_nol posting a comment on Facebook - how the fuck does this work anyway? How does Amazon etc know what yr Facebook account is? Via your cookies or something? This sounds pretty fucked up. Not that I've noticed anything on my news feed yet.
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 16:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Amazon & FB both use email addresses as logins - I assume they're just feeding back for every email address that matches up on both sites.
― onimo, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 16:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Well, as I said upthread, my girlfriend's co-worker uses different e-mails for Facebook and Amazon, so he was guessing IP address (although that doesn't seem like it would be very accurate if you share your computer with someone else).
― jaymc, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 16:22 (sixteen years ago) link
domain cookies
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 16:26 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.ideashower.com/blog/block-facebook-beacon/
― kenan, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 16:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Sorry jaymc, didn't notice you said they were different emails. As you say IP addresses are no good (I share one of my work IPs with a squillion others). Unless they're 100% sure about someone's identity (and even if they are!) this could lead to some very dodgy situations.
xpost thanks Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃 - if that's the case it can be prevented locally, though many wouldn't know how to do it
― onimo, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 16:30 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.realclimate.org/images/Sheep.jpg
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 16:37 (sixteen years ago) link
WHAT'S NEXT GUYS? WHERE TO?
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 16:39 (sixteen years ago) link
I like facebook, and lord knows I like scrabble, but lord also knows that if I get just one notification from facebook that says "Congratulations! We're going to tell all your friends that you heartily endorse the Hitachi Magic Wand!" I am so deleting my account and never looking back.
― kenan, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 16:41 (sixteen years ago) link
― kenan, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 16:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Kenan, don't go! I mean, fuck it, just ignore those notifications. I unselected most so I don't get'em in my email account. And you can go directly to Scrab, bypassing FB and stuff. :-)
My mum ignored my friend request. BITCH. ;-)
― nathalie, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 17:02 (sixteen years ago) link
nath, the point is not that I'm mildly itchy when I get too many notifications, it's... um... where to begin?
― kenan, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 17:04 (sixteen years ago) link
If I get bitten by another werewolf I will consider deleting my account too.
― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 17:56 (sixteen years ago) link
OTM. Werewolves, pirates, zombies: I don't have time for that shit.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 18:02 (sixteen years ago) link
How long before there's a malicious app that tells everyone's entire friends list exactly which porn sites they've been looking at?
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 18:05 (sixteen years ago) link
-- jaymc, Wednesday, November 28, 2007 1:02 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
^ maybe you should join a facebook group about this?
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 18:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Facebook's security registration code got personal on me this afternoon:
http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/4626/facebooksecuritycheckao1.jpg
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 20:33 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost doesnt have time as he's hiding from all those nasties
― stevienixed, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 21:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Woh, is this Amazon thing true? I just bought a load of Christmas presents on Amazon - is Facebook going to ruin Christmas for all my friends and family? Won't someone think of the children!!
― Not the real Village People, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 22:47 (sixteen years ago) link
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wtf
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 22:52 (sixteen years ago) link
I have to wait for this shit?
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 22:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Mr non-villageperson has a very good point on the presents thing. This is insanity.
― Trayce, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 23:26 (sixteen years ago) link
wait, whats a hitachi magic wand?
― sunny successor, Thursday, 29 November 2007 05:01 (sixteen years ago) link
you've been missing out, my friend
― latebloomer, Thursday, 29 November 2007 05:05 (sixteen years ago) link
(j/k)
No more 'is' in status!
― Raw Patrick, Thursday, 13 December 2007 09:46 (sixteen years ago) link
That mong guy that's shit is thinking that is such a good idea!!! roll on Friday tho!!!
― That mong guy that's shit, Thursday, 13 December 2007 09:52 (sixteen years ago) link
i campaigned for this, but now i have a kind of empty feeling inside lol.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 13 December 2007 09:52 (sixteen years ago) link
A victory for the peeple.
― W4LTER, Thursday, 13 December 2007 10:02 (sixteen years ago) link
took me ages to think of a status that didn't require 'is'
― gem, Thursday, 13 December 2007 10:28 (sixteen years ago) link
boooo. bring it back.
― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 13 December 2007 11:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Eventually I went with "Gemma sometimes likes daylights saving" but it somehow sounds completely wrong
― gem, Thursday, 13 December 2007 11:59 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, December 13, 2007 11:58 AM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
this
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 13 December 2007 12:26 (sixteen years ago) link
You crazy. If you want "is" just type "is".
― ledge, Thursday, 13 December 2007 12:27 (sixteen years ago) link
You actually have an "is" in there automatically that you have the option of deleting. They should maybe add an autocorrect option for "sooooooooo tired" and "looking forward to the weekend" while they're at it.
― That mong guy that's shit, Thursday, 13 December 2007 12:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Or just automatically change them all to "is some boring cunt you went to school with who never left their hometown, has just bought their first house and is married to one of the old gang, whoop de fuckin doo"
― That mong guy that's shit, Thursday, 13 December 2007 12:32 (sixteen years ago) link
one of my tiny number of "friends" has 1,300+ friends, and i was looking for a mutual friend of ours in them, and he had two people who had the (fairly uncommon) name i was looking for, and neither of them were her, and there was no obvious connection (eg one was an american high school student) to my guy... so i think he friended them on the basis 'lol u have a name like my friend who isn't on facebook'. weird.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 13 December 2007 12:33 (sixteen years ago) link
oh my god i think i might do that now.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 13 December 2007 12:34 (sixteen years ago) link
that's gonna be mine. lol satire
― Upt0eleven, Thursday, 13 December 2007 12:34 (sixteen years ago) link
snarky. I have hardly any school friends on my friends list... just current friends.
― gem, Thursday, 13 December 2007 12:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Em*ly C******r is soooo tird of the kidz bt lookin 4wrd to top gear
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 13 December 2007 12:50 (sixteen years ago) link
emily should buy some vowels. and consonants.
― gem, Thursday, 13 December 2007 13:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Carol Vorderman is bribeable?
― Mark G, Thursday, 13 December 2007 13:27 (sixteen years ago) link
CRUTIS IS LISTED AS IN A RELATIONSHIP
― cutty, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 02:41 (sixteen years ago) link
I've been in a relationship
― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 04:33 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah cutty this isn't exackly news
― Just got offed, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 10:11 (sixteen years ago) link
come on cutty, louis and curtis have been together for almost 18 months now!
― max, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 10:33 (sixteen years ago) link
lol envy
― Just got offed, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 10:35 (sixteen years ago) link
flash bang trollop
― nathalie, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 10:57 (sixteen years ago) link
what IS news however...
J0N W1LL1AMS went from being "single" to "in a relationship".
― Just got offed, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 11:28 (sixteen years ago) link
...oh, I see.
― Just got offed, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 11:29 (sixteen years ago) link
i was there when mandee first asked out jon
― max, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 14:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Getting REALLY annoyed by the following sequence:
1. Person I haven't thought of in years adds me as friend 2. I send message that says "hey, what's up, how've you been" 3. No response
Should I add a step 4 here where I un-friend them? I mean, seriously, if you don't like me enough to return a polite "how are you" note, then why are you adding me as a friend in the first place?
― nabisco, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 21:08 (sixteen years ago) link
maybe s/he is with the family, celebrating some holiday, not checking fbook msgs?
― 69, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 21:09 (sixteen years ago) link
"Getting REALLY annoyed" should be read to indicate that this is very much an ongoing pattern. The best was a girl I could faintly remember being in high school with when I was 15 -- adds me, I write ("wow, how've you been, what are you doing in NYC now"), nothing.
― nabisco, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 21:15 (sixteen years ago) link
me and jon are in a facebook relationship
― homosexual II, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 21:18 (sixteen years ago) link
here's a peeve: unless you already had it on your 'Looking for' section before they got rid of it, you can no longer change your 'Looking for' to 'Whatever I Can Get.' thus, all these people can look for whatever they can get, but i cannot. UNFAIR.
i even wrote to them about it, to no avail.
so to be a smart-ass, i changed my religious views to "whatever i can get." heh heh.
― the table is the table, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 21:19 (sixteen years ago) link
seriously though, why'd they get rid of that option? don't they think that some people might have gone from looking for a relationship to looking for whatever they can get?
― the table is the table, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 21:20 (sixteen years ago) link
I am periodically updating my religious views -- right now it's at 2897. Next week I'll up it to 2904.
― nabisco, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 21:24 (sixteen years ago) link
i just friended everyone i met in ny last week (that i can find!) hi guys on facebook
― max, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 21:50 (sixteen years ago) link
i just deleted ex bf who's been sending me slightly creepy/flirty messages for a few months. i never replied and he never got the hint, so time to obliterate him.
― Rubyredd, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 22:00 (sixteen years ago) link
:(
Better hint: actually reply and say you found messages inappropriate and bothersome
― nabisco, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 22:11 (sixteen years ago) link
nah he's way too stupid to understand that.
― Rubyredd, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 23:00 (sixteen years ago) link
oh no, was that me?
― ken c, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
of course not!!!
― Rubyredd, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 23:02 (sixteen years ago) link
phew! (resumes filthy messages)
― ken c, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 23:03 (sixteen years ago) link
you don't send me ENOUGH creepy/flirty msgs :( :( :(
― Rubyredd, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 23:03 (sixteen years ago) link
eww
― nabisco, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 23:04 (sixteen years ago) link
j/k
― nabisco, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 23:06 (sixteen years ago) link
The majority of the flirting process for my most recent, short-lived relationship was done via Facebook, and I must say it was a lot easier and less stressful than doing it in person or even via text, so hooray for that. Double-edged sword, though - I got bluntly informed by the internet the other day that she is now 'in a relationship', grrr. And I couldn't resist a bit of spying and having a look at her new bloke, which didn't make things better.
― chap, Thursday, 27 December 2007 01:26 (sixteen years ago) link
rubyredd totally made me blush with her rude message
― ken c, Thursday, 27 December 2007 01:53 (sixteen years ago) link
the weird thing about that msg is that it's the middle of the day and i'm at work...
― Rubyredd, Thursday, 27 December 2007 01:57 (sixteen years ago) link
your work sounds fun!
― ken c, Thursday, 27 December 2007 02:07 (sixteen years ago) link
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 27 December 2007 02:09 (sixteen years ago) link
rfi: where do I get these applications?
http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/facebook_want.png
― kenan, Monday, 7 January 2008 15:53 (sixteen years ago) link
damn the hat is so close to being on the bear's head resulting in best facebook app ever
― blueski, Monday, 7 January 2008 16:02 (sixteen years ago) link
gramophone on cow a close second
― Just got offed, Monday, 7 January 2008 16:04 (sixteen years ago) link
edwardian ipod style
― blueski, Monday, 7 January 2008 16:05 (sixteen years ago) link
I want out of facebook but can only seem to de-activate it. Is it deletable?
― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 09:19 (sixteen years ago) link
if it isn't, just delete all your friends and change all your personal details (name, email, age etc.)
― Rubyredd, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 09:28 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.wikihow.com/Permanently-Delete-a-Facebook-Account
that's pretty odd that you can't just delete it.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 09:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Doesn't that just make another facebook account?
― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 09:45 (sixteen years ago) link
I was so excited about Facebook last year. Now I can't stand the fucking thing. If it weren't for invitations to important things I wouldn't bother using it at all.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 09:47 (sixteen years ago) link
People just can't resist plastering their pages with tardloads of useless crap, and of course they have to send every one of their contacts a billion impersonal Pokes or Whacks or Are You Stronger Than a Dog? requests... so weird.
― Kerm, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 09:54 (sixteen years ago) link
also: sky blue, sun rises daily
― Kerm, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 09:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Two people I know send me literally hundreds of these shit invitations every month. One of them works in my company: if you email her a support request you NEVER get an answer, but she has enough time to invite me to all these bloody applications. I put in a request for some hardware TWICE last year and I haven't had a response, much less the hardware I asked for, but it's okay because she invited me to What Housebrick Are You 500 times. I mean for fuxake.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 09:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, that's partly the reason for my going, people using facebook as an alternative to email/phone/letters. Maybe I'm just too old but I just don't get it.
― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 10:00 (sixteen years ago) link
I used to get it. It's when (a) people went application crazy and (b) my mother started passing me messages through my cousins that I withdrew.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 10:01 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/14/facebook
― Ed, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 10:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Large company run by people who have right-wing viewpoints, liberal media reported "shook".
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 10:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Also, you should know all this before you make an account. I did. That's why my address and phone number are not there.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 10:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Large company run by people who have right-wing viewpoints, liberal media reported "shook"
jesus, dom. i just posted this in reply to the person who sent me the link:
oh for fuck's sake. "dudes bankrolling successful business venture aren't actually hippies shock; next, the weather."
― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 10:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Great line in "sitting in a darkened room sending "e-mails" backwards and forwards doesn't sound like bringing people together to me - I'd rather go to the pub!!??" point-missing to establish that credibility early on though
― That mong guy that's shit, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 10:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, that's partly the reason for my going, people using facebook as an alternative to email/phone/letters. Maybe I'm just too old but I just don't get it
also: is it just me or is there some kind of nose/knife/spite interplay going on there, ned? i mean, if you wipe your account, it's not going to change anything. except that you'll be even more pissed off that you miss out on something.
i dunno. i refuse to have any of this funwall shit going on (i think i've got a superwall, but it isn't displayed on my profile) and on the odd occasion that i do get some stupid invite to some daft app, i hit "ignore" and forget about it. as i've said above: i like the fact FB has put me in touch with some long-forgotten friends, and provides a very simple way of keeping in touch with dudes. the trappings are unimportant.
― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 10:27 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost: yeh, i bet the author of that piece is the life and soul of his local.
why be bored at work when you could be in the pub? honestly, some people.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 10:29 (sixteen years ago) link
One of the long-lost friends fb put me in touch with told me she's been crushing on me for 14 years. Um, great.
Other reunions have been less scary.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 10:30 (sixteen years ago) link
-- grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 10:27 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
If he's the guy I think he is, he's editor of smug-as-fuck "Hey, who needs to work we all have enough money" piece-of-shit middle class rag The Idler.
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 10:31 (sixteen years ago) link
oh, a professional cunt! that explains a lot.
― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 10:32 (sixteen years ago) link
that's the feller. he wrote an article about quitting email last year. lives in the west country. fuck him.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 10:32 (sixteen years ago) link
is it just me or is there some kind of nose/knife/spite interplay going on there, ned?
Ha! Probably. Something will have changed though, I won't have a facebook account.
xp. Actually, I like Tom Hodgkinson but then I am middle class, I like the west country, and I am mostly idle. Also I don't like right-wing libertarians, I don't like facebook, both of my friends know how to contact me without using facebook, why should I stay?
― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 10:37 (sixteen years ago) link
i just ignore pretty much any and all non-event invitations now, and have banished any kind of superwall. "fwd and see what happens!"
― stevie, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 11:01 (sixteen years ago) link
A friend of mine recently told me that he had spent a Saturday night at home alone on Facebook, drinking at his desk
lol I did this last Saturday :(
― DJ Mencap, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 12:05 (sixteen years ago) link
(until MOTD was on)
He has been known to sweep the chessmen off the table in a fury when losing. And he does not apologise for this hyper-competitveness, saying: "Show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser."
This is astonishing.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 12:08 (sixteen years ago) link
I hope he looks and sounds like Alan Rickman doing his most half-arsed evil dude by numbers.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 12:10 (sixteen years ago) link
he should find finding losers easily seeing as he owns facebook, amirite?
― Ed, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 12:10 (sixteen years ago) link
I use Facebook for two things; Scrabulous and Catbook.
― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 12:12 (sixteen years ago) link
I use it because more and more people I know are using the god damn Events application to base the social calendar around it's dragging me in.
I'm not saying that is isn't convenient...but shurely, there must be a better way...
― King Boy Pato, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 12:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Maybe its because the events application is actually really useful?
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 12:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Ugh lack of apostrophe, maybe Facebook is killing my literacy.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 12:17 (sixteen years ago) link
y u tlk so preppy??
― King Boy Pato, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 12:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Funny that that Guardian article leaves out the fact that Chris Hughes, who is mentioned as Facebook's publicist and one of its cofounders, moved to Chicago to work for the Obama campaign.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 06:58 (sixteen years ago) link
George W Obama
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 07:04 (sixteen years ago) link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7191264.stm
― Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 12:33 (sixteen years ago) link
lawls
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 12:35 (sixteen years ago) link
somebody smarter than Hasbro...shut 'em down
― blueski, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 12:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Why should my relationships be mediated through the imagination of a bunch of supergeeks in California? What was wrong with the pub?
-- a million and one things were and still are wrong with it.
and what's a 'workstation' if your compter's at home??! who calls it that?! not everyone's a fucking freelance guardian writer you miserable sod.
― pisces, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 12:54 (sixteen years ago) link
facebook is another way to arrange meeting people in pubs. i wouldn't get too upset. i would love to live in a place where i could go "down the pub" and have a certainty or near as damn to meeting someone i know, but the world ain't like that. evil technology conspires to make it possible for me to organize the meet first.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 12:57 (sixteen years ago) link
But why do you need facebook for that? Why not just phone 'em up? Or text them?
― Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 13:03 (sixteen years ago) link
why phone when you can write... it's just another way is all. i had my reservations but nothing truly bad has happened and i've probably been better at staying touch with people since i went on it.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 13:06 (sixteen years ago) link
The threat to the game has spawned a new facebook group "Save Scrabulous" that already has more 600 members.
lol @ low standards
― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 13:11 (sixteen years ago) link
xp - I hear you and as someone who is very bad at organising myself let alone a bunch of other people I can see how it might help.
I think I just got caught up in a wave of stuff that sounded interesting but then turns out just to be another thing to *manage*. I know it sounds luddite-ish and kind of petty but I'm really trying to simplify stuff and facebook hasn't helped me do that.
― Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 13:22 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm thinking aloud here so it may well sound like crap.
― Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 13:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Facebook is profoundly uncreative. It makes nothing at all. It simply mediates in relationships that were happening anyway.
It's ironic that the Marxist doctrine that Capitalists are "adding nothing to the equation," and the underlying assumption that labor could and would've been coordinated without the capitalist's creative output has managed to find it's way onto teh facebook dot com.
Thiel's philosophical mentor is one René Girard of Stanford University, proponent of a theory of human behaviour called mimetic desire.
hahahaha, I love the philosophical figures brought into a discussion about the merits of social networking sites. Social scientists could've probably made a living off of the first year of Myspace alone if they wanted to.
― Cunga, Thursday, 17 January 2008 05:26 (sixteen years ago) link
bloody tesco what is your favourite supermarket? London Sponsored Poll
asda 12% marks & spence...18% waitrose 19% sainsbury's 21% tesco 28%
― blueski, Monday, 21 January 2008 11:20 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm back on it. I've had a load of emails from people saying they couldn't contact me on fb! Am I the only one who sees the irony in that?
― Ned Trifle II, Monday, 21 January 2008 11:26 (sixteen years ago) link
I must admit I'm not on facebook largely because I already waste too much time on the Internet and I don't need any excuse to waste even more time. That said, I do find all the privacy issues a bit disturbing. No simple way to delete your profile, no guarantee that facebook won't keep your information anyway, no real knowledge of what facebook will do with the info, who they'll sell it to etc. Yeah, I know Google is no better, but Google is somehow less avoidable.
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:30 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm back on Facebook because impro events (I do this) are organised through it. There's no other convenient way for me to find out about them.
Also Tesco = cheap sandwiches in London, therefore classic.
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 21 January 2008 21:20 (sixteen years ago) link
If people are inviting me to shit via FB then they're never going to see me at their parties, simple as that. Same with LJ, though I'm a little softer on it as I look at it daily. But it is surely common politeness to also email/txt/phone people to invite them to things.
― Trayce, Monday, 21 January 2008 23:14 (sixteen years ago) link
wait, Trayce, you use LiveJournal but not FB? i thought the only people who used LJ were...well, weirdo gays and sad sad teenage girls.
― the table is the table, Monday, 21 January 2008 23:33 (sixteen years ago) link
that and about that article above:
After 9/11, the US intelligence community became so excited by the possibilities of new technology and the innovations being made in the private sector, that in 1999 they set up their own venture capital fund, In-Q-Tel, which "identifies and partners with companies developing cutting-edge technologies to help deliver these solutions to the Central Intelligence Agency and the broader US Intelligence Community (IC) to further their missions.
Um, 9/11 was 2001, dipshit.
― the table is the table, Monday, 21 January 2008 23:34 (sixteen years ago) link
that said, i only have the iLike application (because showing my musical weirdness to faraway friends is nice), and the original wall. otherwise, fuck that clutter and bullshit. cannot deal with it.
and tbh, i friggin love the facebook.
― the table is the table, Monday, 21 January 2008 23:36 (sixteen years ago) link
table: I use both, I just dont pay FB any attention rly.
I'm not the typical LJ demographic but pretty much all my social circle are on it, and they actually make well written, thoughtful posts. I dont see any bitching or whining or polls or childishness. Its like I'm in some weird parallel LJ somehow.
― Trayce, Monday, 21 January 2008 23:43 (sixteen years ago) link
...if anyone puts that in the out of context thread I'mma kill them.
― Trayce, Monday, 21 January 2008 23:44 (sixteen years ago) link
lol, i thought about it, but then thought better about posting it.
also, yeah, trayce, that is weird. but good for you and your friends for keeping the faith.
― the table is the table, Monday, 21 January 2008 23:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Facebook is a good way to discover which of your friends are bigots.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 00:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Hah, I'm kind of glad I haven't seen too much of that so far.
― Trayce, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 00:16 (sixteen years ago) link
true true, especially during the Aus federal election. So many such and such has joined the group "I bet i can find 1000000 arseholes who hate Kevin Rudd" update message thingys
― W4LTER, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 00:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah and all the 'if Howard loses I am moving to the US' crap. Just fuck off.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 00:20 (sixteen years ago) link
I thought "just fuck off" at people who said the sameabout howard winning last time round, I have to say (the statement as it stands is pointless grandstanding).
― Trayce, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 00:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Me too.
It was sooo nice to see these idiots have a giant sook when Rudd won though. 'Oh noes we are doomed' etc. Never mind all the groups Howard fucking marginalised. Uh oh I'm on that soapbox again.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 00:29 (sixteen years ago) link
other than my one super-catholic friend from london, no bigotry in my friends. and even he is extremely liberal. just very very pro-life.
― the table is the table, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 00:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Start me on pro-lifers and that soapbox will come out again.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 00:37 (sixteen years ago) link
i mean, i give just a bit of lee-way to my polish catholic friends, unless they're homophobic. which he is not. he's also not some sort of raving pro-life lunatic.
― the table is the table, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 00:43 (sixteen years ago) link
In recent years I've had to distance myself from friends/family who proclaim rubbish such as 'gay is not normal/healthy' or whatever. There's no excuse for that way of thinking anymore, particularly in a 'developed' country.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 00:46 (sixteen years ago) link
On second thought, that one is just family.
Johann Hari is SO glad he opposed the catastrophe in Iraq from the beginning. Oh, wait...
^^^^ unfuckingbelievable
― banriquit, Thursday, 20 March 2008 09:41 (fifteen years ago) link
r u one of his 848 friends? He's popular. Or desperate.
― Raw Patrick, Thursday, 20 March 2008 09:54 (fifteen years ago) link
no im not!
― banriquit, Thursday, 20 March 2008 09:55 (fifteen years ago) link
It's a straight toss-up between Enrique and Richard Littlejohn as to who is most wound-up by the existence of Johann Hari.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 20 March 2008 09:57 (fifteen years ago) link
I smell sitcom
― That mong guy that's shit, Thursday, 20 March 2008 09:57 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm gonna win this thing
― banriquit, Thursday, 20 March 2008 09:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Looking at Hari's groups he's hating back on Littlejohn, but tolerating our man at ILX pretty well ----->
Richard Littlejohn is a F*cking C*nt! ▪ Jon Gaunt and Richard Littlejohn, for people who don't like thinking. ▪ Richard Littlejohn is a moron and a twat ▪ I hate Jon Gaunt
― Raw Patrick, Thursday, 20 March 2008 10:24 (fifteen years ago) link
We should have a public figures/celebrities who leave their Facebook pages accessible to all thread. I dunno if they do it out've vanity or ignorance of privacy options.
― Raw Patrick, Thursday, 20 March 2008 10:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Patrick you forgot Johann's 'every time I see an Enrique post my penis shrivels a bit' group.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 20 March 2008 10:28 (fifteen years ago) link
When I first saw Johann's column in the Guardian I spent the first month or so thinking he was a woman coz the byline pic was so lesbian-looking, so it wouldn't surprise me if his penis was v shrivelled.
― Raw Patrick, Thursday, 20 March 2008 10:36 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^this only in the independent
― DG, Thursday, 20 March 2008 11:04 (fifteen years ago) link
I stand corrected. It must have been in my short lived Indie phase.
― Raw Patrick, Thursday, 20 March 2008 11:12 (fifteen years ago) link
so um
friendfeed is awesome.
but i know everyone's sick of this shit by now so i'll shut it.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 20:01 (fifteen years ago) link
ok, I don't get friendfeed
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 20:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Is there a way for domain owners to remove former employees from the associated Facebook network?
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 21:03 (fifteen years ago) link
doesn't seem like it
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 21:17 (fifteen years ago) link
http://img.skitch.com/20080326-xuk349q1x9xw8nqhwjqxhwn77x.png
should be "BARF" not "poof"
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 21:25 (fifteen years ago) link
waht is friend feed
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 26 March 2008 21:37 (fifteen years ago) link
u mean news feed
its a thing
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 21:41 (fifteen years ago) link
its the good parts about facebook (keeping up with the stuff people want to share w/you online) without the zombie bullshit, and it doesn't ask that you add a dozen apps to "your page" to keep track of it all. just add once and you're up.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 21:43 (fifteen years ago) link
http://friendfeed.com/about/
it's a hoos' real name
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 26 March 2008 21:47 (fifteen years ago) link
i know right
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 21:47 (fifteen years ago) link
but whatever
none of the google results for that username are me anyways lol
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 21:48 (fifteen years ago) link
except that one youtube vid w/ned
I think I figured out your name was Justin a long time ago.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 21:50 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm sure you did
― carne asada, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 21:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Sort of reminds me of when I figured out an ILXor's real name by anagramming his username.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 22:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Yes, I too remember Jonh_Smith
― JTS, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 22:08 (fifteen years ago) link
its the good parts about facebook (keeping up with the stuff people want to share w/you online) without the zombie bullshit, and it doesn't ask that you add a dozen apps to "your page" to keep track of it all. just add once and you're up.-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 21:43 (59 minutes ago) Link
-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 21:43 (59 minutes ago) Link
Except no one uses it except for aspies. xfn rel=me big fucking whoop
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 22:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Focus rule.
― Raw Patrick, Thursday, 27 March 2008 00:17 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah i know, and it's not like facebook users are gonna migrate en masse even though i think this is a better product. shame though. hooray now i can see robert scoble's flickr feed
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 27 March 2008 01:51 (fifteen years ago) link
that was an xp to jon
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=547068&in_page_id=1770&ito=1490
Not that interesting a story to be fair but definitely enjoying the "thousands of pounds of taxpapyers' money" jab in there - it was only a sexual harrassment case for a convicted stalker after all. At least the Mail actually mentioned his previous conviction, unlike the Metro (where I just read about this before looking it up) which busted out "taxpapers' money" as well but without any other context to the case
― DJ Mencap, Thursday, 27 March 2008 10:48 (fifteen years ago) link
split up after a row over whether to watch the Eurovision Song Contest on television in April last year, the court heard.
― onimo, Thursday, 27 March 2008 12:36 (fifteen years ago) link
also sent an Ian McEwan novel with a note saying "this is a beautiful book" to Miss Sl4dd3n at work in January this year, which she claimed made her feel "sick, frightened and very insecure".
Mr Hur5t said: "I sent her the book because it had certain relevances to the relationship we'd had, it gave me comfort and I'd hoped it would do the same for Sophie.
"I find it difficult to understand how a book can be distressing."
The book he sent her was "On Chesil Beach". From wikipedia: During the course of an evening, both reflect upon their upbringing and their fears of the future. Edward is prone to fits of violence and Florence is terrified of sexual intimacy: eventually this leads to a confrontation that will change their relationship irrevocably.
The novel focuses upon the couple's woeful lack of sexual knowledge and experience. 1950'S Britain is evoked wonderfully, from the description of the couple's dinner at the hotel, to the girl's fears of the sex act itself.
I'm sure that gave her great comfort...
― onimo, Thursday, 27 March 2008 12:39 (fifteen years ago) link
i don't know if this has already been mentioned, but fb is doing this creepy thing of suggesting who you should be friends with:
Axxxxx Mxxxxxx just joined Facebook. Based on your information, it seems that you might know Axxxxx. If you know them, perhaps you should add them as a friend.
this person is obviously an ilxor, based on their friends, and i already figured out which one based on their real name.
still totally weird that facebook is telling me who i know that is signing up to facebook.
― Rubyredd, Saturday, 5 April 2008 00:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Hah I got that one too.
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 5 April 2008 00:54 (fifteen years ago) link
If that's me (seems pretty likely), it's also weird because I joined up for fb several months ago. I just started getting friended. Don't know how to turn off that part - the random connection to anyone in the larger interconnected fb world, which is pretty vast. Anyway - if you know how an fb user can stop that from happening, let me know!
― aimurchie, Sunday, 6 April 2008 23:52 (fifteen years ago) link
maybe change your privacy settings? go in there and have a play around, set everything to max privacy level.
― Rubyredd, Monday, 7 April 2008 00:35 (fifteen years ago) link
and yeah, i'm pretty sure it was you, too :)
Done. I had been wondering about the potential friending with ilxor's as well... Thanks for the heads up. I guess I thought I had set it to something more private way back when. Seriously, I added my first friend Friday, and it's been madness ever since!
― aimurchie, Monday, 7 April 2008 00:55 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm getting this creepy thing too, although not for ilxors because I only have I think one in fb.
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 7 April 2008 01:04 (fifteen years ago) link
I think this is useful! I've found some folks I haven't otherwise been able to find via Facebook (alongside a bunch I have no desire to get in touch with), it's been A++ for me. They're like Amazon recommendations for friends.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 7 April 2008 01:24 (fifteen years ago) link
They're like Amazon recommendations for friends.
ok when i put it that way i can see where people might find it creepy
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 7 April 2008 01:25 (fifteen years ago) link
* you were voted 'sexier' than Dan Perry
Click here to check your new rating
― roxymuzak, Monday, 7 April 2008 18:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Wait Adam, are you counting me as an ILXor? I tht we was FRIENDS, mang ;_;
― Trayce, Monday, 7 April 2008 23:07 (fifteen years ago) link
(I mean who wants to be an ILXor, ewww)
guys who wants an invite to secret facebook
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 7 April 2008 23:18 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.24-7simpsons.com/no%20homers%20thumb.jpg
― Trayce, Monday, 7 April 2008 23:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah Trayce I was but oh well. I already knew haitch so didn't count him.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 03:14 (fifteen years ago) link
******** needs a stiff drink and the communal wine just proves too tempting. 24m ago ********** battles. 42m ago ******** is in the green room. 4h ago ***** is going out for the 3rd night in a row after being back in London for 3 days maybe London's a bad influence on her? 4h ago
Looks like I'm about due for a new round of "friend" culling.
― wilter, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 05:22 (fifteen years ago) link
I've culled a lot of ppl who I knew yearrrrs ago, maybe 8-10 years ago, who've requested to be my friend and then don't communicate with me.
― wilter, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 05:23 (fifteen years ago) link
I actually ran into a cullee the other day, was pretty awkward.
― wilter, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 05:26 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't even look at FB more than like once a week, I hope no one's been inviting me to parties on it or anything stupid.
― Trayce, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 06:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Good news! You can now instablock anyone who invites you to 2867347650784915467 applications every single fucking day.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 07:23 (fifteen years ago) link
anyone tried the facebook instant messenger yet?
― jabba hands, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 07:30 (fifteen years ago) link
as in this thing: http://www.insidefacebook.com/2008/04/06/facebook-chat-launches-tour-first-impressions/
― jabba hands, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 07:34 (fifteen years ago) link
like that place needs yet another method to keep in touch with people you've not spoken to in 15 years xp
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 07:35 (fifteen years ago) link
― jabba hands, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 07:36 (fifteen years ago) link
This is a summary of reasons that people gave when asked "Why would you date Emily Robinson?"
1. cute (1 vote)
― roxymuzak, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 11:45 (fifteen years ago) link
jabba hands u still in aus?
― wilter, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 00:13 (fifteen years ago) link
till the end of the week!
― jabba hands, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 01:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh shit. Did you have a good time? Do anything noteworthy?
― wilter, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 01:12 (fifteen years ago) link
^^ this result is pretty cute!
― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 01:14 (fifteen years ago) link
love it here! i'm just off for a few months in japan & china and will be back in july till 09 at least. it really is god's own country *wipes tear away*
― jabba hands, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 01:22 (fifteen years ago) link
awww. We love nothing more than being told our country is awes.
― wilter, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 01:26 (fifteen years ago) link
i know crutis :/
― roxymuzak, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 01:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Cute is bad, now?
(aaarrrr wait no don't start that agt again)
― Trayce, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 01:49 (fifteen years ago) link
[An acquaintance from middle school] joined the group Bill Gates sharing his fortune. If you ignore this, You will repent .
30382 members. Facebook is Youtube now.
― 31g, Friday, 11 April 2008 00:10 (fifteen years ago) link
youtube is much more useful
― El Tomboto, Friday, 11 April 2008 00:16 (fifteen years ago) link
former contributor louis jagger found this, which will probably only interest the 'lol guardian motherfuckers crew' but anyway:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=8302882374
― banriquit, Friday, 11 April 2008 23:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Guy from school I haven't had any contact with in ten years has now requested (and been rejected) four times. This is (perhaps mean but..) his profile picture:
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg187/nick-uptoeleven/n778600187_9407.jpg
Religious views: 'Jesus died for me - how cool is that?'
― Upt0eleven, Saturday, 12 April 2008 08:46 (fifteen years ago) link
hot mentalists c/d
― Autumn Almanac, Saturday, 12 April 2008 09:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah i'm kinda n_n @ the variations on "Jesus is awesome" and "JC = that dude" all over the place
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 12 April 2008 16:20 (fifteen years ago) link
I have just had a friend request from someone and I have no idea who they are!
― Grandpont Genie, Sunday, 13 April 2008 11:56 (fifteen years ago) link
ayo facebook chat
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 16 April 2008 02:00 (fifteen years ago) link
is there a way of TELLING when someone rejects you? as in cf what is said upthread about people being rejected '4 times'? how would u know? i've not worked that out yet.
― pisces, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 08:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Find them, if there's an 'Add as friend' link your invitation has vanished.
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 08:48 (fifteen years ago) link
What the fuck's that shit they've suddenly chucked in the corner?
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 08:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Where?
― Trayce, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 08:37 (fifteen years ago) link
In the corner.
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 08:44 (fifteen years ago) link
This week, Facebook is rolling out Facebook Chat, a new way for users to communicate with their friends in real-time. Facebook will show users which of their friends are online when they are, so that they do not need to create or maintain a separate buddy list. Users also do not have to worry about any additional installation or set up. Facebook Chat works directly in the browser. Just as other features on Facebook have allowed friends to communicate more efficiently than before, we hope Facebook Chat will make it easier to connect instantly.
It's being rolled out slowly, which probably is why you can't see it yet.
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 08:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Facebook Chat Launches, Site Gets Even Noisier
http://www.webware.com/i/bto/20080406/fbchat.jpg
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 08:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Wahoo! Something else to crash my computer with!
― jel --, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 08:53 (fifteen years ago) link
facebook chat wtf
― max, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 17:33 (fifteen years ago) link
a guy like Naseem Hakim should have a lot more than 19 online friends
― Vichitravirya_XI, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 17:34 (fifteen years ago) link
I know who the real losers are nowe
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 17:52 (fifteen years ago) link
"anyone tried the facebook instant messenger yet?"
ARTGH!!!!! How many more chat programs do we actually fucking need?
― stevienixed, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 18:33 (fifteen years ago) link
(Someone probably has but not I)
So far: hit on ally's sister
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 18:42 (fifteen years ago) link
facebook chat is actually well-implemented as far as I can tell, not that I'd use it for anything other than accidentally catching someone online
― mh, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 19:39 (fifteen years ago) link
i'd like it if i could use jabber clients with it
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 19:40 (fifteen years ago) link
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actually i spend many evenings thinking about potential doritos ads
― braveclub, Friday, 16 May 2008 11:39 (fifteen years ago) link
i spend many evenings thinking about beaming all doritos advertising into space, for good
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 16 May 2008 12:02 (fifteen years ago) link
when you remove ppl from your friends list, do they receive notification?
― braveclub, Monday, 19 May 2008 19:02 (fifteen years ago) link
No, I just took someone off this weekend (was in my address book, I don't really know her) - it asks for confirmation and says the person won't be notified.
― Jaq, Monday, 19 May 2008 19:04 (fifteen years ago) link
I really wish actual friends would stop using facebook to shove their businesses/personal interests down my throat. No I don't want to become a fan of your fucking contracting company. No I don't want to be 'invited' to your latest podcast about manga.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 21:06 (fifteen years ago) link
― admrl, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 21:07 (fifteen years ago) link
i just removed a friend because she was posting too many pictures and comments and the constant notifications were clogging up my home page. i would have preferred not to de-friend her but i don't think there's any other way to do it.
― get bent, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 22:23 (fifteen years ago) link
You can tell it to "show less" from particular friends, and it will, as long as your other friends are doing enough stuff.
― Jaq, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 22:27 (fifteen years ago) link
It's under the preferences link down at the bottom of the news feed section.
― Jaq, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 22:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Really?? Brilliant.
I've not removed anyone yet, but I have ignored all invitation from one person who kept flooding my screen with invitations to every rubbish app she could get her hands on.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 22:49 (fifteen years ago) link
nice one. my mate's sister spends all day adding friends, making comments, posting photos, etc... so abut half the "news" i get is her facebook-addict activity. i don't want to delete her tho, so this "show less" thing sounds good...
― jeremy waters, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 22:52 (fifteen years ago) link
omg this is fantastic. Thank you so much.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 22:55 (fifteen years ago) link
I just got rid of mine.
― Abbott, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 22:57 (fifteen years ago) link
I was going to get rid of mine but found removing a heap of cockfarmers I went to school and uni with was a good solution.
― wilter, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 23:02 (fifteen years ago) link
But then there would be no one! (but ilxors)
― Abbott, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 23:02 (fifteen years ago) link
i keep trying to get my bf on facebook (and ilx!) but he's all "no, i don't need another internet thing in my life." apparently there's some sort of "real world" out there he likes better. :-(
― get bent, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 23:15 (fifteen years ago) link
this made my day:
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h271/stckhlmcnd/bea.jpg
― get bent, Wednesday, 21 May 2008 00:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh, I know! I signed up to that immediately. Earlier today.
― kenan, Wednesday, 21 May 2008 01:00 (fifteen years ago) link
xp BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 21 May 2008 01:01 (fifteen years ago) link
http://a170.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/46/m_235964750c05b5341eda247a674481b9.jpg
― kenan, Wednesday, 21 May 2008 01:01 (fifteen years ago) link
my girlfriend IS bea
― get bent, Wednesday, 21 May 2008 01:03 (fifteen years ago) link
FACE(BOOK)LIFT
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 21 May 2008 02:19 (fifteen years ago) link
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44668000/jpg/_44668913_facebooknew1_416x300.jpg
If you are getting fed up of all the vampires, booze mail and super wall posts, then help could be on the way.
HEEEEEELP! I HAVEN'T FIGURED OUT HOW TO IGNORE AND DELETE THINGS I HAVE NO INTEREST IN!
I would like to permanently skip the screen that wants me to invite all my friends to whatever I'm doing, though. And I would like for every dumb-ass quiz I take to not be an "application." That shit really is choking the site.
― kenan, Wednesday, 21 May 2008 02:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Andrea ****** sent you a Gay Boy using Give a Boyfriend. Click here to see it, or send something back. 11:41am
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 22 May 2008 09:19 (fifteen years ago) link
What's jarring here is that she's a big fundy who does missionary tours of Africa selling her crazy right-wing god to people who are trying to mind their own business.
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 22 May 2008 09:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh my.
S**** H**** joined the group "Proud to be English and want this great country to feel like ours again."
― ENBB, Friday, 30 May 2008 19:03 (fifteen years ago) link
It's the end of the school year, so I just got a lot of invitations to things like my friends' student art shows and plays and recitals. This annoys me because not only am I not in college, I am not IN THE SAME COUNTRY, and they all know this. But noooo, facebook makes it too easy to just invite everyone.
― Maria, Friday, 30 May 2008 19:43 (fifteen years ago) link
That is indeed ridiculous. People think they're being nice/inclusive when they invite people who are abroad, but all it does is give them the shits.
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 30 May 2008 21:44 (fifteen years ago) link
I DON'T CARE IF YOU'VE BECOME A FAN OF FUCKING ADAM SANDLER/BUTCHER'S CHOICE SAUSAGES/POL POT
HOW DO I STOP THIS
― MPx4A, Friday, 20 June 2008 09:42 (fifteen years ago) link
I am gonna make a secret Curvy Colombian Wife application and not invite you
― Just got offed, Friday, 20 June 2008 09:44 (fifteen years ago) link
you probably shouldn't be friends with Adam Sandler/Pol Pot fans in the first place
although sausages seem acceptable enough
― asey, Friday, 20 June 2008 12:44 (fifteen years ago) link
you can't. thanks zuckerberg!
― DG, Friday, 20 June 2008 12:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Facebook invites are STUPID. People fucking know very well that I'm on the other side of the country BECAUSE IT SAYS SO ON MY PROFILE PAGE THAT I KNOW YOU WERE LOOKING AT BECAUSE YOU GOT OFFENDED WHEN I LIED AND SAID I WAS GOING TO BE WITH FAMILY BUT REALLY YOU KNEW I WAS AT A RAVE AND AVOIDING YOUR NEEDY ASS, WE'RE NOT A COUPLE or even not even in the same country yet they still invite you. I'd be fine with this if I ever got more than three days notice and they still expect an excuse. Wtf? Also I've made my page extremely private, I even have a special group for former church people so that I can avoid the usual 'I prayed for you today, thats okay, god loves you' but I can still look at their pages and see that oh yeah, they are still having that affair with the church pastor. Hmm, small world.
― VeronaInTheClub, Friday, 20 June 2008 13:02 (fifteen years ago) link
why does fbk keep breaking down and refusing to load? it didn't use to.
― the pinefox, Saturday, 21 June 2008 19:36 (fifteen years ago) link
dude i knew you didnt know a whole lot about computers but i didnt think you were capable of breaking facebook
― deeznuts, Saturday, 21 June 2008 19:38 (fifteen years ago) link
http://nyu.facebook.com/feed_prefs.php
^ morons
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Saturday, 21 June 2008 20:49 (fifteen years ago) link
^^ OTM
Facebook is the new programming a VCR.
― rogermexico., Sunday, 22 June 2008 02:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Anita Bhagat Patel just joined Facebook. You both live in Chicago. If you know Anita, perhaps you should add Anita as a friend. See more people you may know.
They can't be serious, right?
― jaymc, Monday, 23 June 2008 16:04 (fifteen years ago) link
somehow 'i' ended up spamming peoples walls yesterday with some annoying advert about viagra. i didnt know that could happen on FB...
― titchyschneiderMk2, Monday, 23 June 2008 17:15 (fifteen years ago) link
"They can't be serious, right?"
be a good neighbour.
― titchyschneiderMk2, Monday, 23 June 2008 17:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Michaelangelo Matos became a fan of Bacon.
― roxymuzak, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 16:31 (fifteen years ago) link
T**y A**********s wrote at 10:37pm on March 1st, 2008 Busy day at work yesterday. Student did a shit under mat in front of library.
― Hard like armour, Monday, 7 July 2008 06:46 (fifteen years ago) link
April 3 Chris doesn't really rate Singleton very much at all. In fact, he thinks that Singleton is the worst place in the entire fucking universe. It sucks balls.4:53pm
― Hard like armour, Monday, 7 July 2008 06:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Man, people sure do like bacon!
― forksclovetofu, Monday, 7 July 2008 06:49 (fifteen years ago) link
for real
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 7 July 2008 06:53 (fifteen years ago) link
I hung out with you in The Meadow in the mid-to-late 1980's Common Interest - Friends
― gabbneb, Thursday, 10 July 2008 05:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Has anyone else tried searching for people of the same first and last name and adding them? Such a simple concept and, if you have a distinct enough name, a rewarding experience. I just tried it today and it's like meeting your long-lost brother. (Ooh, and I'm not legally responsible for Tom Ripley experiences that come out of this.)
― Cunga, Thursday, 10 July 2008 06:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Someone did that to me a few weeks ago - a Texan college student and libertarian. He's not been added yet.
(I currently have 3 other pending friend requests that I'm ignoring, 2 friend suggestion requests, and 136 other requests)
― Forest Pines Mk2, Thursday, 10 July 2008 07:51 (fifteen years ago) link
"same first and last name"--like David David or Johnson Johnson or whoever?
― Raw Patrick, Thursday, 10 July 2008 07:51 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost: "someone with the same full name as you"
― Forest Pines Mk2, Thursday, 10 July 2008 07:52 (fifteen years ago) link
I have 2 friend requests and 388 other requests still pending. Plz to get the message, ppl.
― Just got offed, Thursday, 10 July 2008 07:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Why not block the apps that do the requesting?
Everyone with the same name as me = American people who still think they're Irish in some way. Fuck them.
― Raw Patrick, Thursday, 10 July 2008 08:29 (fifteen years ago) link
That would involve putting some effort into it, which is more than Facebook is worth.
(I have two apps on my profile, last.fm and Flickr. The main reason I go there is to update the Flickr app)
― Forest Pines Mk2, Thursday, 10 July 2008 08:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Wow I either have no friends or no lame friends who invite me to a million applications. I have no requests pending.
I did get a o_0 message from an acquaintance I barely know who added me as a friend a while back on the instant messaging thing last night saying "you're always on fucking facebook what the fuck is wrong with you". This was o_0 for a few reasons mostly because how would they know if I always on Facebook unless they were also always on Facebook checking if I was on there, and also because I'm not always on Facebook! But I do tend to leave a tab open in Firefox with it in - I guess that must make it say I'm online 24 hours a day?
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 10 July 2008 09:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Has anyone else tried searching for people of the same first and last name and adding them?
No one has done this to me yet ;_;
― Noodle Vague, Thursday, 10 July 2008 09:10 (fifteen years ago) link
It probably isn't but I hope this is the Singleton in Swansea, which I drove through yesterday. It probably did suck balls although it was hard to know for sure
― DJ Mencap, Thursday, 10 July 2008 09:20 (fifteen years ago) link
there's a singleton near blackpool, too. but it wasn't that bad. i'd be slightly disappointed if it was that singleton.
someone did this to me, aye. i added him. it was unrewarding. it does, however, mean i occasionally get updates that seem to be suggesting i've added the cocksmearing application or have joined the jim davidson fan club, which is disconcerting for half a second or so.
― grimly fiendish, Thursday, 10 July 2008 09:50 (fifteen years ago) link
My bf got more than one random person with his surname going "hay add me we have same last name lol maybe u r my cuz" kind of shit. I've never had that but my surname is reasonably common. Also, I pay FB abt 0.00001% attention.
― Trayce, Thursday, 10 July 2008 09:53 (fifteen years ago) link
there's an entire facebook group for people who have my first name/last name combination. only 90 of the 500+ people with that name are in that group, though.
― salsa shark, Thursday, 10 July 2008 12:23 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm a name my first born Salsa
― blueski, Thursday, 10 July 2008 12:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Salsa, do you guys actually talk? Do you have anything in common?
― Mark C, Thursday, 10 July 2008 12:45 (fifteen years ago) link
I have a strict "eat, drink, or sleep" policy for adding Facebook friends: if we've done at least one of those three together, I'll add you, otherwise, please go bother your cousin's uncle's boss or some shit.
This also makes my celebrity friends way more impressive than yours.
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 10 July 2008 13:31 (fifteen years ago) link
b-b-but christopher biggins is my friend too
― DG, Thursday, 10 July 2008 13:37 (fifteen years ago) link
I like posting Frank and Walters videos on FB. My profile is getting too twee.
― jel --, Thursday, 10 July 2008 16:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Currently not enjoying getting updates about what my ex is up to. Her recent status update was '*** ****** is happy', which sent all kinds of cogs spinning in my mind. I should probably defriend her, but I want to be actual friends with her when the bitterness has died down.
― chap, Thursday, 10 July 2008 16:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh, status updates, I spend too much time thinking what my current status should be. There are so many options!
― jel --, Thursday, 10 July 2008 16:47 (fifteen years ago) link
I kind of liked it better when it had to start with 'is' - sometimes restrictions aid creativity.
― chap, Thursday, 10 July 2008 16:51 (fifteen years ago) link
the day I realised I could remove the is, was a beautiful day!
― jel --, Thursday, 10 July 2008 16:52 (fifteen years ago) link
there are a couple on my list who still haven't realised they can remove the 'is'.
― salsa shark, Thursday, 10 July 2008 17:25 (fifteen years ago) link
I make it "eat or be eaten by him/her" as a policy which makes my list triply more impressive.
I mean, shit, dude, impress(ed) and Facebook friend list do not belong together in one sentence.
― stevienixed, Thursday, 10 July 2008 17:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Especially so given that there are no celebrities on my friend list.
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 10 July 2008 17:46 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't like people from elementary/middle/high school who try to add me to their friends lists when we were either a) never friends or b) never even LIKED one another.
especially when their applications include "bible verses" and not one but TWO "daily babes". and especially when their status update is "D*** ****** jus hit the gym.....200lbs dammmmn hit 225 then cut down for mexico....."
and especially especially when they end up with a kid and call it Kingston.
sometimes I think I should keep them on my list for the humour value, but right now I'm just thinking it's time for a purge.
― salsa shark, Saturday, 19 July 2008 12:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Did this once because I know someone in my town has the same name as me and I wanted to see what she looked like.
Also sent a Friend add to a friend but after taking a second look at her prof pic realized it wasn't her. I had also added a message. Oops. Whatevs... she'll survive.
― stevienixed, Saturday, 19 July 2008 12:40 (fifteen years ago) link
I always thought this was going to be a thread about someone who had been asked by a friend, but not a boyfriend*, if they could add them as their girlfriend on Facebook as a way of making them look more interesting. We would then have to discuss this social minefield.
*not my heterosexuality assumption.
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Monday, 21 July 2008 09:26 (fifteen years ago) link
er. that should be "note".
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Monday, 21 July 2008 14:41 (fifteen years ago) link
I always don't know whether I should accept requests from people who I *was* friends with but that I haven't seen/communicated with in fifteen-plus years. it usually just ends up with both parties going "omg i haven't seen you in AGES, whatchu up to now?" on the wall-to-wall and then never speaking to each other again.
― Roz, Monday, 21 July 2008 15:27 (fifteen years ago) link
R**** wants to put on a tight skirt, and flirt with a stranger.
Sounds like someone got dumped!
― Finefinemusic, Friday, 25 July 2008 02:17 (fifteen years ago) link
new layout = FAILBOOK.
― Roz, Sunday, 27 July 2008 14:01 (fifteen years ago) link
I dunno I kinda dig it.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 27 July 2008 14:09 (fifteen years ago) link
looks the same to me, are they rolling it out in stages?
― akm, Sunday, 27 July 2008 14:10 (fifteen years ago) link
think so.
it just seems kind of unnecessary. especially hate the combo wall-feed.
― Roz, Sunday, 27 July 2008 14:16 (fifteen years ago) link
-- akm, Sunday, July 27, 2008 2:10 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
There's a button at the top that says "Try the NEW Facebook" or something to that effect that should let you reload with the new design. I think going to "new.facebook.com" should pull it up too.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 27 July 2008 14:24 (fifteen years ago) link
-- Roz, Sunday, July 27, 2008 2:16 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
Sure, I don't really see where or how it's necessary per se. The wall-feed is cool imo because it brings everything together, makes your entire page a big "this is the most recent shit I've done on FB" status updater. I'm with you in thinking it could stand for a better look, but I love the idea of it.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 27 July 2008 14:29 (fifteen years ago) link
redesigns ok, still miles better than myspace
― max, Sunday, 27 July 2008 14:33 (fifteen years ago) link
I think I'm mostly against not so much the functions but the design. it just looks really messy to me. the earlier version of the new layout that was posted upthread looked much better: http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44668000/jpg/_44668913_facebooknew1_416x300.jpg
― Roz, Sunday, 27 July 2008 14:44 (fifteen years ago) link
lol leon wieseltier in the new republic - I will not rise to defend my generation, because we have made a muck of many things, and because we do linger long over ourselves, and because the analysis of life in generational terms is idiotic. Every generation holds every variety of individual. But I will not be given lessons in self-abnegation from Facebookers. The history of vanity has never seen anything quite like them. And I must morbidly warn them that connectivity will not protect them from the way of all flesh. When they come to bury a father or a friend, when their beauty begins to wither and their vigor to wane, when they awake one morning to the fear that they may have more to look back on than to look forward to--when the inevitabilities poke them, may their eight hundred "friends" stand them in good stead. I promise not to call their shudders whines. For if spring comes, can winter be far behind?
― balls, Thursday, 31 July 2008 04:07 (fifteen years ago) link
self-gabbnebgation?
― get bent, Thursday, 31 July 2008 06:03 (fifteen years ago) link
that would be the opposite
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 31 July 2008 06:06 (fifteen years ago) link
wieseltier is bitter that no one will be his girlfriend on facebook.
― Mordy, Thursday, 31 July 2008 07:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Apparently it was her. Yay.
I WANNA PLAY SCRAMBLE WITH YA GUYZZZZ!
― stevienixed, Thursday, 31 July 2008 08:17 (fifteen years ago) link
fuckin applications
― gabbneb, Thursday, 7 August 2008 04:21 (fifteen years ago) link
gonna be the death of facebook
a very "now" observation
― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 7 August 2008 07:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Removed a friend for the first time ever.
1. Barely know the guy 2. Shamess Howard supporter 3. Every time he wants to sell something or publicise himself, he updates his status EVERY HALF HOUR just so he's always in everyone's top three
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 11:31 (fifteen years ago) link
I really love how the new Facebook now shows every status update a person makes in a day, thereby shaming those who change their status every 5 min (though you can probably still delete an old status to avoid this, no one on my friends list seems to be doing so.)
I find that the new FB is still pretty glitchy though - I surf in Opera, so they may not have really checked that browser. The CSS messes up a lot if you have images turned off.
― Finefinemusic, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 15:04 (fifteen years ago) link
i bet leon wieseltier would join facebook if he knew dr. morbius was on it.
― tipsy mothra, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 15:20 (fifteen years ago) link
The new one fucks up in Firefox under Ubuntu.
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 21:45 (fifteen years ago) link
a conversation with my best friend, wherein he explains his plan to buy his girlfriend of apparently nearly a year really pricey fancy-seat tickets to Cirque du Soleil (me = SS, him = AJ)
AJ: haha, i think she's going to have to accept it as part of her early anniversary present SS: christ, anniversary? AJ: late october SS: christ AJ: it's kind of important to her. SS: hmm SS: is that the anniversary of... what exactly? SS: when you kissed? fucked? AJ: when (she) considers us officially together AJ: i don't have the timeline down AJ: i think the official anniversary might be when we could officially mutually update our relationship status on facebook SS: .... AJ: i know that's retarded
― salsa shark, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 23:21 (fifteen years ago) link
damn.. whatever happened to the anniversary of the day I had to go get a morning after pill, or was that just me? I'm an old fashioned kind of girl.
― Finefinemusic, Thursday, 21 August 2008 00:24 (fifteen years ago) link
My 16 year old cousin just added his photo to some random Hot or Not rating community so I surfed a few images back and found this bad-ass mofo posing in his parents' room in the suburbs, he is my hero:
http://photos-e.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v308/187/86/557421561/n557421561_1169292_6421.jpg http://photos-f.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v308/187/86/557421561/n557421561_1169301_9260.jpg http://photos-f.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v308/187/86/557421561/n557421561_1169285_4659.jpg
― Finefinemusic, Thursday, 21 August 2008 01:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Ooops, the second one is in a different (also pink) room.
― Finefinemusic, Thursday, 21 August 2008 01:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Ooh! It's the new like-it-or-not Facebook design!
Man, don't javascript pop-up menus just give you a raging clit-on? Don't you LOVE it when you can't even see your navigation options without clicking on something as a preliminary step? Well, you clearly didn't design this website, then.
― so glitchy (kenan), Saturday, 13 September 2008 06:30 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't even know how to interpret your complaints. I think it's fine and not altogether different from the previous design -- and in fact, it's less aesthetically busy, which is a good thing.
What's hilarious is all the people who are only up in arms about this now, the ones who have clearly been reverting to the Old Facebook for the last few weeks until it was no longer an option. Live with the new design for a while, like the rest of us have, and then get back to me.
― jaymc, Saturday, 13 September 2008 16:56 (fifteen years ago) link
i got used to the new last.fm so i shouldn't slag it off yet, but smooshing up news feed and wall is deeply baffling, and the extreme left-alignment is weird.
― lex pretend, Saturday, 13 September 2008 17:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Having said all of that, it still owns My$pace amirite?
― I am Barack and I need your vote (SeekAltRoute), Saturday, 13 September 2008 19:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Fuck new facebook. Having everything nicely formatted on one page was perfect. I know they probably had their reasons for making the change, whatever they may have been, but the reaction has been uniformly negative as far as I can see.
― john mccain's illegitimate black child (musically), Sunday, 14 September 2008 03:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Okay, I'll bite. I'm not a big fan of the new design, either.
― ilxor, Sunday, 14 September 2008 04:42 (fifteen years ago) link
it's total bollox.
― the pinefox, Sunday, 14 September 2008 09:20 (fifteen years ago) link
It's 20 times better than the old one. I don't have to wade through pages and pages of SHIT anymore. Win.
― You touched me officer, sorry (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 14 September 2008 09:26 (fifteen years ago) link
i didn't have to wade through pages of shit anyway?
― lex pretend, Sunday, 14 September 2008 10:44 (fifteen years ago) link
No, nor did I. I do now, it seems.
― the pinefox, Sunday, 14 September 2008 11:26 (fifteen years ago) link
there are definitely things about that are good (clicking on "view photos of so-and-so" and getting to see all their albums at the bottom is nice), but they all seem like minor improvements compared to wtf usability-destroying wall/mini-feed mashup.
― it be me, me, me and timothy (bernard snowy), Sunday, 14 September 2008 13:14 (fifteen years ago) link
While I think the new design lacks elegance, the extent to which some people are up in arms about this is ludicrous. It's as if Facebook were somehow contravening their human rights by having a layout change. Relax, you'll get used to it.
Having said that, I am a habitual 'back to the old Facebook' clicker.
― chap, Sunday, 14 September 2008 14:06 (fifteen years ago) link
ah, the lex and the pinefox, england's greatest tech pundits.
― html tsar (Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃), Sunday, 14 September 2008 16:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Finding old wall posts is a hell of a lot more hassle now.
― chap, Tuesday, 16 September 2008 15:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Not an option at this point, unfortunately.
― ilxor, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 01:05 (fifteen years ago) link
I dig the design.
― art tatum HOOS & chopped (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 17 September 2008 01:08 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm still on the old FB, it let me click back. But it has started petulantly telling me that "soon the NEW facebook will be the ONLY facebook", the little shit.
― Trayce, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 01:17 (fifteen years ago) link
new facebook has provided me with keen insight into what the internet must look like to grandmas.
― modernism, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 01:21 (fifteen years ago) link
kenan, how in the hell do you not have adblock installed?
― A bold plan drawn up by assholes to screw morons (dan m), Wednesday, 17 September 2008 01:23 (fifteen years ago) link
unless I misunderstood your rant there...
― A bold plan drawn up by assholes to screw morons (dan m), Wednesday, 17 September 2008 01:24 (fifteen years ago) link
― chap, Tuesday, September 16, 2008 10:21 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
not really, just click on a button to see what u need to
this shit is better than the old one bcuz i dont have to see all your stupid fucking vampire bullshit in order to post on your wall
― u dont like my lyrics u can press ►► (deej), Wednesday, 17 September 2008 01:26 (fifteen years ago) link
basically, all those annoying apps are now kept on one easily ignorable screen
After living with it for a few days, new Facebook >>>> old Facebook. The wall/status updates thing is so much more conversational now. I like having little discussions pop up between my friends on random topics.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 18 September 2008 11:11 (fifteen years ago) link
what is 'adblock' and where is it?
― the pinefox, Thursday, 18 September 2008 12:54 (fifteen years ago) link
It's somewhere outside Stockholm, I believe.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 18 September 2008 13:00 (fifteen years ago) link
I like NoScript.
― Kerm, Thursday, 18 September 2008 13:01 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.facebook.com/pages/-/40778818468?ref=nf
^^ who's this guy?
― the punman from the hilarious user preference (special guest stars mark bronson), Monday, 15 December 2008 16:36 (fifteen years ago) link
that would be dude who threw them shoes.
― Disco/Very (Roz), Monday, 15 December 2008 16:43 (fifteen years ago) link
oh!
― special guest stars mark bronson, Monday, 15 December 2008 17:32 (fifteen years ago) link
in the ongoing chronicles of "things you shouldn't learn through facebook," i learned that an acquaintance from high school has a baby. and is totally in love and obsessed with the baby. that's awesome! it's just strange because he was a slacker musician type in high school and i'm surprised to see him so excited about parenthood at age 23.
― Maria, Monday, 15 December 2008 17:42 (fifteen years ago) link
i still never know any of the "people you may know"
― shook pwns (omar little), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 00:57 (fifteen years ago) link
I do, but I suspect some of 'em wouldn't want a friendreq from me, heh.
― Trayce, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 03:31 (fifteen years ago) link
one thing i've noticed is that people i know's parents are popping up more and more in the "people you may know" bullshit O_o
― wilter, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 03:37 (fifteen years ago) link
At least friending people via that People You May Know bar lets them, and everyone who sees the feed, know you found them via that way. I hated adding people and then thinking "I hope they know I just stumbled upon them and thought this would be convenient, and I didn't go FB hunting for an immoral amount of time after our last encounter just to friend them"
― Cunga, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 04:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Fucking weird but I was browsing through my friends' pages and LO AND FUCKING BEHOND one of my friends (who's living abroad) is friends with an old classmate of mine (also living there). I mean what the fuck right? Facebook is showing me six degrees of seperation here.
Also I felt kinda creepy searching for a person I play tennis with but apparently she did the same so hey we're friends on there as well now. Felt like a frigging stalker but then discovered she had tried to find me which is hard cause my name is popular.
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Sunday, 18 January 2009 21:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Dumb question but you know 'photos of you' ie ones that other ppl have uploaded and tagged... well can you rearrange these so that the most recent drunken shiny pics can be hidden at the back? Or are you stuck with them in 'most recent first' order unless you de-tag them?
― Not the real Village People, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 00:26 (fifteen years ago) link
The parents thing is hilarious. Even my mom has a Facebook, which I couldn't imagine happening ten years ago....
― u s steel, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 00:28 (fifteen years ago) link
the parents thing kind of weirds me, but thankfully, my parents are...uh, dumb when it comes to the internet. my mom asked me at christmas what the difference between a web browser and search engine was.
ahem.
― the table is the table, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 00:31 (fifteen years ago) link
also, been reading lots of housing Craigslist posts, and lots of people now ask for myspace or facebook links when you reply, in the roomie-type situations. this makes sense, but for some reason, i don't remember this happening as much when i was younger and looking for an apt.
― the table is the table, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 00:33 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.53d2fb293d708cf32571d6ab8f4b3208.211&show_article=1
British man killed wife over 'single' Facebook status
notable excerpt:
The couple had been living apart since the previous month, said Fiona Cortese, a spokeswoman for the Crown Prosecution Service, which is responsible for prosecuting cases in England and Wales. "Richardson became enraged when Sarah changed her marital status on Facebook to single and decided to go and see her as she was not responding to his (text) messages," Cortese said.
"Richardson became enraged when Sarah changed her marital status on Facebook to single and decided to go and see her as she was not responding to his (text) messages," Cortese said.
to say this is fucked beyond in an understatement :(
― Ashee Bolanalli (Mackro Mackro), Saturday, 24 January 2009 21:38 (fifteen years ago) link
is an understatement
― Ashee Bolanalli (Mackro Mackro), Saturday, 24 January 2009 21:40 (fifteen years ago) link
(yes the murder in any case is horrible. But the increased rage over Facebook status vs. reality just adds more creepiness to something already awfuo=l.)
― Ashee Bolanalli (Mackro Mackro), Saturday, 24 January 2009 22:00 (fifteen years ago) link
I have yet to join the facebook cult. I don't want to enable strangers to measure my degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon. :(
― Aimless, Saturday, 24 January 2009 22:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Wife murdered for Facebook statusA man murdered his estranged wife after becoming "enraged" when she changed her marital status on Facebook to "single".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/staffordshire/7845946.stm
Edward Richardson, 41, of Mayfield Road, Biddulph, was found guilty of stabbing Sarah Richardson to death.He killed the 26-year-old hairdresser at her parents' home in Brown Lees, Staffordshire, on 12 May, 2008, Stafford Crown Court heard.Richardson tried to kill himself after the attack and was sentenced to life with a minimum of 17 years in prison.Fiona Cortese, of the Crown Prosecution Service, said: "Richardson became enraged when Sarah changed her marital status on Facebook to single and decided to go and see her as she was not responding to his messages."He gained entry by breaking the front door window and made his way into the property."Once inside he found Sarah in her bedroom and subjected her to a frenzied and brutal attack with a knife and then attempted to take his own life."We hope that today's guilty verdict will go some way to easing the pain of Sarah's family and friends after losing her in such a violent and abrupt way."In a statement, Mrs Richardson's parents, Beryl and Alan Boote, said: "There simply aren't the words to describe how Sarah's death, and the awful way in which she died, has affected us. We all miss her so much."Sarah was the loveliest daughter anyone could wish for. She was honest, loyal and sweet, and everyone loved her."
― Vichitravirya_XI, Monday, 26 January 2009 20:47 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.switched.com/2009/01/23/man-kills-wife-for-changing-facebook-status-to-single/
jeff @ Jan 26th 2009 2:59PMshe got wooped good...next time (well there won't be a next time) but if she was smart she would have asked his permission before putting single on her facebook profile....
http://www.mopo.ca/uploaded_images/repost-781096.jpg
― Bone Thugs-N-Harmony ft Phil Collins (jim), Monday, 26 January 2009 20:49 (fifteen years ago) link
my bad
― Vichitravirya_XI, Monday, 26 January 2009 20:50 (fifteen years ago) link
"can i say you're not my girlfriend on facebook?"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/7874273.stmhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/jan/31/facebook-sex-divorce
― special guest stars mark bronson, Friday, 6 February 2009 13:39 (fifteen years ago) link
blog.facebook.com
There's a lot of content my friends have shared on Facebook that's pretty awesome. For instance, in the last few days I've seen photos from a friend's wedding, an article about U.S. President Obama's ongoing transition and status updates from a friend traveling in India.We've just introduced an easy way to tell friends that you like what they're sharing on Facebook with one easy click. Wherever you can add a comment on your friends' content, you'll also have the option to click "Like" to tell your friends exactly that: "I like this."
We've just introduced an easy way to tell friends that you like what they're sharing on Facebook with one easy click. Wherever you can add a comment on your friends' content, you'll also have the option to click "Like" to tell your friends exactly that: "I like this."
Fuck's sake.
― Objective Deployment Component for Failure Mode Effect Analysis (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 12 February 2009 07:28 (fifteen years ago) link
What facebook needs is a FUCK OFF option.
― Objective Deployment Component for Failure Mode Effect Analysis (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 12 February 2009 07:29 (fifteen years ago) link
It's called "defriending".
― hyggeligt, Thursday, 12 February 2009 09:09 (fifteen years ago) link
what would facebook be w/o the secret loathing of others' actions?
― happy house of representatives (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 12 February 2009 09:11 (fifteen years ago) link
ech i dunno, the way to deal with not wanting work colleagues, fam, etc, on facebook, is to block 'em or just make sure only friends can see you're on it.
― Ecstasy Mother Forster (special guest stars mark bronson), Thursday, 12 February 2009 09:13 (fifteen years ago) link
There's a social problem with blocking people who are your actual friends (or your wife's friends). An 'ignore everything from this user' option would solve many problems.
― Objective Deployment Component for Failure Mode Effect Analysis (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 12 February 2009 09:23 (fifteen years ago) link
You can set for less about them in yr feed.
― Mother Inferior (Raw Patrick), Thursday, 12 February 2009 10:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Doesn't affect the status update feed, though.
Anyway I'm beyond facebook, sick of reading incessant streams of bullshit from people who I don't actually like but am expected to keep on my fucking list.
― Objective Deployment Component for Failure Mode Effect Analysis (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 12 February 2009 10:11 (fifteen years ago) link
(that said, I will probably check it daily out of primal compulsion)
― Objective Deployment Component for Failure Mode Effect Analysis (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 12 February 2009 10:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Yes it does.
― nate woolls, Thursday, 12 February 2009 10:24 (fifteen years ago) link
what i dislike about this is that it presumes that typing the actual words "i like this" are beyond us
― lex pretend, Thursday, 12 February 2009 10:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, adding a comment already says "I like this", or at least "I am interested in this".
― Mother Inferior (Raw Patrick), Thursday, 12 February 2009 10:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Doesn't work very well though. One of my FB friends is constantly updating their profile with shite and I have them set right down but I still get a load of crap in my feed.
― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 12 February 2009 10:31 (fifteen years ago) link
I think you have to click "less about this person" 3 or 4 times, but eventually you'll get no status updates. I think.
― nate woolls, Thursday, 12 February 2009 10:34 (fifteen years ago) link
if you go to the bottom of your news feed and click on "options for news feed" you can manually enter people you don't want to hear about.
― Fetchboy, Thursday, 12 February 2009 11:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh, I must be doing it wrong then because adding people to that 'less about' list makes bugger-all difference to the status update feed.
― Objective Deployment Component for Failure Mode Effect Analysis (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 12 February 2009 23:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Seriously if someone is annoying on FB, remove them! If theyre going to get offended by that they need a life.
― one art, please (Trayce), Thursday, 12 February 2009 23:49 (fifteen years ago) link
I delete ppl on LJ all the time, if they post nothing but memes and polls, or drone on and on about their baby's poop.
So Facebook's change in their terms of service has been making a lot of waves recently. Check this out:
http://consumerist.com/5150175/facebooks-new-terms-of-service-we-can-do-anything-we-want-with-your-content-forever
and this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/17/technology/internet/17facebook.html?hp
― I shall always respect my elders (Z S), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 04:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Hmm there's an addendum to that first article, though:
"We are not claiming and have never claimed ownership of material that users upload. The new Terms were clarified to be more consistent with the behavior of the site. That is, if you send a message to another user (or post to their wall, etc...), that content might not be removed by Facebook if you delete your account (but can be deleted by your friend). Furthermore, it is important to note that this license is made subject to the user's privacy settings. So any limitations that a user puts on display of the relevant content (e.g. To specific friends) are respected by Facebook. Also, the license only allows us to use the info "in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof." Users generally expect and understand this behavior as it has been a common practice for web services since the advent of webmail. For example, if you send a message to a friend on a webmail service, that service will not delete that message from your friend's inbox if you delete your account."
Make sense, rly.
Apart from a few random photos, I dont even *have* any content on Facebook. FB is contentless! I mean if you're publishing professional (or erm, legally dodgy) photos, or whole novels, on there, then more fool ye.
― one art, please (Trayce), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 04:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, I'm still not sure what I think about it. The addendum that you just posted does make the change seem fairly nonconsequential. But still, as some dude in the NYT article says (Sasha Frere-Jones? Who the hell is that?), "“Zuckerberg’s response to the protest is just the modern version of ‘Ignore the fine print, ma’am, just sign here,’ ” Mr. Frere-Jones wrote in an e-mail message. “Why would anyone trust a company with his or her personal information, especially when that company’s explicit legal language claims eternal rights to exploit that information, and there is good reason to expect that they will?”"
― I shall always respect my elders (Z S), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 04:38 (fifteen years ago) link
an ex housemate of mine noticed i'd deleted him from my friends about 3 days after the action and sent me a message! i didn't bother to respond, since he's a complete creep and i'll never see him again (one of the major bonuses of moving country)
― just1n3, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 04:39 (fifteen years ago) link
In other words, the way the addendum describes the change seems reasonable, but it doesn't change the fact that the terms of service state that they can sublicense out your content even after you've quit the site. You can counter that other social networks have similar TOS, but in my view that's more worrying than a comfort.
― I shall always respect my elders (Z S), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 04:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Haha. Old people are on your internet, playing with your Facebook®.
― M.V., Tuesday, 17 February 2009 04:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh for sure I mean my main issue with any of these sites is that they can (and will and HAVE) hand over your data to the authorities, should that be requested.
But this is not a new thing, ISPs have always had to abide by such requests in general as well. If the cops or feds ask for info on a user online, they have to be given it by law. In Australia anyway, I assume in the US/UK as well.
Dont put it online if you dont want it known, is the only way this can go really. Hard to stick to in actuality mind you.
― one art, please (Trayce), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 05:13 (fifteen years ago) link
otm. If you don't want it known, don't put it there in the first place. It's like 77 in that you think everything is private and G0gglepr00f until some numpty in the control room presses the wrong button and suddenly it's all out in the open.
The problem with shit like facebook is that it only takes one person to post 'OMG YUOR MOBILE NUMBER IS 0411767536!!!!!!!1' and bang, your privacy is out the window.
― "chinese coke prank" (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 05:59 (fifteen years ago) link
ha
Terms of Use UpdateClose
Over the past few days, we have received a lot of feedback about the new terms we posted two weeks ago. Because of this response, we have decided to return to our previous Terms of Use while we resolve the issues that people have raised.
If you want to share your thoughts on what should be in the new terms, check out our group Facebook Bill of Rights and Responsibilities.
― Disco/Very (Roz), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 08:24 (fifteen years ago) link
How using Facebook could raise your risk of cancer
The Daily Mail at its best.
― Alba, Thursday, 19 February 2009 14:04 (fifteen years ago) link
I heard about this on Today this morning ... my interest dropped substantially when the words "Aric" and "Sigman" followed in swift succession. A psychologist who issues a press release when he has an article published. Hmm.
Anyway. I've made a note to have a look at his article when I have time, but I have low hopes.
In fairness, the Mail is only doing what he's set it up to do ... this is an instance when I wouldn't actually accuse a newspaper of blowing a piece of research out of all proportion, because the impression I get with Sigman is that that's precisely what he wants to happen. I could be wrong, though ... I'm going to shut up until I've actually read his paper.
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 19 February 2009 14:43 (fifteen years ago) link
you should read it, it's pretty hilarious
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Thursday, 19 February 2009 16:38 (fifteen years ago) link
i like this
― o_O (ken c), Thursday, 19 February 2009 16:40 (fifteen years ago) link
"Ken c" likes this
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Thursday, 19 February 2009 16:44 (fifteen years ago) link
"Ken c" likes "this"
― Mark G, Thursday, 19 February 2009 16:55 (fifteen years ago) link
I love Mail article comment boxes where even their readership completely rip on the piece
― big fatass Paul Ross (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 19 February 2009 19:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Just came across this while catching up with some reading ... Vaughan Bell puts the fucking boot in to Sigman's article.
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 10:52 (fifteen years ago) link
As posted just now:
Today we announced new opportunities for users to play a meaningful role in determining the policies governing our site. We released the first proposals subject to these procedures – The Facebook Principles, a set of values that will guide the development of the service, and Statement of Rights and Responsibilities that governs Facebook’s operations. Users will have the opportunity to review, comment and vote on these documents over the coming weeks and, if they are approved, other future policy changes. We’ve posted the documents in separate groups and invite you to offer comments and suggestions. For more information and links to the two groups, check out the Facebook Blog.
And if you go there, Zuckerberg says all this:
Last week, we returned to our previous Terms of Use as we worked on a new set of governing documents that would more clearly explain the relationship between Facebook and its users. Since then, I've been excited to see how much people care about Facebook and how willing they are to contribute to the process of governing the site.Our main goal at Facebook is to help make the world more open and transparent. We believe that if we want to lead the world in this direction, then we must set an example by running our service in this way.We sat down to work on documents that could be the foundation of this and we came to an interesting realization—that the conventional business practices around a Terms of Use document are just too restrictive to achieve these goals. We decided we needed to do things differently and so we're going to develop new policies that will govern our system from the ground up in an open and transparent way.Beginning today, we are giving you a greater opportunity to voice your opinion over how Facebook is governed. We're starting this off by publishing two new documents for your review and comment. The first is the Facebook Principles, which defines your rights and will serve as the guiding framework behind any policy we'll consider—or the reason we won't consider others. The second document is the Statement of Rights and Responsibilities, which will replace the existing Terms of Use. With both documents, we tried hard to simplify the language so you have a clear understanding of how Facebook will be run. We've created separate groups for each document so you can read them and provide comments and feedback. You can find the Facebook Principles here and the Statement of Rights and Responsibilities here. Before these new proposals go into effect, you'll also have the ability to vote for or against proposed changes.I believe these steps are unprecedented in promoting understanding and enabling participation on the web. I hope you will take a look at these documents, read them carefully, and share your thoughts.Facebook is still in the business of introducing new and therefore potentially disruptive technologies. This can mean that our users periodically experience adjustments to new products as they become familiar with them, and before becoming enthusiastic supporters. The launch of News Feed and the recent interface redesign are excellent examples that illustrate why we need to continue to make independent decisions about products in order to push technology forward. While these products must be consistent with the Principles and in compliance with the Statement of Rights and Responsibilities, they will not be subject to the notice and comment or voting requirement.We're honored that so many millions of people around the world have decided to bring Facebook into their lives to share information and experiences with friends and loved ones. We understand that gives us an important responsibility to our users.History tells us that systems are most fairly governed when there is an open and transparent dialogue between the people who make decisions and those who are affected by them. We believe history will one day show that this principle holds true for companies as well, and we're looking to moving in this direction with you.
Our main goal at Facebook is to help make the world more open and transparent. We believe that if we want to lead the world in this direction, then we must set an example by running our service in this way.
We sat down to work on documents that could be the foundation of this and we came to an interesting realization—that the conventional business practices around a Terms of Use document are just too restrictive to achieve these goals. We decided we needed to do things differently and so we're going to develop new policies that will govern our system from the ground up in an open and transparent way.
Beginning today, we are giving you a greater opportunity to voice your opinion over how Facebook is governed. We're starting this off by publishing two new documents for your review and comment. The first is the Facebook Principles, which defines your rights and will serve as the guiding framework behind any policy we'll consider—or the reason we won't consider others. The second document is the Statement of Rights and Responsibilities, which will replace the existing Terms of Use. With both documents, we tried hard to simplify the language so you have a clear understanding of how Facebook will be run. We've created separate groups for each document so you can read them and provide comments and feedback. You can find the Facebook Principles here and the Statement of Rights and Responsibilities here. Before these new proposals go into effect, you'll also have the ability to vote for or against proposed changes.
I believe these steps are unprecedented in promoting understanding and enabling participation on the web. I hope you will take a look at these documents, read them carefully, and share your thoughts.
Facebook is still in the business of introducing new and therefore potentially disruptive technologies. This can mean that our users periodically experience adjustments to new products as they become familiar with them, and before becoming enthusiastic supporters. The launch of News Feed and the recent interface redesign are excellent examples that illustrate why we need to continue to make independent decisions about products in order to push technology forward. While these products must be consistent with the Principles and in compliance with the Statement of Rights and Responsibilities, they will not be subject to the notice and comment or voting requirement.
We're honored that so many millions of people around the world have decided to bring Facebook into their lives to share information and experiences with friends and loved ones. We understand that gives us an important responsibility to our users.
History tells us that systems are most fairly governed when there is an open and transparent dialogue between the people who make decisions and those who are affected by them. We believe history will one day show that this principle holds true for companies as well, and we're looking to moving in this direction with you.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 26 February 2009 20:35 (fifteen years ago) link
whose idea was this shit
― iatee, Friday, 13 March 2009 22:01 (fifteen years ago) link
it's when they detag themselves from every photo you were both in, maybe even every photo you took of them, that's when it hits home
― This is the day when fisticuffs happened everywhere (country matters), Friday, 13 March 2009 22:08 (fifteen years ago) link
woha.
― the tip of the tongue taking a trip tralalala (stevienixed), Friday, 13 March 2009 22:16 (fifteen years ago) link
i basically hate computer nerds who can't stop fiddling with shit. JUST LEAVE IT ALONE it was working fine
― lex pretend, Saturday, 14 March 2009 03:33 (fifteen years ago) link
also it ONLY JUST changed
― lex pretend, Saturday, 14 March 2009 03:34 (fifteen years ago) link
judging from the new homepage it looks like they're taking on twitter...
eg "real-time stream of posts from your friends and connections"
― sam500, Saturday, 14 March 2009 05:00 (fifteen years ago) link
it just looks like i've zoomed in too much
― lex pretend, Saturday, 14 March 2009 10:17 (fifteen years ago) link
It sucks.
― jel --, Saturday, 14 March 2009 10:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Wtf happened? Is this "what's on your mind?" monkey business the equivalent of the old status...thing? I'd barely adjusted to the previous changes.
― this is jazz! (╓abies), Saturday, 14 March 2009 12:49 (fifteen years ago) link
they've like moved the messages to the right about an inch? anything else that's actually worth moaning about ?
facebook sucks anyway, it's full of false notifications.
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Saturday, 14 March 2009 13:36 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm starting to feel this more but I could do without my highlights consisting of some friend playing Vampire Mob or whateverthefuck.
― Euler, Saturday, 14 March 2009 13:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Christ, I only hate this change cause some many people are updating about their hatred of the new design.
― the tip of the tongue taking a trip tralalala (stevienixed), Saturday, 14 March 2009 14:23 (fifteen years ago) link
You don't appear to get random wall conversations between your friends in your feed anymore. I used to quite like that.
― chap, Saturday, 14 March 2009 14:36 (fifteen years ago) link
no updates about becoming fans or joining groups :(
― jel --, Saturday, 14 March 2009 15:48 (fifteen years ago) link
im sure there'll be another redesign in a few months... that'll be even worse.
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Saturday, 14 March 2009 15:50 (fifteen years ago) link
So all of you who are only complaining about this now, did you look at the preview they offered for the last couple of weeks?
― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Saturday, 14 March 2009 15:55 (fifteen years ago) link
i don't mind this redesign so much - it's not really that much different from the old one.
― Roz, Saturday, 14 March 2009 15:57 (fifteen years ago) link
it seems like you can't choose to know "less" about someone, just hide them altogether, which seems like a big step backward.
― akm, Saturday, 14 March 2009 16:12 (fifteen years ago) link
how long before they get round to suggest ban.
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Saturday, 14 March 2009 16:15 (fifteen years ago) link
that would be end times
― This is the day when fisticuffs happened everywhere (country matters), Saturday, 14 March 2009 16:16 (fifteen years ago) link
yep, jaymc I did look, and thought 'oh no, it looks a bit rubbish', I even wrote and told them so. I'll be over it by tomorrow.
― jel --, Saturday, 14 March 2009 16:17 (fifteen years ago) link
I think I like the rounded corners of the pics in the feed.
― chap, Saturday, 14 March 2009 18:30 (fifteen years ago) link
they're like the books and photos in battlestar galactica. FB = a cylon plot.
― jel --, Sunday, 15 March 2009 10:11 (fifteen years ago) link
i've written in complaints to them before about 'possible redesigns' and 'changes,' and it doesn't make any difference-- they change whatever they want whenever they want. so whatever.
― the table is the table, Sunday, 15 March 2009 18:27 (fifteen years ago) link
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welcome to the gist of my status when the change spread to my login, haha..
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Sunday, 15 March 2009 21:30 (fifteen years ago) link
redesign actually makes it slightly less intuitive to check event invites which is all that most people use fbook for now anyway, god
― lex pretend, Monday, 16 March 2009 11:35 (fifteen years ago) link
There's a little 'events' button at the top of the screen that takes you to the old-style events page. That drove me mad for a bit last week.
― Two hands in the air, that's the Lampard Skank (Matt DC), Monday, 16 March 2009 11:39 (fifteen years ago) link
The ones who complain 'bout the change, how "ecstatic" were you about the previous change?
Uh no, I never used it. Then again I'm a recluse who loves the change. heehee
― the tip of the tongue taking a trip tralalala (stevienixed), Monday, 16 March 2009 13:42 (fifteen years ago) link
obviously you aren't "most people" i guess.
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Monday, 16 March 2009 13:43 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm use to it now, I have amazing powers of recovery.
― jel --, Monday, 16 March 2009 17:17 (fifteen years ago) link
The selection criteria in the "people you may know" area seems to have improved. Alternatively, it's the last remaining ILXors I haven't friended yet.
― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 17 March 2009 02:07 (fifteen years ago) link
I am disappointed my Facebook breakup didn't receive the prominence it would have with the old design.
― fuck bein hard, BIG HOOS is complicated (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 17 March 2009 02:26 (fifteen years ago) link
^ conceits
What's particularly annoying about the new design is that it brings the 'Check Out This Quiz!'/irritating Superpoke shit back into the main feed.
― Two hands in the air, that's the Lampard Skank (Matt DC), Tuesday, 17 March 2009 09:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Who's to say? Maybe the ones that are happy, don't shout about it, like you negative lot.(Really, I just want to throw my hands in the air and ask: "You obviously have little in life to complain about if you target this. Me, I'm more bummed about my grandfather having cancer." )
― the tip of the tongue taking a trip tralalala (stevienixed), Tuesday, 17 March 2009 10:01 (fifteen years ago) link
You obviously have little in life to complain about if you target this.
okay this thought shot through my mind when i saw half my FB friends commenting about how they didn't like the design.
I guess it just bugs the hell out of me that some people on there live for the existence of FB, ie they update their status with every fucking breath they take. They upload their photos of their nights out FIRST THING THE NEXT MORNING!! it's like they're taking the photos just so they can show them off on FB, rather than to live their stupid lives.
But then, live and let live hey ho. I guess I'm also bugged for the same reasons that some ilxors are too attached to this place as well.
(ranting over)
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Tuesday, 17 March 2009 10:36 (fifteen years ago) link
i don't think anyone lives for fbook, really
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 17 March 2009 10:44 (fifteen years ago) link
surely people always took photos to show them to other people? they just now can do so more quickly and easily than ever before. what would be the point of taking photos and showing them to nobody?
― Local Garda, Tuesday, 17 March 2009 10:45 (fifteen years ago) link
It's a bit useless to kvetch about redesigns but I am culling the poll whores off my Friends list...
― suggest bánh mi (suzy), Tuesday, 17 March 2009 10:50 (fifteen years ago) link
what would be the point of taking photos and showing them to nobody?
Lady, if you have to ask...
― Two hands in the air, that's the Lampard Skank (Matt DC), Tuesday, 17 March 2009 10:51 (fifteen years ago) link
I still get friend reequests, and it makes me sad.
I don't want to bounce them, it feels like slamming the phone down.
I *have* added people who have requested me, that know me from 20 years ago (and not since), as it intrigues me as to why they want to contact me.
and then, the messages come in "Ally Pally has gone to the pub" or some such.
So, you ILXors, do not be offended if you see this and have friendreq'd me, if I haven't added you. I hardly go there.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 17 March 2009 10:54 (fifteen years ago) link
really ?! wrong
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Tuesday, 17 March 2009 10:56 (fifteen years ago) link
updating your status often and uploading photos ≠ living for fbook
it's a total strawman
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 17 March 2009 11:00 (fifteen years ago) link
though it might just be that i have better friends than you
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 17 March 2009 11:01 (fifteen years ago) link
ohoho!
He who picks fault with other people's friends, is, um...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 17 March 2009 11:02 (fifteen years ago) link
updating your status very often with such things as 'i am now getting dressed' ========================== living for facebook
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Tuesday, 17 March 2009 11:02 (fifteen years ago) link
some truth, these people i talk of i don't have any outside involvment with (friends of friends mostly).
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Tuesday, 17 March 2009 11:05 (fifteen years ago) link
ok, well, i don't know anyone who does that, big ups my non-living for facebook friends
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 17 March 2009 11:05 (fifteen years ago) link
also, how do you know these people are constantly updating their status and uploading photos the next day unless you yourself are constantly checking fbook??
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 17 March 2009 11:07 (fifteen years ago) link
omg
― fuck bein hard, BIG HOOS is complicated (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 17 March 2009 11:08 (fifteen years ago) link
the script
she has been flipped
seriously i know these people, they're all mostly my sisters friends who've added me. There's one who constantly (and i mean every other hour of the day) adds a new U2 youtube video to her profile.
xp haha, no. i only joined fb to keep in touch with long distance relatives, and then of course every other bugger finds you.
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Tuesday, 17 March 2009 11:09 (fifteen years ago) link
I didnt really understand the hate for the previous re-design but this one sucks for obscuring relevant info and flooding you with "XXX scored 57 points at the "Which rodent would you be?" quizz" nonsense.
― baaderonixx, Tuesday, 17 March 2009 11:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Was that in ILXr denying internet addiction upthread cuz c'mon guy.
― this is jazz! (╓abies), Tuesday, 17 March 2009 11:16 (fifteen years ago) link
an*
― this is jazz! (╓abies), Tuesday, 17 March 2009 11:17 (fifteen years ago) link
I like the new redesign because it replaced the "show less about this person" with "show nothing from this person" which has allowed me to get rid of all the mafia wars/endless updates from people who annoy me without having to defriend them.
― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 17 March 2009 11:19 (fifteen years ago) link
I've been getting way less application spam in my feed since the redesign, but maybe I'm just lucky so far.
I'm also not getting updates for each individual delicious bookmark so-and-so has added or updates about so-and-so removing things from their profile or becoming a fan of whatever. So that's a plus.
― salsa shark, Tuesday, 17 March 2009 11:20 (fifteen years ago) link
idk the latter ('updates for each individual' etc) was part of the reason i used the damn thing, to keep up with my friends interests and what they were doing online
― 14 karat gold steen computer wizard (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 17 March 2009 11:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Oops, I just tried to start a game of Scramble on facebook with ailsa and ended up clicking on someone called Just1n3 who I don't know at all. If it's the Just1n3 who posts here, sorry!
Now I am wracked with inappropriate facebooking guilt. Balls.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 18 March 2009 16:45 (fifteen years ago) link
haha it's okay - i'm a scramble addict, so i don't mind playing a game against you!
― where we turn sweet dreams into remarkable realities (just1n3), Wednesday, 18 March 2009 16:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Yay! I am supposed to be reading Negative Dialectics at the moment, and much as I love Adorno, I need me some Scramble breaks to get through it.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 18 March 2009 16:52 (fifteen years ago) link
I think it's kind of interesting how the facebook interface keeps evolving, and what is funny is that some of the stuff that people are complaining about now is the exact opposite of what they were complaining about when they introduced the newsfeed; now people seem to think you don't see enough about other people, where before, people were complaining that you say too much.
― akm, Wednesday, 18 March 2009 21:02 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm also not a fan of how it is now re-showing when people do polls, quizzes, twitter/lastfm updates etc etc. You used to be able to filter out that stuff individually by clicking on an app and "dont show this" somehow, didnt you? I wasnt seeing *any* quiz/app rubbish.
Now its all I see in my feed and the only way to stop it seems to be to X the person completely into oblivion. Some of my friends appear ten or more times IN A ROW on my feed because theyve sent 82394782345 people a plant hatching a dinosaur egg or wtf ever.
― one art, please (Trayce), Wednesday, 18 March 2009 22:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Then again I only look at FB occasionally to see who else has decided to invite me to their party/engagement/wedding (srsly) via a FB event and not bothered to oh, I dont know, send an email... pick up the phone... send a proper invite...
― one art, please (Trayce), Wednesday, 18 March 2009 22:09 (fifteen years ago) link
is there any easier way to get to my events besides settings >>> application settings >>> events?
― i'm grand like auto theft 3 (Jordan), Wednesday, 18 March 2009 22:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Huh. I just tried to add events as a tab, but it won't let me. :(
― kenan, Wednesday, 18 March 2009 22:34 (fifteen years ago) link
If you click 'applications' on the bottom left of the your home page you can drag events into the top 6 on the list. It will then appear as an icon on the bar at the bottom and it's only a click away.
― the innermost wee guy (onimo), Wednesday, 18 March 2009 22:47 (fifteen years ago) link
I have to search for "events" in the search box in order to find them. What a pain. I hate it.
― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Wednesday, 18 March 2009 22:54 (fifteen years ago) link
oh that helps, i hadn't even really noticed that bottom speedbar
― i'm grand like auto theft 3 (Jordan), Wednesday, 18 March 2009 23:05 (fifteen years ago) link
There's a (hopefully official) application that allows people to vote yay or nay to the new design.
So far it's about 2,000 for to about 340,000 against.
― McDonaldinho (Matt DC), Wednesday, 18 March 2009 23:12 (fifteen years ago) link
the fbook redesign randomly coincided with me joining twitter and now i really can't get into it - like, don't even like clicking onto fbook, lose track of what i need to respond to there b/c everything isn't where it used to be. seriously though, i may or may not get used to it, but it was only a few months ago that they completely overhauled it - let the damn thing rest for a while! fucking fidgety computer nerds. leave us alone to click mindlessly away at your stupid site
― lex pretend, Thursday, 19 March 2009 00:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Haha yeah I can't tell if it's official or not either - completely *due* to the weird changes. Either way, considering the way the site handled the terms of agreement dispute, I wouldn't be surprised if they switch back, or at least make significant un-changes.
― iatee, Thursday, 19 March 2009 01:58 (fifteen years ago) link
In fairness, if you put every design change to a vote, nothing ever gets changed.
― kenan, Thursday, 19 March 2009 03:44 (fifteen years ago) link
and that would be fine
― lex pretend, Thursday, 19 March 2009 08:10 (fifteen years ago) link
i was being blase about it because it's only fbook, but ffs why is it so retarded now?
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Thursday, 19 March 2009 10:33 (fifteen years ago) link
because you gotta keep in mind that 99 procent of the population is retarded.
― the tip of the tongue taking a trip tralalala (stevienixed), Thursday, 19 March 2009 14:09 (fifteen years ago) link
It's over a million against now. It's really noticeably shit, too.
Am looking at all the other social networks to see if it's worth jumping ship, but they're mostly honking
― stet, Monday, 23 March 2009 23:36 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm still happy with Livejournal - but it only works for me because of the network of friends who still use it regularly not just to blog, but to discuss stuff in depth and plan things.
All well out of the way of all the crappy fanfic and goth shit, too.
― one art, please (Trayce), Monday, 23 March 2009 23:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Problem with that is that, er, all your friends need to jump ship with you, no?
I have to say I wasn't entirely sure what all the fuss was about with the new model. But the more I use it, the more I dislike it.
― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 09:51 (fourteen years ago) link
^ OTM. You can't even see when someone's posted on your wall now except through the notifications, which I mainly ignore because they're full of rubbish 'compare your friends' and 'join scrabulous' stuff. You have to actually go to your own profile to see it.
Also, yeah, the only option I get is to 'hide X person' - but it doesn't work. So I still get this one person with all their quizzes and stuff filling up my page. It really needs to go back to how it was just before this.
― Not the real Village People, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 10:24 (fourteen years ago) link
that's not true - your wall posts appear as messages in your feed like this: sender's name > (your name).
― joe, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 10:27 (fourteen years ago) link
The most annoying thing is having to go to your requests page to see if you've got any event invitations. How hard would it be to put a notification of any unread ones at the top of the home page?
― chap, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 11:08 (fourteen years ago) link
wait, are we using the same facebook? i have a line at the top of my homepage right now which says "you have 3 event invitations and one other request" until you respond to them.
― joe, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 11:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Mine just tells me about friend requests. Maybe I need to adjust the settings.
― chap, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 11:13 (fourteen years ago) link
I've just changed it so I get an email notification when I get a new invitation. That should make things easier.
― chap, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 11:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Erm.. mine don't. I can see a few other people's though. I think it's not working properly though, as the 'hide' option seems a bit random.
― Not the real Village People, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 13:11 (fourteen years ago) link
the hide seems to take people off entirely, they've lost the "see less about" option, which is annoying, otherwise, functionally, it seems almost the same, the layout is just a bit different.
― akm, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 13:21 (fourteen years ago) link
you don't get as many 'wrote on walls', 'became friends with', etc, and the thing on the right is shitty. it seems to change less, and there's less information, and it's pointlessly cluttered. don't need all those avatars.
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 13:33 (fourteen years ago) link
It's shit because they've made it real-time. It used to store up what it thought what the things you'd be most interested in for your feed -- new friends of other friends, tagged friends and so on. Now it just dumps them all in a mess, as they happen. So if you miss stuff, it's gone.
They've changed it a bit this morning, though: birthdays are back up the top right
Problem with that is that, er, all your friends need to jump ship with you, no?Yep, but this isn't nearly as big a problem as FB hopes it is. After FB opened its doors to the public, I remember Myspace emptying out in a matter of months.
― stet, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 13:38 (fourteen years ago) link
there was a live feed option on old fb and that was better than what they have now.
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 13:39 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah everytime someone adds photos to an album, you get notified so there's like three or four notifications of the same album on your feed IN ADDITION to the notifications on the right. it's just too much. and too many goddamn quizzes too.
i wasn't going to complain til i got used to the changes and now that i am, i have to say i do not like them, not at all.
― Roz, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 13:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Bring them here !!
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 13:44 (fourteen years ago) link
M3lissa M4rchant was never you.
Confirm.Ignore.
― M.V., Tuesday, 24 March 2009 13:53 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm gonna have to de-fan Ashley Tisdale.
― jel --, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 18:04 (fourteen years ago) link
So all these people who I went to grammar school/middle school with are now my fb friends. One of them just left a message asking what I've been up to. Oh in the last EIGHTEEN YEARS? I mean really, how do I even answer that?
― ENBB, Thursday, 2 April 2009 02:55 (fourteen years ago) link
'stuff'
― iatee, Thursday, 2 April 2009 02:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Say you've been obsessing over curly-haired pigs from Hungary.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 2 April 2009 02:59 (fourteen years ago) link
small talk is tough
― lil waynes babymama (musically), Thursday, 2 April 2009 16:14 (fourteen years ago) link
um NO
http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/4310/waht.jpg
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Saturday, 11 April 2009 14:26 (fourteen years ago) link
I just noticed they've added an option in the feed to "hide [insert annoying application name here]" rather than hiding an entire person.
farewell, LivingSocial updates.
― salsa shark, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 14:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh, THANK FUCK.
― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 15:02 (fourteen years ago) link
thank u for this info! getting app updates is really the only thing i hate about fb
― where we turn sweet dreams into remarkable realities (just1n3), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 15:39 (fourteen years ago) link
except everyone is using slightly different versions of the same app.
― Jena (who is actually a man) (Jena), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 15:52 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't think that matters for LivingSocial, which is by far the worst offender.
― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 15:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Is there a way I can hide quiz results and dumb virtual gift giving?
― photoshop your disgusting ass partner into passive-aggressive notes (sarahel), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 15:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Er, that's exactly what Salsa Shark is talking about. Click on Hide next to the shit in your news feed; tell it to hide that application. Repeat for everything that crops up and annoys you.
― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 16:30 (fourteen years ago) link
unfortunately it seems that each quiz is its own app
― lil waynes babymama (musically), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 18:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeh, I'm beginning to notice this. Christ's teeth.
― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 18:57 (fourteen years ago) link
One of the more surreal features social networking has brought to our lives is the articulation of all kinds of social decisions. And by that I mean that before the enlightened age of the internet, when you no longer wanted to be friends with somebody or something like that, there was no conscious decision or effort behind it, necessarily. You just stopped trying to engage them, meet with them, keep up with how they are etc. You both just drifted apart, or something essentially vague and mutual - no responsibility for the friendship ending and thus no one's fault. This also left the door open for potential reconciliation ("I would've called you but I lost your number, let's hang out again soon"). But Facebook has made things weird, where now you formally have to think about whether someone deserves the "friend" label or, more intriguing, if someone deserves to be "de-friended." An articulated judgment takes place now.
It'd odd because if you're the kind of person that likes to keep a lean friends list e.g. you simply don't like the idea of that one eccentric co-worker you knew for about a week in 2006 keeping tabs on your social life via FB - you have to actually take a moment to consider the person in question in all their completeness and gauge the worth of keeping them as e-friends before purging them from your friends roster. It's all so weird!
― Cunga, Sunday, 3 May 2009 08:56 (fourteen years ago) link
They scored a combined IQ of 137! Can you beat this? Take the IQ quiz.
― SQUIRREL WITH A PEOPLE FACE (╓abies), Monday, 4 May 2009 12:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Combined!
― SQUIRREL WITH A PEOPLE FACE (╓abies), Monday, 4 May 2009 12:18 (fourteen years ago) link
↑↑↓↓←→←→ⒷⒶ⏎
then click
― caek, Saturday, 9 May 2009 19:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Cunga speaks much truth. On the other hand, Facebook hones one's skill at insincere capitulation.
― M.V., Saturday, 9 May 2009 22:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Ok, so how is Facebook recommending friends to me who are people that I know, but that I have no mutual friends with and no Facebook link with whatsoever?
― nate woolls, Monday, 11 May 2009 13:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Email contacts?
My mum was on the people you may know thing this morning o_O I can only assume cos she's an email contact. She's not facebook friends with my sister or anything and we don't even have the same surname! Spoooooky.
― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Monday, 11 May 2009 13:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah that must be it. The person is in my gmail contacts list, but I haven't used the friend finder feature on Facebook since I first signed up, well over a year ago. Has it had all my email contact details in its database since then, and been checking them periodically?
― nate woolls, Monday, 11 May 2009 13:43 (fourteen years ago) link
That's what I figured, yeah
― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Monday, 11 May 2009 13:46 (fourteen years ago) link
I've always read this thread title as, "I don;t have a girlfriend and I'm a bit embarassed by that, so can I pretend you're my girlfriend when I post to facebook".
Is that just me?
― mei, Monday, 11 May 2009 21:47 (fourteen years ago) link
chick was flirtin with me at work this weekend. left me a note w/name & number & instructed me to facebook her. have done so and it appears she is married.
lO_O_O_O_O_O_O_O_Ol
― big hoos presents MIGHTY SBARRO (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 11 May 2009 22:30 (fourteen years ago) link
can i say i'm cuckolding your husband on facebook?
― languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Monday, 11 May 2009 22:32 (fourteen years ago) link
No, me too.
And now that I think about it I remember getting a "Let's ironically pretend we're in a relationship," offer from a former co-worker, which was awkward because I had to politely say no to that idea.
― Cunga, Monday, 11 May 2009 22:37 (fourteen years ago) link
"I don;t have a girlfriend and I'm a bit embarassed by that, so can I pretend you're my girlfriend when I post to facebook".
I thought that was the point?
― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Monday, 11 May 2009 22:42 (fourteen years ago) link
But Facebook has made things weird, where now you formally have to think about whether someone deserves the "friend" label or, more intriguing, if someone deserves to be "de-friended." An articulated judgment takes place now.
Eh I havent let it change things that way for me. I just dont acknowledge people who added me if I dont know them/dont rly want to keep up with them. In fact I've done the "hide" thing on a few people, though thats mainly because they were constantly posting reams of crap. They dont need to know I'm not interested anymore and its not like they're trying to keep in touch. I do wonder why some people add you and then never say a word again. I rly should clear off a bunch of such people I suppose.
But anyone taking it as a personal affront is a bit... silly, aren't they?
― 65daysofsugban (Trayce), Monday, 11 May 2009 23:57 (fourteen years ago) link
It is silly, I think, but the system behind social networking is so bureaucratized - and that is what's interesting and weird to me.
For instance, someone whom I thought I was still on really good terms with but hadn't talked to in almost two years wasn't dropping down from my friends list (meaning they either de-friended me or they're no longer on the site - and it was a case of former as it turned out).
What's interesting was that this friend, someone I knew at college that recently graduated, figures they'll probably never see me or contact me again (which was plausible) and so the online friendship was terminated like a business contract. It isn't the notion that the friendship was over that's worthy of discussion here (we probably wouldn't have seen each other again unless it was a school reunion tbh) but that its dissolution was articulated by one party for the other to see.
I'd argue that the single, most bizarre thing to come from social networking sites is the idea of writing down everything that was previously unwritten.
― Cunga, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 00:36 (fourteen years ago) link
the list of girls i've banged remains unpublished.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 01:24 (fourteen years ago) link
i started posting way too many youtube videos. my husband actually started doing it (and is waaaay better than me at doing this, better music and better longterm span i think)
― the tip of the tongue taking a trip tralalala (stevienixed), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 09:27 (fourteen years ago) link
also, i was talking with our salesperson about facebook. i explained what it was and stuff. (we have mutual acquaintance who "accidently" changed his status to single) she seemed to not have a clue what facebook is. other day i was talking with her husband. he shows me his iphone (and gazillion apps he downloaded - who the fuck has four pages of apps?). so i notice he's on facebook. oO
― the tip of the tongue taking a trip tralalala (stevienixed), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 09:29 (fourteen years ago) link
lol try this: go to your facebook page, scroll all the way down, click on English (US) and change it to English (Pirate). amusing!
― Roz, Tuesday, 19 May 2009 10:24 (fourteen years ago) link
for the last few days, facebook keeps freaking me out by suggesting i add an ex-girlfriend as a friend. i don't know if she just joined it or what, but suddenly she's in the "people you may know" matrix. eeps.
― would you ask tom petty that? (tipsy mothra), Friday, 22 May 2009 06:52 (fourteen years ago) link
cant you just delete the suggestion? maybe fb senses you can get it working again?
― the tip of the tongue taking a trip tralalala (stevienixed), Friday, 22 May 2009 07:49 (fourteen years ago) link
you can totally delete it.
― elliot easton ellis (get bent), Friday, 22 May 2009 07:51 (fourteen years ago) link
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, May 12, 2009 1:24 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
At my old house (which was slated for demolition to make way for condos) we used to write on the walls of our smoking room with Sharpies, and one wall was a tally of how many people each person in the house had slept with. My male roommate: total manwhore.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 22 May 2009 13:32 (fourteen years ago) link
I have had a couple of messages from ilxors suggesting I visit sweet.be. I understand this is fb virus/bug thing. I know we're all too savvy to actually go to sweet.be and put our fb password in but just so you know...
― Brandy Frotte and Reel De La St-Jean (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 22 May 2009 13:34 (fourteen years ago) link
How does one do this? (it's probably totally obvious, sorry)
I click the X when it's someone I don't know or don't want to but it still comes back a few days later.
― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Friday, 22 May 2009 13:34 (fourteen years ago) link
I'd probably rather the whole "people you might know" thing got disposed of anyway cos it's led to me drunkenly adding lots of people I'm tangentally friends with and then I get anxious wondering if they think I'm a stalker/some annoying person who friends everyone they've ever met/etc although this time I did reconnect with someone who was a really good friend 10 years ago when I lived in another town and we're probably going to meet up for drinks so I guess it does have some uses.
― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Friday, 22 May 2009 13:36 (fourteen years ago) link
I am pretty sure that Facebook indicates somehow that you found the person through "People You Might know". Not 100% sure though but I do remember seeing on my feeds activity amongst friends with that note.
― ti's girl on the outside (musically), Friday, 22 May 2009 14:26 (fourteen years ago) link
So is the recent uptick in viruses just among my FB friends? Or has there been a huge increase overall? I've gotten those virus messages from about 13 different friends over the past week or so.
― homage is parody gone sour (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 22 May 2009 14:31 (fourteen years ago) link
i've been getting alot of that stuff from people over msn over the last few months.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Friday, 22 May 2009 15:01 (fourteen years ago) link
OK. I tried to make a profile for my Dad at his request a couple months ago. For whatever reason it didn't work but tonight he popped up under my People You May Know thing. So, I accepted him. Well, he must have figured out how to sign in because I just looked at his profile and his current status is:
George B: hi erica i am on faceebook but my birthday is march 194424 minutes ago · Comment · Like
(It was listed as April 1944)
LOL
― TAT THY SAD EAGLE (ENBB), Saturday, 23 May 2009 01:32 (fourteen years ago) link
"people you might know" on fb recommended an ilxor to me today
I am currently friends with 0 ilxors or people who even know what ilx is
this is some creepy matrix type shit
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 11 June 2009 21:00 (fourteen years ago) link
where u at dude?
― roman knockwell (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 11 June 2009 21:44 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm around! I'll be at the girls rock benefit @ mwm on sat if you're down for that. there will be a special guest appearence by ms e3...
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 11 June 2009 22:01 (fourteen years ago) link
At what point is someone a "girlfriend"?
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 11 June 2009 22:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I feel like you have to have the what are we conversation (as awkward as that may be) before you can officially call her that.
― sloth say hi to me (ENBB), Thursday, 11 June 2009 22:34 (fourteen years ago) link
my gf is currently "engaged" to her best friend and there is no indication that will be coming to an end anytime soon.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Thursday, 11 June 2009 22:38 (fourteen years ago) link
I know a relatively new interracial couple that's in their early 20s. The younger black girl has 'in a relationship' with no designated boyfriend while the older white guy doesn't have his relationship status listed (but the status was quite specific when his gf was a beautiful blonde). I shouldn't stick my nose in other people's business (though that's the raison d'etre of Facebook) but I wonder if there's a racial or ageist dynamic in how they're (not) advertising their courtship - or how one half of a couple isn't advertising.
― Cunga, Thursday, 11 June 2009 23:12 (fourteen years ago) link
What do we make of girls who make every other status update about their (platonic) love for one of their friends? Kinda cute, or creepy?
― Cunga, Thursday, 11 June 2009 23:31 (fourteen years ago) link
I've deliberately left my relationship status blank since my last relationship ended so I don't have to have the 'can I de-single myself yet' conversation again next time.
― chap, Thursday, 11 June 2009 23:41 (fourteen years ago) link
My best friend and I have been facebook-married since before facebook was available at most colleges, let alone public. We haven't bothered changing it when we actually get into real relationships. Just another way of putting "none of your business," I guess. (I have had a couple people think it was serious, but I've also had date requests via facebook, so it can't put people off THAT much.)
― Maria, Thursday, 11 June 2009 23:44 (fourteen years ago) link
I made my relationship status blank again recently, not because I'm not committed or anything, just that I don't want to subject my girlfriend to all the click-throughs from every idiot from school that I don't even like very much.
― Brundlefly (kenan), Thursday, 11 June 2009 23:46 (fourteen years ago) link
i also don't want to be the subject of those "so-and-so changed her relationship status...do you know what's up with that?" conversations with people who don't actually know me well enough to ask. even though i've participated in them before.
― Maria, Thursday, 11 June 2009 23:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Neither. "Hide (user)".
― Brundlefly (kenan), Thursday, 11 June 2009 23:48 (fourteen years ago) link
I forgot about that feature. The problem is they're nice girls otherwise, they just have those weird updates.
― Cunga, Thursday, 11 June 2009 23:51 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i'm kinda weirded out and uncomfortable that my ex is gonna see my "Justin is now listed as 'in a relationship'"
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 11 June 2009 23:51 (fourteen years ago) link
So set relationship status to none, or whatever it is that makes that part not show up at all.
― Brundlefly (kenan), Thursday, 11 June 2009 23:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Some shit is just not everyone's business!
― Brundlefly (kenan), Thursday, 11 June 2009 23:54 (fourteen years ago) link
(Big talk from me, I guess... if you search the ILX archives, you'll know more about me than I know about myself with a quickness.)
― Brundlefly (kenan), Friday, 12 June 2009 00:01 (fourteen years ago) link
ok so it turns out I'm fb friends w/ a guy who used to post on ilx, but I don't think he's very active anymore, and as far as I can tell he's not friends with any other ilxors
so I am still curious about how fb in its infinite wisdom decided to recommend that I friend an ilxor from the UK?
I know y'all are curious too, I can tell
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Friday, 12 June 2009 01:56 (fourteen years ago) link
that actaully does inspire a tiny bit of paranoia, yes
― Maria, Friday, 12 June 2009 02:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Skynet is getting smarter
― Brundlefly (kenan), Friday, 12 June 2009 02:04 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/TheTruthIsOutThere.jpg
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Friday, 12 June 2009 02:04 (fourteen years ago) link
it's weird how it keeps accessing your email contacts - i've used the 'friend finder' feature once, but new contacts that i've added to my email account since then have shown up in 'suggested friends'.
― where we turn sweet dreams into remarkable realities (just1n3), Friday, 12 June 2009 03:52 (fourteen years ago) link
where we turn sweet dreams into remarkable realities (just1n3), Friday, June 12, 2009 3:52 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark
i lol @ this every time btw
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 12 June 2009 03:57 (fourteen years ago) link
This would explain why my dad showed up in People You May Know recently, even though his only FB friend is his girlfriend.
― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Friday, 12 June 2009 05:32 (fourteen years ago) link
yes i got this when i changed mine to blank, but i changed it from single to blank and for some reason a lot of people still messaged me saying "oooh so who's the lucky girl?" i didn't understand that.
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Friday, 12 June 2009 08:34 (fourteen years ago) link
definitely creepy. it also makes me slightly envious that i don't have platonic friends who are all "I MISS UUUUUUU SWEETIE WE *HAVE* TO GET TOGETHER SOON," insincere or not. not that i'd want to be friends with people like that, i just like the ego-stroking.
― linda emangalitsa (get bent), Friday, 12 June 2009 08:39 (fourteen years ago) link
I think it comes up on their feed saying "Ste is no longer listed as single"
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 12 June 2009 08:41 (fourteen years ago) link
it also makes me slightly envious that i don't have platonic friends who are all "I MISS UUUUUUU SWEETIE WE *HAVE* TO GET TOGETHER SOON," insincere or not.
I once had friends like that. It was great for a while. But then I had to kill them all.
― Brundlefly (kenan), Friday, 12 June 2009 08:45 (fourteen years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41%2B8ipYFbWL._SL500_AA280_.jpg
― Brundlefly (kenan), Friday, 12 June 2009 08:56 (fourteen years ago) link
it probably beats girls who passively aggressively whinge about their boyfriends, because at least it's positive
― EMPIRE STATE HYMEN (MPx4A), Friday, 12 June 2009 08:57 (fourteen years ago) link
I'll feel bad about posting this later, but this is an actual FB status update that I was treated to earlier this week.
emotions are like mountains to me... and i'm barefoot. i wanted to cry last night but nothing would come out.... i feel like a stone. have you ever looked at someone and knew that inside they were dying and there was nothing you could do about it. but you knew someone who could if that "said person" could just search Him out... she sat before me and played her song and i could hear all the inner paininside.
― Brundlefly (kenan), Friday, 12 June 2009 09:09 (fourteen years ago) link
The last time I saw this person, I was kicking out of my apartment because if I didn't, I knew he would happily sleep on my sofa until he got old.
― Brundlefly (kenan), Friday, 12 June 2009 09:11 (fourteen years ago) link
(That was 13 years ago.)
― Brundlefly (kenan), Friday, 12 June 2009 09:15 (fourteen years ago) link
she sat before me and played her song and i could hear all the inner paininside.http://www.looptvandfilm.com/blog/joelies.jpg
― Oh baby if only you knew I'm down to a hundred-and-two (stevie), Friday, 12 June 2009 10:38 (fourteen years ago) link
people who respond sincerely and sympathetically to status updates like that one bother me almost as much as the people who post them. but i think i'm just jealous of their apparent ability to be nice to EVERYONE regardless of how annoying other people are.
― Roz, Friday, 12 June 2009 10:47 (fourteen years ago) link
It's so much weirder than that with these two girls. I'm talking "Sarah Misses Susan Smith", "Sarah wants to be in Wyoming with SS" "Sarah loves Susan Smith", "Sarah's world is dark without SS" and wall posts that are just "I love you."
And I see a couple of updates or published wall postings like that every day. Every day.
― Cunga, Friday, 12 June 2009 14:40 (fourteen years ago) link
this social networking thing was all well and good until i posted a mildly funny, wholly inoffensive pol cartoon and now my brothr-in-law gets drunk and wants to "debate" it. on facebook. i don't think i want to play anymore.
― ^defense is impregnable (will), Friday, 12 June 2009 14:47 (fourteen years ago) link
I have a strict no politics & religion policy for facebook. It astounds me that I have friends who don't.
Are you sure Sarah and Susan Smith aren't actually in love? (Coincidentally, I had an...um...romantic dream about some fictional girl named Sarah last night. Weird.)
― Maria, Friday, 12 June 2009 14:49 (fourteen years ago) link
also, my gf's cousin (who's like in her mid-20s) is very concerned that neither of us has posted our relationship status and has registered her concern with my gf's family.
― ^defense is impregnable (will), Friday, 12 June 2009 14:51 (fourteen years ago) link
it's the next big step for you guys
― U2 raped goat (darraghmac), Friday, 12 June 2009 14:52 (fourteen years ago) link
adults acting like 11 year olds freaks me out
― ^defense is impregnable (will), Friday, 12 June 2009 14:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, they're both young straight Christian girls from small towns in the mid-West. Innocent as can be, which only makes the postings odder.
― Cunga, Friday, 12 June 2009 17:31 (fourteen years ago) link
and hotter!
― ^defense is impregnable (will), Friday, 12 June 2009 18:33 (fourteen years ago) link
(sorry)
It's a love that dare not speak its nameexpress itself outside of status updates.
― Cunga, Friday, 12 June 2009 18:48 (fourteen years ago) link
oh no i'm with will on this one
― Maria, Friday, 12 June 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Why do some people make you send emails like this? This dude writes me out of nowhere, is not identified by the name I know him by, does not identify himself, I have no idea who he is, and he asks me to help him set up a proxy server to Iran? Even if I knew who he was at first, that's just an insane thing to ask. Like I couldn't possibly have anything better to do.
I think you misunderstand me somewhat. When I say that I don't know how to set up and host a proxy server for Iran, what I mostly mean is that I don't care. Please do not ask me to do time-consuming things before I even know who you are. And after that, please continue not to do it.
― all art is propaganda (kenan), Friday, 19 June 2009 21:30 (fourteen years ago) link
I mean, if I had the skills and the inclination, I'd volunteer.
― all art is propaganda (kenan), Friday, 19 June 2009 21:31 (fourteen years ago) link
The 'friend suggestions' box just came up with jaymc! I didn't even know his real name until now. No friends in common.
WTF?
― ambience chaser (S-), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 07:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Okay, is this creepy, annoying, or perfectly acceptable - I'm pretty ambivalent about this:
So this guy I knew about 4-5 years ago, and haven't really spoken to since about that time is my friend on FB. He's constantly inviting me to join causes - probably me and everyone else on his friends list. I know he also trawls friends' friends lists and will invariably invite them to join a bajillion causes. The other day, he calls me at 4:30am. I didn't answer the phone, but he left a message. He must have gotten my phone number from my facebook info, as I've never given it to him, and he was getting kinda batshit when I last saw him, to the point that I didn't want to deal.
― incomprehensible Kool-Aid swallower (sarahel), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 08:20 (fourteen years ago) link
ok the phone call is over and above. for the other stuff, some people just blanket-send everything they get to all of their friends. it's annoying but you can set to ignore that person or delete them.
― darraghmac@nebbmail.com (darraghmac), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 10:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah I'm pretty sure you can file a 4.30am phone call from someone like that under 'not OK'
― Real Men Play On Words (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 10:55 (fourteen years ago) link
...and people ask me why I don't have a Facebook. This is the kind of thing I can really live without, even if it means missing the occasional secret BTWS gig over it.
― Violent In Design (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 10:58 (fourteen years ago) link
you don't have to put your phone number on your facebook.
― the shock will be coupled with the need to dance (jim), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 10:59 (fourteen years ago) link
The 'friend suggestions' box just came up with jaymc! I didn't even know his real name until now.
If you didn't know my real name, how did you know it was me?
― great gabbneb's ghost (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 12:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Maybe you have a picture in your Facebook profile?
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 12:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Ha, I don't know why that didn't occur to me, but yes of course.
― great gabbneb's ghost (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 12:55 (fourteen years ago) link
either add just any old body or spill your guts and contact info on facebook, but don't do both.
― Kerm, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 13:00 (fourteen years ago) link
i would probably not do either.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 16:29 (fourteen years ago) link
My phone number is (501) 433-1037. Call me for an ass-kicking.
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 16:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Elmo argonaut just popped up on my "suggested friends" banner. Still can't used to the fact that you people have actual real names and the like.
― Pleasant Plains, Sunday, 5 July 2009 14:29 (fourteen years ago) link
which one of yous is J4mi3 H4rl3y btw? i know it's an ilxor but sorry, i hv no idea who you are. it's prob someone obvs, right?
― Roz, Sunday, 5 July 2009 15:09 (fourteen years ago) link
lol i got a phone call from a stranger last night who got my # off facebook
― i yelled "BIG HOOS" but i was yelling at my steen (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 5 July 2009 15:37 (fourteen years ago) link
a bunch of ilxors have been popping up in my people you may know section - jordan most frequently, also stevem, lex, nicole k3ssl3r (is she even still on ilx?)...wtf.
― guitar hero sparklehorse (nickalicious), Sunday, 5 July 2009 15:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Good q. I got a friend request from JH, too, and I don't even know who s/he is.
― sad-ass Gen Y fantasist (jaymc), Sunday, 5 July 2009 18:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I just looked up that name, and our one mutual friend is a musician acquaintance who lives in NYC, not an ILXor.
― Pleasant Plains, Sunday, 5 July 2009 19:00 (fourteen years ago) link
amazing lolz altho shd have been called 'failbook': http://www.lamebook.com/
― thank you, flipper, for nickelback (country matters), Thursday, 9 July 2009 21:50 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.lamebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/wtf13.jpghttp://www.lamebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/soundofsettling.jpghttp://www.lamebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/empire.jpg
― thank you, flipper, for nickelback (country matters), Thursday, 9 July 2009 21:51 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.lamebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/gross.jpg
― thank you, flipper, for nickelback (country matters), Thursday, 9 July 2009 21:53 (fourteen years ago) link
don't know if ILX will resize this but
http://www.lamebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/krazyasskali.jpg
― master of karate and friendship for everyone (musically), Thursday, 9 July 2009 22:56 (fourteen years ago) link
thought so
^^^yeah, that one. That one.
― thank you, flipper, for nickelback (country matters), Thursday, 9 July 2009 22:56 (fourteen years ago) link
anyone else have friends who's only contribution to fb is to update their status every other day with "roll on 6 o'clock" or "roll on friday ;)"
fuck me i have some dull friends.
― Great Scott! It's Molecular Man. (Ste), Thursday, 9 July 2009 23:04 (fourteen years ago) link
I have a friend whose status updates consist almost entirely of going to starbucks.
― faucet that ass (sarahel), Thursday, 9 July 2009 23:05 (fourteen years ago) link
I never take those stupid quizzes, but I'm going to start doing them in only Czech, Polish, Slavic, or any other Eastern European language. The results should be more amusing.
― kingfish, Thursday, 9 July 2009 23:06 (fourteen years ago) link
http://stfumarrieds.tumblr.com/
was this posted here before?
― enbba champions (omar little), Thursday, 9 July 2009 23:09 (fourteen years ago) link
I had no idea that Facebook-mocking sites were a thing, definitely bookmarking them
― master of karate and friendship for everyone (musically), Thursday, 9 July 2009 23:33 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.lamebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/andrew.jpg
― master of karate and friendship for everyone (musically), Thursday, 9 July 2009 23:36 (fourteen years ago) link
oh shit, top drawer zing at the end there. standing ovation moment.
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 9 July 2009 23:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Can't remember if this has been posted or not:http://myparentsjoinedfacebook.com/
― sad-ass Gen Y fantasist (jaymc), Thursday, 9 July 2009 23:50 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.lamebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/penit.jpg
― thank you, flipper, for nickelback (country matters), Friday, 10 July 2009 01:07 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.adarkervision.com/images/movies/pans_labyrinth/talk_to_the_hand.jpg
― faucet that ass (sarahel), Friday, 10 July 2009 01:11 (fourteen years ago) link
wow i didn't know chaki's real name was Ryan.
― (*゚ー゚)θ L(。・_・) °~ヾ(・ε・ *) (Steve Shasta), Friday, 10 July 2009 01:20 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost damn you
penit
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 10 July 2009 01:22 (fourteen years ago) link
okay, the always posting about starbucks friend has become always posting about her kid's baseball games friend.
― faucet that ass (sarahel), Friday, 10 July 2009 01:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh god that STFUmarrieds site is hurkworthy.
― lolsbury hill (Trayce), Friday, 10 July 2009 01:43 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.facebook.com/HamsterLady?ref=pymk
Huh?
― Sookeh, I vant to suck your titties (stevienixed), Friday, 10 July 2009 12:27 (fourteen years ago) link
my grandpa is on fb now. he is almost 90.
― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Thursday, 16 July 2009 13:26 (fourteen years ago) link
http://creative.ak.facebook.com/ads3/flyers/91/56/6002376656754_1_73c57012.jpg
― http://i28.tinypic.com/4ux79e.gif (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 16 July 2009 17:12 (fourteen years ago) link
that image is very small
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 16 July 2009 17:48 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm scared to click on these things to make them larger.
― http://i28.tinypic.com/4ux79e.gif (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 16 July 2009 19:22 (fourteen years ago) link
i took one of those facebook politics polls, "who would you vote for in 2012?" and i'm either completely horrified at this country's future or only assholes take the poll:
30% sarah palin20% obamathe rest spread out evenly between gingrich, jindal, hillary, romney, and "a 3rd party candidate"
― "he said...all things passantino the night" (omar little), Friday, 17 July 2009 15:36 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.lamebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/drewkeeper1.jpg
― master of karate and friendship for everyone (musically), Monday, 20 July 2009 18:53 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.lamebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/robot.jpg
― can-i-jus (stevie), Monday, 20 July 2009 19:22 (fourteen years ago) link
o that has tickled me. wonderful.
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 20 July 2009 19:48 (fourteen years ago) link
ha ha - i know when i'm feeling inconsolable - robot names always cheers me up.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Monday, 20 July 2009 20:16 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/A-Tale-of-Two-Kellys.html?yhp=1
― "he said...all things passantino the night" (omar little), Monday, 20 July 2009 20:33 (fourteen years ago) link
i heard about that. unreal.
― gonna be a long hot summer for the MS Word paperclip (the table is the table), Monday, 20 July 2009 20:37 (fourteen years ago) link
lamebook is so amazing
― autotune the jews (J0rdan S.), Monday, 20 July 2009 20:41 (fourteen years ago) link
I just saw the Kelly & Kelly thing a few minutes ago.
I looked up some people with my name to add to my Top 6 and the guy with the baseball profile photo wrote back to say "k just remember if your some rapist dude you dont want to mess with me."
Dude, I'm already married, k?
― http://i34.tinypic.com/t0sw0h.gif (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 20 July 2009 21:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Better not mess with him, dude.
― Trip Maker, Monday, 20 July 2009 21:23 (fourteen years ago) link
No one has my name but me :(
― Trip Maker, Monday, 20 July 2009 21:24 (fourteen years ago) link
There's 67 people total with my last name on Facebook, only two are in the US. One is me, the other is my cousin.
― joygoat, Monday, 20 July 2009 21:51 (fourteen years ago) link
there are 20 people with my full name on facebook. so common.
― I wish I was the royal trux (sunny successor), Monday, 20 July 2009 23:29 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.lamebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/divorced.jpg
― can-i-jus (stevie), Tuesday, 21 July 2009 09:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Brilliant
― Not the real Village People, Tuesday, 21 July 2009 11:48 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.lamebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/GunPoll.jpg
― master of karate and friendship for everyone (musically), Friday, 24 July 2009 22:00 (fourteen years ago) link
man, there are a lot of other drummers with my name:
http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/v223/58/56/n1841045822_3535.jpg
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Friday, 24 July 2009 22:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Hmm, very sorry about that. I guess it was maybe rude sending requests without a personnal message, but I'm very new to Facebook and still don't know the etiquette. I started posting on ILx a long time ago (when it was still hosted by Greenspun). You may not be familiar with my username cause I don't post very often (mostly because I'm not that confident with my english : I'm technically a brit but I have spent all my life in France).
― J4mi3 H4rl3y (Snowballing), Saturday, 25 July 2009 07:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Hey don't worry, you did/speak fine. :-)
― Unregistered Googler (stevienixed), Saturday, 25 July 2009 08:15 (fourteen years ago) link
my name is so common that it has its own group
― mookieproof, Saturday, 25 July 2009 08:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Thanks a lot Stevienixed.
― J4mi3 H4rl3y (Snowballing), Saturday, 25 July 2009 08:44 (fourteen years ago) link
oh yeah i noticed your username/real name the other day... forgot i asked that on this thread. hi! nah it's fine for ilxors to add me, it's just that a lot of the time i have no idea who anyone is.
― Roz, Saturday, 25 July 2009 08:52 (fourteen years ago) link
thread title just happened
― BIG HOOS's wacky crack variety hour (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 29 July 2009 07:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Someone asked you to be his girlfriend on Facebook?
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 11:22 (fourteen years ago) link
No, he asked his girlfriend to change his status to "in a relationship with..." obviously.
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Wednesday, 29 July 2009 11:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh, Tuomas, girls can have girlfriends, too, you know!
x-post
― Your Mother Smells Of Elderflower (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 29 July 2009 11:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh, I thought "girlfriend on Facebook" meant like pretend girlfriend, i.e. girlfriend on Facebook only.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 11:39 (fourteen years ago) link
I would never put my relationship status on Facebook, because if you break up and change your status to single, apparently all of your Facebook friends will get a notification of that, and I don't really want to make public announcements about that sort of thing.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 11:42 (fourteen years ago) link
No, you'd hide it forever and ever.
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Wednesday, 29 July 2009 12:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Of course I'd tell my close friends about it, in real life. But I wouldn't want all of my 100+ Facebook friends to get this announcement.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 12:29 (fourteen years ago) link
My ex and I actually staged an argument across Twitter and Facebook before ending our relationship on Facebook. Everyone thought we were joking.
― BIG HOOS's wacky crack variety hour (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 29 July 2009 12:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Staged? Why would you do such a thing?
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 13:07 (fourteen years ago) link
they probably just said that to be polite
― King Boy Pato Banton (sic), Wednesday, 29 July 2009 13:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Cause it was fun. xp
― BIG HOOS's wacky crack variety hour (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 29 July 2009 13:17 (fourteen years ago) link
We had a ott soap opera style BUT HOW COULD YOU on twitter and then ended the relationship on Facebook and got a bunch of "lol" responses. We then had to explain that the argument had been a joke but the breakup was real.
― BIG HOOS's wacky crack variety hour (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 29 July 2009 13:19 (fourteen years ago) link
I realize that this is not normal behavior.
― BIG HOOS's wacky crack variety hour (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 29 July 2009 13:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Our own little Baker 'n' Moakler. ;-)
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Wednesday, 29 July 2009 13:48 (fourteen years ago) link
i like the "now single" announcement. saves me having to ring previous ex's myself for the rebound sex.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 14:34 (fourteen years ago) link
just realized that you can prevent facebook from making a big ol' announcement when you change your relationship status etc. (after i changed it, of course).
also i was disappointed that when i removed the "interested in: women" field, it didn't say "jordan is no longer interested in women".
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Wednesday, 29 July 2009 14:40 (fourteen years ago) link
They know you better than a silly faux-change. ;-)
So how do you goabout not making it public?
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Wednesday, 29 July 2009 14:43 (fourteen years ago) link
settings > privacy > news feed & wall > uncheck 'change relationship status' or whatever
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Wednesday, 29 July 2009 14:53 (fourteen years ago) link
you can also hit "hide" at th end of the "story" or whatever.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 14:54 (fourteen years ago) link
i think 'hide' only removes it from your own wall, though, not from the news feed of your friends
― BIG HOOS's wacky crack variety hour (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 29 July 2009 15:37 (fourteen years ago) link
shit!
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 16:07 (fourteen years ago) link
http://10.media.tumblr.com/eDQpm1VFVqht8tncHt8OYNezo1_500.png
― omar little, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 18:05 (fourteen years ago) link
http://21.media.tumblr.com/eDQpm1VFVqggb0ug71ZQrNSgo1_500.png
― omar little, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 18:06 (fourteen years ago) link
jordan you are my fb friend and i did not receive this urgent news, fyi
― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Wednesday, 29 July 2009 18:08 (fourteen years ago) link
hahahahaha
http://www.lamebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/try-again1.jpg
― http://tinyurl.com/bbsshh (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 29 July 2009 18:23 (fourteen years ago) link
meanwhile, i'm currently experiencing my first facebook-friend serious illness. a guy who i used to work with and am very fond of -- even though i haven't seen him in several years -- has just been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. prognosis is not good. and it's a weird thing, because under normal, pre-online-network circumstances, i would have only heard about this vaguely and from a distance, probably from mutual friends. but now i'm watching it, still from a distance, but in great intimate detail, one status update at a time. it's sort of wrenching, and of course i can't do anything except keep writing notes to him. which is good, i think he really needs all the emotional support he can get, on facebook or anywhere else. so i think it's a positive function of facebook overall.
but it's still a weird feeling, to be scrolling down the home page past the various kinds of daily-clutter posts and run into his latest grim test results. and i think it would be much weirder if he were one of those facebook friends who i don't really know that well (or at all). i'm comfortable talking with him about this stuff because we're old friends, but if he were just a casual acquaintance or a friend of a friend, i wouldn't know what if anything to say. it would feel invasive in a way to even read it. but at the same time it would seem sort of bad form to drop someone in that situation from a friends' list. i don't know. i imagine a lot more things like this will come up.
― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 30 July 2009 06:33 (fourteen years ago) link
I think you can drop person from your news feed without dropping him from your friends list, if you don't want to read his updates.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 30 July 2009 08:00 (fourteen years ago) link
no i want to read his updates. it's just ... strange.
― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 30 July 2009 13:16 (fourteen years ago) link
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2648/3695517494_a279e0f8e6.jpg
^^^ A++++ last comment.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 30 July 2009 15:12 (fourteen years ago) link
― Hillary had Everest in his veins (sunny successor), Thursday, 30 July 2009 15:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Good to know that you can prevent notices about certain things going out to everyone on your friends list. I was thinking about that recently and it really started to weird me out. Thanks for the info, Jordan.
― ENBB, Thursday, 30 July 2009 16:42 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah one of my exes didn't turn the feed thing off when we broke up - went to a party that night and had about six different people come up to me going "omg you broke up with xxxxxx?????"
― john q. lazzarus (donna rouge), Thursday, 30 July 2009 17:02 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't really post any personal stuff on there anymore since I have about 15 random ppl from HS as friends now but it's nice to know that that there is an option to switch off that kind of thing.
― ENBB, Thursday, 30 July 2009 17:03 (fourteen years ago) link
I dont say anything personal on FB at all - my mother reads mine, and she quizzes anything negative I say, eg if I say I was sick shes in my face worrying. So all y'all get from me now is 2 line silly nothings, thanks family.
― seagulls are assholes (Trayce), Thursday, 30 July 2009 23:43 (fourteen years ago) link
i've got all kinds of family on facebook - mom, dad, both sisters, cousins, my fucking grandmother - but i've learned not to give a shit
― don't try to church it up (nickalicious), Friday, 31 July 2009 00:51 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^
― BIG HOOS's wacky crack variety hour (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 31 July 2009 02:11 (fourteen years ago) link
hahaha I still give a shit. There are some things not everyone needs to know - at least not all at once.
― ENBB, Friday, 31 July 2009 02:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Wow okay so this 'Stalker Check' application appears to actually work...
― Matt DC, Friday, 31 July 2009 09:50 (fourteen years ago) link
My top stalker is my wife... Not really a surprise.
For privacy reasons, this app only lists users who have interacted with your profile at least once during your friendship (e.g. by writing on your wall, or liking something). Real stalkers (the creepy kind) are protected by Facebook Privacy, and will never be revealed, by this or any other app.Shame about that, could have been fun (or scary).
― J4mi3 H4rl3y (Snowballing), Friday, 31 July 2009 10:29 (fourteen years ago) link
What's the stalker check application called? I couldn't find it.
― Tuomas, Friday, 31 July 2009 10:47 (fourteen years ago) link
http://apps.facebook.com/stalkercheck/
― J4mi3 H4rl3y (Snowballing), Friday, 31 July 2009 10:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Whoa, my top stalker is my ex! I didn't expect that.
― Tuomas, Friday, 31 July 2009 10:57 (fourteen years ago) link
my mother in law is my top stalker (!!)
― Hillary had Everest in his veins (sunny successor), Friday, 31 July 2009 13:41 (fourteen years ago) link
This is a joke, right?
― never name anything coolpix (kenan), Friday, 31 July 2009 13:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Wait, so it just counts up how many times people have written on your wall or sent you gifts? Not how many times people have looked at your profile? Because I don't like the latter idea at all.
― emil.y, Friday, 31 July 2009 13:50 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, I just clicked through all the stuff you have to click through, and it was just a list of my top commenters. These are my friends, not my stalkers.
― never name anything coolpix (kenan), Friday, 31 July 2009 13:55 (fourteen years ago) link
for real! xp
― unban dictionary (blueski), Friday, 31 July 2009 13:55 (fourteen years ago) link
The latter idea is forbidden by the Facebook Privacy Policy. Yes, it basically counts how many times people have posted to your profile/pictures...
Just Say NO to dumbass Facebook apps. Because...
From Privacy Settings > Applications > Settings tab:
When a friend of yours allows an application to access their information, that application may also access any information about you that your friend can already see.
That shit is wide-open by default. Pick "Do not share any information about me through the Facebook API" if you haven't already.
and STOP USING APPS
― Kerm, Friday, 31 July 2009 13:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah every one of these stupid quizzes is sending everything else about you all over facebook. It tells you so, if you read carefully.
― never name anything coolpix (kenan), Friday, 31 July 2009 14:00 (fourteen years ago) link
If people could see who viewed their profiles on Facebook then a bunch of people I went to school with would think I really liked them because I click on their profiles in horrified fascination at how fat and bald they got in a decade.
Andthat'sjustthewomen ahhhhhh
― Susan Tully Blanchard (MPx4A), Friday, 31 July 2009 14:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Ohmygod so so true.
― never name anything coolpix (kenan), Friday, 31 July 2009 14:07 (fourteen years ago) link
It's more than a little suspicious that the "who's you're stalker?" app plants itself on your page and in your feed without even asking you. This is more virulent even than most quizzes.
― never name anything coolpix (kenan), Friday, 31 July 2009 14:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Who's Your Sucker?
― Kerm, Friday, 31 July 2009 14:15 (fourteen years ago) link
im kinda curious about a facebook trend i've noticed: straight women who are "in a relationship" or "married" to their best female friend. I keep seeing this more and more. Is this like an extension of those old boarding school "romances" between straight women?
― ryan, Sunday, 2 August 2009 18:51 (fourteen years ago) link
hoes before bros innit
― Crackle Box, Sunday, 2 August 2009 19:02 (fourteen years ago) link
it's just a joke and it's been happening since facebook first started.
― master of karate and friendship for everyone (musically), Sunday, 2 August 2009 23:37 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.lamebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Mother-Truckin-Mike.jpg
― whenever i eat houmous i think to myself 'this is my nation, my history (stevie), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 09:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Will Facebook keep sending me weekly messages to add family members until I do so, or will it eventually give up?
― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 09:59 (fourteen years ago) link
http://imgur.com/6zjNO.jpg
― jed_, Monday, 10 August 2009 10:41 (fourteen years ago) link
They ate Friendfeed
― Alba, Monday, 10 August 2009 19:27 (fourteen years ago) link
http://22.media.tumblr.com/PskYYWIJmqz7sud3eqcRM98Fo1_500.png
― musically, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 05:13 (fourteen years ago) link
What is it with new parents who want to tell everyone who (wont) listen about their baby's pee and poo and weiners and other embarrasments?!
― Spy in the Cab Sav (Trayce), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 05:24 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.lamebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/PETA.gif
― like i'm the fucking orange juice man (stevie), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 08:16 (fourteen years ago) link
END OF CONVO
― Jesus H. Crap (kenan), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 08:38 (fourteen years ago) link
first response hall of fame
― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 08:39 (fourteen years ago) link
That sacking one has the ring of a crap made-up e-mail forward to it.
― Susan Tully Blanchard (MPx4A), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 08:44 (fourteen years ago) link
whooooooooooooooooa
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lamebook.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2009%2F08%2Fgood-to-hear-from-you-james.jpg&h=48a9f85783ef7d6ac077133426358931
― cockles (country matters), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 17:20 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i31.tinypic.com/a0hptt.jpg
― Cunga, Saturday, 22 August 2009 21:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Relationship Status: Engaged
― KEEP CALM+++THRILL FACTOR OVERLOAD+++KEEP CALM (Deric W. Haircare), Saturday, 22 August 2009 21:42 (fourteen years ago) link
haha jeff's fb pic fits well w/ his comments
― iatee, Saturday, 22 August 2009 21:50 (fourteen years ago) link
"mounted"
― bnw, Saturday, 22 August 2009 21:57 (fourteen years ago) link
the one stevie posted is the most classic thing i've ever seen
― ash ra - i love temple (k3vin k.), Saturday, 22 August 2009 22:02 (fourteen years ago) link
so it turns out the last one was 4chan-related, which sorta...makes a lot of sense...
http://thecoffeedesk.com/news/index.php/2009/08/22/4chan-hacked-facebook-pictures/
― iatee, Sunday, 23 August 2009 02:08 (fourteen years ago) link
That's pretty fucked up. Who does that sort of shit for "fun"?!
― Tuomas, Sunday, 23 August 2009 08:56 (fourteen years ago) link
http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/1102/3dcauk.jpg
I mean wtf, hacking someone's Facebook to write stuff like this isn't even funny (not that it being funny would make the hacking okay), it's just incredibly stupid and senseless.
― Tuomas, Sunday, 23 August 2009 08:59 (fourteen years ago) link
^ all this, plus gold star mother = has lost a son or daughter who was serving in the military
― The Loneliness of the Single-Issue Googler (los blue jeans), Sunday, 23 August 2009 09:05 (fourteen years ago) link
i mean, teabagger or not...
― The Loneliness of the Single-Issue Googler (los blue jeans), Sunday, 23 August 2009 09:06 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.lamebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/OyVey1.gif
― Tuncay Stryder (Matt DC), Sunday, 23 August 2009 11:09 (fourteen years ago) link
"lets chop off some of your clit and see how much you enjoy Johnny Depp movies and Gray's Anatomy"
― Spy in the Cab Sav (Trayce), Monday, 24 August 2009 02:22 (fourteen years ago) link
was uncut Andrew going to be buried in a jewish cemetery before he committed suicide? (the only thing, AFAIK, that actually can preclude you from being buried in one. also, maybe being a gentile)
― Mordy, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 16:41 (fourteen years ago) link
uncut Andrew!!!!
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 17:15 (fourteen years ago) link
i know i just keep reposting links from lamebook but seriously typing like this must take SO DAMN LONG its like its harder than actually being literate surely?
http://✧✧✧.lameb✧✧✧.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/✧✧✧@53-5t✧✧✧.j✧✧
― teef hoit (stevie), Tuesday, 25 August 2009 17:37 (fourteen years ago) link
― teef hoit (stevie), Tuesday, 25 August 2009 17:38 (fourteen years ago) link
this link: http://www.lamebook.com/pl353-5t0p
― teef hoit (stevie), Tuesday, 25 August 2009 17:39 (fourteen years ago) link
My Dad has been pestering me to fill in his profile for him as he is computer retarded and also to be his friend since he only had one other. I finally broke today and put a picture of his dogs as his profile pic and "I am awesome." in his "About Me" section. Hope he's ok with this. I also hid myself from his feed so he doesn't call me every time I post something and ask me to explain it to him. <3 u dad.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 20:31 (fourteen years ago) link
LOL I wish I had my Dad's password so I could do that too! Dad has gone through my friends list and added every friend of mine he's ever met. Kind of cute, but weird too.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 20:32 (fourteen years ago) link
If I thought mine knew how to use facebook I would probably warn ppl not to accept any requests from him but I doubt he'll be able to figure that much out. I only know his pw because he uses the same one for everything which is a combo of my name/birthday.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 20:40 (fourteen years ago) link
woah you can hide your feed from your parents? or could you only do that b/c you were logged in as him?
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 20:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Because I was logged in as him but the beauty of it is that he'll never know!!
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 20:49 (fourteen years ago) link
(the only thing, AFAIK, that actually can preclude you from being buried in one. also, maybe being a gentile)
i assumed this meant he got a tattoo
― Julie & Julius Rosenberg (donna rouge), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 21:01 (fourteen years ago) link
my godmother added me as a FB friend. i expressed reservations about it to my mom who told me "you HAVE to! she's your godmother!"
― Julie & Julius Rosenberg (donna rouge), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 21:02 (fourteen years ago) link
You can set up different lists with different levels of privacy and then put your friends on the different lists, depending on what you want them to see. I have a list for family that is pretty locked down, and a "professional" list for work friends that is even more locked down.
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 22:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Friends > All Friends > Create New List to make your various lists.
Then go to Settings > Privacy Settings > Profile and you can change the privacy settings for each element listed.
So, for example, for "Wall Posts," I click Edit Custom Settings, select "Only Friends" under the "Friends" heading, select "None of My Networks" from the drop down box, and then type and select "Family and Professional" in the "Except" box at the bottom.
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 22:39 (fourteen years ago) link
awwwwwwwwwwwwesome thank you awesome jenny
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 22:51 (fourteen years ago) link
gahhh that was what i was trying to figure out when my mum added me - but i couldn't get it to do lists! also: still no reply from momz, hope she hasn't seen that my mother-in-law is a facebook friend, or she'll be even more mad that i denied her.
― where we turn sweet dreams into remarkable realities (just1n3), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 23:46 (fourteen years ago) link
my parents are still at the "how does high speed internet work? Is there stuff we'd have to plug in?" stage.
― what happened? i am confused. (sarahel), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 23:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Enbb that's a genius move. Need to be guessing my momz pw
― stet, Thursday, 27 August 2009 00:05 (fourteen years ago) link
I do anyway. U probably dont.
― stet, Thursday, 27 August 2009 00:06 (fourteen years ago) link
:D
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Thursday, 27 August 2009 00:17 (fourteen years ago) link
OK, my stupid uncle has allowed his daughters (aged 8 and 10) to have Facebook accounts, which we all think is a very bad idea. Should I intervene and get them taken down? My uncle might grumble, but only briefly. Both girls are incredibly computer-literate and that's worth encouraging, but this seems pretty age-inappropriate to me.
― lacoste intolerant (suzy), Thursday, 27 August 2009 01:24 (fourteen years ago) link
an old high school friend of mine started a facebook account for her 6 yr old, which is just weird to me
― where we turn sweet dreams into remarkable realities (just1n3), Thursday, 27 August 2009 01:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Better facebook than Bebo, which is a hotbed of school bullying and doesn't have any way for kids to protect themselves.
― stet, Thursday, 27 August 2009 01:49 (fourteen years ago) link
My 11 yr old niece has a Facebook page, and it was an invaluable help when I gift-shopped for her. All the adults in her life are her FB friends. What could happen? It takes a FB village.
― Beth Parker, Thursday, 27 August 2009 01:55 (fourteen years ago) link
can I take a moment to vent about Facebook martyrs? A co-worker's home was partially burned down last weekend, leaving her and her family basically homeless. A fellow coworker kindly offered her a place to stay while their home is being built. Since that time, at least twice daily, the kindly-samaritan-coworker has been updating her facebook status with little dropped hints about 'entertaining houseguests', and 'oh I'm so tired but at least I get to take care of the 'new family' staying with me' ...and everyone piles on and says "oh your so sweet, oh you're so nice" blah blah blah. Maybe it's the Australian in me but DO the nice thing, or DON'T do the nice thing. Just STOP BLOODY FISHING FOR BLOODY COMPLIMENTS YOU COMPLIMENT WHORE.
that is all.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Friday, 28 August 2009 06:30 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah...
It's .. I dunno, now everyone is their own TV station, with more viewers each than the average non-mainstream Freeview box channel...
I'm more amazed this thread is only three years old! First few posts being "hey guys, this new thing" and "oh, I saw something about this" and "oh what is it?" and stuff...
― Mark G, Friday, 28 August 2009 06:53 (fourteen years ago) link
What I hate is that Facebook statuses really show the divide between horribly jaded internet people who take nothing too seriously (maybe to everyone's detriment) and really naive and "not used to this whole internet thing!" types who aren't used to leg-pulling and detachment as a constant form of online communication.
― Cunga, Friday, 28 August 2009 07:16 (fourteen years ago) link
I really like the description 'horribly jaded internet people who take nothing too seriously'
― iatee, Friday, 28 August 2009 07:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes it sounds good to me too.
― J4mi3 H4rl3y (Snowballing), Friday, 28 August 2009 07:33 (fourteen years ago) link
because it describes ilx
― mookieproof, Friday, 28 August 2009 07:34 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah but it also describes a certain broader culture that ilx shares w/ a large % of the english-speaking internet. ilx didn't invent ironic jpgs.
― iatee, Friday, 28 August 2009 07:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Ah, but back in the day, people used to show each other ironic pictures cut from newspapers, on bus journeys...
― Mark G, Friday, 28 August 2009 07:42 (fourteen years ago) link
mine is french for some reason
― cozwn, Friday, 28 August 2009 07:45 (fourteen years ago) link
dope post, cunga
― The Reverend, Friday, 28 August 2009 07:46 (fourteen years ago) link
...before being clowned on Rate the people sitting across or next to you on public transport for doing so
xxp
― my curvy girlfriend, who is Columbian, turned to me and said: (DJ Mencap), Friday, 28 August 2009 07:46 (fourteen years ago) link
jaded internet people who take nothing too seriously on the internet
― cozwn, Friday, 28 August 2009 07:46 (fourteen years ago) link
word the fuck up
― horribly jaded internet person who takes nothing too seriously (The Reverend), Friday, 28 August 2009 07:48 (fourteen years ago) link
http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/1206/vxvfd.jpg
― James Mitchell, Friday, 28 August 2009 22:08 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm inclined to think most of the really bizarre ones are hacked accounts. Not to mention that we can see the "Delete" link on that one, which means that "Shawna" would have taken the screen capture. Takes all the fun out of legitimately bizarre//lame stuff.
― musically, Friday, 28 August 2009 22:34 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Cy94-MgpVE
― Q. Tarantino Presents: Popeye (Eazy), Friday, 28 August 2009 22:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Didn't 4chan set about hacking the accounts of a Christian mailing list they got the details to? A lot of them come from that, I think.
― stet, Friday, 28 August 2009 23:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Facebook give up on my chances of another girlfriend any time soon:
http://burythehammer.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/alan.jpg?w=510&h=382
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 3 September 2009 18:13 (fourteen years ago) link
still surprised by people who don't use adblock.
― 123456789 (jim), Thursday, 3 September 2009 18:37 (fourteen years ago) link
2x
― dan m, Thursday, 3 September 2009 18:38 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/facebook_twitter_revolutionizing?utm_source=a-section
― one boob is free with one (daavid), Thursday, 3 September 2009 19:15 (fourteen years ago) link
So this girl has her facebook status as "It's official... WE'RE ENGAGED!!!" and she changed her picture to a wedding ring..
but..she's cheated on the guy..i know, cause i'm good friends with the kid she cheated on him with. so, there's like 10 'congrats' comments..should i post "its funny cause you cheated on him" ??
http://i29.tinypic.com/2qmgp76.jpg
http://i29.tinypic.com/1zf7ldv.jpg
― Cunga, Monday, 14 September 2009 21:22 (fourteen years ago) link
You do know she can delete the comment, right?
― Size-zero-brigade-embrace-token-chubby-chops (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 14 September 2009 21:28 (fourteen years ago) link
but can she mod this thread?
― Mark G, Monday, 14 September 2009 21:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Anyway, stunning level of maturity on display here.
― Size-zero-brigade-embrace-token-chubby-chops (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 14 September 2009 21:29 (fourteen years ago) link
mmmmm...
― Mark G, Monday, 14 September 2009 21:31 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't know, just seems that a passive-aggressive Facebook comment doesn't exactly seem like the best way to address the situation.
― Size-zero-brigade-embrace-token-chubby-chops (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 14 September 2009 21:33 (fourteen years ago) link
This is horribly dickish but, like the Kanye comics, I just stumbled on it.
I'm not looking for internet trouble but when it comes I don't run.
― Cunga, Monday, 14 September 2009 21:52 (fourteen years ago) link
if you don't stand for something you'll fall for anything
― President Emeritus, Fancy Chord Club (M@tt He1ges0n), Monday, 14 September 2009 21:56 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.lamebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/good-ol-uncle-Jenn.jpg
― musically, Monday, 14 September 2009 22:59 (fourteen years ago) link
what a disaster for engagements
― the name was too long so he dropped "Highlander" (latebloomer), Monday, 14 September 2009 23:37 (fourteen years ago) link
― the name was too long so he dropped "Highlander" (latebloomer), Monday, 14 September 2009 23:38 (fourteen years ago) link
a+++++++++++++++++++++++++++
― both HOOSlarious and truthful (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 00:07 (fourteen years ago) link
lol at alex in NYC making a pissy facebook comment when michael jackson died (something like "well I won't miss him") but dropping an RIP for swayze
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 00:27 (fourteen years ago) link
He's an incredibly complicated guy, that Alex hailing from NYC.
― Size-zero-brigade-embrace-token-chubby-chops (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 01:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Nobody understands him but his woman...
― nickn, Tuesday, 15 September 2009 06:51 (fourteen years ago) link
That's because (a) I was never a fan of Michael Jackson and (b) actually enjoyed the odd Patrick Swayze movie (namely "Red Dawn" and "Donnie Darko" ... if the latter can be referred to as a "Patrick Swayze movie.")
Michael Jackson meant nothing to me other than irritation.
― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 15 September 2009 19:22 (fourteen years ago) link
UPDATE: http://i28.tinypic.com/x26xhh.jpg
― Cunga, Tuesday, 15 September 2009 23:18 (fourteen years ago) link
just got back home, i've been on campus all day (midterm week :'(), and then at a friend's.
she defriended me on facebook. so i'm pretty sure she (and some others) saw it. i had checked facebook on my phone earlier, and after my post there were 2 other replies, one saying "ummm" and the other ignoring my post and congratulating her.
i'm going to bed, i have a mutual friend who i just txted to check up on her profile tomorrow morning.
― Cunga, Tuesday, 15 September 2009 23:20 (fourteen years ago) link
i sent the message:
idk dude, you should probably talk to your gf about it not me. but trust me, it happened, i know the guy she did it with, and other people do too. when you were going home every weekend, she had sex in your guys' bed. if you dont believe me..tattoo. inner thigh.
i'm not trying to be an ass or anything, but i figured youd wanna know..
― Cunga, Thursday, 17 September 2009 00:44 (fourteen years ago) link
tattoo. inner thigh.
― Cunga, Thursday, 17 September 2009 00:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Wait so you're seeing all this unfold and you're not involved? How public is this shit going down?
― Dearth Disco (Trayce), Thursday, 17 September 2009 00:58 (fourteen years ago) link
The guy who's doing this is asking for help and posting the developments on a massive thread somewhere over the internet rainbow. Hundreds are watching it go down on there - he asked for advice and it naturally took this turn.
― Cunga, Thursday, 17 September 2009 01:15 (fourteen years ago) link
mental.
― stet, Thursday, 17 September 2009 01:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Hahaha thats awesome.
― Dearth Disco (Trayce), Thursday, 17 September 2009 01:58 (fourteen years ago) link
good god
― both HOOSlarious and truthful (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 17 September 2009 03:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes, "awesome" that this poor guy gets to find out his fiancee cheated on him via a Facebook comment. "Awesome" indeed.
― Size-zero-brigade-embrace-token-chubby-chops (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 17 September 2009 03:30 (fourteen years ago) link
― Cunga, Thursday, 17 September 2009 03:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Well its not awesome for the guy, no.
― Dearth Disco (Trayce), Thursday, 17 September 2009 03:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Tbh, the guy that posted the initial comment is a worthless douchebag. If it was so important to him that this guy find out about her cheating, there are certainly MUCH better ways to handle it. Tossing it out on Facebook like that was clearly intended to just fuck with their lives for his own entertainment. Karma's a bitch.
― Size-zero-brigade-embrace-token-chubby-chops (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 17 September 2009 03:33 (fourteen years ago) link
What's sort of crazy is that he only did it after being egged on by about a hundred internet people demanding some sort of e-justice and shouting "do it faggot." Certainly not the kind of encouragement that will lead to a good decision. Ever.
― Cunga, Thursday, 17 September 2009 03:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Wow, major update:
http://i25.tinypic.com/295w9jt.jpg
"seriously what the fuck is your problem, ive only met you twice. why the fuck are you trying to ruin my life? I don't know what you think you know, but stop making shit up. Thanks to you my fiance won't fucking talk to me anymore. Stay outta my business, asshole."
― Cunga, Thursday, 17 September 2009 03:39 (fourteen years ago) link
That's from the girl, apparently.
― Cunga, Thursday, 17 September 2009 03:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Pft. She lyin'.
― Dearth Disco (Trayce), Thursday, 17 September 2009 03:44 (fourteen years ago) link
She's been caught out and now she's shittin herself.
why don't people ever realize that facebook has a private messaging option?
― Roz, Thursday, 17 September 2009 03:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Somehow, I suspect they want the public show.
― Dearth Disco (Trayce), Thursday, 17 September 2009 03:53 (fourteen years ago) link
oh wait yeah i just realized that this *is* going down in PMs and the guy is screencapping the replies - well that's pretty shitty imo
― Roz, Thursday, 17 September 2009 03:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Too bad there's no film of the guy's face when he read "tattoo. inner thigh." Was probably epic. Poor guy.
Because this started as a "what if I did ______? lol" joke and then evolved into "I'm doing this guy a favor this has a purpose bro needs to know." event.
x-post exactly
― Cunga, Thursday, 17 September 2009 03:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah I was gonna say (the first comment was on her wall tho)
― Dearth Disco (Trayce), Thursday, 17 September 2009 03:55 (fourteen years ago) link
his response to the girl (or the one that the forum wants him to send)
"look, lady. you wanna go on ahead and deny you slept with my boy "___________" all you want, but the fact remains you did it. the NEW fucking question is are you that hurtful of a person to not fess up now before you ruin this poor guys life?
if you even REMOTELY have a soul, tell him the truth."
― Cunga, Thursday, 17 September 2009 04:06 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't think there's a problem w/ public shaming for a girl who does something like this. And I don't think it's horrible that someone notifies the dude about this, even if it's over fb and done by someone obnoxious.
The real problem is that the dude who was about to get married is now *also* dealing w/ this shit in public. He didn't do anything to deserve that, and you'd think that if the internet moralist was really thinking about that dude's best interests, he'd be acting differently.
― iatee, Thursday, 17 September 2009 04:15 (fourteen years ago) link
this is lame and everyone involved is a retard
― akm, Thursday, 17 September 2009 04:39 (fourteen years ago) link
This is why I never ever discuss my personal life (well much of it) on FB. You cant lock that shit down.
― Dearth Disco (Trayce), Thursday, 17 September 2009 04:44 (fourteen years ago) link
If Google ever bought Facebook I think we'd all just give up the notion of a private life altogether. They'd have too much to blackmail us with.
― Cunga, Thursday, 17 September 2009 04:52 (fourteen years ago) link
My first couple years on ILX are enough to damn me forever, anyway. But I am big on protecting the privacy of others, and helping to make them awafe of the risks.
― or have I become completely absurd? (kenan), Thursday, 17 September 2009 05:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Big Lebowski Shirts!
― astronimo domino (onimo), Thursday, 17 September 2009 06:59 (fourteen years ago) link
apparently you can't be 'in a relationship' with your piano on facebook
― helping to make them awafe of the risks (nickalicious), Thursday, 17 September 2009 07:12 (fourteen years ago) link
sorry to be the one to break this but another dude's been playing your piano
― astronimo domino (onimo), Thursday, 17 September 2009 07:16 (fourteen years ago) link
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Thursday, 17 September 2009 07:43 (fourteen years ago) link
http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/080421/Tattoos/Tattoo-Fantasy-Island_l.jpg.http://cdn-viper.demandvideo.com/media/ebb5d38c-032b-4ffa-a559-fca299f3e8c0/jpeg/debffd06-3709-4fff-8f73-8cb428c75d8f_6.jpg.
― I don't get it, did I write something funny? (stevie), Thursday, 17 September 2009 08:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Alright, how about this perspective?
She had an affair, it was brief, ended, few people knew, and she's 'had it out' with her fiance, and they've sorted out any underlying issues and all is fine.
They decide to get married.
Now, it's all over the internet and she is denied the closure for the sake of the people who go up to the guy and go "lol she emasculated you and gave you the horns of a cuckold siree" so he can't go ahead for fear of looking lol gay or whatever it's called.
Still, lol, ay?
― Mark G, Thursday, 17 September 2009 08:24 (fourteen years ago) link
No one's denying this dude's method was ridiculous and was rooted in stone-throwing naughtiness, but I think the facebook needling and the damage done is overstated. The big revelations were all contained in FB e-mails and no one's identity has been revealed.
BTW, the guy she slept with is apparently doing a semester at sea and is unreachable for the most part.
― Cunga, Thursday, 17 September 2009 08:58 (fourteen years ago) link
it seems pretty clear that they didn't 'have it out' tho
― iatee, Thursday, 17 September 2009 09:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Dear the sea, before you get married to this guy I have something you might want to know
― you used to sleep with somebody who avoided a soap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 17 September 2009 09:06 (fourteen years ago) link
I dunno, basically if my soon to be wife had cheated on me, I'd want to know about it. I just wouldn't want the process of me learning about it to be public.
― iatee, Thursday, 17 September 2009 09:06 (fourteen years ago) link
It seems pretty clear that it's nobodyz bizness but dere ownnn
― Mark G, Thursday, 17 September 2009 09:09 (fourteen years ago) link
it started being other peoples' bizness when she started sleeping with other people
― iatee, Thursday, 17 September 2009 09:14 (fourteen years ago) link
this is lame and everyone involved is a retard― akm, Thursday, September 17, 2009 12:39 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― akm, Thursday, September 17, 2009 12:39 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
This whole thing is ridiculous.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Thursday, 17 September 2009 16:55 (fourteen years ago) link
I kinda wish I didn't know about it. I don't mean that as a snark, I'm as morbidly fascinated as the next guy, I just feel sorta grey and slimy now for some reason.
― oing oing oing (╓abies), Thursday, 17 September 2009 16:59 (fourteen years ago) link
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 17 September 2009 17:03 (fourteen years ago) link
^new ilm bord decript?
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 17 September 2009 17:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Lolllllll.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Thursday, 17 September 2009 17:06 (fourteen years ago) link
akm otm
― existential eggs (Abbott), Thursday, 17 September 2009 18:42 (fourteen years ago) link
also cunga imo it's not v classy of you to be sharing this w/a bunch of strangers
Abs I think what he was saying was that it's already being shared/played out with hundreds of strangers on another board but still . . . retardo etc.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Thursday, 17 September 2009 20:03 (fourteen years ago) link
facebook is the new maury
― wolverine is like FIGHT CLUB GOT A RIGHT TO SPEAK HIS MIND (nickalicious), Thursday, 17 September 2009 20:15 (fourteen years ago) link
― iatee, Thursday, 17 September 2009 20:16 (fourteen years ago) link
it's a total classless thing to do - the public fb news breaking/taunting. but i must say i don't mind being included in on the idiotic happenings.
xpost ha
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Thursday, 17 September 2009 20:17 (fourteen years ago) link
N*** C****** in the case of 6 month old Hadley Michelle...is NOT the father! *does a little dance*
― wolverine is like FIGHT CLUB GOT A RIGHT TO SPEAK HIS MIND (nickalicious), Thursday, 17 September 2009 20:17 (fourteen years ago) link
gosh that person has an unfortunate name
― iatee, Thursday, 17 September 2009 20:18 (fourteen years ago) link
I admit this left a bad taste in the mouth - and I'm sorry that it did the same for others- but this was already a mass topic elsewhere, no oen knew (knows) the identity of those involved, so it seemed harmless at the initial posting.
Tuning everyone else onto it was a bit like leaving a faces-being-blurred episode of Springer on in the dentists' office, and as interesting as it may be it's ultimately unhealthy, so sorry.
― Cunga, Thursday, 17 September 2009 21:17 (fourteen years ago) link
I guess I just can't help but put myself in the guy's shoes. The cheater? Yeah, whatever, she deserves what shes got coming. But the guy she cheated on is probably feeling like shit just knowing what happened, let alone knowing that effectively the whole world knows. I can only imagine the conversations he now has to have with parents, families, friends, etc. It just feels to me like the guy that alerted him to this was being more than a little perverse and sadistic in the way he chose to let him know.
― Size-zero-brigade-embrace-token-chubby-chops (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 17 September 2009 21:23 (fourteen years ago) link
This had nothing to do with the guy or any responsibility they felt towards him. If if it did, they wouldn't have done it this way. All about getting at her.
Since it ultimately comes from the guy she was cheating with, am guessing he's pissed off or got the humph somehow.
― stet, Thursday, 17 September 2009 21:48 (fourteen years ago) link
But its not, is it? The guy she actually cheated with is out of the picture, at least thats how I'm reading it. This was all stirred up by a "friend" of the guy she cheated with.
― Size-zero-brigade-embrace-token-chubby-chops (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 17 September 2009 21:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Don't think he's really out of the picture though -- he's a "close" friend and is feeding details. "inner thigh." He's got to be all over this.
― stet, Thursday, 17 September 2009 21:55 (fourteen years ago) link
From above:
― Size-zero-brigade-embrace-token-chubby-chops (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 17 September 2009 21:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Ah was confused there; thought it was the fiancée who'd been at sea when the shag was ging
― stet, Thursday, 17 September 2009 22:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Don't know what the poster's deal is then. Very moral, but not moral enough to try and minimise damage from his own actions?
― stet, Thursday, 17 September 2009 22:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Well, I'd say his actions come more from a place of schoolyard bullying and shit-stirring than somewhere genuinely moral, and the whole ethical crusade feel of it all is really just "a-ha! I has a moral justification" trigger pulling on something more ugly and mean spirited. Like someone else mentioned, what could have been done privately and respectfully was sparked by a facebook comment most likely intended to be seen by family, friends, etc, and that to me is what's so slimy about it. (Apart, obviously, from the cheating itself...but...eh I'm feeling gross again...)
― oing oing oing (╓abies), Friday, 18 September 2009 03:35 (fourteen years ago) link
what a sickening spectacle on the internet
― velko, Friday, 18 September 2009 03:39 (fourteen years ago) link
If you're all serious I'm more than a little bemused, considering some of the circus acts thatve gone on on this very forum over the years.
― Dearth Disco (Trayce), Friday, 18 September 2009 04:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Those were weird, too.
― a porterhouse steak three times a day-ay! (╓abies), Friday, 18 September 2009 04:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Fair enough, obviously I'm not intending to paint everyone on ILX as a crowd cheering on cruelty (there were times I did wonder, though...)
― Dearth Disco (Trayce), Friday, 18 September 2009 04:21 (fourteen years ago) link
http://1.media.collegehumor.com/collegehumor/ch6/2/9/collegehumor.9103eaa220702cb6d8a09209b742d759.png
― ice cr?m, Friday, 18 September 2009 04:39 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i25.tinypic.com/70969v.jpg
― ice cr?m, Friday, 18 September 2009 04:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Hahah I thought that was our Grady for a sec!
― Dearth Disco (Trayce), Friday, 18 September 2009 04:52 (fourteen years ago) link
o it is
― ice cr?m, Friday, 18 September 2009 04:55 (fourteen years ago) link
gradtastic
― million dollar pig junior (electricsound), Friday, 18 September 2009 04:57 (fourteen years ago) link
wait that's our grady?!
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Friday, 18 September 2009 04:57 (fourteen years ago) link
It is not. I just checked. Joe lies. When he cries. Joe lies.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Friday, 18 September 2009 04:59 (fourteen years ago) link
dude look on the 2nd page of his profile pics and u wll see it
― ice cr?m, Friday, 18 September 2009 05:00 (fourteen years ago) link
― helping to make them awafe of the risks (nickalicious), Thursday, September 17, 2009 7:12 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― astronimo domino (onimo), Thursday, September 17, 2009 7:16 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
you can tune a piano, but you can't tune nickalish
― you can tune a facebook, but you can't tune nickalish (latebloomer), Friday, 18 September 2009 05:01 (fourteen years ago) link
there's a grady on facebook now?
― velko, Friday, 18 September 2009 05:01 (fourteen years ago) link
also note the presence of a second ilxor in the comments xp
― ice cr?m, Friday, 18 September 2009 05:02 (fourteen years ago) link
i remember that post as if it were 6 months ago
― velko, Friday, 18 September 2009 05:04 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i29.tinypic.com/2va0d9y.jpg
― ice cr?m, Friday, 18 September 2009 05:07 (fourteen years ago) link
also note the presence of a second ilxor in the comments
shit. I'm dense today. u r correct.
― Dearth Disco (Trayce), Friday, 18 September 2009 05:22 (fourteen years ago) link
It just didnt look like him!
It's been so long I've forgotten what he looks like ;_;
Blimey, I've 'promoted' (if not invented) an internet meme.
Clicked that original BBC news link:
I'm disgusted with the youth of today. Whatever happened to the two most important things in my time at university, viz sex and drugs? Bah, humbug.Simon Langley, Ilkley
That's three things...
― Mark G, Friday, 18 September 2009 09:22 (fourteen years ago) link
ok, ok I apologize. LOL @ ew mom, btw.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Friday, 18 September 2009 12:44 (fourteen years ago) link
"rogue spyware attacks that seem to be originating from Facebook"
Knew I shouldn't have added all those Nigerian widows as my friends.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 1 October 2009 22:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Just randomly clicked on the profile page of a girl I met travelling a couple of years ago and got on with pretty well with the idea of maybe getting in touch, and was confronted with a wall full of RIP messages - seems she died in the last month or so. Damn. That's left me rather shaken. No mutual friends, so can't find out anything more.
― chap, Monday, 5 October 2009 14:04 (fourteen years ago) link
can't you message any of the r.i.p. message leavers? i'm sure they'd understand.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Monday, 5 October 2009 15:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, that's crossed my mind, I've just been weighing up how appropriate it would be. I don't want to intrude on anyone's grief, like I say we weren't best buds or anything. I did like her though. Probably alright innit?
Anyhow, weird way to find out something like that.
― chap, Monday, 5 October 2009 15:41 (fourteen years ago) link
don't worry. anyone so obtuse as to get offended at you asking about her, deserves to have their toes stepped on. you're totally within your rights to ask a simple question, any friend - distant or not - would want to know.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Monday, 5 October 2009 16:15 (fourteen years ago) link
i have a lot of friends overseas with few/no friends in common - so obv i have strong feelings on what's appropriate here.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Monday, 5 October 2009 16:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Thanks, good advice.
― chap, Monday, 5 October 2009 17:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Contemplating deleting account. I'm only on there for Lexulous, really.
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Friday, 9 October 2009 20:16 (fourteen years ago) link
wanna say your my girlfriend? it would be funny to see how my friends react
― I'm the best maaaayne, I did it (CaptainLorax), Friday, 9 October 2009 20:41 (fourteen years ago) link
i can't join the seattle network bc it requires a valid school email address?
― tehresa, Sunday, 11 October 2009 07:43 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.lamebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/daddys-girl1.png
― bare grills (tpp), Sunday, 11 October 2009 16:15 (fourteen years ago) link
That is wrong in at least six seperate ways.
― James Mitchell, Sunday, 11 October 2009 16:31 (fourteen years ago) link
six wrongs do make a right.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Sunday, 11 October 2009 17:56 (fourteen years ago) link
good rule of thumb btw: never post about an event you'll be at saying, "who else is going to be there???" or an event you'll be having saying, "come on over!" because inevitably you'll end up hanging out with no one else but the awkward guy who works two doors down from you in your office.
― omar little, Sunday, 11 October 2009 17:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Posted this is the other (wrong) thread...
Have the notifications from Facebook changed recently or am I imagining it? I'm sure that I used to get an email whenever ANYONE commented on something I'd commented on etc. whereas over the last few days I have only seemed to get emails when it's someone I'm friends with who has done the commenting.
― krakow, Thursday, 15 October 2009 00:08 (fourteen years ago) link
*is=in
im still getting them from everyone
― Hillary had Everest in his veins (sunny successor), Thursday, 15 October 2009 20:58 (fourteen years ago) link
my 50yr old uncle has friended me on FB - he's kind of an asshole and i haven't even spoken to him in probably 12yrs, but looking at his profile picture... i really really want to post it to Show me some men who look like old lesbians!
― DAN P3RRY MAD AT GRANDMA (just1n3), Friday, 23 October 2009 03:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Sid Meier's Civilization coming to facebook? OMG OMG OMG.
http://www.edge-online.com/news/civilization-heading-to-facebook
― emil.y, Friday, 23 October 2009 11:14 (fourteen years ago) link
I closed my account. :-)
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Friday, 23 October 2009 11:28 (fourteen years ago) link
someone tell me what's the difference btw live feed and news feed?
― Roz, Saturday, 24 October 2009 05:25 (fourteen years ago) link
I will repost some of what I just posted to Facebook, because I think I have some questions worth addressing.
According to Facebook, this is the story: http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=162536657130
"News Feed picks stories that we think you'll enjoy based on a variety of factors including how many friends have liked and commented on it and how likely you are to interact with that story."
Why? More importantly, how? Dunno about you, but my news feed page looks like a live feed page that's broken and is just missing a bunch of posts, randomly. I understand if you're using this information to narrow your target market, and decide whose pages to feed ads to. That makes sense. But this is like applying the same logic to just talking about stuff. I know it's a neat thing to be ABLE to do, but why are you trying to sell people's own friends back to them?
Also, it does not and cannot account for all the people whose every Facebook post I hang on and look forward to, but never comment on. The News Feed is all the control I want over my home page -- I can ban people of they're annoying, etc. I do not need nor do I want this extra layer of filtering.
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Saturday, 24 October 2009 11:01 (fourteen years ago) link
yes, it just seems very stupid and broken.
Although it seems that with this revamp my suggestions are finally working - I'm getting people who are friends with my friends rather than people who happen to be one of the 15,000 students at my university.
― FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 24 October 2009 11:09 (fourteen years ago) link
See, that's a GOOD place to apply this filter.
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Saturday, 24 October 2009 11:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Facebook has created a process to memorialize the account profiles of family and friends who have passed away:
By memorializing the account of someone who has passed away, people will no longer see that person appear in their Suggestions.When an account is memorialized, we also set privacy so that only confirmed friends can see the profile or locate it in search. We try to protect the deceased's privacy by removing sensitive information such as contact information and status updates. Memorializing an account also prevents anyone from logging into it in the future, while still enabling friends and family to leave posts on the profile Wall in remembrance.If you have a friend or a family member whose profile should be memorialized, please contact us, so their memory can properly live on among their friends on Facebook.
When an account is memorialized, we also set privacy so that only confirmed friends can see the profile or locate it in search. We try to protect the deceased's privacy by removing sensitive information such as contact information and status updates. Memorializing an account also prevents anyone from logging into it in the future, while still enabling friends and family to leave posts on the profile Wall in remembrance.
If you have a friend or a family member whose profile should be memorialized, please contact us, so their memory can properly live on among their friends on Facebook.
― James Mitchell, Monday, 26 October 2009 18:10 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c287/expatrica/FBSTD.jpg
― bear say hi to me (ENBB), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 18:34 (fourteen years ago) link
lol im thinking if u gave someone crabs they prob already know
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 18:47 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.lamebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/disconnecting.png
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 18:50 (fourteen years ago) link
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, October 27, 2009 1:47 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
lol im thinking most of lamebook is completely fabricated
― how rad bandit (gbx), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 18:52 (fourteen years ago) link
I dont think that one of E's is from lamebook is it? The faces arent blurred.
This "suggestions" thing is pile of puke: its suggested I "reconnect" with people like my oldest ex bf, my own mother, and some random person I barely know. Why? Because we dont post to each other ever? Whos business is that of yourFB? It also rudely informed me my mum "only has 14 friends - find more for her!".
I'm ignoring it but it really is useless.
BTW re the news feed: I dont use it, I havent in a long time. You can force your home page to show only Status Updates by dragging the "status update" box to the top from that left hand column.
The only catch seems to be that now filters out some things it doesnt seem to count as a "status update": posts from mobiles/iphones in particular. Even tho theyre status updates? I dont get it.
― i obtain much semillon (Trayce), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 05:29 (fourteen years ago) link
― how rad bandit (gbx), Tuesday, October 27, 2009 2:52 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i fabricated something and sent it to them the other day but they have not posted it :(
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 05:31 (fourteen years ago) link
lol my "news feed" is all ilxors except for my brother & irl best friend
― a goon boy (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 05:34 (fourteen years ago) link
unsurprisingly ilxors are quite prolific on facebook - its like being sent down to the minors
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 05:51 (fourteen years ago) link
It also rudely informed me my mum "only has 14 friends - find more for her!"
as someone with not many friends I'm worried about becoming known as that guy who needs more friends.
― FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 10:07 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm not liking these prompts to 'reconnect' with people - almost always people I don't like that much.
Weirdly, Ned Trifle keeps popping up as someone I may know. No other ILXors though.
― His skin is eroding. His suckers have divots. (chap), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 10:10 (fourteen years ago) link
In the last couple of months Lamebook has lamed itself by just putting up any old shit - wow, a bunch of teenagers talking in txtspk, pass the needle and thread - maybe the next one will be some kid who's really upset about his girl problems and posts multiple status updates!!!
― Turbohongro (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 10:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Me too, unless there's another Ned Trifle. Even more weirdly, Otis Redding from the Facebook lookalikes thread.
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 10:52 (fourteen years ago) link
That suggestions box, does it only do people who *you* haven't spoken to for a while, or is it a saddoes corner of people who have no updates from anybody
― stet, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 12:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Just passing this along:
"XMFD@this dad on facebook"
I mean myspace.. http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=407690277
from his page, thanks to mikle :
Hey my friends call me Cris. My enemies call me worse lol. I’m just living my one life for me, finally. No more living it the way others think I should cause it doesn’t work. Ya know? So I’m just saying yesterday is dead, today is real, and tomorrow is still virgin. I will seek the friends that come without a price, the love that comes without rules, and the nirvana that comes from being myself. And to those who choose to judge me, an emphatic f**k you. You have your own life to live, so go live it. And stay the hell out of mine. Peace.
http://i33.tinypic.com/doxs2u.jpg
― Cunga, Sunday, 8 November 2009 04:14 (fourteen years ago) link
So apparently this is really old in some circles, has been a fad on 4Chan etc. New to me.
― Cunga, Sunday, 8 November 2009 04:25 (fourteen years ago) link
OH HAI FUCK YOU, ALL YOUR FACEBOOK IS etc etc
http://consumerist.com/5400720/mafia-wars-ceo-brags-about-scamming-users-from-day-one
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:49 (fourteen years ago) link
what is this 2200 message thread about i have never clicked it before
― NEW YORK DESERVED 9-11 (cankles), Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:29 (fourteen years ago) link
LOL no suprise re mafiawars etc there.
― hulk would smash (Trayce), Thursday, 12 November 2009 22:32 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.lamebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/TPOd.png
― When she is finished, Reader, the vagina has won, hands down. (stevie), Saturday, 14 November 2009 13:41 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i37.tinypic.com/2q8xels.png
http://i37.tinypic.com/qoswo7.jpg
http://i34.tinypic.com/rr8e47.png
― Cunga, Saturday, 14 November 2009 20:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Not sure coffee is really necessary, there.
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Sunday, 15 November 2009 09:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Via Maura, a true win for Lamebook.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 18:33 (fourteen years ago) link
hahaha its like my roommate with a split personality disorder
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 18:39 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.collegehumor.com/article:1794889
― dynasty is a feeling (stevie), Saturday, 5 December 2009 17:02 (fourteen years ago) link
haha the last one's pretty good
― a. cole, u thic (acoleuthic), Saturday, 5 December 2009 17:06 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.lamebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/ImLynchinIt.jpg
― Wee xx (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 5 December 2009 17:21 (fourteen years ago) link
jordan otm
― a. cole, u thic (acoleuthic), Saturday, 5 December 2009 17:22 (fourteen years ago) link
is there an emoticon for laughing and feeling horrible at the same time?
― sarahel, Saturday, 5 December 2009 17:24 (fourteen years ago) link
X\
― what u think i steen for to push a crawfish? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 5 December 2009 17:25 (fourteen years ago) link
for some reason that's making me think of the skull & crossbones poison icon.
― sarahel, Saturday, 5 December 2009 17:26 (fourteen years ago) link
these new privacy settings have made facebook way more open. great that I can now nosy on high school people I used to know without having to actually friend them, but am pretty sure most people don't realise how open the new default settings are (all yr profile pics, for one), or there'd be a monster fucking uproar
― stet, Sunday, 13 December 2009 03:44 (fourteen years ago) link
As disingenuous as FB's privacy notices seem, so much of the problem could be cleared up if the "What can the average person see about my profile?" feature wasn't buried. People, by nature of only seeing their own profile when logged into the site, don't know what's visible and what's private.
― Cunga, Sunday, 13 December 2009 04:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Browsing the pictures of people I went to school with, I could only do it for about a minute. If I kept going this was going to turn into a melancholic Saturday Night were I play some Red House Painters. Thanks for the heads up, though.
― Cunga, Sunday, 13 December 2009 05:25 (fourteen years ago) link
First thing I did when the popup about priv changes appeared was go into every setting I could find and check they all made sense. Nothing got changed for me as my stuff was already locked down and it respected that, though I did lock down my pics more than I'd done before.
― millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Sunday, 13 December 2009 06:51 (fourteen years ago) link
I thought i had done that too, but went and checked tonight and my profile pictures were set to "friends of friends" (which is pretty wide open). Had to dig into photo albums permissions to find that.
― stet, Sunday, 13 December 2009 06:53 (fourteen years ago) link
My relatives can be extra annoying on FB.
My status message: something like "OMFG I can't stop listening to Orbital 2! So classic!"A distant relative, first reply: "So I guess you heard Aunt Jan died."
― kenan, Sunday, 13 December 2009 21:24 (fourteen years ago) link
That's hilarious actually.
― sarahel, Sunday, 13 December 2009 21:25 (fourteen years ago) link
kenan - that's a great idea - i should bust that album out!
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Sunday, 13 December 2009 21:42 (fourteen years ago) link
btw uncle jim died
― ice cr?m, Sunday, 13 December 2009 21:49 (fourteen years ago) link
It's a great album. I will carry it in my heart always. Uncle Jim, too. I guess.
― kenan, Sunday, 13 December 2009 21:50 (fourteen years ago) link
I take it he was cremated?
― sarahel, Sunday, 13 December 2009 21:55 (fourteen years ago) link
I've changed my settings so that most of the relatives I have on FB (which is limited as it is) dont see my status updates anymore. Mum will be miffed when she works it out, but whatever. My brother can still see 'em but he's not likely to email me "OMG ARE YOU OK!?" 3 seconds after I post "ow I stubbed my toe" like my mother is >:|
― millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Sunday, 13 December 2009 22:41 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.lamebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/dumb-dumb-dumb1.png
something very tuomas-esque about this one ^^^^^^^
― open the door, there's a bag on fire (stevie), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 08:21 (fourteen years ago) link
what does nfi mean
― happy christmas your ass (electricsound), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 08:27 (fourteen years ago) link
How is this revive not for THIS Lamebook entry?
http://www.lamebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/hookup2.png
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 16:30 (fourteen years ago) link
holy shit that's horrible AND hilarious, it can't be yet has to be real too wtf.
okay i posted this on noize but wanted to run this by a bigger group to see if this is happening to anyone else....
this is weird:
this chick i was dating a couple years ago just showed up in my feed. back story: we dated a few months, i broke it off, she got pissed, she deleted me from her friends list a while back (i noticed sometime ~1-2 years ago). neither she nor i have ever requested to be FB friends again after this.
and now out of the blue, she's on the top of my feed. i click on her profile to see if she's tried to add me as a friend or if i'd inadvertently clicked hers when looking at our mutual friends' profile (the couple who set us up just had a baby) but no, no pending friendship request.
is this a new feature or something? "People You Used To Be Friends With!"
addendum: she's still FB friends with jaxon even though they met *once*, when we all went to see Herc+Love Affair & Danny Wang. also, still FB friends with my friend in London who we went out to dinner with once.
― ┌∩┐(◕_◕)┌∩┐ (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 23 December 2009 02:34 (fourteen years ago) link
I think it's probably because she's connected to two of your friends but that's just a guess.
Had a conversation the other day with a friend about deletion v. hiding ppl. I just hide someone if I don't want to see their feed but he deletes. I don't really see the point of deleting if you can hide - it sort of seems unecessarily mean.
― ★彡☆ ★彡 (ENBB), Wednesday, 23 December 2009 02:38 (fourteen years ago) link
something similar happened to me: i noticed an old highschool friend i never talk to was no longer on my friends list, and then months later she reappeared, but she didn't re-request friendship or anything.
― DAN P3RRY MAD AT GRANDMA (just1n3), Wednesday, 23 December 2009 02:41 (fourteen years ago) link
it's got to be more than that because there are 100s-1000s of people that are connected to two of my friends that never show up in my feed. it's just weird. she deleted me, and no word for 1-2 years until one day she shows up in my feed (XG is a fan of So You Think You Can Dance!) despite her profile being set to private and no direct connection between us. strange!
what just1n3 is describing is some people deactivate their account and then when you reactivate it all your connections are restored to when you left. my guess.
but her profile was active this whole time (she showed up on my "People You May Know" at least 5-6 times in the past 1-2 years).
― ┌∩┐(◕_◕)┌∩┐ (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 23 December 2009 02:50 (fourteen years ago) link
OK yeah, that is a little weird. I don't know!
― ★彡☆ ★彡 (ENBB), Wednesday, 23 December 2009 02:52 (fourteen years ago) link
My favorite take on social networking is still Christine Rosen's article on the subject:
http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/virtual-friendship-and-the-new-narcissism
Humorous take on hiding v. deleting people here:
The structure of social networking sites also encourages the bureaucratization of friendship. Each site has its own terminology, but among the words that users employ most often is “managing.” The Pew survey mentioned earlier found that “teens say social networking sites help them manage their friendships.” There is something Orwellian about the management-speak on social networking sites: “Change My Top Friends,” “View All of My Friends” and, for those times when our inner Stalins sense the need for a virtual purge, “Edit Friends.” With a few mouse clicks one can elevate or downgrade (or entirely eliminate) a relationship.
― Cunga, Wednesday, 23 December 2009 02:53 (fourteen years ago) link
hate articles like that
― jabba hands, Wednesday, 23 December 2009 06:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah that article is about 7000 times more Orwellian than Facebook.
― kenan, Wednesday, 23 December 2009 07:48 (fourteen years ago) link
I'd much rather read an Orwell essay on what the word "Orwellian" has come to mean than what this narcissist has to say about narcissism.
― kenan, Wednesday, 23 December 2009 07:52 (fourteen years ago) link
you'd be waiting a long time for that essay
― open the door, there's a bag on fire (stevie), Wednesday, 23 December 2009 08:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Who the fuck cares
― The reverse TARDIS of pasta (Niles Caulder), Wednesday, 23 December 2009 08:19 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.lamebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/over-the-line.png
― SORRY ASS IMPRESSIONS (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 23 December 2009 10:27 (fourteen years ago) link
wow. What?
― kenan, Wednesday, 23 December 2009 10:35 (fourteen years ago) link
wheres the blackface halloween thread?
http://www.lamebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/LetsBeRacistForHalloween.jpg
― SORRY ASS IMPRESSIONS (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 23 December 2009 10:47 (fourteen years ago) link
again I say... wow. What?
― kenan, Wednesday, 23 December 2009 11:01 (fourteen years ago) link
ok, and with this i stop looking at lb
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNoLHZauCZs
― SORRY ASS IMPRESSIONS (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 23 December 2009 11:06 (fourteen years ago) link
oops.
http://www.lamebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/AndTheWinnerIs3.png
I want to friend tim.
― kenan, Wednesday, 23 December 2009 12:40 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.lamebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/monday-quickies-8.png
― millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Thursday, 24 December 2009 01:37 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.lamebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/BigMILFstake2.png
― open the door, there's a bag on fire (stevie), Thursday, 24 December 2009 08:29 (fourteen years ago) link
dohhttp://www.lamebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/BigMILFstake2.png
How I hate people
― The reverse TARDIS of pasta (Niles Caulder), Thursday, 24 December 2009 08:41 (fourteen years ago) link
that is one of the situations where GBH is at least partially excusable. whichever 'friend' did that has kinda crossed the line at which humans do not deserve physical violence [/j0rdan s4rgent]
― uttery cuntery (acoleuthic), Thursday, 24 December 2009 08:47 (fourteen years ago) link
ok not GBH but a haymaker to the jaw is definitely req'd
― uttery cuntery (acoleuthic), Thursday, 24 December 2009 08:48 (fourteen years ago) link
But if she had the opposite reaction...a few pints, maybe?
― Christmas With Mark Hollis (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 24 December 2009 08:50 (fourteen years ago) link
okay this site has got me treating every entry on my fb feed as a potential entry
― =皿= (dyao), Thursday, 24 December 2009 08:52 (fourteen years ago) link
omg that Steven/Mrs. B thing is PRICELESS!
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 24 December 2009 14:39 (fourteen years ago) link
dem sleek black spandex
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 24 December 2009 15:14 (fourteen years ago) link
hookup list is amazing
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 24 December 2009 15:24 (fourteen years ago) link
wait, can someone point me to the thread that caused j0rdan's ban? i missed that whole thing.
― And now my dick is where? Oh, this is too rich (the table is the table), Thursday, 24 December 2009 19:27 (fourteen years ago) link
So I was just wondering what an old friend of mine from college is up to these days, so I looked her up on Facebook, where I was surprised to find that we're not currently listed as friends. I could've sworn that we were, which would mean that she defriended me. Except I can't imagine why, and now I'm wondering if we were ever FB friends in the first place. (I've looked through her entire profile, and there's no "S.W. and J.C. are now friends." Does that get erased if you drop someone?) I guess I'm just wondering whether I should bother (re?)adding her or just forget about it.
― Francis Ford Copacabana (jaymc), Monday, 28 December 2009 19:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Did you double-check facebook.xls to make sure you had really been fb friends?
― mh, Monday, 28 December 2009 19:46 (fourteen years ago) link
jaymc's xlstential crisis
― HELLO MY NAME IS TWILIGHT AND I AM A DRACULA (acoleuthic), Monday, 28 December 2009 20:24 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah if you friend someone with a public profile you will see their status updates in your feed, even if they don't add you.
― musically, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 03:42 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.lamebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/rr4.png
― mad people slept on this one (stevie), Monday, 4 January 2010 14:29 (fourteen years ago) link
one of my "friends" who posts a lot just changed her profile picture to a closeup of a baby's face on an ultrasound. i have no problem with actual baby pictures but this is actually makes me feel a little distressed to see all over the place, it kind of looks like a tentacle monster at this point! and i barely know this woman, we went to elementary school together!
― Maria, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 14:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh is it one of those 3D ones? Those things look downright creepy sometimes. :/
― t(o_o)t (ENBB), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 14:25 (fourteen years ago) link
it isn't, i don't think. it is just unbaby-like enough that i had to zoom in to verify that it was what i thought it was.
― Maria, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 14:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Is it true that you can only deactivate your account, delete your photos and your comments, but if you log back in, you page is still there? That you can't delete your facebook page?
― Jacob Sanders, Monday, 11 January 2010 05:38 (fourteen years ago) link
you can delete it permanently but the link for it is deliberately hard to find - i found it once and i have no idea where it is now. :/ the deletion process takes two weeks.
― Roz, Monday, 11 January 2010 07:39 (fourteen years ago) link
At least when you do it also deletes comments you made elsewhere (at least on photos) ,unlike bloody livejournal which leaves the skeletons ofdeleted accounts scattered all over thread comments.
― millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Monday, 11 January 2010 07:42 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.lamebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/My-Date-With-Amanda.png
― Home Taping Is Killing Zack Morris (a hoy hoy), Monday, 11 January 2010 21:05 (fourteen years ago) link
I remember getting that same story, with a few minor variations, e-mailed to me back in 1997.
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 11 January 2010 21:07 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.lamebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Just-WoW.png
― Home Taping Is Killing Zack Morris (a hoy hoy), Monday, 11 January 2010 21:21 (fourteen years ago) link
next on lamebook: woman's surprise birthday party ruined by her peanut butter + dog secret
― A™ machine (sic) (omar little), Monday, 11 January 2010 21:24 (fourteen years ago) link
If one million people join my dad wont commit suicide
37 members
oh dear
― () |\| | |\/| () (onimo), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 11:10 (fourteen years ago) link
oh dear on what level? there are so many.
― Not a reactionary git, just an idiot. (darraghmac), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 11:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Getting a Friend Request from a parent is pretty lame.
Way to ruin everything Dad.
― Cunga, Tuesday, 12 January 2010 22:30 (fourteen years ago) link
I thought that would be the case, too, but I enjoyed reading my dad's scathing review of It's Complicated the other day.
― Hoisin Murphy (jaymc), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 22:32 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/WORLD/europe/12/23/uk.fugitive.facebook.prison/story.escape.prison.jpg
British police have appealed for information about the whereabouts of an escaped prisoner who has been telling the world via Facebook about his life as a fugitive.
Craig Lynch, 28, escaped Hollesley Bay open prison near Suffolk, eastern England, back in September, but has continued to update his Facebook status regularly -- describing everything from his meals to who his next girlfriend will be.
"mmm i just had a 12lb venison steak. Roasted veg and chips, bangin meal. I feel stuffed but still got room for the j.d's . Hope you enjoyed the meal babe's. We'll have to eat here again" Lynch wrote on his wall.
In another posting from earlier this week Lynch wrote "Is thinkin, which lucky girl will be my first of 2010!!."
Police are trying to use clues left by Lynch on his Facebook to track down where the convicted burglar may be hiding.
Lynch was sentenced to a seven-year prison term for aggravated burglary and was serving his sentence in an open prison before his escape, according to a police spokeswoman.
"We have spoken to Facebook and we are trying to trace him from the information we have, but it's one of those things that we're also asking for help from members of the public," Suffolk police spokesperson Anne-Marie Breach told CNN.
"Obviously we're taking what he's saying on Facebook with a pinch of salt because he's now aware that people may be reading what he's writing."
News that Lynch's Facebook was being updated broke yesterday and since then, he has written several times of his life on-the-run.
"The hotel staff haven't even clocked which was the only thing I've been paranoid about all day!" he wrote.
Lynch's most recent posting read "well what can i say fellow friends. The run is nearly over. Sorry some of you had to find out like this. I know some of you might take offence that i never told you personally. But you know me. I Trust No One. Its the only way to be."
- http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/12/23/uk.fugitive.facebook.prison/index.html
― ralph pls go (cozwn), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 11:33 (fourteen years ago) link
it's somewhere that sells steak. get on it people!
― Not a reactionary git, just an idiot. (darraghmac), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 11:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Keen to hear what NNs have to say about taking a 12lb venison steak with a pinch of salt
― the chance to act like a drunken whore (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 12:03 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah but take into account the dude does a lot of running apparently
― Not a reactionary git, just an idiot. (darraghmac), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 12:17 (fourteen years ago) link
and has a life
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 12:21 (fourteen years ago) link
in fairness it says 12lb but counting fat/gristle/cooked weight it's probably been vastly overstated and as such we shouldn't really speculate.
― Not a reactionary git, just an idiot. (darraghmac), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 12:28 (fourteen years ago) link
lol at first gis result for '12lb steak'http://www.mizozo.com/images/item_images/4000/3211_gallery.jpg
― ralph pls go (cozwn), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 12:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Ql
― spaghetti, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 13:04 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/sci-tech/07-facebook-fugitive-recaptured-by-police-ha-08
― DavidM, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 14:07 (fourteen years ago) link
This "friend q&a" app is obnoxious; I get all these notifications that people are writing stuff about me but I have to install the app to see it? fuck that noise.
― musically, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 19:15 (fourteen years ago) link
The 'fine' thing. Oh dear.
― hey it's (jel --), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 20:54 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.lamebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/HarryPotterAndTheCold-BloodedBitch1.png
― shartyman (stevie), Friday, 15 January 2010 09:33 (fourteen years ago) link
weak comeback imo
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Friday, 15 January 2010 13:36 (fourteen years ago) link
What's a "fat dip"?
― Kylie is a vacant Phifer (kingkongvsgodzilla), Friday, 15 January 2010 13:41 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i.ehow.com/images/GlobalPhoto/Articles/2270259/zzz-main_Full.jpg
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Friday, 15 January 2010 13:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Ah.
― Kylie is a vacant Phifer (kingkongvsgodzilla), Friday, 15 January 2010 13:47 (fourteen years ago) link
lamebook gets pretty samebook after a while
― I can't turn my face into a shart (dyao), Friday, 15 January 2010 15:09 (fourteen years ago) link
my roommate only mentioned that yesterday, i'd never heard of it.
― Maria, Friday, 15 January 2010 16:09 (fourteen years ago) link
"**** ********: over 72,000 deaths in Haiti. Absolutely tragic. Off to the gym..."
― Cunga, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 17:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Off to the gym...
B-)
― supra-max (ice cr?m), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 18:45 (fourteen years ago) link
I removed one of my best friends' father from my friends after he (an elected government official in California!) reposted the following:
XXXXX:WELCOME TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Press 1 for English. Press 2 to disconnect until you learn to speak English. And remember only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you, JESUS CHRIST, and the AMERICAN SOLDIER. One died for your soul, the other for your freedom. If you agree, copy and paste in your status....
― ┌∩┐(◕_◕)┌∩┐ (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 18:51 (fourteen years ago) link
don't even know where to start with that one tbh
― ┌∩┐(◕_◕)┌∩┐ (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 18:52 (fourteen years ago) link
illuminating interview from a facebook employee:
http://therumpus.net/2010/01/conversations-about-the-internet-5-anonymous-facebook-employee/?full=yes
I would like to know who's been looking at my profile tbh
― dyao, Friday, 22 January 2010 01:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Rumpus: You’ve previously mentioned a master password, which you no longer use.Employee: I’m not sure when exactly it was deprecated, but we did have a master password at one point where you could type in any user’s user ID, and then the password. I’m not going to give you the exact password, but with upper and lower case, symbols, numbers, all of the above, it spelled out ‘Chuck Norris,’ more or less. It was pretty fantastic.Rumpus: This was accessible by any Facebook employee?Employee: Technically, yes. But it was pretty much limited to the original engineers, who were basically the only people who knew about it. It wasn’t as if random people in Human Resources were using this password to log into profiles. It was made and designed for engineering reasons. But it was there, and any employee could find it if they knew where to look.
Employee: I’m not sure when exactly it was deprecated, but we did have a master password at one point where you could type in any user’s user ID, and then the password. I’m not going to give you the exact password, but with upper and lower case, symbols, numbers, all of the above, it spelled out ‘Chuck Norris,’ more or less. It was pretty fantastic.
Rumpus: This was accessible by any Facebook employee?
Employee: Technically, yes. But it was pretty much limited to the original engineers, who were basically the only people who knew about it. It wasn’t as if random people in Human Resources were using this password to log into profiles. It was made and designed for engineering reasons. But it was there, and any employee could find it if they knew where to look.
― dyao, Friday, 22 January 2010 01:53 (fourteen years ago) link
i wonder how long that employee's going to remain anonymous :/
― Maria, Friday, 22 January 2010 01:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Let's hope this turns into the PR disaster it deserves to be: http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/23/facebook-vanity-url-harman
― StanM, Saturday, 23 January 2010 19:32 (fourteen years ago) link
I kind of know this guy who works for FB and that's just the kind of bean-spilling thing he'd say
― Cunga, Saturday, 23 January 2010 19:49 (fourteen years ago) link
his also came up with FB's short-lived "brag about what you just bought online to your friends" concept, which I'm not sure even got finalized.
― Cunga, Saturday, 23 January 2010 19:50 (fourteen years ago) link
beacon: auto-brag abt waht u just bought whether u like it or not
― supra-max (ice cr?m), Saturday, 23 January 2010 21:16 (fourteen years ago) link
When the dude would write about what was going on with his life he sounded like Ryan in the Office, when he starts ascending the corporate ranks and doing loads of cocaine.
― Cunga, Saturday, 23 January 2010 21:32 (fourteen years ago) link
"brag about what you just bought online to your friends" concept
there's now another social network that lets you do that called Blippy. (here's the thread is started recently on it Blippy)
― kshighway (ksh), Saturday, 23 January 2010 21:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Linking to that Rumpus interview gets me google warnings about "hundreds" of malware etc.
― everything, Sunday, 24 January 2010 19:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Oops! Something went wrong. We're working on getting this fixed as soon as we can. You may be able to try again.
UGHHHHH
i swear this happens 100x as much as it used to - i don't log on regularly these days but it seems to happen almost every time i do, whether for posting a link or looking at photos or RSVPing to events. what the fuck is wrong with this stupid site that it can't handle any activity any more???
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Monday, 25 January 2010 16:55 (fourteen years ago) link
^This
― Adam Bruneau, Monday, 25 January 2010 17:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Create a friend list. Add a single fan page that doesn't update often to that list. (I chose Dinosaur Jr.) On the main page where the NewsFeed is, put that friend list in place of NewsFeed. Hide NewsFeed under the fold. When you log in, you will be confronted with a screen devoid of status updates. Now you can message your "friends" without having to read the dumb stuff their activity propagated into the Feed. Awesome.
― kshighway (ksh), Monday, 25 January 2010 17:08 (fourteen years ago) link
that won't stop those annoying notifications, although it will somewhat decrease the frequency of one's headaches
― kshighway (ksh), Monday, 25 January 2010 17:14 (fourteen years ago) link
but then how will I know that my friend dropped a big pile of chips onto the floor of the casino while playing no limit
― i'm with stupid ☞ (dyao), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 01:09 (fourteen years ago) link
"this will haunt us" = perpetual mindset of Vikings fan, whatever the occasion.
― berwick obama (suzy), Monday, January 25, 2010 12:22 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
hah this is how it used to feel to be a red sox fan - dont worry itll go away - just got to win it all is all
― supra-max (ice cr?m), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 01:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Lex OTM by the way, it has been pretty much unusable for a good week now
― the BIG MAN from the hilarious "Alan McGee" tweets (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 12:32 (fourteen years ago) link
So not a good time to re-join ey? Have some done that? I mean, rejoin? What exactly happens? I don't want everyone to get a "NATHALIE REJOINED LETS ALL HUGGELZ HER INTO INFINITY"
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 12:36 (fourteen years ago) link
some meathead swim team dude I went to school with used an application to set some poll asking whether people thought I'd ever used steroids, and it appeared on my wall even though I'd never authorised the app
― MPx4A, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 12:38 (fourteen years ago) link
nath, nothing happened when I rejoined, just took a day or so before my friends list and photos were restored.
i haven't had any problems posting things but people keep posting these dumb gift apps to my wall - like "Just sent you a heart", "I got you a teddy bear!" kind of rubbish - stuff seems like it's guilt-tripping you into sending one back, but you have to install an app to do so. fuck that noise, basically.
― Roz, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 12:42 (fourteen years ago) link
ehhhh i ignore ALL that stuff - it's definitely a certain subset of my friends who send that shit. and some stupid poll thing showed up on my wall so i just deleted it (i barely know the girl who was responsible for it, so didn't really care about offending her).
― DAN P3RRY MAD AT GRANDMA (just1n3), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 16:13 (fourteen years ago) link
how does facebook pick people to suggest you befriend when you first join?
i just joined, and i immediately got a suggestion to befriend a former member of the emusic editorial staff. i've spoken with him before in comments on emusic's blog, and i'd be happy to befriend him, but i wonder how facebook made the connection.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:26 (fourteen years ago) link
I think it polls for potential friends from your email contacts?
― struck through in my prime (HI DERE), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:28 (fourteen years ago) link
If you emailed him and he ran that email thing it will suggest him to you.
Also it seems like if you google somebody and hit and maybe click on their Facebook link it will suggest that person to you (this had me scratching my head a while but I believe it does this)
― the clones of tldr funkenstein (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:30 (fourteen years ago) link
WTF. This creeps me out. It's watching us surf.
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 22:18 (fourteen years ago) link
They know everything.
― krakow, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 23:39 (fourteen years ago) link
I think it counts 'friends in common' that you might have with the proposed FB friend, and those who have the most FIC wind up in Suggestions.
― gnothi sautée (suzy), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 23:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Not related to this immediate discussion, but I'm assuming that facebook store full chat logs indefinitely as well (cf. article linked to above in rumpus). Would be interesting if they use any filtering and analysis on the frequency, length and even content of chats to manage your account 'better'...?
― krakow, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 23:57 (fourteen years ago) link
FB apparently decides who your best friends are by how many times you interact with them on facebook, click on their profile etc. But I mainly use FB as a really passive way of keeping in touch - emailing or chatting to my best friends outside of FB. I don't ever really click on someone's profile - usually it's if I've suddenly remembered they exist or if I heard they got married and want to see what their other half looks like. So it's kind of the wrong way round for me.
In any case this shouldn't affect whose status/news/etc comes up in my live feed, should it?
― Not the real Village People, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 02:00 (fourteen years ago) link
http://virulentwordofmouse.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/hal-400.jpg
― i'm with stupid ☞ (dyao), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 02:15 (fourteen years ago) link
A friend of mine posted this on FB:
"If your facebook been running slow lately, go to 'application settings' and change the dropdown box to 'added to profile'. If you see one in there called 'unnamed app', delete it. Its an internal spybot. Pass this on." Worked for me. BUT: doing this also deleted the "boxes" tab on my profile (don't matter for me).
I found the application and deleted it, and this seems to have made things work better. But I wonder what the removed application was all about? Some sort of internal data-gathering thing? If it was, why would FB allow you to remove it so easily?
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 19:31 (fourteen years ago) link
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100126190431AAJkPoW
The above link is mostly speculation, but may be of some use.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:15 (fourteen years ago) link
I dont have such an app - I'm someone who never allow apps to add themselves to anything of mine, but that said I havent used an app in a long time and have deleted/blocked most others. If people randomly click apps such as quizzes without thinking theyre bound to end up with a virus.
― millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:22 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.lamebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/lick-it-up.png
― old kindle (stevie), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 23:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Can we just go ahead and rename this the "the lamebook c+p thread"?
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 23:11 (fourteen years ago) link
there are only about 5 lamebook variations anyway: parent or other middle aged relative makes inappropriate comment, someone tells someone else they have a small penis, someone has a hilariously misspelled profile, someone posts a picture with people groping each other in the background...
― i'm with stupid ☞ (dyao), Thursday, 28 January 2010 01:16 (fourteen years ago) link
or somebody congratulates a couple on their engagement by reminding them of a past infidelity.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Thursday, 28 January 2010 16:07 (fourteen years ago) link
that one is still my fav
okay i posted this on noize but wanted to run this by a bigger group to see if this is happening to anyone else....this is weird:this chick i was dating a couple years ago just showed up in my feed. back story: we dated a few months, i broke it off, she got pissed, she deleted me from her friends list a while back (i noticed sometime ~1-2 years ago). neither she nor i have ever requested to be FB friends again after this.and now out of the blue, she's on the top of my feed. i click on her profile to see if she's tried to add me as a friend or if i'd inadvertently clicked hers when looking at our mutual friends' profile (the couple who set us up just had a baby) but no, no pending friendship request.is this a new feature or something? "People You Used To Be Friends With!"addendum: she's still FB friends with jaxon even though they met *once*, when we all went to see Herc+Love Affair & Danny Wang. also, still FB friends with my friend in London who we went out to dinner with once.― ┌∩┐(◕_◕)┌∩┐ (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, December 22, 2009 6:34 PM (1 month ago)
― ┌∩┐(◕_◕)┌∩┐ (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, December 22, 2009 6:34 PM (1 month ago)
ok this is happening again, i had two posts in my feed today from dudes in my cycling club (that i'm not FB friends with).
― ┌∩┐(◕_◕)┌∩┐ (Steve Shasta), Friday, 5 February 2010 00:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Did somebody you are friends with "like" those posts?
― the clones of tldr funkenstein (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 5 February 2010 01:51 (fourteen years ago) link
anybody else seeing this wholly redesigned home page?
― stet, Friday, 5 February 2010 02:04 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.facebook.com/sitetour/homepage.php
Did somebody you are friends with "like" those posts?― the clones of tldr funkenstein (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, February 4, 2010 5:51 PM (15 minutes ago)
― the clones of tldr funkenstein (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, February 4, 2010 5:51 PM (15 minutes ago)
no, i get how that works, this is wholly different... just creepy that FB knows your gmail contacts and is teasing you with peeks at their private profile.
anybody else seeing this wholly redesigned home page?― stet, Thursday, February 4, 2010 6:04 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― stet, Thursday, February 4, 2010 6:04 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
yes! much better imo!
― ┌∩┐(◕_◕)┌∩┐ (Steve Shasta), Friday, 5 February 2010 02:10 (fourteen years ago) link
not gettin it yet
― ice cr?m, Friday, 5 February 2010 02:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Coming through in fits and starts here.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 5 February 2010 16:28 (fourteen years ago) link
hav it now - much better - more info in the left nav - notification top left where they should be - news feed/live feed renamed top news / most recent
btw techcrunch saying facebook is working on a full fledged webmail client http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/02/05/facebooks-project-titan-a-full-featured-webmail-product
― ice cr?m, Friday, 5 February 2010 16:35 (fourteen years ago) link
I still don't have the new design. Weird.
― t(o_o)t (ENBB), Sunday, 7 February 2010 19:51 (fourteen years ago) link
fb is wicked fd up - my feed is having an aneurysm - not sure if thats related to the new design or what
― ice cr?m, Sunday, 7 February 2010 20:00 (fourteen years ago) link
I dont like this new design: I filtered my news page by "status update" and they've now hidden that buried in the "friends" menu and you cant force it to the top anymore.
And using "latest updates" new feed is flaky as shit. If i re-click on it a couple times, posts disappear and reappear, it randomly says "no more posts to display!" and stuff.
― millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Sunday, 7 February 2010 20:18 (fourteen years ago) link
So no it isnt much better, because in simplifying it they've removed the ability to do filtering ppl like me knew how to do grrrr.
― millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Sunday, 7 February 2010 20:19 (fourteen years ago) link
I think it's got past that age where everyone is supposed to decide it's shit and no-one's twigged so they've made it actually shit.
Anyone remember their Friendster login?
― requiem for a team (onimo), Sunday, 7 February 2010 21:53 (fourteen years ago) link
I never even looked at friendster or orkut.
People are also whining that livejournal's become a graveyard but it suits many purposes for me FB never can, so...
― millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Sunday, 7 February 2010 22:09 (fourteen years ago) link
OK Ive just read through a dozen questions on the FB help centre and *everyone* is saying the new news feed forced upon them isnt working properly, which is what I'm seeing. I'll see a bunch of posts from 5-20 mins ago, hit reload, and theyre gone, as are half the rest of the feed, as if it's "skimming" my feed. DO NOT WANT.
― millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Sunday, 7 February 2010 22:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Online social networking had delivered the mother and daughter the worst possible news.
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 9 February 2010 13:29 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah this--i can't get any posts newer than an hour ago. they appeared on one refresh but as soon as i refreshed again they were gone. i like the new design but god damn
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 00:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, it doesn't work for shit. Mine has been showing the same five "new" updates all afternoon. Refresh just makes those go away.
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 10 February 2010 00:07 (fourteen years ago) link
I just went into the Status Updates thing in Friends and made *that* my FB setting in Bookmarks.
― spay or neuter your blue dog (suzy), Wednesday, 10 February 2010 00:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Desperate for reassurance there was a mistake, she tried over and over to ring her brother.
"I kept ringing and messaging but couldn't get on to him. So I rang Mum and said: 'Chris Naylor must have died - I just read it on Facebook. But where's Bobby? People are writing 'RIP Bobby' too.'
"Mum said 'Bobby was with Chris Naylor last night'."
How nice of mum to, I dunno, let her own daughters know their brother had died.
― millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Wednesday, 10 February 2010 00:56 (fourteen years ago) link
The mother didn't know either. She knew he was with the other lad, but not about the accident. The police hadn't contacted the family.
― krakow, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 00:59 (fourteen years ago) link
http://lite.facebook.com
― stet, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 01:07 (fourteen years ago) link
krakow: the way it reads to me was yeah she didnt know either but by the time the girls called her she obviously did, so why hadnt she called them as soon as she found out? Eh who knows.
― millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Wednesday, 10 February 2010 02:20 (fourteen years ago) link
OMG that link is perfect stet! nothings missing. Ta!
got the new fb design yesterday - I like it, much cleaner
― 99. The Juggalo Teacher (dyao), Wednesday, 10 February 2010 02:23 (fourteen years ago) link
I still wish they'd fix the chat function.
― Cunga, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 02:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I think what people are missing here is not that the design itself is disliked - its neat, tidy and I like it fine - its that the news feed is BROKEN ON PURPOSE.
― millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Wednesday, 10 February 2010 02:30 (fourteen years ago) link
i think the news feed is broken by accident actually?
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 02:37 (fourteen years ago) link
some sort of combination of the two is my guess
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 02:38 (fourteen years ago) link
one thing (and i don't know if this has been discussed because i never really follow this thread) is that news feed will limit the number of yr total friends that show up unless you tell it not to--this is in the options at the bottom of the feed.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 02:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah CAD that options bit is what I regard as "broken on purpose", to wit:Live Feed automatically determines which friends to include based on who Facebook thinks you want to hear from most. You can manually adjust this list below.
OK, fair enough... maybe... except it doesnt work. I've added a large list of friends, and it promptly "forgets" the list. I go back into edit and it isnt there anymore. It retains my "hide" ones fine but not the "show more" list.
― millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Wednesday, 10 February 2010 02:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Its the "based on who Facebook thinks you want to hear from" that annoys me.
― millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Wednesday, 10 February 2010 02:50 (fourteen years ago) link
it defaulted to 250 and i have like 330 friends so i just bumped it to 500--no idea if it's working because of the other issues they're having. but the point of live feed i thought was just to give you the newest information--what would facebook be without weird updates from people you don't really care about??
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 02:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, I don't think its working right at all. I mean mine is set to a max of 250 friends and I have way less than that in total anyway. But I'm only seeing updates from the same 4 or 5 people. My wife, who shares many of my friends, is seeing different updates from the people that I should normally be seeing.
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 10 February 2010 02:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah same here.
The lite.facebook link stet posted shows what I think is everything, fwiw.
― millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Wednesday, 10 February 2010 03:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Grrr there are things showing up in "top news" that aren't in "most recent". This is bullshit!! /superhans
― Not the real Village People, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 03:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Someone posted a link to a 'Will you stay on when Facebook starts charging in July?'. Huh?
― Adam Bruneau, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 05:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Uh, ok, its not true, its a virus:
http://www.snopes.com/computer/internet/fbcharge.asp
Good thing i didn't click on the link!
― Adam Bruneau, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 05:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Haha, old Facebook used to suggest I "reconnect" with people. Now it has someone's picture and curtly tells me to "say hello."
― Not the real Village People, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 06:25 (fourteen years ago) link
trayce - i think the mum heard about the accident from the girls and then realised in that moment that her son was out with the kid who got killed (and was therefore likely dead as well)
― I collect old ads, in case you were wondering. (stevie), Wednesday, 10 February 2010 08:22 (fourteen years ago) link
I quite like the new design, but the messed up feed(s) is utterly frustrating.
― krakow, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 09:07 (fourteen years ago) link
stevie: oh god I didnt even read it that way. Thats worse.
― millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Wednesday, 10 February 2010 09:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Every redesign has live feed glitches.. In a day or two it'll be sorted.. In the meantime if it's important.. Call people?
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 10 February 2010 13:31 (fourteen years ago) link
my notifications says that someone sent me a message but i have no message in my inbox and when i click the 'message' link in the notification i get a white screen and 'loading...' from my browser that never goes anywhere.
― bwoling and drifting (tehresa), Wednesday, 10 February 2010 17:59 (fourteen years ago) link
mine seems to be better today
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 18:01 (fourteen years ago) link
hmm now it is showing this:
Allow Access?Allowing Messages access will let it pull your profile information, photos, your friends' info, and other content that it requires to work.MessagesUnread (2)Allowor Leave Application
MessagesUnread (2)Allowor Leave Application
^^^hacking scheme?
― bwoling and drifting (tehresa), Wednesday, 10 February 2010 18:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Hm a 3rd party messages app? Why need? FB has an inbox. I wouldnt install it.
― millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Wednesday, 10 February 2010 20:27 (fourteen years ago) link
obviously i didn't.
― bwoling and drifting (tehresa), Wednesday, 10 February 2010 20:30 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm too scared to install any apps any more! heh :/
― millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Wednesday, 10 February 2010 22:07 (fourteen years ago) link
About Me:
I ve been told I’m too head strong I'd like to think of it as persistent. I have little patience for excuses and weak minded individuals. Would have could have should have are words that never enter my vocabulary. I will never rest on my laurels and cannot respect people who do. i can always improve and will got to my grave never satisfied but content that I never stop trying to do it better. I’m highly competitive. I have respect for those who win and hope for those who lose. I always root for the underdog if I believe they are giving everything they have in their pursuit to victory. i believe in karma but still take my chances with it when the moment is opportune. I despise vindictiveness, I believe its a cowards way of vengeance. I have no tolerance for petty people I equate them to pork barrel legislators. I’m highly conservative on most issues I strongly believe in small Government. I figure we were all already exposed to communism in elementary school , where we were controlled and decisions were made for us by under achieving overzealous teachers!!! I believe what ever you do in life and what ever life throws at you, maintaining your composure and class are if the utmost importance. If you have to have your friends set you up with someone you might as well hand them your bank account, title to your house and car keys because your incapable of making life decisions.
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 16 February 2010 04:42 (fourteen years ago) link
one thing i like about facebook is that it is not a crypto-dating site with pretensions as all the other "social networking" sites seemed to have been.
― by another name (amateurist), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 04:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes, but...
― Australia, the world's suburb (SeekAltRoute), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 06:45 (fourteen years ago) link
― krakow, Wednesday, February 10, 2010 9:07 AM (6 days ago) Bookmark
see, i quite like the new design, but it's just made it a little bit worse than it was before as it's been broke intermittently since the last redesign for me! :(
― DJ Get Up Kids (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 07:09 (fourteen years ago) link
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what am I supposed to do with my time now? My job?
― FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 18 February 2010 12:13 (fourteen years ago) link
does anyone else have this? Cuz it's been like this for me for about six hours now. I just devoted almost four entire hours to work ffs, this isn't good for me.
― FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 18 February 2010 16:36 (fourteen years ago) link
lol i just called some dude a racist based on a comment he made on my friend's wall, and....shitstorm.
― begonia perineum (the table is the table), Thursday, 18 February 2010 21:40 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.lamebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/jesus1.png
― Venga, Friday, 26 February 2010 11:49 (fourteen years ago) link
in my recommended friends they have just suggested a dude i half new off a message board i haven't posted on in about 7 years and have no current friends from... on a different old computer? how the fuck...?
― 80085 (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 27 February 2010 14:33 (fourteen years ago) link
creepy
― freebird manjunya (zvookster), Saturday, 27 February 2010 14:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Is his email still in your address book? That's how some of my suggestions came about.
― nickn, Saturday, 27 February 2010 20:02 (fourteen years ago) link
nope. even have a different email address ...aaand my facebook account works off a defunct university email that should just be recommending old lecturers
― 80085 (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 27 February 2010 20:05 (fourteen years ago) link
They just know.
― krakow, Saturday, 27 February 2010 20:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah. Never been all BIG BROTHER WATCHING ME before this but
― 80085 (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 27 February 2010 20:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Is his email still in your address book? That's how some of my suggestions came about.― nickn
― nickn
Did you give FB your email password? (Through the functionality they have that will check if the people in your address book are already on FB?)
― ksh, Saturday, 27 February 2010 20:09 (fourteen years ago) link
If you have friends in common with people, they'll come up as friend suggestions.
― barack hussein chalayan (suzy), Saturday, 27 February 2010 20:11 (fourteen years ago) link
have not done that and don't have any friends in common. my guess is they have figured out my old defunct email address by themselves and that is is me and not any other person on facebook with my name that was once on that message board...? i never even really spoke to the guy, he just had a distinctive enough name that i instantly recognised it.
― 80085 (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 27 February 2010 20:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Maybe if he'd looked at your profile he'd then come up as a suggestion? Esp. if he'd viewed your profile multiple times...ulp
― Ork Alarm (Matt #2), Saturday, 27 February 2010 20:18 (fourteen years ago) link
mine suggested some canadian lady i have never heard of and have no friends in common with. i dunno.
― this is awful I want Togo home (harbl), Saturday, 27 February 2010 20:29 (fourteen years ago) link
ive been told to make friends with Rig0bert Lalo. but i don't know Rig0bert Lalo. who is rig0bert Lalo??
― rent, Saturday, 27 February 2010 20:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Mine seems to prefer to suggest a) a lot of rock critics b) fashion people c) high school/college alums d) ILXors.
― barack hussein chalayan (suzy), Saturday, 27 February 2010 20:50 (fourteen years ago) link
The whole relationship status thing on facebook sucks. Unless you (wisely) remove it from your screen, along with your ladyfriend, it impacts everything.
For instance, if like in my last relationship, your significant other is "not ready" to commit to you, her "single" status attracts all sorts of undesirables while you sit there wanting to wave your hand and go "UH, SHE'S WITH ME, SORTA, K THX".
Likewise, you truly have to have the completely silly conversation hinted at in the title, because if you change your status to In a Relationship with someone specific, and they decline, your status still says "In a Relationship" and theirs doesn't, and you look stupid like you're dating yourself.
Not to mention with some people, it ruins the relationship. No sooner than my last girl and I changed our statuses online, a month later we broke up! All of a sudden the slow pace we were going at, she suddenly wanted us to be at this level that we couldn't possibly have been at (largely due to her inhibitions, but I gave up on the idea that anything she ever did was wrong, everything was always my fault).
Then, two days later, we get back together, but we never updated our statuses on fb again, so our friends were all confused and thought we weren't dating when we were, and then when they finally figured it out, we were broken up, some of my friends didn't find out for a while cuz me and her still hung out for a while (and had sex, which was really stupid of me).
― Ballistic, Saturday, 27 February 2010 20:52 (fourteen years ago) link
She was dating you but wasn't willing to commit on facebook to a relationship status? What?
― Mordy, Saturday, 27 February 2010 20:54 (fourteen years ago) link
And finally the thread title is completely apt!
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Saturday, 27 February 2010 20:56 (fourteen years ago) link
looooooong story. basically, she had just been dumped by a guy she thought she was gonna get married to two weeks earlier, and had an eye for me, as I did for her, so we hooked up and she wasn't ready to make it 'official'. yet it was kind of dumb - she didn't see anybody else (that I know of,at least).
It was 3 months before she finally changed her status. we dated 8 months but according to facebook, we dated 1. it was ridiculous.
― Ballistic, Saturday, 27 February 2010 20:57 (fourteen years ago) link
that said, no animosity against her, but just pointing out how facebook messed with us bigtime.
― Ballistic, Saturday, 27 February 2010 20:58 (fourteen years ago) link
ayo i don't think it's facebook's fault dude
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 27 February 2010 21:19 (fourteen years ago) link
IT HAS A GRIP ON HUMANITY THAT PENETRATES FREE WILL. FREEMASONS ILLUMINATI OH OH OH
― Ballistic, Saturday, 27 February 2010 21:23 (fourteen years ago) link
The real solution to this "problem" is to not set your relationship status to anything, because the majority of your FB "friends" are probably people you barely care about, and thus they don't really need to know about the vicissitudes of your life life, while your actual friends will presumably be updated on whatever you want them to be updated on about your life when you actually talk to them.
― ksh, Saturday, 27 February 2010 21:33 (fourteen years ago) link
life life --> love life
being that i was a busy guy for much of last year,as was she, we went long periods of time without seeing certain friends on fb, despite the fact that they were our 'good' friends.
everybody knew about her the first go around. not as many people knew as much about the 'get back together' and even lesser knew of the breakup mostly cuz it was around the holidays
― Ballistic, Saturday, 27 February 2010 21:35 (fourteen years ago) link
life life >>>> love life
― stoke for the shawcross (acoleuthic), Saturday, 27 February 2010 21:36 (fourteen years ago) link
80085, the dude probably had YOUR email address in his email account, so that's how FB figured out the connection.
― shaane, Sunday, 28 February 2010 05:26 (fourteen years ago) link
someone accepts my friend request after we had a good chat at a party on friday, then by the time i get round to checking their profile half an hour later they've already defriended me o_O
― stoke for the shawcross (acoleuthic), Monday, 1 March 2010 23:23 (fourteen years ago) link
it's like that song about living in the fast lane, by the eagles
― iiiijjjj, Monday, 1 March 2010 23:27 (fourteen years ago) link
happened to me too,it's annoying, but fuck him/herxpost
― Zeno, Monday, 1 March 2010 23:33 (fourteen years ago) link
surely no-one's that much of a douche?xpost guess they are :(
― Not the real Village People, Monday, 1 March 2010 23:34 (fourteen years ago) link
...or maybe you can't do that now..xpost to myself
― Zeno, Monday, 1 March 2010 23:37 (fourteen years ago) link
You sure they defriended you and didnt just stick you on a limited profile LJ?
― ABBAcab (Trayce), Monday, 1 March 2010 23:40 (fourteen years ago) link
(cos for some reason - unless I'm Doin It Rong - you dont seem to be able to tag someone new to a filter as you accept their request, you have to do it *after*, which gives them a short window where they see your entire feed. Sigh.)
They weren't my friend, period. The notification on my wall was gone and the 'Add As Friend' button was active. Very, very strange. Maybe they fucking hate Cardiacs, Irreversible, or really, really long Favourite Quotes
― stoke for the shawcross (acoleuthic), Monday, 1 March 2010 23:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Ah right. Yeah, weird.
― ABBAcab (Trayce), Monday, 1 March 2010 23:44 (fourteen years ago) link
not inconceivable.
― 80085 (a hoy hoy), Monday, 1 March 2010 23:45 (fourteen years ago) link
was it a flirt?
― Zeno, Monday, 1 March 2010 23:50 (fourteen years ago) link
no! was a girl but definitely keepin' it platonic. anyway, some things can't be explained, rich tapestry of life imo
― stoke for the shawcross (acoleuthic), Monday, 1 March 2010 23:54 (fourteen years ago) link
never facebook-friend someone you've met only once imo
― ('_') (omar little), Monday, 1 March 2010 23:55 (fourteen years ago) link
wait eight weeks and text her "what's crackin"
― the archetypal ghetto hustler (history mayne), Monday, 1 March 2010 23:57 (fourteen years ago) link
never friend request - so if you get one you know they really mean it
― noted schloar (dyao), Monday, 1 March 2010 23:58 (fourteen years ago) link
actually never facebook-friend someone until they're actually someone reliable in your life imo (or an old schoolmate or a close co-worker)
― ('_') (omar little), Monday, 1 March 2010 23:59 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^this is probably gonna be observed from now on, omar's a wise dude xposts and not xposts
dyao that is my normal policy!! except that when i selfbanned i suddenly felt the urge to find+friend a load of ilxors ;) and clearly the impulse hadn't died. plus we can't ALL be the cool ones waiting to be added
― stoke for the shawcross (acoleuthic), Monday, 1 March 2010 23:59 (fourteen years ago) link
what can I say, worked for me!
― noted schloar (dyao), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 00:01 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^is clearly not that aloof irl, also plz can everyone bomb him with rq's
― stoke for the shawcross (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 00:02 (fourteen years ago) link
people to not facebook friend (beyond the obvious "people i don't actually know")
- girls you met twice- dudes you met once- non-immediate family relatives with vastly different takes on politics and society- co-workers who are at your level or above- the significant others of friends (unless they add you first...but in that event don't talk to them more on facebook than you talk to your friend...in fact, don't talk to them at all unless it's through your friend)- old teachers or professors- bartenders or baristas at bars or coffeeshops you go to, unless they're your friend
people you should consider facebook friending:
- enemies (you can use their status updates against them)- friends' parents (specifically friends' mothers)- your significant other's good friends
― ('_') (omar little), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 00:08 (fourteen years ago) link
- co-workers who are at your level or above
This one most important of all. Will never ever ever add current-job workmates of any stripe to FB. Ex-work? Sure, if they became/stayed friends. Workmates, noooo.
― ABBAcab (Trayce), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 00:11 (fourteen years ago) link
everyone at my work facebooks with each other and my super gay boss is always like "did you see my status update last night." i'm not his friend yet though.
― harbl, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 00:17 (fourteen years ago) link
ugh, I waited til I left my last job to add the guys I liked. I peeked at a colleague's profile once and they were FB friends with like the whole office, even though they hardly spoke to them in real life. So I thought even if I added the cool ones then others that I don't want to be friends with might start friend-requesting me YES I AM THAT AWESOME
― Not the real Village People, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 00:36 (fourteen years ago) link
i have friended 2 people. if i don't like someone but have to friend to avoid hurt feelings (or they are olds) i don't mind just putting them on limited. i guess it depends what kind of workplace or what job it is.
― harbl, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 00:51 (fourteen years ago) link
This is true I guess. My old workplace, everyone is adding everyone else. Its like some nostalgia trip. 3/4 of them havent worked there in at least 2-4 years, but we somehow all became such a tight knit community everyone's stayed in touch (very odd for a large national telco).
― ABBAcab (Trayce), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 01:01 (fourteen years ago) link
my mom wants me to "teach her about 'social media' like facebook and the twitter" because it might be worthwhile for her nascent landscaping business
UH.jpg
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 01:02 (fourteen years ago) link
i have to admit once a while ago that I was having a time getting over an ex, and I was just starting to come to terms with things, but hadn't got to the "I'm ready to handle seeing you with other people stage", when I found out there might be a prospective guy.
in a weak moment, i created a fake profile, fake name, said I went to the dude's school, and friend requested him and a buncha other people that went to the school, and I added some anti-Bush pic as my profile pic as bait. like a schlep, he added me, and then I found out what I needed to know.
then I met him for real 2 days later MAKING ALL OF THAT IRRELEVANT. I suck.
― Ballistic, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 02:17 (fourteen years ago) link
I thought you had to have a school's email address to show up in that network, or did you just write in the info page that you went there
― musically, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 18:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Another weird thing here is that I added 3 of them as friends after having a good chat with all 3. One in particular I got on well with (again, platonically). They were all serious, principled, communicative people. 2 of them haven't responded *at all*. I'm beginning to suspect that one of them was sent in on some sort of weird reconnaisance mission, and reported me unworthy. Have never been a paranoid person but Facebook's capable of all sorts.
― stoke for the shawcross (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 18:22 (fourteen years ago) link
*reconnaissance, if we're in the business of spelling pedantry
kinda reminds me of the plight of a certain Grant Singer
― iiiijjjj, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 18:23 (fourteen years ago) link
It's not really plight, just very weird!
― stoke for the shawcross (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 18:25 (fourteen years ago) link
when I like people whom I've met once, I have no problem friending them. usually it leads to nothing, sometimes it leads to real friendships. nothing to lose imo.
― iatee, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 18:30 (fourteen years ago) link
w/r/t women. this has nothing to do with the above except in small part:
- be pleasant and respectful and interested in what they have to say (but actually BE interested, assuming it's interesting...don't fake it, life's too short and you don't want to waste their time or yours)- don't be a cocky bro, that shit might work to some extent but you're implicitly acting like you own them and if you want to actually respect them you won't do that. cf don't "run game"- don't be eager, and don't be afraid of being a "nice guy" b/c you can be nice without being a pushover. girls don't mind nice guys, but they do they mind pushovers. you can be nice and charming and that will go a long way- again, approach them as equals and talk to them like the regular folks they are (with a *conservative* dose of effortless and pressureless flirting) and you will find yourself not worrying about the politics of male/female interactions
regarding this situation:
- leave yourself a little mysterious without being all "I am Mystery", cf. don't add them on facebook after a casual conversation. and if you have a conversation with 3 girls and add all three, it looks weird, like you're a collector. adding just one looks weird because then the one girl feels like she's being targeted for a hookup. adding two looks weird because one will feel insulted. don't add any of them, they all know each other (presumably?) and they don't know you, so best to let the next meeting, should it occur, happen organically rather than via the internet. i would leave it with a handshake and a pleasant, "i hope to see you guys around again" or something similar. i think that adding them as friends on a social networking site just kinda adds them to a very large pile and while you are now connected to them, it's kinda impersonal.
― ('_') (omar little), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 18:41 (fourteen years ago) link
I love when a guy gives me a handshake. It's never awkward.
― How to Make an American Quit (Abbott), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 18:44 (fourteen years ago) link
handshakes are underrated
― ('_') (omar little), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 18:45 (fourteen years ago) link
I am glad reasonable people like you are championing them.
― How to Make an American Quit (Abbott), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 18:46 (fourteen years ago) link
if everyone follows this rule doesn't this translate to never friend anybody at work
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 18:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Your initial four points of advice is stuff I've learnt to do anyway - I'm only invested in striking up good conversation and hearing what others are interested in; I'm not looking to get something external to the conversation out of the conversation, and I'm not looking to impose my mind onto theirs. I am very much entirely myself, albeit myself in friendly mode.
Your latter point is the one that rings true. When I said I'd probably follow your approach, I didn't mean your literal 'no add after one or zero meets' dictum, but the overarching principle of it. If you add someone liked from the Internet or after one especially friendly meet where you got to know them a little, then that's cool. But I understand that adding a group of people in a batch after a meeting might seem odd. However, them knowing I added all three is predicated on them saying 'that LJ tried to add me!' to each other, which puts us firmly back in the 'weird people' camp, ESPECIALLY as we verbally agreed to track each other down on Facebook before they left. I will confess that sometimes I do appear forward, but I wouldn't say that's especially been the case here. Nonetheless, I'll be careful before adding brief acquaintances in future. There'll have to have been a great spark.
I totally do handshakes on the reg y'guys
― stoke for the shawcross (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 18:52 (fourteen years ago) link
that's not a bad rule to follow in most circumstances actually. basically i would never friend anyone at work unless i'm actual friends with them, but that's just me. my non-personal philosophy advice for everyone else is that friending anyone who you may be competing with at work (at your level) or is superior to you is potential trouble.
― ('_') (omar little), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 18:54 (fourteen years ago) link
ESPECIALLY as we verbally agreed to track each other down on Facebook before they left.
verbal agreement? not worth the paper it's printed on (via some old advert)
― the archetypal ghetto hustler (history mayne), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 18:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Sam Goldwyn, no?
― The Great Rick Roll Swindle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 19:04 (fourteen years ago) link
and if you have a conversation with 3 girls and add all three, it looks weird, like you're a collector.
http://i45.tinypic.com/2qu7vxt.png
― Ballistic, Tuesday, March 2, 2010 2:17 AM (17 hours ago) Bookmark
I needed that laugh.
― Cunga, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 19:36 (fourteen years ago) link
re handshakes: i get kind of annoyed when guys offer their hand for a shake to my husband, but not to me (when we're together obv). like for eg, if we're at a store getting sold on something and we go to leave, the dude will be like "well, my name's john, it was nice chatting with you etc etc [offers hand to my husband, smiles congenially at me]".
― just1n3, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 19:40 (fourteen years ago) link
For real.
― How to Make an American Quit (Abbott), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 19:41 (fourteen years ago) link
OTOH I guess it is better than the guy shaking the hand of the husband & doing Gomez-style kissy-arm move all over your extended hand.
― How to Make an American Quit (Abbott), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 19:42 (fourteen years ago) link
I shake everyone's hands, it often surprises people eg if it's a friend I see often and we're just meeting to go for a beer. Or sometimes they look at me for a second and then sort of laugh before shaking my hand...but I think people actually really like it.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 19:44 (fourteen years ago) link
that is a difficult transaction on the guy's side as well. some females will chuckle when you reach for their hand like you aren't supposed to do that. xpost :/
― i'm #FFFFFF btw (bnw), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 19:46 (fourteen years ago) link
i usually give the tiny wave which makes me seem like 4 years old so i really need to stop that shit
― i'm #FFFFFF btw (bnw), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 19:47 (fourteen years ago) link
just1n3
the kind of guy that would shake your husband's hand and avoid shaking yours is probably the kind of guy that couldn't get away with shaking your hand without it looking awkward or weaselly.
― Cunga, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 19:48 (fourteen years ago) link
bnw, yeah i think you have a good point actually.
― just1n3, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 19:50 (fourteen years ago) link
own that handshake, son
― ('_') (omar little), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 19:56 (fourteen years ago) link
*tiny wave*
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 19:57 (fourteen years ago) link
I circumvent the problem by extending my hand for a shake, because I will not be politely smiled and nodded at. If the guy kissed my hand a la Gomez Addams, I would punch him in the ding dong.
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 20:00 (fourteen years ago) link
never hug a girl you've just met btw
― ('_') (omar little), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 20:05 (fourteen years ago) link
unless you're a candy raver.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 20:10 (fourteen years ago) link
never friend request a girl in the middle of your date with her (unless it's going really well)
― Cunga, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 20:12 (fourteen years ago) link
I thought I was a worrier, but I've never thought about these things. To me, meeting someone once is fine justification for facebook friend status, as that alone means very very little.
― krakow, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 20:35 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i agree...i've had people friend me 10 mins after meeting them. it's a good way of potentially staying in touch with someone cool you meet for a v short period of time.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 22:02 (fourteen years ago) link
"always meet people twice before da friend request" must be from the same people who gave us "ask for her number the NEXT TIME you see randomly see her at a party."
― Cunga, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 22:15 (fourteen years ago) link
having set rules about how to interact with people is kinda weird, just~go with the flow~ and don't overthink unless you're some kind of social pariah who needs a cheatsheet or something
― he often deploys multiple browsers and constantly replies to himself (velko), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 22:18 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm so glad I don't treat facebook seriously
― noted schloar (dyao), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 00:40 (fourteen years ago) link
facebook is
a difficult issue
― ('_') (omar little), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 00:54 (fourteen years ago) link
this year at school one of my suitemates went abroad so they assigned us this random ROTC kid who is socially inept and prone to curse the jesuits at the top of his lungs whenever the internet goes down. anyways, in the last week or so i noticed he had started talking to some girl. then on sunday i saw that he was officially "In a Relationship" per facebook and my first thought was naturally 'i hope she agreed to this.'
when i asked him about it yesterday morning i was disappointed to find out that no, she hadnt agreed to it. this is his way of "trying to convince her"
― killah priest, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 01:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Poor girl.
― How to Make an American Quit (Abbott), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 03:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Wow, people really tie themselves in knots over who to friend or not. Unless I actively dislike a person, I'll add anyone. Don't give a shit who wants to look at pictures of me drunk or read my weak witicisms.
― BTW, I'm frightfully middle-class (chap), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 03:46 (fourteen years ago) link
My policy is to add people I like. I try not to say anything political or R-rated or personal because my Mormon family reads it, so w/that kind of self-censorship already on hand, might as well add anyone who I think is groovy.
― How to Make an American Quit (Abbott), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 03:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah I'm a lot more brief and non-rude on FB than I ever was on livejournal, where I'll swear up a storm, have started shitfights with ppl and like bringing up challops for people to discuss. Used to anyway - no one is using LJ anymore :(
― ABBAcab (Trayce), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 04:15 (fourteen years ago) link
do people still use AIM?
― ksh, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 04:18 (fourteen years ago) link
i <3 gchat
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 04:21 (fourteen years ago) link
I use MSN all the time! Only cos it's what work people use. Everyone here seems to use AIM but it wont go thru the work firewall poo.
― ABBAcab (Trayce), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 04:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Ahh I want to chat with everyone!!
― This object perpetually attempts to sell itself on eBay. (Stevie D), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 04:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Trillian will do the lot in one go.
― ABBAcab (Trayce), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 04:49 (fourteen years ago) link
sounds kinky
― noted schloar (dyao), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 04:50 (fourteen years ago) link
No thats ChatRoulette
― ABBAcab (Trayce), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 04:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh I use Pidgin (nee Gaim). It's like Trillian but is less resource/memory-heavy.
― This object perpetually attempts to sell itself on eBay. (Stevie D), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 04:57 (fourteen years ago) link
I have it set up w/ Facebook chat, too. Which is awesome because actual Facebook chat eats my system alive, but frustrating because everyone thinks I'm on Facebook NONSTOP
― This object perpetually attempts to sell itself on eBay. (Stevie D), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 04:58 (fourteen years ago) link
facebook helped me hook up with a girl - "wait until the second meeting", hell no. there was one time a friend of mine was trying to get me to talk to her single (and attractive friend) and I never bothered to say 'hey we should add each other on facebook/myspace' and I just assumed I'd find her on there the next day. couldn't find her on there, never saw her again!
― Ballistic, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 05:35 (fourteen years ago) link
this is really 20th century of me to suggest, but you could have talked to this friend of yours who was friends with this single girl and set something up again.
― ('_') (omar little), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 07:46 (fourteen years ago) link
anyway my rules are somewhat facetious and made to be broken, but if you dead-end on a girl (who is in your social circle) because of a lack of facebook friendship, you need to try harder
― ('_') (omar little), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 07:48 (fourteen years ago) link
facebook helped me hook up with a girl
It's done this for me like four times.
― BTW, I'm frightfully middle-class (chap), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 10:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Keeping them it sadly can't help with...
― BTW, I'm frightfully middle-class (chap), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 10:08 (fourteen years ago) link
lol omar I dunno I guess I felt a little weird about it cuz the friend wasn't exactly a tight friend and the friend she tried to set me up with was drunk and maybe she was suggesting just having sex with her cuz she waas drunk.
i don't exactly have big feelings of self-worth so i just went home and...took care of the issue, shall we say.
― Ballistic, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 14:10 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm going to repost these instructions that I posted before, because it is really handy to divide FB contacts into groups that have different levels of access to your profile.
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Wednesday, August 26, 2009 5:33 PM (6 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Wednesday, August 26, 2009 5:39 PM (6 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 14:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Here, let's rephrase this:
into this:
I'm not the kind of asshole who takes advantage of a woman's drunken state for my own sexual gratification, so i just went home and...took care of the issue, shall we say.
See? An immediate improvement to your self worth!!!
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 14:18 (fourteen years ago) link
It's a shame you can't set different profile pictures for different lists, because I want to change mine to be of a really ugly baby, but I don't want my friends' moms to get excited and think I actually made a baby come out of someone
― MPx4A, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 14:21 (fourteen years ago) link
I could have donw without sadwank.jpg altogether but nm.
― what kind of present your naked body (Upt0eleven), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 14:23 (fourteen years ago) link
so mid-fuck then?
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 14:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Jenny otm
― with 4 magical horns & 3 figures to impale! (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 14:44 (fourteen years ago) link
sad wanks are the best though...your tears mixing with...ah nevermind
― noted schloar (dyao), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 14:50 (fourteen years ago) link
can't believe you masturbate over a picture of a naked baby on an album cover
― with 4 magical horns & 3 figures to impale! (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 14:52 (fourteen years ago) link
:> hey look over there, it's scarlett johannsen
― noted schloar (dyao), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 14:52 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't care if the baby grew up to be scarjo, it's still not acceptable
― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 14:54 (fourteen years ago) link
you're supposed to look over there so I can make a stealthy exit, damnit
― noted schloar (dyao), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 14:55 (fourteen years ago) link
but scarlett is holding MP4xA's baby
― with 4 magical horns & 3 figures to impale! (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 14:56 (fourteen years ago) link
and I can't physically look
― with 4 magical horns & 3 figures to impale! (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 14:57 (fourteen years ago) link
i mean, ewwwwwww
tbh LJ, your fb picture looks like you're getting ready to deliver a baby
― noted schloar (dyao), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 14:57 (fourteen years ago) link
lol @ your FB group btw. fluxblog will never tire as a punchline
― noted schloar (dyao), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 14:58 (fourteen years ago) link
haha true but if I was in the Tate Modern I'd have it delivered INSIDE the awesome dark holocaust memorial box, rather than in a slightly rubbish nearby loading area that I wouldn't have been able to squeeze through the partially-closed door into if I'd been pregnant anyway
yeah Dom's work never dies tbh
― with 4 magical horns & 3 figures to impale! (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 15:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Since my father, who is no stranger to idle time, got a FB account I now hear sentence starters like "So I was looking at all your friends on Facebook..." and "I noticed you were talking to Jamie on Facebook, he's sure grown up!"
Maybe it's just because of my family experiences but it really pushes my buttons now that he's spending all his time snooping on me.
― Cunga, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 23:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah my mum sometimes PM's my facebook with "why did you say that, whats wrong?" which is giving me the shits.
― ABBAcab (Trayce), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 00:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Why don't you restrict their access to your profile?
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 00:37 (fourteen years ago) link
it was actually healthy that all my family got on FB because now i have zero desire to actually log-in to the site any longer.
if only they would do the same for ILX I would be g2g.
― ✌.✰|ʘ‿ʘ|✰.✌ (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 00:41 (fourteen years ago) link
I did! Should I have given him full access I'd imagine late-night readings of my status update backlog would be in the cards.
― Cunga, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 00:44 (fourteen years ago) link
My dad will never do Facebook in a zillion years but the other day he used WTF in an email and i LOL'd
― Adam Bruneau, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 16:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Well this certainly won't have any unforeseen consequences at all.
― Maraca Son Sistema (Matt DC), Thursday, 18 March 2010 14:03 (fourteen years ago) link
haahahahahahaaahahahaahahahahaaaaahahahahahhahaaaa
― ilxor lookin' boy (acoleuthic), Thursday, 18 March 2010 14:04 (fourteen years ago) link
I particularly like the BBC's implicit assertion 17 year olds are under-age.
― Diamanti Gallas (aldo), Thursday, 18 March 2010 14:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Wouldnt a panic button on FB work like a SB button did on here? (she says with guilty lols)
― ABBAcab (Trayce), Friday, 19 March 2010 00:10 (fourteen years ago) link
"You have 51 suggest nonces, the police will arrive shortly"
― the pity party of tiny feet (onimo), Friday, 19 March 2010 01:16 (fourteen years ago) link
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/46623000/jpg/_46623457_ashleighhall.jpg
This is kind of how I look in my mind when I imagine what I look like.
― demonic splendor, demonic majesty (Abbott), Friday, 19 March 2010 01:17 (fourteen years ago) link
xxxxx xxxxxxxxxx Facebook is full of illiterate twats. Fact x7 hours ago via Mobile Web · Comment · LikeUnlike · View feedback (4)Hide feedback (4)3 people like this.
xxxxx xxxxxxxUr telin me bbe x6 hours ago
― MPx4A, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 18:54 (thirteen years ago) link
u guys plz fan my important new page http://www.facebook.com/pages/I-Bet-We-Can-Find-A-Trillion-People/107588845928909
― ice cr?m, Friday, 26 March 2010 17:54 (thirteen years ago) link
A++
― ksh, Friday, 26 March 2010 17:58 (thirteen years ago) link
thx dood, but please hold yr applause until we find a trillion people
― ice cr?m, Friday, 26 March 2010 18:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Great in-depth reporting from the Telegraph's technology reporter.
Facebook 'linked to rise in syphilis'
― Ned Trifle II, Friday, 26 March 2010 22:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Facebook has allowed me to see semi-naughty pictures of girls I know that I previously would have to just invent in my mind...
― Usain Bolt Cola (Cattle Grind), Friday, 26 March 2010 22:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Fine, then I'll just facebook y'all up en masse. Don't everybody reply at once, now. :D
― I don't need a bonghit. (ctrl-s), Saturday, 27 March 2010 10:16 (thirteen years ago) link
? Try again, that should work.
― I don't need a bonghit. (ctrl-s), Saturday, 27 March 2010 10:28 (thirteen years ago) link
^^This. And all they get in return from me is boring pix of me wearing hats or cryptic music-related shots I use as profile photos.
― Roomful of Moogs (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 27 March 2010 17:04 (thirteen years ago) link
ya the tradeoff is definitely one sided on my end too lol
― Captain Trips (Cattle Grind), Saturday, 27 March 2010 21:02 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp-USKnPDbY
― ain't no thang but a chicken ㅋ (dyao), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 01:02 (thirteen years ago) link
I think I know how cankles is spending his days now
― ain't no thang but a chicken ㅋ (dyao), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 01:03 (thirteen years ago) link
as a friend recently said to me: "I don't go on Facebook any more. I live in Facebook and occasionally I go on real life."
A certain D: truth to that.
― Cunga, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 04:55 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c102/OfMarrow/tryinhard.jpg
"Drexel University will probably never hold a capacity of intelligence that empathizes beyond the disillusions of a nescient student body full of ignorant and defenseless minds. Without that key to fundamental intelligence, how can a school be able to channel it's own information reservoirs into perfectible systems that choose student-participated morality instead of dominant competition, or interpret class-bound job-bound Drexel-produced metaphors? A university that habitually martyrs itself on it's homemade propagative and prevaricate need to procreate and tell each other about it is a book that needs to be burned. Drexel fails to realize that it exports identical mechanized clone workers who are proud to insinuate their sexualized middle-class successes with their equally identical employer clones. Perhaps, this habit is known all too well, and a referral to the school of Creationism might have been a defective idea."
― circa1916, Thursday, 1 April 2010 18:58 (thirteen years ago) link
drexel should be razed and paved over
― ain't no thang but a chicken ㅋ (dyao), Friday, 2 April 2010 00:42 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.katv.com/news/stories/0410/723100.html
A 16-year-old kid from Arkadelphia, Arkansas, filed harassment charges against his mother, alleging she posted “slanderous” things about him on his Facebook page.
― Not the real Village People, Thursday, 8 April 2010 02:03 (thirteen years ago) link
The mother, or someone posing as the mother, posted on the comments to that.
― nasri like the wolf (onimo), Thursday, 8 April 2010 12:19 (thirteen years ago) link
South Park episode on Facebook that just aired yesterday: http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/267112
― ksh, Thursday, 8 April 2010 13:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh boy, I wasn't sure to post this here or in the "list and define savages" thread
some background:a random chick liked my friend's status, so i started a conversation:
http://imm.io/jou
immediately after this i added her. she accepted, and i commented on the blurb in her newsfeed about "Stephanie and David are now friends":
http://imm.io/jow
then she sent me this message:http://imm.io/joz
― Cunga, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 23:49 (thirteen years ago) link
some background:a random chick liked my friend's status, so i started a conversation:http://i42.tinypic.com/bhdq9d.jpg
immediately after this i added her. she accepted, and i commented on the blurb in her newsfeed about "Stephanie and David are now friends":http://i40.tinypic.com/33fessw.jpg
then she sent me this message:http://i40.tinypic.com/nlv7nl.jpg
― Cunga, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 23:52 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i41.tinypic.com/w5o4z.jpg
― Cunga, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 23:56 (thirteen years ago) link
hahahaha omg
brilliantly revealed btw, love the image-free first post
― pretty girl, filking a clown (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 23:59 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost. unbelievably, she gave him a nice reply back
http://i44.tinypic.com/16bafrc.jpg
and he answered with this:
http://i44.tinypic.com/14jz3nk.jpg
― Cunga, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link
neil strauss has so goddamn much to answer for
― pretty girl, filking a clown (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 00:05 (thirteen years ago) link
I left out this winner of a quote(s):
additional info:her statuses are about her falling for tools and dumb guys who treat her like shit, so she's probably not a real winner herself. but i also think she's desperate/dumb enough to fuck the guy (me) from this scenario.
how the fuck do you convince a girl you're not creepy anyway? it seems like anything else i would have said could have been taken as creepy.
― Cunga, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 00:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Can somebody help me out here? Is 14,000 a lot of friends for a company/organisation to have on Facebook? Need some idea of the numbers different companies can attract.ta
― Pete W, Friday, 16 April 2010 15:12 (thirteen years ago) link
that's a lot ime, unless we're talking coke or something?
― just darraghmac tbh (darraghmac), Friday, 16 April 2010 15:14 (thirteen years ago) link
It's the PFA.
― Pete W, Friday, 16 April 2010 15:15 (thirteen years ago) link
more people need to gawp at those messages/posts Cunga has kindly relayed to us
― maybe rabbits feel the need to play up their 'lynchian' qualities (acoleuthic), Friday, 16 April 2010 15:16 (thirteen years ago) link
really depends on the size/scope/appeal of the company - thats a good number for a small business - 10k is a significant milestone as facebook offers some pro features at that point
― ice cr?m, Friday, 16 April 2010 15:17 (thirteen years ago) link
lol coke has 5m+
well suuure, if you want to offer popularity as some sort of indicator of success.
me and TK red lemonade know better
― just darraghmac tbh (darraghmac), Friday, 16 April 2010 15:19 (thirteen years ago) link
The thing with Coke, though, is that most people are probably fans of the PRODUCT more so than the COMPANY -- though in some cases it's probably hard to separate the two.
― HOOS zing-steen (jaymc), Friday, 16 April 2010 15:22 (thirteen years ago) link
<3 coke the company, their accounts rock
― just darraghmac tbh (darraghmac), Friday, 16 April 2010 15:22 (thirteen years ago) link
supply chain is like WHOA
― ice cr?m, Friday, 16 April 2010 15:24 (thirteen years ago) link
was looking at their org chart lately, ws that silo look they rockin
― just darraghmac tbh (darraghmac), Friday, 16 April 2010 15:26 (thirteen years ago) link
UPDATESSSSSSSS
http://i41.tinypic.com/30sep12.jpg
― Cunga, Friday, 16 April 2010 19:50 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i42.tinypic.com/2iav3bn.jpg
UNBELIEVABLE.
http://i43.tinypic.com/2yk1fs7.jpg
― Cunga, Friday, 16 April 2010 19:55 (thirteen years ago) link
WELL, the date went alright i think. i had a great time, and i thought she did, too. but then when i said "we should do this again!" there was slight resignation in her voice with "oh, yea." i'm really fucking bad at reading social situations, so i'm not sure if i misread her having fun or if it was the way she said "oh, yea" that i missed.
i'd say there's a 30% chance of a second date. time will tell.
one time i had an impulse to go into the most embarrassing store i knew and buy the most embarrassing shirt i could find. hence the twilight shirt from hot topic.
and i wore a polar bear shirt instead. same vein, but less gay. i'm not convinced the clothes had much to do with it. we talked about religion, politics, and my complete sexual history. and most of those topics were her idea. she'd asking something, i'd say a little about a given topic, then wait for a response to make sure i hadn't gone too far. sure enough, she was playing right along with the conversation! i really don't know why she didn't want a second date; i'm trying really hard to think if it was something i did.
― Cunga, Friday, 16 April 2010 19:58 (thirteen years ago) link
just a lil dude thinkin too much baout things
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 16 April 2010 20:01 (thirteen years ago) link
hang on, wha-
if she's the sort of chick who bought his BS, she ain't the sort of chick worth dating
― maybe rabbits feel the need to play up their 'lynchian' qualities (acoleuthic), Friday, 16 April 2010 20:04 (thirteen years ago) link
unless you're this guy and in it for the stats :(
He came thisclose to wearing a Twilight shirt on the date. I am tempted to post the picture.
― Cunga, Friday, 16 April 2010 20:07 (thirteen years ago) link
not heard it called that before
― Big Fate (as Alvin 'Xzibit' Joiner) (history mayne), Friday, 16 April 2010 20:07 (thirteen years ago) link
― Cunga, Friday, 16 April 2010 20:10 (thirteen years ago) link
ok are you getting this all from a) 4chan or b) somethingawful
― maybe rabbits feel the need to play up their 'lynchian' qualities (acoleuthic), Friday, 16 April 2010 20:11 (thirteen years ago) link
kinda confused by the concept of 'the stats' being a more likely explanation for a dude tryin to get laid than, y'know, gettin laid.
― just darraghmac tbh (darraghmac), Friday, 16 April 2010 20:13 (thirteen years ago) link
oh come on it's clearly a prestige thing
― maybe rabbits feel the need to play up their 'lynchian' qualities (acoleuthic), Friday, 16 April 2010 20:15 (thirteen years ago) link
also next-level black-ops creepy and i hope she realises this ASAP
marc loi-y jagger rides again
― Big Fate (as Alvin 'Xzibit' Joiner) (history mayne), Friday, 16 April 2010 20:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Always good to abstractly defend a chick and call her "not worth dating" at the same time.
― Ponies are horse children (Abbott), Friday, 16 April 2010 20:21 (thirteen years ago) link
how has marc loi not made his way to ilx yet? ilx is the #1 result for his name.
― iatee, Friday, 16 April 2010 20:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Yes, I'm sure he would find us on that Google search and think 'what a welcoming community, why haven't I joined them?'
― Ponies are horse children (Abbott), Friday, 16 April 2010 20:22 (thirteen years ago) link
SOrry, I'm being an unfunny wise ass.
Oh what do I know, maybe she's having fun with him - she certainly seems self-aware enough to treat the whole thing as a joke, or a game. I was just lashing out at all of this because it's so fucking obvious and lame.
― maybe rabbits feel the need to play up their 'lynchian' qualities (acoleuthic), Friday, 16 April 2010 20:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Well done to everybody involved, you're sure giving us all a lot to think about!
welll I didn't quite mean 'become a regular' xp
― iatee, Friday, 16 April 2010 20:27 (thirteen years ago) link
And it was a very personal 'not worth dating'. I like people to be fun, but I don't want someone who'll buy a very smarmy PUA move hook, line and sinker. Maybe this is naive of ME but this show of 'initiative' on the dude's part falls the wrong side of opportunism and the right side of plain manipulative. I don't like my women malleable.
― maybe rabbits feel the need to play up their 'lynchian' qualities (acoleuthic), Friday, 16 April 2010 20:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh, just fucking ban me already, I've got a bad cold and I'm pissed off
― maybe rabbits feel the need to play up their 'lynchian' qualities (acoleuthic), Friday, 16 April 2010 20:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Just to clarify, I found these highly amusing in a grotesque way until today's updates, where they actually had a date and he started talking about probabilities as if she was some sort of commodity. Then it became sad. The girl needs to fucking shut that wanker down.
― maybe rabbits feel the need to play up their 'lynchian' qualities (acoleuthic), Friday, 16 April 2010 20:39 (thirteen years ago) link
If I were her I would totally have gone out with this guy. why because he is interesting. This is not PUA stuff iirc.
― quincie, Friday, 16 April 2010 20:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Of course whether or not I'm worth dating is an open question.
― quincie, Friday, 16 April 2010 20:55 (thirteen years ago) link
poll
― maybe rabbits feel the need to play up their 'lynchian' qualities (acoleuthic), Friday, 16 April 2010 20:58 (thirteen years ago) link
about whether you'd have gone out with this guy, I mean
ok there's mitigation in the fact she spoke to the mutual friend first, ignore me i'm a mess
― maybe rabbits feel the need to play up their 'lynchian' qualities (acoleuthic), Friday, 16 April 2010 21:05 (thirteen years ago) link
mitigation for her, i mean. and i feel bad for the 'not worth dating' line - that was hot-headed ranting and has no place on '"Can I say you're my girlfriend on Facebook?"'. dude's still deeply suspect
― maybe rabbits feel the need to play up their 'lynchian' qualities (acoleuthic), Friday, 16 April 2010 21:08 (thirteen years ago) link
cruising facebook for my future wife see u in 2018 when i find some1 who doesn't laff at me
― Phoenix in Flight (Cattle Grind), Friday, 16 April 2010 21:17 (thirteen years ago) link
what's going on itt
― ksh, Friday, 16 April 2010 21:22 (thirteen years ago) link
random facebook musings and occasionally I post some hilar/disturbing stuff that's going down.
:-D neither.
― Cunga, Saturday, 17 April 2010 16:12 (thirteen years ago) link
So now if I'm attending a memorial for a old friend, I have to 'like' it instead of 'attending' it?
Fuck off. I don't want to like funerals.
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 21 April 2010 18:43 (thirteen years ago) link
you could go to the funeral without worrying about your facebook attendance
― iatee, Wednesday, 21 April 2010 18:45 (thirteen years ago) link
lol at facebook making you download and install an image uploader program and pretending that there's no way to code the facebook website image uploader to accept more than 5 images at a time.
― dyªº (dyao), Friday, 23 April 2010 15:24 (thirteen years ago) link
waht is this new - ive put up 200 pix w/that shit before
― ice cr?m, Friday, 23 April 2010 15:26 (thirteen years ago) link
the web uploader? it only lets me do 5 at a time
― dyªº (dyao), Friday, 23 April 2010 15:27 (thirteen years ago) link
they used to have this really slow javascript thing but I think they nixed it
it was slow, rip
― ice cr?m, Friday, 23 April 2010 15:30 (thirteen years ago) link
it was shit, fu
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Friday, 23 April 2010 15:47 (thirteen years ago) link
When will ILX be on facebook??? When can I <like> a thread??
― Mordy, Friday, 23 April 2010 21:37 (thirteen years ago) link
you could post a message to the ILE FB group, and then people could respond, thus making it a "thread" of sorts. then, ppl could "like" your original message!!!
― ksh, Friday, 23 April 2010 21:42 (thirteen years ago) link
<like>
― Mordy, Friday, 23 April 2010 22:15 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.onlyinphiladelphia.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/thumbs_up_you_like_this_bumper_sticker-p128096592726024722trl0_400.jpg
lolz from the help section
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― no more springs no more summers no more falls (sunny successor), Saturday, 24 April 2010 03:11 (thirteen years ago) link
gosh, moms. i just dont know how this could have happened.
― no more springs no more summers no more falls (sunny successor), Saturday, 24 April 2010 03:12 (thirteen years ago) link
LOL!
― Eyjafjallalalalalatrolololol (Trayce), Saturday, 24 April 2010 07:26 (thirteen years ago) link
[redacted] picture me giving a damn I said "never"
Axxxxxx Hxxxxxx, Axxxxxx Rxxxxxx and Jxxx Hxxxx like this.
Mxxxxxxx Yxxxxx????50 minutes ago
[redacted]Respect for your considerable intellect and cultural awareness, but perhaps a course in African-American Political Discourse in Popular Music of the Late 20th Century could be useful?40 minutes ago
*
How the FUCK do you grow up in the United States of America, a free person and not a bit intellectually deficient, and attain the age of 42 (I believe) in This Year of Our Lord 2010, without A) having the faintest idea what the phrase "picture me giving a damn I said never" refers to, or B) thinking to Google this eight-word phrase before making a fool of yourself on my wall for the entire Facebook world to see? I went easy on you because I like you a lot (and after all even I've pulled a thing like that here and there), but you're an appalling cunt sometimes. Love, me.
― I don't need a bonghit. (ctrl-s), Monday, 26 April 2010 23:54 (thirteen years ago) link
appalling cunt!!!
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Monday, 26 April 2010 23:55 (thirteen years ago) link
definitely needs a bonghit
― Norway, that's where I'm a viking! (history mayne), Monday, 26 April 2010 23:58 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost You see, I knew that phrase would be useful. Thank you again, Mr Jagger.
― I don't need a bonghit. (ctrl-s), Monday, 26 April 2010 23:58 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost Yes, thanks! Almost forgot!
― I don't need a bonghit. (ctrl-s), Monday, 26 April 2010 23:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh wait, history mayne, did you mean me or Mxxxxxxx Yxxxxx?
I'm confused, who wrote the dribbling rant, you or the X'ed out person?
(and wtf is that phrase, I've never heard it)
― Eyjafjallalalalalatrolololol (Trayce), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link
You! That's a ridic intense response to someone not knowing song lyrics! xp
― Mordy, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link
lol trayce, 9/10 zing
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:03 (thirteen years ago) link
You're quite right. Bong hit of lovely ... tobacco ... on the way. I did not post the insane foaming rant on FB.
― I don't need a bonghit. (ctrl-s), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Context: 1) Today I began the process of having power of attorney for my 82-year-old mother, who is dying and somewhat delusional, and my fuse is short; 2) Mxxxxxx Yxxxxx is THE SMARTEST PERSON IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD and loses no opportunity to make sure everyone knows it, but what Mxxxxxxx knows about popular culture (aside from "new country" music -- shudder) could be inscribed on the lip of a Coke bottle with a Magic Marker.
― I don't need a bonghit. (ctrl-s), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Go on..
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 01:04 (thirteen years ago) link
That's all I got. I was just feeling ranty earlier, and took it out on poor Mxxxxxxx via ILX. Carry on.
― I don't need a bonghit. (ctrl-s), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:16 (thirteen years ago) link
lol if poor Mxxxxxxx follows your advice to "Google this eight-word phrase" this thread is the 4th result
― broad layering (onimo), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 09:48 (thirteen years ago) link
ha!
― Norway, that's where I'm a viking! (history mayne), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 09:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Someone will learn about popular culture today one way or another
― this guy was grey for me to poupon (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 09:56 (thirteen years ago) link
ctrl-s, you have given me small-world LOLz for the day because the person you mention was my friend in high school and we are still in touch, but you are right. Definitely not the person to hit up for pop culture refs!
― yes we kenya (suzy), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 10:15 (thirteen years ago) link
I had to google the lyric. I thought it was Fresh Prince for a second.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 10:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Good thing I'm taking partin the hip-hop listening club.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 10:38 (thirteen years ago) link
There's an ILX group on Facebook?
― Background Zombie (CharlieNo4), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 10:40 (thirteen years ago) link
(and wtf is that phrase, I've never heard it)― Eyjafjallalalalalatrolololol (Trayce), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 10:01
― Eyjafjallalalalalatrolololol (Trayce), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 10:01
did you think to Google this eight-word phrase before making a fool of yourself on my thread for the entire ILX world to see?
― longer lasting, thicker electrons (sic), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 10:57 (thirteen years ago) link
*kills self, posts about it*
― Eyjafjallalalalalatrolololol (Trayce), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 11:11 (thirteen years ago) link
― yes we kenya (suzy)
Mxxxxxxx is a friend and respected colleague (and I noted your connection), but MAN.
Re pop culture, Mxxxxxxx does have a soft spot for new country. That's right: the Dixie Chicks and so on. I suppose I can think of worse things, but it requires some effort of me, especially this early in my day.
― I don't need a bonghit. (ctrl-s), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 14:41 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N42iMybfDg
― Cunga, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 17:57 (thirteen years ago) link
hahaha how DARE someone be an educated American and not be aware of a Tricky lyric someone posted as an Fbook status
― roxymuzak, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 21:52 (thirteen years ago) link
also lol @ ppl becoming fans of rage dump
― roxymuzak, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 21:56 (thirteen years ago) link
and M1ch4el4ng31o M4t0s: Why why why am I sitting here listening to "Pure Massacre"?
― roxymuzak, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 21:57 (thirteen years ago) link
well, Public Enemy lyric but yeah
― dipset infiltrator (zvookster), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 21:59 (thirteen years ago) link
(that was supposed to be the crux of my malformed joek tbh, sorry for forks)
― roxymuzak, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 22:01 (thirteen years ago) link
1. Punctuation would have lent clarity to the phrase2. Dude's comment was "???" perhaps he was indicating he DOES hive a damn about you and wanted you to say what was wrong, sometime other than never?
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 22:44 (thirteen years ago) link
"Yes, you very much can!"
― krakow, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 22:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Whenever I've even had the urge to post a song lyric or TV quote or whatever as a status update, I've refrained because I know some people might not get the reference and we'll have to go through the whole inevitable "??" / "oh sorry it's a lyric" / "lol nm" exchange. Not their fault, of course -- there's plenty of stuff I don't know, either.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 22:56 (thirteen years ago) link
i've never had any trouble using 30 Rock quotes!
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 23:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Yes, a Public Enemy lyric. Not Tricky.
It bears mentioning that I had posted a video of Martina and Tricky performing this song, plus the lyrics, on my wall three inches below the ???? line. Had dude scrolled down three inches, it was all visible right there.
Dude was not giving a damn about me. Dude had no clue.
As I noted above, I am now a bit embarrassed. It was a stressful day (two words: dying mom) and I was letting off steam.
― I don't need a bonghit. (ctrl-s), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 02:13 (thirteen years ago) link
seems like you really gave a damn
― symsymsym, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 15:34 (thirteen years ago) link
ooh burn!!! :(
― I don't need a bonghit. (ctrl-s), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 16:20 (thirteen years ago) link
― roxymuzak, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 18:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh man why the fuck did I look at the group for people who went to my high school that have died? Also, is it not kind of fucked up that such a thing exists? (It's a nice tribute but should so many ppl my age & younger be so...dead?)
― Walter Melon (Abbott), Friday, 30 April 2010 00:45 (thirteen years ago) link
(tho a lot are older than me, too)
― Walter Melon (Abbott), Friday, 30 April 2010 00:46 (thirteen years ago) link
(and you did kill them, right?)
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Friday, 30 April 2010 01:27 (thirteen years ago) link
(I gave birth to a lot of them first)
― Walter Melon (Abbott), Friday, 30 April 2010 01:31 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.msdlists.com/images/full%20size/Goya%20Saturn%20Devouring%20His%20Children.jpg
― I Think Ur a Viking (dyao), Friday, 30 April 2010 01:32 (thirteen years ago) link
yearbook photo?
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Friday, 30 April 2010 04:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Taken in the cafeteria.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Friday, 30 April 2010 04:43 (thirteen years ago) link
wtf @ this stupid thing where now you can't have anything listed in your activities/interests/etc. unless you link to a page for each and every one?!?
― just1n3, Friday, 30 April 2010 16:55 (thirteen years ago) link
fb is def overreaching w/ the privacy stuff lately. I'm so ready for some other site to become the coolnewthing. (and they're basically creating a need for that to happen)
― iatee, Friday, 30 April 2010 17:00 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i agree - i've been totally ok with most of the other stuff bc it's either been easy to ignore or turn off but this seems really invasive.
― just1n3, Friday, 30 April 2010 17:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, I've shrugged off most of the recent changes, but this one is awful.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 30 April 2010 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, me, too. I basically deleted everything in my profile except for some info in the "about me section," and "unliked" all the things that Facebook decided must now be part of my profile because gross. I do not want to be part of a "community page" for my (very large) employer, because I don't want most of my coworkers to know I know what Facebook is, much less discover I have a profile. I mean, gross.
― sinister chemical wisdom (Jenny), Friday, 30 April 2010 17:57 (thirteen years ago) link
I said gross twice because it is SO GROSS.
yeah i deleted everything too.
― just1n3, Friday, 30 April 2010 18:01 (thirteen years ago) link
If you don't link to any Pages, the following sections on your profile will be empty:Work and EducationCurrent CityHometownLikes and Interests
seriously, wtf facebook
― going non-native (dyao), Friday, 30 April 2010 18:01 (thirteen years ago) link
if i wouldn't lose contact w/ a bunch of people if i deleted my profile, there's a good chance i wouldn't be on FB right now
― ksh, Friday, 30 April 2010 18:05 (thirteen years ago) link
it sure didn't take these guys long to turn shamelessly evil. nothing I've ever read on zuckerberg suggests that he's a good person on any level. I've never really cared about the design changes or minifeed or whatever - but the recent trend of disabling previously existing privacy settings is a pretty big slap in the face.
otoh I can stalk all kindsa people who I couldn't before because nobody realizes that their profile is completely open now.
― iatee, Friday, 30 April 2010 18:08 (thirteen years ago) link
I know, right? A bunch of law school related groups that I would like to stay in touch w/ because of job leads use FB as their main communications method, as do the non-profit orgs that I am involved in, so it's not just friends but actual professional connections that I would lose if I deleted the page. Not to mention the discussion page for our book club. I also hate how when you "like" pages, those pages are visible to EVERYBODY and there's no way to hide them. So as much as I want to "like" some groups, I just can't have my mother-in-law seeing that I "like" "punching Creationists in the face" or something.
― sinister chemical wisdom (Jenny), Friday, 30 April 2010 18:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Also, there appears to be no way to any longer edit things that you've "liked". WTF?
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 30 April 2010 18:13 (thirteen years ago) link
what do you mean by "edit"?
― ksh, Friday, 30 April 2010 18:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh, wait, you actually have to go to that page and click "Unlike".
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 30 April 2010 18:15 (thirteen years ago) link
I just wanted to "unlike" some stuff, but you can't do that through your profile.
so you used to be able to do that via your profile before? if so, then they probably made it more difficult b/c they obviously don't want people leaving anything
― ksh, Friday, 30 April 2010 18:16 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah it's pretty clear to me that zuckerberg is the new bill gates - harvard asshole who stumbled upon something good in the days of its infancy and has managed to parlay it into some kind of fake empire, fortunately it looks like he's at the top of the hill already and now we get to watch him slowly grind the gears into mush and end up as two stumps in the shifting sands of the online desert
― going non-native (dyao), Friday, 30 April 2010 18:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Tbh, I'm not sure if you could before or not. I just assumed it would be the same as deleting any of your "interests", but apparently not.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 30 April 2010 18:17 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, i thought you always had to go to the thing itself, but . . . *shrugs*
― ksh, Friday, 30 April 2010 18:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Timely
How to delete Facebook applications and why you should.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 30 April 2010 18:33 (thirteen years ago) link
some dude from 2nd grade added me on facebook which is pretty cool
i mentioned the time we dug up a skull in a creek in my backyard and brought it to school
he told me he kept the skull and now it's on his desk at work! AWESOMEST FRIEND EVER
― CaptainLorax, Friday, 30 April 2010 20:45 (thirteen years ago) link
wait what kinda skull?
― iatee, Friday, 30 April 2010 20:49 (thirteen years ago) link
deer I think. we gave away the teeth to classmates that day and I think we were supposed to trade the skull back and forth every week but I don't think my mom cared much for that idea. I told my friend to take a picture of the skull and tag it on facebook so maybe I'll find out what animal it is once and for all
― CaptainLorax, Friday, 30 April 2010 20:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Dude. That's awesome!
― huh! tikuuta. (kingkongvsgodzilla), Friday, 30 April 2010 20:58 (thirteen years ago) link
This connections stuff is total bullshit. The help page answers are creepy as fuck too. They just keep repeating that you will now 'express yourself' by being forced to link to public groups.
Facebook got huge with non-net-savvy people because the privacy was dead simple: nobody could see fuck-all except the people you said were your friends. They uploaded loads of private information and pictures.
Now all that stuff is being exposed because you need to understand set theory and advanced logic just to say who can see your holiday snaps. It's bewilderingly complicated; so complicated that I don't think people have realised. I keep waiting for the outcry when they finally do.
Why isn't anybody launching a decent competitor?
― stet, Saturday, 1 May 2010 01:17 (thirteen years ago) link
loooool, stet is a hero. A++
― ksh, Saturday, 1 May 2010 01:19 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm mostly disappointed that I can't express my unique and outsized personality through my 'interests, favorite movies and music' categories anymore
― going non-native (dyao), Saturday, 1 May 2010 01:29 (thirteen years ago) link
i wish i could put "never signed up for Facebook" as a resume line item
― Nhex, Saturday, 1 May 2010 02:03 (thirteen years ago) link
the fact that it is becoming the de facto communications medium for a lot of people -- including a lot of the people i know, ensuring that i basically have to use the site -- makes me sigh deeply
― ksh, Saturday, 1 May 2010 02:04 (thirteen years ago) link
basically: email forever
They must be rolling out the iterests change in stages cos mine are still the old-style list of words.
But tbh Ive never had workmates or places of employ listed on fb. I think the "privacy" of it was always a bit of a red herring.
― Eyjafjallalalalalatrolololol (Trayce), Saturday, 1 May 2010 02:13 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, it seems like it's getting rolled out slowly over here -- some people have it, others don't
― ksh, Saturday, 1 May 2010 02:14 (thirteen years ago) link
― going non-native (dyao), Friday, April 30, 2010 9:29 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
lol yes
― the unfinest of viking jokes only (call all destroyer), Saturday, 1 May 2010 14:25 (thirteen years ago) link
i hate complaining about facebook but this new "feature" is fuckin atrocious
― the unfinest of viking jokes only (call all destroyer), Saturday, 1 May 2010 14:26 (thirteen years ago) link
I think what they're failing to realize is that facebook was originally successful because people didn't have to connect with other people on a global scale. It seems like this new "feature" basically is trying to connect people who don't know each other already based on interests, etc. People were fine just having their own group of friends and basically creating a personalized network of friends who they could interact with, which was what Myspace couldn't do. The exclusivity is what drew people in, and they're basically destroying that.
― jonathan - stl, Saturday, 1 May 2010 15:49 (thirteen years ago) link
However, it makes sense on a monetary level that this is what it would evolve into because this way advertisers and companies can reach people much more easily than if it was still a very privatized network.
― jonathan - stl, Saturday, 1 May 2010 15:50 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm interested in seeing if they're just going to continue to bloat and complicate the service to the point where it becomes even more annoying to use than it already is
some people i know switched the majority of their "updating" activity over to Twitter a while back. i think most people, though, will stick with Facebook for a while, at least until a compelling alternative comes along. the sad part is that, even if an alternative does come along, people are already way more invested in FB than they ever were in MySpace, and it'll take much longer for user attrition rates to increase in any significant way. unless FB does something really crazy, people just aren't going to get rid of their accounts or use them significantly less until they can use something else significantly more
― why the hell are you spelling out "donuts" in dunkin donuts (ksh), Saturday, 1 May 2010 16:36 (thirteen years ago) link
think the "privacy" of it was always a bit of a red herring
Yeh, this is kind of it for me. I mean, tongue slightly in cheek, I've always said that if you're that bothered about privacy then don't plug your computer into the internet.
I like Facebook. In the past couple of years in particular, I've had some fantastic discussions/arguments/whatever on there. I think a large part of this is because it's individuated: I'm arguing with real people, almost all of whom I know in real life (and very occasionally with passing strangers: I made the deliberate decision to open up my profile for that very reason).
Facebook's the one place where (most) people are being themselves: sure, there's not much difference between Simon on Facebook and grimly on ILX, but there's enough. I've said things here in the past -- which I'm not proud of -- that I'd never say to someone on Facebook.
And the key thing about Facebook is I've never said anything I wouldn't be happy for a current or future employer (or friend, or relative, or whatever) to read. Same with Twitter. That's meant thinking twice before posting; a couple of times it's meant quickly going back and deleting stuff. Like it or not, that's how it is: wasn't there some instance a few weeks back where supposedly private information on Facebook was made briefly public? I think you've got to be black-and-white about it: you put something on Facebook, you assume everyone can potentially find a way to see it, because ultimately: do you trust their privacy settings 100%?
They just keep repeating that you will now 'express yourself' by being forced to link to public groups
Umm: forced? You're not forced to do anything. You can unlink from everything if you want. Not ideal, no. But "forced" is overstating it.
Facebook got huge with non-net-savvy people because the privacy was dead simple: nobody could see fuck-all except the people you said were your friends. They uploaded loads of private information and pictures
... which was ultimately maybe a bit daft of them, no? Hellfire, even by e-mailing one person something in private you run the risk of that information accidentally being made public --
AS WE BOTH KNOW TO OUR COST, STET, EH? EH? One day I'll let that lie ;)
-- so, y'know, posting shit on the World's Favourite Social Network? Umm. It's kind of trying to have your cake and eat it: "I want this to be sort-of public but mostly private!" And I don't think this is about net-savvy and non-net-savvy people: it's just simple common sense.
No, it's not an ideal situation. But what is? Ultimately, people have got to take a wee bit of responsibility for themselves and their information, no?
This, I think, is a much more valid point: there seems to be a notable correlation between new features and overall bugginess.
― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 1 May 2010 16:57 (thirteen years ago) link
(Jesus, that was long. Sorry. Too long in academia, too long away from ILX.)
Lol prolix. Not going to argue over semantics of forcing: if you want to use it tomorrow like you used it last week you have no alternative but to do it in public, and it will happen by default if you don't notice. There's some hefty coercion there.
Also: perfectly reasonable to expect private stuff online. I don't expect Gmail to decide to publish my email archive publicly so that I can better express myself.
― stet, Saturday, 1 May 2010 17:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Also: "take responsibility"? Bit blame-the-victim when FB continually changing the rules mid-game
― stet, Saturday, 1 May 2010 17:13 (thirteen years ago) link
i wonder how many FB users are aware that a link to their profile is indexed in Google unless they go in and change a setting
― why the hell are you spelling out "donuts" in dunkin donuts (ksh), Saturday, 1 May 2010 17:15 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean, i follow tech news & even i have trouble keeping up w/ all the changes they're making
― why the hell are you spelling out "donuts" in dunkin donuts (ksh), Saturday, 1 May 2010 17:16 (thirteen years ago) link
where's the setting to not get indexed ksh?
― №, Saturday, 1 May 2010 17:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Privacy Settings --> Search
find "Public Search Results" & uncheck the box next to "Allow"
― why the hell are you spelling out "donuts" in dunkin donuts (ksh), Saturday, 1 May 2010 17:23 (thirteen years ago) link
oh cool i'd already unchecked that. thx for the reminder tho, i'll pass that on.
― №, Saturday, 1 May 2010 17:30 (thirteen years ago) link
i gotta say tho it's gotten to the point where i would gladly pay like 5 bux a month for a social networking site that didn't pull this kind of shit
― №, Saturday, 1 May 2010 17:41 (thirteen years ago) link
№, you speak the truth
― why the hell are you spelling out "donuts" in dunkin donuts (ksh), Saturday, 1 May 2010 17:41 (thirteen years ago) link
stet totally OTM when he talks about the rules of the game constantly changing, it would be one thing if this was all spelled out when you join but these things are constantly being tweaked with no advance warning. It also bugs me how all of these changes are presented as "this will be great for you!" and I don't think the average Facebook user takes the time to read more about how the changes really aren't so great. I mean, yeah, people should take accountability for understanding their options and making the most of the privacy they want, but I feel like FB is being really disingenuous about how these changes are presented and introduced.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Saturday, 1 May 2010 17:44 (thirteen years ago) link
pretty much no way to actually know what's going on w/ FB unless you decide to start reading Techmeme or following tech news closely
― why the hell are you spelling out "donuts" in dunkin donuts (ksh), Saturday, 1 May 2010 17:53 (thirteen years ago) link
I feel like FB is being really disingenuous about how these changes are presented and introduced
Oh, yeh, I don't deny that for a second. But then they're A BIG COMPANY now: what else do we expect?
And because of that, I really do think -- blame-the-victim or not! -- that the only thing people can do is shrug and accept that they've got to be more careful about what they put online.
Hmm. OK, this is a good point. However, there's still a major paradigmatical difference between e-mail and social networking: the latter by definition has an element of "public" publishing -- even if it's just a few friends -- which the former just doesn't.
(Talking of e-mail -- sorry, everyone -- have you had either of my replies to your Textie thing?)
― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 1 May 2010 17:53 (thirteen years ago) link
people are going to keep dumping little bits of information into FB until they do something really, really egregious, like make all of your information completely public & give you no option to make it private
― why the hell are you spelling out "donuts" in dunkin donuts (ksh), Saturday, 1 May 2010 17:54 (thirteen years ago) link
the other issue is that, as FB becomes something more like the telephone or email and less like some extraneous novelty, it becomes increasingly difficult to opt-out. there's an actual social cost--at least for younger people--for choosing not to participate
― why the hell are you spelling out "donuts" in dunkin donuts (ksh), Saturday, 1 May 2010 17:56 (thirteen years ago) link
― stet, Sunday, May 2, 2010 1:12 AM (48 minutes ago) Bookmark
google buzz almost did that
― going non-native (dyao), Saturday, 1 May 2010 18:04 (thirteen years ago) link
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― Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm Ann Reinking! (Stevie D), Saturday, 1 May 2010 18:10 (thirteen years ago) link
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― going non-native (dyao), Saturday, 1 May 2010 18:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Facebook, go get fucked.
― Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm Ann Reinking! (Stevie D), Saturday, 1 May 2010 18:13 (thirteen years ago) link
what i'm not clear on here is what it means in practice to be "linked" to those "pages"
― №, Saturday, 1 May 2010 18:24 (thirteen years ago) link
and yeah stevie d otm
― №, Saturday, 1 May 2010 18:25 (thirteen years ago) link
What does it mean when you <like> something on another page? I don't see it reflected in my profile, or posted on my wall.
― Mordy, Saturday, 1 May 2010 18:25 (thirteen years ago) link
i didn't want to be linked to any of the things i said i was interested in so now my profile is gone ˘\(o_º)/˘
― Guns, Computer, The Internet (harbl), Saturday, 1 May 2010 18:32 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean it's there it just has nothing on it. oh well!
so I guess the flipside is that you're only allowed to be interested in something if there's a Facebook page about it? what if I want to rep some obscure czech new wave films?
― going non-native (dyao), Saturday, 1 May 2010 18:34 (thirteen years ago) link
no it will make a page for whatever is there, it just won't have a picture
― Guns, Computer, The Internet (harbl), Saturday, 1 May 2010 18:35 (thirteen years ago) link
you guys are kinda sounding like those facebook groups, "OMG new facebook sux join this petition to change it back"
Just be circumspect, vigilant about your privacy settings, and don't post anything racist if you're a public official and you'll be cool.
― Mordy, Saturday, 1 May 2010 18:36 (thirteen years ago) link
xp yeah it will have that retarded little triangle
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 1 May 2010 18:37 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah mordy i feel u but this is super-lame, attempting to turn the likes/interests section of profiles (which for years have been a great source or weirdness and lols) into another fuckin marketing tool.
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 1 May 2010 18:38 (thirteen years ago) link
also, can i just:
u can no longer just "like" or "fan" something without it showing up in your interests; like these guys from college made a film and i "became a fan" to support them and see if it was screening and stuff, but it is not one of my "favorite" films--i haven't even seen it!
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 1 May 2010 18:39 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i'm not too invested in it i just don't wanna play this game
― Guns, Computer, The Internet (harbl), Saturday, 1 May 2010 18:40 (thirteen years ago) link
i was a "fan" of like 3 musical artists that i would not consider favorites, and not a "fan" of any book i like, and my "interests" weren't really fan-worthy, and the only movie i was a "fan" of was tommy boy so i guess that's my only favorite movie now
― Guns, Computer, The Internet (harbl), Saturday, 1 May 2010 18:41 (thirteen years ago) link
btw can i just lol at what comes up on pages that don't exist yet:
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fuck you facebookpedia
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 1 May 2010 18:43 (thirteen years ago) link
lol mark zuckerberg is playing katamari damacy with the internet
― going non-native (dyao), Saturday, 1 May 2010 18:44 (thirteen years ago) link
it used to be about the faces, man
― iiiijjjj, Saturday, 1 May 2010 18:45 (thirteen years ago) link
I liked how it changed "New York, London, Paris, Munich" in my interests to "New York City, London, Paris, 1972 Summer Olympics"
― Wir fahren fahren fahren auf der Autoban (Curt1s Stephens), Saturday, 1 May 2010 18:49 (thirteen years ago) link
weird fuckin thing: i had 'zodiac' listed as a favourite movie. there probably is a fan page or whatever. but anyway, when you click on "zodiac" you get this weird auto-generated page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Zodiac/104275776275725
which has a bit from wikipedia, but also, completely mentally, a random list of -- i think -- tweets that include the word "zodiac"
like "#ZodiacFacts #Cancer will have better chemistry in the bedroom with #Scorpio better than any other zodiac sign."
plus the names of the tweeters
wtfknf?
― the subject of many paedo's thoughts (history mayne), Saturday, 1 May 2010 19:07 (thirteen years ago) link
facebook makin a play to be twitpedia
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Saturday, 1 May 2010 19:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Facebook quickly becoming more useless, MySpace-like, and bloated by the minute
― ksh, Saturday, 1 May 2010 19:45 (thirteen years ago) link
facebook is far from useless--but what it is becoming is not fun
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 1 May 2010 19:48 (thirteen years ago) link
like i figure eventually i'll use it for events and to msg people and that's about it
w/ the exception of occasional status updates & posts, that's all i use it for now, and i prefer email for messaging people
― ksh, Saturday, 1 May 2010 19:50 (thirteen years ago) link
the only reason Facebook is more convenient than email is because it's a centralized, near-universal directory of people directly hooked up to a central messaging service
― ksh, Saturday, 1 May 2010 19:51 (thirteen years ago) link
of course, everything is stuck in FB's walled garden, and in some ways their messaging system isn't nearly as robust as email
eventually, that'll probably change -- i've seen people guess that FB will eventually make it so that every user has a FB email address connected to their accounts so messages can be sent from FB to email and from email to FB. you can already respond to some activity on FB via email now
― ksh, Saturday, 1 May 2010 19:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Jesus, Madchen just checked hers and it had linkified her entire address, effectively making it public.
This is beyond big-corp shit, GF, it's actively bad.
― stet, Saturday, 1 May 2010 21:15 (thirteen years ago) link
FFS: http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/04/facebook-timeline
― stet, Saturday, 1 May 2010 21:24 (thirteen years ago) link
I spent an hour or more reworking my info section and for some reason none of it saved. screw that
― CaptainLorax, Saturday, 1 May 2010 21:43 (thirteen years ago) link
it had linkified her entire address, effectively making it public.
i wonder how many people it gave access to that to -- if it were anyone beyond her "friends," then O_O
― ksh, Saturday, 1 May 2010 22:12 (thirteen years ago) link
wait, so if you add something to, say, your "Favorite Music" you automatically "Like" it in the sense that you sign up for a fan page for it?
someone just added their last.fm URL to their "Favorite Music" and it showed up in my News Feed as something they "Liked," and now there's a FB page for their last.fm page
― ksh, Saturday, 1 May 2010 22:15 (thirteen years ago) link
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― ksh, Saturday, 1 May 2010 22:16 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i was forced to wipe my whole profile cuz i wouldn't link my profile to any pages
― ibaka flocka flame (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 1 May 2010 22:17 (thirteen years ago) link
i wiped my whole profile a few weeks ago and then today the "suggestions" thing popped up with all the shit i had deleted
― hobbes, Saturday, 1 May 2010 22:19 (thirteen years ago) link
also, love how the pop up is totally designed to make it as difficult as possible to NOT link to any pages
― hobbes, Saturday, 1 May 2010 22:20 (thirteen years ago) link
i literally have a profile picture that's an album cover & two posts and that's it
― ksh, Saturday, 1 May 2010 22:20 (thirteen years ago) link
oh, and two groups
― ksh, Saturday, 1 May 2010 22:21 (thirteen years ago) link
― call all destroyer, Saturday, May 1, 2010 7:48 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
I'll co-sign this. It's still the default way to contact most people I'm not on phone or AIM terms with, but if the site keeps getting more annoying I'll be there at the Zuckerberg mob lynching with a sharpened pitchfork.
― Cunga, Saturday, 1 May 2010 22:36 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, it's solid for keeping me in contact w/ ppl i barely care about
― ksh, Saturday, 1 May 2010 22:38 (thirteen years ago) link
― stet, Saturday, 1 May 2010 23:05 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't think this change has happened to me yet, it looks the same.
― a fucking stove just fell on my foot. (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 1 May 2010 23:08 (thirteen years ago) link
if you go to your "info" page on your profile does everything suddenly have links? That's the only way you can tell really, and people hardly ever visit that. sneaky fuckers facebook are.
― stet, Saturday, 1 May 2010 23:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah I think it already did? Most of the links don't actually go anywhere.
― a fucking stove just fell on my foot. (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 1 May 2010 23:15 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, but they're public though -- you can set it so that only your friends can see them on your profile, but they still appear in public at the other end of the links, and to applications, and sites that your friends are visiting.
It's really hard to explain this shit, I'm sure that's not accidental.
― stet, Saturday, 1 May 2010 23:24 (thirteen years ago) link
all the profiles haven't switched over to the new format yet, i think?
― ksh, Saturday, 1 May 2010 23:30 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, mine definitely hasn't.
― roxymuzak, Sunday, 2 May 2010 02:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Mine just did because I tried to edit it :/
So I just deleted 4/5 of what I had listed. It was half made up words and sillness anyway, but I dont care if my profile says I like Futurama and the Cocteau Twins, yeesh.
― Eyjafjallalalalalatrolololol (Trayce), Sunday, 2 May 2010 03:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Now I'm glad that I didn't put anything in my interest list.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Sunday, 2 May 2010 03:57 (thirteen years ago) link
I do look forward to finding utterly ridiculous things to like and become a fan of
reading some discussion on this on the internet has introduced a new word to my lexicon: "zuckerpunched"
― going non-native (dyao), Sunday, 2 May 2010 04:00 (thirteen years ago) link
hahaha stet's facebook link actually works
― going non-native (dyao), Sunday, 2 May 2010 11:44 (thirteen years ago) link
"Instant Personalization Pilot ProgramControl how select partners can personalize their features with my public information when I first arrive on their websites"
^Does this have ANYTHING to do with the connection/community page feature, or is it only to do with non-Facebook sites?
― roxymuzak, Sunday, 2 May 2010 20:53 (thirteen years ago) link
No -- that's about sending all your other info to those sites, I think.
― stet, Sunday, 2 May 2010 20:57 (thirteen years ago) link
just checking, cause i unchecked that box, and my profile is normal
― roxymuzak, Monday, 3 May 2010 03:48 (thirteen years ago) link
lol, just got my first new format friend request email. Now instead of "Yoyo Yaya has added you as a friend" it's "Yoyo Yaya wants to be Friends on Facebook".
― Roomful of Moogs (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 3 May 2010 21:34 (thirteen years ago) link
i have none of these new changes, i think because i unchecked that little box in my privacy settings. highly recommended.
― The Portrait of a Lady of BJs (the table is the table), Monday, 3 May 2010 21:40 (thirteen years ago) link
i unchecked the box but my profile is still retarded
― Guns, Computer, The Internet (harbl), Monday, 3 May 2010 21:47 (thirteen years ago) link
which box was this?
― Roomful of Moogs (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 3 May 2010 21:48 (thirteen years ago) link
xp http://www.facebook.com/pages/Being-Retarded/375746494171?ref=ts
Our goal is to make this Community Page the best collection of shared knowledge on this topic. If you have a passion for Being Retarded, sign up and we'll let you know when we're ready for your help. You can also get us started by suggesting a relevant Wikipedia article or the Official Site.
― joe, Monday, 3 May 2010 21:49 (thirteen years ago) link
i do have a passion for being retarded thanks!
― Guns, Computer, The Internet (harbl), Monday, 3 May 2010 21:51 (thirteen years ago) link
oh great now retarded facebook has added "Being Retarded" as my only activity
― Guns, Computer, The Internet (harbl), Monday, 3 May 2010 21:52 (thirteen years ago) link
― joe, Monday, 3 May 2010 21:56 (thirteen years ago) link
tbf it does take up most of your time
― con-ni (rahni), Monday, 3 May 2010 22:07 (thirteen years ago) link
i remember when FB used to be fun
― ksh, Monday, 3 May 2010 22:10 (thirteen years ago) link
I remember when "Can I say you're my girlfriend on Facebook?" used to be fun. :/
― Mordy, Monday, 3 May 2010 22:11 (thirteen years ago) link
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― ksh, Monday, 3 May 2010 22:12 (thirteen years ago) link
I think the most alarming thing abt these new community pages - have a look at the one above as an example - it appears to look for the groupname keyword, and then shovels posts people made with that keyword into the group's feed. I sincerely fucking hope it only does that if you are IN said group. Otherwise, wth!?!
― Eyjafjallalalalalatrolololol (Trayce), Monday, 3 May 2010 23:37 (thirteen years ago) link
probably any mention of a key term that's been made under Everyone security settings -- that's my guess anyway
― ksh, Monday, 3 May 2010 23:38 (thirteen years ago) link
vaguely considered the idea of becoming a fan of "being assfucked by mark zuckerberg" but that would imply that I actually cared enough about facebook to do anything other than piss and moan about it *crosses arms, looks into the distance*
― going non-native (dyao), Monday, 3 May 2010 23:49 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe there's a facebook group for that dyao
― CaptainLorax, Tuesday, 4 May 2010 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Anyone else uncheck the box but still see Like buttons on blogspot, for example?
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 00:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, they're separate things -- personalisation only happens on Yelp and Pandora so far.
It might not be a bad idea to sign out of facebook when not on, or keep a separate browser for it. Amount of stuff they'll share with random sites is only going up.
― stet, Tuesday, 4 May 2010 00:17 (thirteen years ago) link
not exactly breaking news, but still interesting to compare
Facebook Privacy Policy circa 2005:
No personal information that you submit to Thefacebook will be available to any user of the Web Site who does not belong to at least one of the groups specified by you in your privacy settings.
Facebook Privacy Policy circa 2006:
We understand you may not want everyone in the world to have the information you share on Facebook; that is why we give you control of your information. Our default privacy settings limit the information displayed in your profile to your school, your specified local area, and other reasonable community limitations that we tell you about.
Facebook Privacy Policy circa 2007:
Profile information you submit to Facebook will be available to users of Facebook who belong to at least one of the networks you allow to access the information through your privacy settings (e.g., school, geography, friends of friends). Your name, school name, and profile picture thumbnail will be available in search results across the Facebook network unless you alter your privacy settings.
Facebook Privacy Policy circa November 2009:
Facebook is designed to make it easy for you to share your information with anyone you want. You decide how much information you feel comfortable sharing on Facebook and you control how it is distributed through your privacy settings. You should review the default privacy settings and change them if necessary to reflect your preferences. You should also consider your settings whenever you share information. ...
Information set to “everyone” is publicly available information, may be accessed by everyone on the Internet (including people not logged into Facebook), is subject to indexing by third party search engines, may be associated with you outside of Facebook (such as when you visit other sites on the internet), and may be imported and exported by us and others without privacy limitations. The default privacy setting for certain types of information you post on Facebook is set to “everyone.” You can review and change the default settings in your privacy settings.
Facebook Privacy Policy circa December 2009:
Certain categories of information such as your name, profile photo, list of friends and pages you are a fan of, gender, geographic region, and networks you belong to are considered publicly available to everyone, including Facebook-enhanced applications, and therefore do not have privacy settings. You can, however, limit the ability of others to find this information through search using your search privacy settings.
Current Facebook Privacy Policy, as of April 2010:
When you connect with an application or website it will have access to General Information about you. The term General Information includes your and your friends’ names, profile pictures, gender, user IDs, connections, and any content shared using the Everyone privacy setting. ... The default privacy setting for certain types of information you post on Facebook is set to “everyone.” ... Because it takes two to connect, your privacy settings only control who can see the connection on your profile page. If you are uncomfortable with the connection being publicly available, you should consider removing (or not making) the connection.
― party time! (Z S), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 00:21 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny8ui4delEo
Today I was tipped off that there is a major security flaw in the social networking site that, with just a few mouse clicks, enables any user to view the live chats of their ‘friends’. Using what sounds like a simple trick, a user can also access their friends’ latest pending friend-requests and which friends they share in common. That’s a lot of potentially sensitive information.Unbelievable I thought, until I just tested the exploit for myself.And guess what? It works.
Unbelievable I thought, until I just tested the exploit for myself.
And guess what? It works.
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 5 May 2010 13:24 (thirteen years ago) link
fucking hell!
― the subject of many paedo's thoughts (history mayne), Wednesday, 5 May 2010 13:29 (thirteen years ago) link
haha that one totally works
― Euler, Wednesday, 5 May 2010 13:49 (thirteen years ago) link
hah they've already taken down fb chat
― vike me down (dyao), Wednesday, 5 May 2010 13:52 (thirteen years ago) link
kinda not sure how much I should care about fb "privacy" though---pretty much everything "contentual" on my page is either bullshit or easily available elsewhere. I guess if you kept a tab on my status updates you'd learn...something...but I disinform as much as I inform.
― Euler, Wednesday, 5 May 2010 13:55 (thirteen years ago) link
yes i'm the same way, stopped using it for anything "honest" long time ago. only still on it for events and because it's an easy way to have contact with bandmates etc. wish i got the chance to try that chat bug though!
― sonderangerbot, Wednesday, 5 May 2010 14:16 (thirteen years ago) link
gah seriously fuck these guys
― iatee, Wednesday, 5 May 2010 14:34 (thirteen years ago) link
oh man, can't believe that's real
― ksh, Wednesday, 5 May 2010 18:12 (thirteen years ago) link
GREAT JOB GUYS
"McDonald's to Use Facebook's Upcoming Location Feature"
http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=143742
― ksh, Thursday, 6 May 2010 20:52 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/06/technology/internet/06facebook.html
― ksh, Thursday, 6 May 2010 21:07 (thirteen years ago) link
uh so did they just revert back to the old "info" settings again?
― sonderangerbot, Friday, 7 May 2010 13:26 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't think so?
― http://bit.ly/Bfu2p (ksh), Friday, 7 May 2010 13:47 (thirteen years ago) link
my profile finally did the thing where it was like "hey we fixed your page to be all cool!!!!"and i refused to click the link to where you "pick" your linked pages, so its still the same
― roxymuzak, Friday, 7 May 2010 21:55 (thirteen years ago) link
My friend did that several times & it eventually just linked everything. :(
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 7 May 2010 23:02 (thirteen years ago) link
that's pretty much par for the course they -- they're going to make you do what they want, and you're not going to quit
― ksh, Friday, 7 May 2010 23:07 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean, this stuff's been happening since News Feed debacle 2006
wait until they add location functionality -- a lot of ppl will be all O_O this is so crazie!! and then ppl will just start using it anyway
― ksh, Friday, 7 May 2010 23:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Okay backstory to this:
I just got home for summer vacation right. And I get a friend request from this kid. Didn't know him, but he was also friends (on facebook) with my niggas from home. So I accepted. I ask my friend who this kid is and he tells me he just moved into our town, and he's a crazy motherfucker, just says whatever doens't give a fuck. My friend and I check out his activity, and hilarity ensues.
http://i44.tinypic.com/2ykawyv.jpg
http://i41.tinypic.com/2lc0apg.jpg
http://i39.tinypic.com/2hi1bbq.jpg
― Cunga, Sunday, 9 May 2010 19:26 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i44.tinypic.com/2qxlrfs.jpg
― Cunga, Sunday, 9 May 2010 19:29 (thirteen years ago) link
In case you can't read it, his comment was "WHEN YOU GONNA LET A NIGGA HIT THAT!?!!? SHOW YOU HOW A REAL MAN HANDLE HIS BUSINESS"
this followed.
http://i41.tinypic.com/oqhp5g.jpg
― Cunga, Sunday, 9 May 2010 19:32 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i39.tinypic.com/15a4u8.jpg
― Cunga, Sunday, 9 May 2010 19:34 (thirteen years ago) link
My girl and I made a pact to joint-delete our accounts the moment we hooked up. And then promptly did it. No threat of Facebook-espionage or suspicion, no getting jealous over some other person secretly messaging our significant others asking what we see in them, and everything is a mystery unless you see us in public.
Plus I get hours of my life back.
― Heroin Kills (Brad Nowell's Soiled Undergarments), Sunday, 9 May 2010 19:37 (thirteen years ago) link
xxxxx xxxx likes I Know you hate me....I DONT GIVE A FUCKKKKKKKKKK!, INVITE IN THE GROUP THE PERSON YOU WANT TO HAVE SEX WITH (if you are brave), i love the quiet ones...they got the most freak in 'em.... and People Who Believe In The Power Of Prayer.
― Andy K, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 01:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Okay seriously Cunga that entire series made no sense and had no payoff and was pretty offensive to boot. Can you knock that shit off please?
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 12 May 2010 01:47 (thirteen years ago) link
totally worth it for WHEN I SEE TITS LIKE THAT I TURN UP THE GAME, YA DIGGS
― Oh boy, Midgard! That's where I go Biking! (sic), Wednesday, 12 May 2010 02:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Eh, if I wanted to read stuff like that I'd go to 4chan or something.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 12 May 2010 02:51 (thirteen years ago) link
How dare you accuse me of taking this stuff from 4Chan!
A lot of people like the findings, man. But I'll move it to its own thread so you don't have to filter it out.
― Cunga, Friday, 14 May 2010 15:04 (thirteen years ago) link
it wasn't THAT funny, but I chuckled
― Have a slice of wine! (HI DERE), Friday, 14 May 2010 15:15 (thirteen years ago) link
he doesn't give a fuck and i think we should learn from him.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 14 May 2010 15:19 (thirteen years ago) link
that the guy is only 16 or 17 was something else I forgot to mention.
― Cunga, Friday, 14 May 2010 17:57 (thirteen years ago) link
I like the 6h+ time difference between "id hit that shit from the back!" and "and from the front"
― xylyl syzygy (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 14 May 2010 18:05 (thirteen years ago) link
had to think about it
― call all destroyer, Friday, 14 May 2010 18:05 (thirteen years ago) link
how many ILX FB groups are there? i've been able to find one
― my baby's got the bans (ksh), Friday, 14 May 2010 18:23 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/group.php?gid=2200160366&ref=ts
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Friday, 14 May 2010 18:28 (thirteen years ago) link
perfect, thanks!
― my baby's got the bans (ksh), Friday, 14 May 2010 18:29 (thirteen years ago) link
There's one for ILE and one for ILM, I know.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Friday, 14 May 2010 20:32 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, i've found the ILE one! i should join it now. loool @ the ILM one
― my baby's got the bans (ksh), Friday, 14 May 2010 20:38 (thirteen years ago) link
ILE: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2382779449
― my baby's got the bans (ksh), Friday, 14 May 2010 20:43 (thirteen years ago) link
if i actually interact w/ you here, you should add me btw. shouldn't be too difficult to figure out who i am
― my baby's got the bans (ksh), Friday, 14 May 2010 20:47 (thirteen years ago) link
http://youropenbook.org/
Probably merits a thread of its own for what you can turn up.
People really need to learn about those privacy settings fast.
― Ranking Rupert, Saturday, 15 May 2010 10:01 (thirteen years ago) link
http://imgur.com/GI016.png
― James Mitchell, Sunday, 16 May 2010 15:23 (thirteen years ago) link
great point
― ksh, Sunday, 16 May 2010 15:23 (thirteen years ago) link
scheduled my facebook account for deletion. Spent so much time checking it, yet so little of the updates i read were of any interest to me. A bit like ilx, lol.
― Times New Excels At (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 16 May 2010 15:32 (thirteen years ago) link
i do feel a bit of regret or whatever but all in all i'm glad i'm doing it.
― Times New Excels At (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 16 May 2010 15:35 (thirteen years ago) link
why regret?
― ksh, Sunday, 16 May 2010 15:47 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article7127721.ece
Movie depicts seamy life of Facebook boss
Sorkin’s screenplay suggests Parker knew Zuckerberg was driven not just by money or fame but also sexual insecurity. While he is depicted as receiving sex in bars, Parker runs the business...
Critics who have seen the draft script for the film, which is being produced by Kevin Spacey, artistic director of the Old Vic theatre in London, and directed by David Fincher, say it portrays Zuckerberg as a “borderline-autistic conniver”.
― Cunga, Sunday, 16 May 2010 15:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Stoked!
― unabashedly boring your eyes out (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 16 May 2010 15:52 (thirteen years ago) link
that film is gonna own so hard imo
― all i wanna do is poll poll poll poll and zing and discuss mia (history mayne), Sunday, 16 May 2010 15:53 (thirteen years ago) link
the long-suppressed story behind the facebook poke button finally revealed
― retarded candle burning at both ends (dyao), Sunday, 16 May 2010 16:00 (thirteen years ago) link
― ksh
sometimes people post funny links. or informative updates, cool pictures, whatever. basically i'm going to miss out on some cool stuff but it's worth it because i'll avoid wading through all the dross and wasting so much time.
― Times New Excels At (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 16 May 2010 16:03 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, i hear you. the only reason i'm still on there is because, sadly enough, i'd literally lose contact w/ a bunch of ppl, probably permanently, if i were to delete my account. anyone else feel the same way?
― ksh, Sunday, 16 May 2010 16:05 (thirteen years ago) link
sometimes people post funny links. or informative updates, cool pictures, whatever.
http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/NewAnswersControllerServlet?boardid=40
― Ned Trifle II, Sunday, 16 May 2010 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, i hear you. the only reason i'm still on there is because, sadly enough, i'd literally lose contact w/ a bunch of ppl, probably permanently,
The social networking site that that improves on FB but also has a way for you to easily keep or transfer a lot of your friends/contacts to their site will make a lot of money imo.
― Cunga, Sunday, 16 May 2010 16:09 (thirteen years ago) link
any opinions on these guys diaspora? a winningly simple concept, I think: basically, a social network where your personal content (updates, photos, etc etc) lives on your machine instead of their server, so you keep control and ownership. scheduled to launch in the autumn. from the video featured on that site, the guys involved seem driven and nerdy enough to make it work imo altho I guess aesthetics and usability issues are always going to be a concern.
― p-dog, Sunday, 16 May 2010 20:22 (thirteen years ago) link
biggest problem w/ Diaspora is gonna be complexity & user adoption. no one's gonna set this shit up, imo, and it will have barely any real impact
― ksh, Sunday, 16 May 2010 20:54 (thirteen years ago) link
facebook delex0red. Fucken thing. Never used it anyway.
― Gary Sizzle (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 17 May 2010 10:32 (thirteen years ago) link
From youropenbook.com:
T!na Pe@rce Pissssss! Yes u shhhhhhhh!! Dont tell anyone u seen this coz if u do in 3 days u will have the worse time of your life dont anser the phone dont go to sleep and never never sing coz if u sing someone or somthink will sing back and u will then know it is your time DONT SAY I DID NOT WORM U !!!!! 1 hour ago
new ILTMI board description???
― coalition in the music and we're never going to lose it (tomofthenest), Monday, 17 May 2010 11:00 (thirteen years ago) link
i was amazed when i googled myself last week (after an interview, just to be sure) and all these old messages i had made on (public, i guess) groups years ago popped up. they were never googleable before. so i had to delete a ton of shit in a hurry. not cool.
― rent, Monday, 17 May 2010 12:22 (thirteen years ago) link
a social network where your personal content (updates, photos, etc etc) lives on your machine instead of their server
Gah, my computer's full enough as it is.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Monday, 17 May 2010 15:33 (thirteen years ago) link
same here! getting really sick of this shit
― iatee, Monday, 17 May 2010 15:35 (thirteen years ago) link
I have a very googleable name so it's esp worrying
― iatee, Monday, 17 May 2010 15:36 (thirteen years ago) link
luckily it seems a lot of people with my name are more famous than I am
― retarded candle burning at both ends (dyao), Monday, 17 May 2010 15:38 (thirteen years ago) link
I just get loads of shit about a town planner in Springfield, Illinois.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Monday, 17 May 2010 15:42 (thirteen years ago) link
gah this shit gets deindexed eventually if it's deleted, right?
― iatee, Monday, 17 May 2010 15:54 (thirteen years ago) link
as far as i could tell my stuff got deindexed pretty much right away
― rent, Monday, 17 May 2010 15:59 (thirteen years ago) link
whether or not it's actually deleted from facebook's internal servers is another question
― retarded candle burning at both ends (dyao), Monday, 17 May 2010 16:00 (thirteen years ago) link
I hope zuckerberg gets a horrible disease soon
― iatee, Monday, 17 May 2010 16:01 (thirteen years ago) link
The Facebook fallout just keeps accelerating. At this pace we'll be chasing Zuckerberg out of town with pitchforks and fire by August am i rite.
http://www.reclaimprivacy.org/facebook
Pretty much a javascript that scans your privacy settings.
Here's what's on the website:
This website provides an independent and open tool for scanning your Facebook privacy settings. The source code and its development will always remain open and transparent.
1. Drag this link to your web browser bookmarks bar: Scan for Privacy2. Log in to facebook.com and then click that bookmark3. You will see a series of privacy scans that inspect your privacy settings and warn you about settings that might be unexpectedly public.4. Follow us on Facebook to hear about the latest updates.
― Cunga, Monday, 17 May 2010 16:17 (thirteen years ago) link
He'll get his.
http://www.scene-stealers.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/08_tradingplaces_bd.jpg
― Pazuzu's petals (kenan), Monday, 17 May 2010 16:20 (thirteen years ago) link
― Pazuzu's petals (kenan), Monday, 17 May 2010 16:21 (thirteen years ago) link
"Myself and my associates here have a little bet going as to whether you'll tell us everything about yourself, no matter how embarrassing or damaging, in exchange for playing Farmville. Rupert says they'll never go for it. I say they will."
― Pazuzu's petals (kenan), Monday, 17 May 2010 16:24 (thirteen years ago) link
The scanner is a little too rigorous on privacy imo. I currently have everything set to friends only, except that anyone can friend add me, and anyone can message me. The scanner sends a caution message because of this. Like -- I definitely think some privacy and vigilance are good, and I realize the scanner isn't enforcing anything just suggesting, but what's with people not letting anyone friend them? Just click *no* if you don't know the person.
― Mordy, Monday, 17 May 2010 16:31 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u120/kingkonggodzilla/hippocrates.jpg
― ljagljana (kkvgz), Monday, 17 May 2010 16:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Hmmm. That was smaller than expected. Anyway, "hippocrates or wat" - I can't decide if this is unintentional or not.
― ljagljana (kkvgz), Monday, 17 May 2010 16:39 (thirteen years ago) link
it didn't alert me to turn off fr's, but that would be a bit much if it did.
― Cunga, Monday, 17 May 2010 16:49 (thirteen years ago) link
kinda wanna poll hippocrates vs wat tyler
― coalition to me (acoleuthic), Monday, 17 May 2010 16:50 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm guessing "hippocrates" was an auto spell-correct of whatever hideous non-word he typed? Just guessing.
― Pazuzu's petals (kenan), Monday, 17 May 2010 16:54 (thirteen years ago) link
'apparantley' wasn't dealt with though
― coalition to me (acoleuthic), Monday, 17 May 2010 16:55 (thirteen years ago) link
The Apparantleys go back hundreds of generations in Britain.
― Pazuzu's petals (kenan), Monday, 17 May 2010 16:58 (thirteen years ago) link
ban FB
― ksh, Monday, 17 May 2010 17:02 (thirteen years ago) link
If you were going to embark on a serious Facebook "friends" purge, would you announce your intent with some sort of cover story or just delete a bunch of people whose politics you find abhorrent or whose lives you realize you have zero interest in and let them figure it out for themselves, if they even noticed?
― sinister chemical wisdom (Jenny), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 15:14 (thirteen years ago) link
the second
― retarded candle burning at both ends (dyao), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 15:16 (thirteen years ago) link
They won't notice. Odds are they've also been ignoring you for forever, too.
― Eighteen straight. I think that's a record. (kenan), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 15:17 (thirteen years ago) link
I just deleted like 20 friends yesterday. No warning. No regrets. Zap.
― ljagljana (kkvgz), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
still hoping to eventually just quit
― ksh, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 15:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Thinking about it, giving warning or posting some kind of "Reasons why I can't stand any of your asses" screed would be really passive-aggressive. Do karate yes, or do karate no.
― Eighteen straight. I think that's a record. (kenan), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 15:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Even posting status updates of type #3, which I have done, is so nagl imo
― ksh, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 15:53 (thirteen years ago) link
I wouldn't post reasons why I can't stand people I'm connected to on FB. Sheesh. I would have made something up about how I reevaluated how I use FB and decided to use it for limited professional communications purposes and people can email me if they have something specific to get in touch with me about. Maybe not that exactly (I just made that up off the top of my head so I would have put more thought into it), but definitely not some misspelled, flouncing screed about getting tired of people whining, etc.
I was leaning towards just deleting people (I've done it on a small scale in the past) and mostly wondering if there's an established etiquette or prevailing posture for a massive FB connection delete before I, uh, did karate.
This is probably a precursor to eventual account deletion, but I'm trying to find a way to make FB fun/usable first before I just give up.
― sinister chemical wisdom (Jenny), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 16:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Deleted well over 100 friends recently. Felt fantastic.
I posted something last week about FB's awful privacy policy and how it'd drive me to delete my profile. Gives me a free pass for erratic friend deletions and disappearing sections of my profile, IMO.
― Millsner, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 16:07 (thirteen years ago) link
I think it depends on why you're deleting them. When I clean friendlist just to weed out old people I don't recognize I don't bother posting about it. But when I'm fuming over something and want to teach people a lesson (whatever whatever) I post something. Like when Obama was elected and like 20 people on my friends list became SUPER RACIST, I made sure to let them know why they were being deleted. A few years later at a party I ran into one of them -- I had forgotten why I had deleted him but he remembered and was still butthurt I called him out on his racism.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 16:59 (thirteen years ago) link
yesterday a friend of mine popped up in my suggestions box as someone i should 'reconnect with', 'say hello to', etc. this particular friend passed away exactly two years ago but her profile's still intact. i mentioned this on FB and apparently everyone else i know who was friends with her had the same thing happen to them. so now i'm wondering how exactly does FB aggregate personal info about a user's death?
― joe scarborough and peoples (donna rouge), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 17:04 (thirteen years ago) link
I would guess that a lot of people wrote on her wall today and that had something to do w/ the fb code suggesting other people to 'reconnect'?
― iatee, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 17:08 (thirteen years ago) link
this happened yesterday (the anniversary of her death), i started seeing her pop up in the suggestions box shortly past midnight
― joe scarborough and peoples (donna rouge), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 17:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Okay, I just deleted about 60 connections. My criteria were to delete:
1. anybody to whom I am not related and who has been hidden from my "news feed" for more than three months.2. anybody I added out of curiosity/fear of offending them by not adding them.3. anybody who never posts anything.4. anybody who has made me crazy w/ tea bagger politics or anti-vaccination stance (to whom I am not related).5. anybody I went to high school with that I never liked anyway.
I kept the following:
1. People I regularly interact w/ on FB.2. People I genuinely like even if they meet one or more of the above criteria.3. People that I regularly interact w/ in real life even if they meet one or more of the above criteria.4. People that I know professionally or through school and want to maintain some kind of connection w/ for my own personal gain.
Now I'm going to go hide all of my family members. This is wonderful, like cleaning out a really cluttered closet.
― sinister chemical wisdom (Jenny), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 18:41 (thirteen years ago) link
this was almost my exact keepers criteria^^
everytime i deleted someone i was like, milhouse you're cut, rodd, todd, you're cut it was p awesome
― get me vlade'd (m bison), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 18:50 (thirteen years ago) link
The best was deleting my anti-vaxxer of an ex-bf and all of the people that I know from high school who just used FB as a platform to post about how much they love God. And all of the people that I used to hang out with who turned into tea bagger lunatics since the last US presidential election.
I'll probably make a second run through in a month or so, since there were a few people that I kept because I felt too bad to delete them.
― sinister chemical wisdom (Jenny), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 18:57 (thirteen years ago) link
cutting out HS ppl i never talk to was a growing up moment, got sick of the internet being the site of a perpetual class reunion
― get me vlade'd (m bison), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 19:03 (thirteen years ago) link
all of the people that I know from high school who just used FB as a platform to post about how much they love God. And all of the people that I used to hang out with who turned into tea bagger lunatics since the last US presidential election.
Yup. That's what being from Texas gets me, too. Honestly, I'd rather hear about every detail of what their first child is doing. But I generally block those people, too.
― Eighteen straight. I think that's a record. (kenan), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 19:07 (thirteen years ago) link
are the "teabaggers" really that annoying?! how friggin many of them are there?!
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 19:08 (thirteen years ago) link
They crawl.
― Eighteen straight. I think that's a record. (kenan), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 19:21 (thirteen years ago) link
I used to have a lot because my undergrad was swarming with them.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 19:22 (thirteen years ago) link
I am pleased that I'm a selective adder (also: unpopular) and only have about 50 friends. Even with such a limited group it's still managed to become the only form of communication I have with some of them, so feeling the urge to delete would be a bummer.
― Hippocrates or wat!! (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 19:25 (thirteen years ago) link
if u are actively communicating with them it doesn't seem like an issue imo.
― get me vlade'd (m bison), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 19:39 (thirteen years ago) link
I was offline yesterday, and now I've come back to find that Lexulous no longer exists on Facebook? Is it just a glitch, or did I miss something?
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 20:06 (thirteen years ago) link
you hurt its feelings and it defriended you
― Have a slice of wine! (HI DERE), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 20:06 (thirteen years ago) link
;_;
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 20:07 (thirteen years ago) link
damn how do you guys know so many anti-vaccine people? I don't think I've ever even met one.
― iatee, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 20:08 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm from a rural area so a lot of my family and people I grew up with have embraced the tea party ethos. Vocally.
As for anti-vax ppl, I ran around with a bunch of hippies for most of the 90s and many of them chose professions in the field of alternative healing/medicine or are really into natural remedies. I am (or in some cases, was) FB friends with a chiropractor, a naturopath, three doulas, two yoga instructors, and an herbalist. And a psychic. And two reverends of the woo woo spiritual persuasion. And like ten billion massage therapists.
― sinister chemical wisdom (Jenny), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 20:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Apparently there's no such thing as a reserved tea party enthusiast. Being outspoken is a part of the ideology.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 20:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Wasn't there some copyright thing with Lexulous? I use proper Scrabble app but I think it's only available in the US. Also it completely breaks my internet connection when I use it on my own computer which I can't get my head around (I do my Scrabbling on a laptop instead). Anyone else have this?
― Not the real Village People, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 20:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh and one organic papaya farmer, I'm not even kidding. He's pretty harmless, though. Just living in HI, running a papaya farm.
― sinister chemical wisdom (Jenny), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 20:17 (thirteen years ago) link
I thought the Lexulous/Scrabble thing was resolved well over a year ago. It was an active (and still superior) app... until today, when it completely disappeared.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 20:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Because refusal can offend, there are currently 65 people in what I call my Limbo List: parents of friends/my mother's friends (no fucking way), sceney people who use FB like MySpace who think they should know me (presumptuous), really cretinous/embarrassing people from HS that I can't just ignore - and a few others who are OK but because I haven't actually interacted with 'em IRL, they haven't been added.
Privacy issues: no online venue is completely non-porous so I don't post things I wouldn't be comfortable with (say) an editor or family friend reading. This is just basic common sense. I'm pretty careful about who I add in the first place - the only God-botherers are an otherwise cool HS friend who stans for homeschooling and another one who lost her son in Iraq and is very involved in being a Gold Star Mom (neither of whom would vote Republican) and the only friends that admit to being conservative are my sister's best friend in HS and an ex-cheerleader married to her HS sweetheart who is now a hairdresser/bodybuilder. Both of those are non-teabag; I really only see UH OH SOSHULISM posts on my BiL's wall and those dropped off after a few months of the usual whitefolksbitching. I have pointed out to them that the only intelligent people I see embracing that politics are cynically mining it for personal profit.
― cleggaeton (suzy), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 23:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Not for the reasons folks here would want I figure but:
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/05/21/world/21pstanspan-cnd/21pstanspan-cnd-articleLarge.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 20 May 2010 16:37 (thirteen years ago) link
resisting the urge to post this to my fb and tag my friends in it.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Thursday, 20 May 2010 18:36 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-social-networking-site-changing-the-way-oh-chr,17465/
― Not the real Village People, Thursday, 20 May 2010 20:29 (thirteen years ago) link
http://mashable.com/2010/05/20/facebook-caught-sending-user-data-to-advertisers/
Large advertising companies including Google’s DoubleClick and Yahoo’s Right Media were identified as having received information including usernames or ID numbers that could be traced back to individual profiles as users clicked on ads. The data could potentially be used to look up personal information about the user, including real name, age, occupation, location, and anything else made public on the profile. Both of the aforementioned companies denied being aware of the “extra” data they were receiving and claim they have not made use of it....The Journal found that Facebook went farther than most in sharing identifiable data, by sending the username of the person clicking the ad as well as the username of the profile they were viewing at the time. This news could hardly come at a worse time for Facebook, a company that currently faces a privacy backlash potent enough to make the cover of Time Magazine this month.
The Journal found that Facebook went farther than most in sharing identifiable data, by sending the username of the person clicking the ad as well as the username of the profile they were viewing at the time. This news could hardly come at a worse time for Facebook, a company that currently faces a privacy backlash potent enough to make the cover of Time Magazine this month.
― rent, Friday, 21 May 2010 12:10 (thirteen years ago) link
http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/imgad?id=COvTwbm75trOvgEQygcYQjIIDUgxXKQmefk
― rent, Friday, 21 May 2010 12:12 (thirteen years ago) link
missing LiveJournal rite now tbh
― ksh, Friday, 21 May 2010 18:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Both of the aforementioned companies denied being aware of the “extra” data they were receiving and claim they have not made use of it.
Neither Yahoo nor Doubleclick knows its arse from its elbow so I'm prepared to believe this tbh.
In other news a friend (and colleague) logged into facebook from my laptop and failed to click "never" when asked if he wanted his U &P to be remembered. I am now in a position to log into his account whenever I want, until he changes his password. Should I take advantage of this power and if so, how?
― snakebite and a passable pinot noir (Upt0eleven), Friday, 21 May 2010 20:34 (thirteen years ago) link
join every furry group on Facebook that you can find
― Have a slice of wine! (HI DERE), Friday, 21 May 2010 20:39 (thirteen years ago) link
these people might have some ideas for you
― Mordy, Friday, 21 May 2010 20:40 (thirteen years ago) link
they're just going to say "join every furry group on Facebook you can find, oh and also be super racist"
― Have a slice of wine! (HI DERE), Friday, 21 May 2010 20:51 (thirteen years ago) link
"We only support white-furred creatures."
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 May 2010 20:53 (thirteen years ago) link
OH man.
― frozen cookie (Abbott), Friday, 21 May 2010 20:54 (thirteen years ago) link
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― MPx4A, Friday, 21 May 2010 22:15 (thirteen years ago) link
are you still facebook friends with them
― acoleuthic, Friday, 21 May 2010 22:18 (thirteen years ago) link
are they really that awesome
― ksh, Friday, 21 May 2010 22:19 (thirteen years ago) link
i think many of us are facebook friends with "them" ; )
― Guns, Computer, The Internet (harbl), Friday, 21 May 2010 22:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah I may be in danger of a straight red for "helping his spirit live on"
― MPx4A, Friday, 21 May 2010 22:20 (thirteen years ago) link
hahahaha, gotcha. RIP
― ksh, Friday, 21 May 2010 22:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Fuck TWO people I know have added that fucking "im awesome im awesome" shit, so it spewed all over my news feed twice. Anymore and I'm going on a hide spree.
― demiurge overkill (Trayce), Saturday, 22 May 2010 00:13 (thirteen years ago) link
link to that thing?
― ksh, Saturday, 22 May 2010 00:24 (thirteen years ago) link
is it a rickroll type thing? I ran my cursor over it and it didn't link to a Facebook page
― she is mottled and she's looking good (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 22 May 2010 08:09 (thirteen years ago) link
I think they just implemented something where if a liked thing is too many characters it gets shortened and they throw an ellipsis on the end
― Andrew Kornfan, Saturday, 22 May 2010 18:54 (thirteen years ago) link
looooooool
― ksh, Saturday, 22 May 2010 18:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Facebook Questions!!!: http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/23/facebook-questions/
― ksh, Monday, 24 May 2010 02:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh christ, that'll be annoying as shit.
― demiurge overkill (Trayce), Monday, 24 May 2010 02:27 (thirteen years ago) link
you are 100% correct
― ksh, Monday, 24 May 2010 02:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh man this might finally chase me away. Unless you can just completely 'hide' the whole app.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 24 May 2010 02:38 (thirteen years ago) link
they're going to keep doing a lot more to make this even less fun to use, right?
― ksh, Monday, 24 May 2010 02:41 (thirteen years ago) link
they gunnin for ilx now.
― stet, Monday, 24 May 2010 15:02 (thirteen years ago) link
I think we should fight back with ILX status updates, "like" buttons and a FAP App.
― this skit is ba-na-nas (onimo), Monday, 24 May 2010 15:13 (thirteen years ago) link
i think we should fight back by making the boards even more simpler than they are now
― ksh, Monday, 24 May 2010 15:14 (thirteen years ago) link
whole site should really just be a blank white page imo
― ksh, Monday, 24 May 2010 15:15 (thirteen years ago) link
w/ maybe jiggle panda
http://www.businessinsider.com/10-reasons-youll-never-quit-facebook-even-if-you-think-you-want-to-2010-5#youre-not-going-to-go-back-to-waiting-an-hour-to-send-an-email-to-30-people-with-40-photos-attached-1
Hmmmm...
― Cunga, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 22:56 (thirteen years ago) link
This guy:
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/05/27/business/27facebookspan-cnd/27facebookspan-cnd-articleLarge-v2.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 26 May 2010 19:37 (thirteen years ago) link
People leaving Facebook for whatever reason is fine, but there's nothing worse than the hot air of self-important explanations for leaving (with one or two exceptions). Also, if you're whore enough to have 2000 friends because you add every random person, you should've stuck with MySpace.
― I eat truffle fries because my captors say they'll kill me if I don't (suzy), Friday, 4 June 2010 18:07 (thirteen years ago) link
y'all should add me, btw -- i'm the top post in the ILM group, just let me know who you are if you add me: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2200160366
― ksh, Friday, 4 June 2010 18:13 (thirteen years ago) link
i probably came too late to the party for the initial omg add all ilxors rush, if there was one
― ksh, Friday, 4 June 2010 18:14 (thirteen years ago) link
I tried to add you once but you never responded, thereby confirming your sock puppet status
― denvil crowe (dyao), Friday, 4 June 2010 18:14 (thirteen years ago) link
― michael challopoulos (acoleuthic), Friday, 4 June 2010 18:15 (thirteen years ago) link
ksh i would add you if you posted a real profile picture
― call all destroyer, Friday, 4 June 2010 18:15 (thirteen years ago) link
http://suicidemachine.org/
^^^ help for people who want out of this crazy on-line world.
― sinister chemical wisdom (Jenny), Friday, 4 June 2010 18:22 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.enjoyfrance.com/images/stories/world/entertainment/Bruce-springsteen.jpg
He's here to help you leave facebook.
― Mordy, Friday, 4 June 2010 18:25 (thirteen years ago) link
hahaha that song has been in my head since I read the article about the service.
― sinister chemical wisdom (Jenny), Friday, 4 June 2010 18:26 (thirteen years ago) link
cad, a real picture to FB or to here?
― ksh, Friday, 4 June 2010 18:47 (thirteen years ago) link
i'll put up a picture of me on the fuckin T
there ya go
― ksh, Friday, 4 June 2010 18:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Alice Glass has disappeared
What's up with you never being on facebook chat for me to shmooze with? Poor form!
― Mordy, Friday, 4 June 2010 18:54 (thirteen years ago) link
dude i'm permanently logged out -- i told you! just send me a private message, i use that shit like IM when i'm on
― ksh, Friday, 4 June 2010 18:55 (thirteen years ago) link
GO ON THEN
― michael challopoulos (acoleuthic), Friday, 4 June 2010 18:56 (thirteen years ago) link
added u lj
― ksh, Friday, 4 June 2010 18:58 (thirteen years ago) link
if you're whore enough to have 2000 friends because you add every random person, you should've stuck with MySpace.
I'll add anyone who asks, within reason, including people I haven't seen since 3rd grade. Many of those people turn out to be annoying Republican farmer fuckwits, so I block them. Simple. Same goes for many (MANY) former coworkers.
― Eighteen straight. I think that's a record. (kenan), Friday, 4 June 2010 19:01 (thirteen years ago) link
i have literally no one on limited profile or anything, so w/ the exception of a few status updates that i've individually set for only certain ppl to see, you can see anything anyone else can see
― ksh, Friday, 4 June 2010 19:12 (thirteen years ago) link
i should probably add some stuff
― ksh, Friday, 4 June 2010 19:13 (thirteen years ago) link
lj, why aren't we friends?
― Mordy, Friday, 4 June 2010 19:32 (thirteen years ago) link
oh yeah, i also disabled posting on my wall for, uh, my entire friends list -- b/c that shit is mad annoying -- but ppl can still comment on status updates. i use it kinda like twitter i guess
― ksh, Friday, 4 June 2010 19:35 (thirteen years ago) link
woah, LJ dude can you keep my real name off of ILX?
― ksh, Friday, 4 June 2010 19:36 (thirteen years ago) link
like, seriously
ksh is some kind of privacy lunatic. like the unabomber of facebook. dude has no links to his friends, no groups, no links, just one most recent status post, no info...
― Mordy, Friday, 4 June 2010 19:37 (thirteen years ago) link
lj, i'd appreciate it if you'd change your display name immediately, i'm gonna ask mods to get rid of those posts
― ksh, Friday, 4 June 2010 19:38 (thirteen years ago) link
keep it there ksh i'll friend u at home
― call all destroyer, Friday, 4 June 2010 19:40 (thirteen years ago) link
and wtf lj
ok cad
― ksh, Friday, 4 June 2010 19:41 (thirteen years ago) link
lj + ksh, most short-lived friendship ever?
― salsa shark, Friday, 4 June 2010 19:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Kenan, I operate on the same principle, minus the Republican fucknuts. It has to be an historic/old friend for me to tolerate conservativism or religiosity (and of the latter there are only three out of ±450 folks, and one of them is a gold star mom). Luckily the people I am back in contact with from home are mostly socially just lefties.
All I wanted to do is vent about people who are high-handed or uppity WRT themselves on social networks. I'm being specific about a friend/colleague who is closing her 'friend' page and turning it into a 'like' page. <--- lifestyles of the irony-rich and semi-famous.
― I eat truffle fries because my captors say they'll kill me if I don't (suzy), Friday, 4 June 2010 19:46 (thirteen years ago) link
― louis jaggops (acoleuthic), Friday, 4 June 2010 19:47 (thirteen years ago) link
thx lj, now i need to go figure out how to remove a yellowcard
― gated community of Mordor (jjjusten), Friday, 4 June 2010 19:49 (thirteen years ago) link
hahaha, i have no problem w/ lj whatsoever -- he's a good dude, just asking him to keep irl name and stuff off the board plz
― ksh, Friday, 4 June 2010 19:49 (thirteen years ago) link
waiting for mordy shinchollops username
― Mordy, Friday, 4 June 2010 19:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Mordechai, GIT DOWN OFF THERE.
― I eat truffle fries because my captors say they'll kill me if I don't (suzy), Friday, 4 June 2010 19:50 (thirteen years ago) link
haha ok you might be stuck w/ the yellowcard for a bit, sorry dude
― gated community of Mordor (jjjusten), Friday, 4 June 2010 19:52 (thirteen years ago) link
that is OK I will keep changing my display name
― JOHN JUSTEN'S CHALLOPS (acoleuthic), Friday, 4 June 2010 19:54 (thirteen years ago) link
hahahahaa
― gated community of Mordor (jjjusten), Friday, 4 June 2010 19:59 (thirteen years ago) link
that fucking guy, glad he doesnt post here anymore
Ban John Justen
AN IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS COME
― gated community of Mordor (jjjusten), Friday, 4 June 2010 20:03 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm still lolling at "Joe Jackson Underbite"
― the british must pay for this (HI DERE), Friday, 4 June 2010 20:05 (thirteen years ago) link
the LBZC are going to have my arse for this
― BUT IT WOULD BE A CHALLOP TO BAN JOHN JUSTEN (acoleuthic), Friday, 4 June 2010 20:07 (thirteen years ago) link
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/assets_c/2010/06/facebook4-thumb-560x560.jpg
― fruiting bodies of minds in agony (dyao), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 13:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Through looking at the ILM group wall I have learned that Hongro is actually spelled Hongrø
THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING
― I wonder if heaven got a Netto (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 14:01 (thirteen years ago) link
game changer
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 15:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Just found out that John J is FB friends and presumably irl friends with a girl I lived with briefly 10 years ago. WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE.
― o sh!t a ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ (ENBB), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 04:22 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm pretty sure jj has at least one shared fb friend with me.
― postmodern infidel(ity) (mh), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 04:32 (thirteen years ago) link
I just found out an ex-colleague of sorts is in the ILM group :)
So, now that they're making all your actual "likes" become membership of some kind of page, isn't this making everyone get rid of their "likes" on their info page so they don't get updates from Girls Aloud/Yodelling Goat Cheese/whatever all the time? won't this affect the advertisers' ability to target ppl or does no-one care?
― Not the real Village People, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 06:15 (thirteen years ago) link
It is pretty dumb - Ive "hidden" a lot of mine from my feed (I dont need to be informed every single day that the Simpsons is about to start on US tv).
That said, it has been useful in some cases: I found out TMBG are having a tshirt clearance sale!
― property-disrespecting Moroccan handjob (Trayce), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 06:34 (thirteen years ago) link
They've undone that connections stuff, I think.
― stet, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 13:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Have they? I deleted all of my "likes" except for pages that I actually want updates from because I don't want updates/community page bullshit/the entire world to know that I count Manowar and Gordon Lightfoot among my favorite musicians.
― sinister chemical wisdom (Jenny), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 13:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Ah no, they haven't. They promised the "connections" would be removed in their big "privacy oh noes, will this tacked-on front page shut you up?" blog post, but looks as if they haven't
― stet, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 16:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Just saw this comment, from a dude, on a girl's profile pic.
Being Lost in a Womans Beauty is Being Touched Deep within Your Soul!
Dude is well on his way to Sex Land.
― Cunga, Friday, 11 June 2010 23:46 (thirteen years ago) link
That rainbow video! I immediately signed this petition and you should too:http://www.petitiononline.com/h2o/petition.html
― Not the real Village People, Saturday, 12 June 2010 01:04 (thirteen years ago) link
oops wrong thread ha
I'm trying to remove every friend I added back when I was playing Rock Legends. The game was taken off facebook a few months ago and now I'm stuck with 100s of strangers as my friends. This is gonna take a long time to remove
― scooter (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 21:26 (thirteen years ago) link
oh hey i never look at this thread
― o sh!t a ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ (ENBB), Wednesday, June 9, 2010 4:22 AM (1 week ago)
even better, she is an ex that i prob dated for a couple years (the endpoints and start points are ahem confusing at best)
― postmodern infidel(ity) (mh), Wednesday, June 9, 2010 4:32 AM (1 week ago)
hmmmm i am curious now because my fb friends are basically A)creeps and unknowns from my high school (thx HI DERE) B)ilxors C)peeps i am pretty directly connected to
― ULTRAMAN dat ho (jjjusten), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 21:35 (thirteen years ago) link
why are you friends w/ crepey people, john?
― sarahel, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 21:38 (thirteen years ago) link
I still sorta can't get over that connection. So random.
― o sh!t a ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ (ENBB), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 21:41 (thirteen years ago) link
i think the best response to that is OH LOOK IT ARE TEH INTERNETS tbh xpost
― ULTRAMAN dat ho (jjjusten), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 21:44 (thirteen years ago) link
i think the best response to that is OH LOOK IT ARE TEH INTERNETS tbh
what do you mean by that, exactly?
― sarahel, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 21:48 (thirteen years ago) link
sorry. "Please notice, this state of affairs is occurring within the medium of internet social networks, so who gives a fuck." hope that helps
― ULTRAMAN dat ho (jjjusten), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 22:02 (thirteen years ago) link
sorry for giving a fuck
― sarahel, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 22:07 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm not trying to antagonize you, John, i just end up erring on the "why?" side as opposed to the "why not?" side when it comes to friending creepy, lame, or boring people from high school/my home town.
― sarahel, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 22:12 (thirteen years ago) link
oh nah im not antagonized, i just really am detached from taking facebook even remotely seriously or paying any attention to it (ughhh is that the new "i dont even have a TV probably arrggh) so the thought never crossed my mind
― ULTRAMAN dat ho (jjjusten), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 22:14 (thirteen years ago) link
note: as a result of this lack of attentiveness i have now been sentenced to being greeted with eternal farmville updates every time i bother to log in, so your fate is the one you make i suppose
― ULTRAMAN dat ho (jjjusten), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 22:17 (thirteen years ago) link
press "hide" next to the first Farmville update you see, then press "Hide Farmville" or whatever, and you're free
― ksh, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 22:19 (thirteen years ago) link
At this point I'm hiding a lot of infantile games played mostly by a) younger relatives, so fair dos and b) 'blond' people my own age who never left the midwest. My BiL is on a Mafia Wars binge so I learned the Block thing pretty much on day one.
― WHEN CROWS GO BAD (suzy), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 22:32 (thirteen years ago) link
appreciate the tips but i am digging my own "ignore this thing" approach, it has done well for me so far in life
― ULTRAMAN dat ho (jjjusten), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 23:08 (thirteen years ago) link
whatever works yo
― ksh, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 23:17 (thirteen years ago) link
I've hidden every single app/quiz/whatever ever since day one. The minute a new one appears, WHAP. Gone. Add adblock to that, and I dont even see all the crazy side-ads.
― property-disrespecting Moroccan handjob (Trayce), Thursday, 17 June 2010 03:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Hahah Whaaat, FB have just introduced the "like" function to comments on status updates!
My page has gone crazy with ppl clicking like on everything in sight.
― property-disrespecting Moroccan handjob (Trayce), Thursday, 17 June 2010 03:08 (thirteen years ago) link
the Microsoft Word of social networks
― ksh, Thursday, 17 June 2010 03:09 (thirteen years ago) link
must.. like.. everything
― psychrock...? (electricsound), Thursday, 17 June 2010 03:09 (thirteen years ago) link
hahaha its gone mad.
― property-disrespecting Moroccan handjob (Trayce), Thursday, 17 June 2010 03:36 (thirteen years ago) link
I already saw someone do the "soon you'll be able to 'like' the fact that someone 'liked' your post!!" joke, which means it is well on course to be the "at this rate they'll be building a Starbucks inside a Starbucks!!" for this decade
― heywood jabulani (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 17 June 2010 07:48 (thirteen years ago) link
so you can like on your likes while you get liked
― Mark Ronson: "Led Zeppelin were responsible for hip-hop" (acoleuthic), Thursday, 17 June 2010 08:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Its down the K-hole from here people!
― C.R.E.P.E (Trayce), Thursday, 17 June 2010 08:55 (thirteen years ago) link
LOLLLLL love it when Friend Suggestions throws up something ridiculous: Nick Heyward.
― WHEN CROWS GO BAD (suzy), Thursday, 17 June 2010 09:02 (thirteen years ago) link
I keep getting John Robb :(
― heywood jabulani (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 17 June 2010 09:38 (thirteen years ago) link
phoebe summersquash here 8)
― koogs, Thursday, 17 June 2010 09:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Didn't that happen ages ago?
― Vulvuzela (Matt DC), Thursday, 17 June 2010 09:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Actually I could refresh the suggestions all day for maximum LOLs (just looked again and it's A-Gays a-go-go: Peter Tatchell, Jonathan Harvey).
― WHEN CROWS GO BAD (suzy), Thursday, 17 June 2010 09:52 (thirteen years ago) link
iouis j@gger has liked your comment on his comment which you liked
― Remember when Mr Banhart was a replicant? (darraghmac), Thursday, 17 June 2010 10:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Matt: no no its a like function on the *comments* on someones post. So now every single comment can also be "liked" as the main wall post can.
Its a bit mental.
― C.R.E.P.E (Trayce), Thursday, 17 June 2010 10:16 (thirteen years ago) link
this is as annoying as when myspace introduced the option of giving one or two "kudos"
― sarahel, Thursday, 17 June 2010 10:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Guy I'm friends with has a photo album of screen grabs from his Farmville which he updates almost daily.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Thursday, 17 June 2010 12:52 (thirteen years ago) link
time to defriend. irl.
― Lil' Lj & The World (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 17 June 2010 12:55 (thirteen years ago) link
couple of people on my feed do that with pet society xp
― dyao, Thursday, 17 June 2010 13:02 (thirteen years ago) link
yo dawg, I heard you like Facebook comments, so we put a like on your like so we could like when you like
― Xzibit, Thursday, 17 June 2010 15:36 (thirteen years ago) link
back on facebook. stupid assumed name, not going to update, only adding peeps i know really well and give a shit about (so far 5 people, not likely to inflate massively).
― Humbert Humberto Suazo (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 4 July 2010 19:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Going to hunt you down...
― krakow, Sunday, 4 July 2010 19:53 (thirteen years ago) link
hehe, you'll never catch me!
well actually you possibly could but it would have to involve both deduction and guesswork!
― Humbert Humberto Suazo (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 4 July 2010 19:55 (thirteen years ago) link
The challenge is most definitely on.
― krakow, Sunday, 4 July 2010 20:14 (thirteen years ago) link
In other Facebook-related news, Trent Reznor has written the score for Fincher's Facebook movie.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Sunday, 4 July 2010 20:33 (thirteen years ago) link
"Fincher's Facebook movie"? Wtf?!
― Tuomas, Monday, 5 July 2010 10:35 (thirteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Social_Network
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Monday, 5 July 2010 11:41 (thirteen years ago) link
we have a thread on it
― j/k lol simmons (history mayne), Monday, 5 July 2010 11:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Facebook: the movie
Wtf, who cares about a movie of how Facebook got started? Was it like an extra eventful process, or are they gonna add some fictional drama into it in the name of entertainment?
― Tuomas, Monday, 5 July 2010 12:33 (thirteen years ago) link
here's a guess: 1) it won't be a documentary reconstruction 2) it will shoot for more than just relating the history of how facebook started 3) it will use said story to bring out certain choice themes (idk, about friendship probably) 4) it'll be mad funny
― j/k lol simmons (history mayne), Monday, 5 July 2010 12:44 (thirteen years ago) link
5) characters will be made to seem more interesting than what they are irl, aka nerds6) a story abt nerds may be actually more interesting irl
― ice cr?m, Monday, 5 July 2010 14:15 (thirteen years ago) link
based on those involved itll prob be pretty sweet; should prob include a montage of young zuckerberg murdering hookers in his dorm room between marathon coding seshes for max impactfulness imo
― ice cr?m, Monday, 5 July 2010 14:18 (thirteen years ago) link
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― frap your hands say yeah yeah yeah (history mayne), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 08:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Will move to first social network with an UH button
― stet, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 09:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, Facebook has recommended that I like Clarkson before.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 10:06 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/social.media/07/12/google.zynga.games/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn
― roxymuzak, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 00:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Anytime I accept a friend request from someone from elementary school, it's a terrifying mirror into what it'd be like if if I stayed Mormon, in Idaho. And also a reminder that most of the people in my hometown were really dumb, racist hicks.
― could be a bad day for (Abbott), Friday, 16 July 2010 00:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Hmm, that's two friend requests from school people today- one of which I added before, then deleted about 18 months ago in a mass cull of school people I plain don't care about in hindsight, and one who messaged me a while ago that I didn't reply to. I guess it's 15yrs since we finished school, hope this isn't a prelude to a meet-up or something.
― useless chamber, Friday, 16 July 2010 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link
my ex's sister just friend-requested me. i've had not contact with her in the 4yrs since i split with her brother, i changed my name when i got married and we have no friends in common. so how did she find me??? i don't even use an email address for facebook that she would know.
i've noticed that a lot of married ppl have their maiden names show up in gray next to their married names, but that doesn't show up on my profile.
this is freaking me out.
― just1n3, Monday, 19 July 2010 01:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Recommended PagesReadingMany who like Fleetwood Mac like thisLike
mac fans are big readers apparently?
― iPrincess 2.0 (electricsound), Monday, 19 July 2010 02:02 (thirteen years ago) link
LOL wut.
― Gumbercules (Trayce), Monday, 19 July 2010 02:16 (thirteen years ago) link
"You Make Reading Fun"
― Cunga, Monday, 19 July 2010 02:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Now I'll never hear that song as anything but a literacy anthem.
― could be a bad day for (Abbott), Monday, 19 July 2010 03:46 (thirteen years ago) link
...this is freaking me out.
Is it possible you have friends in common?
― nickn, Monday, 19 July 2010 04:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Facebook just KNOWS!
― krakow, Monday, 19 July 2010 07:57 (thirteen years ago) link
so how did she find me?
by searching for your name?
― embrace the flopping? no thanks (onimo), Monday, 19 July 2010 11:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh wait you changed your name.
Dunno then. Maybe someone told her your new name.
― embrace the flopping? no thanks (onimo), Monday, 19 July 2010 11:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Anytime I accept a friend request from someone from elementary school, it's a terrifying mirror into what it'd be like if if I stayed Mormon, in Idaho.
I know what you mean but I can't believe this. If you had stayed Mormon you'd still be Abbs, you couldn't NOT be.
― the soul of the avocado escapes as soon as you open it (Laurel), Monday, 19 July 2010 11:22 (thirteen years ago) link
like i said, we don't have any friends in common. the only people she knows that i know who could tell her my married name are the family i used to work for, and they know that i don't want her brother to ever find me. this whole thing caused me to have a terrifying nightmare about my ex last night :/
― just1n3, Monday, 19 July 2010 15:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Facebook does seem to have this freaky power of presenting to you the worst people from your past, those who you never thought you'd see again. Maybe to get us all to spend money on therapy, I don't know.
― could be a bad day for (Abbott), Monday, 19 July 2010 15:38 (thirteen years ago) link
facebook knows, everyone know, they just know
― ice cr?m, Monday, 19 July 2010 19:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Anyone else getting wierd loading issues with FB today? If I go to the main page it just loads the URL with a blank page. If I flush my cache I can load FB's login page, log in, and see my news feed.
But then if I click on my profile it all goes to shit again. WTF.
― Gumbercules (Trayce), Thursday, 22 July 2010 02:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Chat won't load, not that it's any great loss.
― krakow, Thursday, 22 July 2010 08:10 (thirteen years ago) link
have been seeing exactly the same thing, trayce, although i wasn't bothered enough to try flushing my cache.
― koogs, Thursday, 22 July 2010 09:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Weirdly, it isnt doing it on my pc at home. Just at work. Strange.
― Gumbercules (Trayce), Thursday, 22 July 2010 09:07 (thirteen years ago) link
eh all my friend recommendations are suddenly fake accounts belonging to attractive middle eastern women?
― Has admitted to being Irish in order to have sex (darraghmac), Thursday, 22 July 2010 16:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Recommended page: James Corden
last week it was Steven Gerrard. Um, no?
― ailsa, Thursday, 22 July 2010 16:12 (thirteen years ago) link
I have been receiving friend requests from Filipino ladyboys lately.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Thursday, 22 July 2010 16:45 (thirteen years ago) link
'friend' requests
― Has admitted to being Irish in order to have sex (darraghmac), Thursday, 22 July 2010 16:47 (thirteen years ago) link
tell it to the booking sergeant, bucko
i was just trying to friend her officer *compulsively wipes bloody hands on bloody shirt*
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 22 July 2010 17:12 (thirteen years ago) link
It's OK, I've, uh, defriended her now.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Thursday, 22 July 2010 17:15 (thirteen years ago) link
A directory containing personal details about more than 100 million Facebook users has surfaced on an Internet file-sharing site.
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 17:10 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.newsweek.com/blogs/the-human-condition/2010/07/20/10-ways-facebook-can-ruin-your-life.html
― Zeno, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 21:28 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/7912731/Law-student-wins-10000-after-being-branded-a-paedophile-on-Facebook.html
A law student left fearing reprisals after he was falsely named as a paedophile on Facebook has won a £10,000 libel damages payout at the High Court.Chef, Jeremiah Barber, 24, posted child porn on the Facebook page of student, Raymond Bryce, along with the comment: "Ray, you like kids and you are gay so I bet you love this picture, Ha ha."Barber, who had fallen out with Mr Bryce over an £80 debt, removed the post, made on 23 November 2008, within 24 hours.But he later pleaded guilty to making and distributing an indecent image of a child at Stafford Crown Court and was ordered to carry out 150 hours unpaid work and handed a £1,200 costs bill.Now top judge Mr Justice Tugendhat, sitting at London's High Court, has awarded Mr Bryce £10,000 in libel damages for the stress he endured, including anxiety that hundreds of people in his local area may have seen the post.
Chef, Jeremiah Barber, 24, posted child porn on the Facebook page of student, Raymond Bryce, along with the comment: "Ray, you like kids and you are gay so I bet you love this picture, Ha ha."
Barber, who had fallen out with Mr Bryce over an £80 debt, removed the post, made on 23 November 2008, within 24 hours.
But he later pleaded guilty to making and distributing an indecent image of a child at Stafford Crown Court and was ordered to carry out 150 hours unpaid work and handed a £1,200 costs bill.
Now top judge Mr Justice Tugendhat, sitting at London's High Court, has awarded Mr Bryce £10,000 in libel damages for the stress he endured, including anxiety that hundreds of people in his local area may have seen the post.
― we won't make a darraghmac out of a crisis (onimo), Thursday, 29 July 2010 09:41 (thirteen years ago) link
My sister is currently on my Facebook page, impugning my ability to make red velvet and cream cheese brownies. And for further mortification, she used 'your' for you're and 'by' for buy. KMT SMH.
― stoic newington (suzy), Thursday, 29 July 2010 11:08 (thirteen years ago) link
We need proof before we can take sides in this debate. You must make brownies for everyone on ILX right away.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Thursday, 29 July 2010 13:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Brownies can be sent digitally these days, right?
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Thursday, 29 July 2010 15:47 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lchaAtrwkE4
― am0n, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 20:29 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i36.tinypic.com/5ogvms.png
― Cunga, Sunday, 8 August 2010 05:55 (thirteen years ago) link
"Oh, goody. I'm an undercover cop, and we're having a little contest to see who can bring in the most p@dos this month. Thanks to you, I'm going to win!"
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Sunday, 8 August 2010 12:30 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i34.tinypic.com/22gqyv.jpg
― Cunga, Tuesday, 17 August 2010 07:15 (thirteen years ago) link
it's a facebook advertisement.
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d195/richhunt35/justiceforjada.jpg
― i like barbecue ribs (u s steel), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 08:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Question: It seems that any old comment I make on anyone's posts, links, etc, shows up in everyone's feed...or at least, it shows up in my husband's feed. Is there any way I can turn this off?
― full of country goodness and green pea-ness (Abbbottt), Friday, 20 August 2010 03:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Isnt that the idea tho? Im a bit confused.
Like if post on your wall, anyone who is looking at my feed sees that - but only if we're mutual friends, I think?
― I used to lurk on some turtle forums (Trayce), Friday, 20 August 2010 04:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Say I am friends with Satan, and also my dad, and Satan & dad are definitely not friends with each other. Dad hates that I'm buds with Satan and wants no reminders of this. Say Satan posts a hilarious photo of his bifurcated cock, and I post a comment about it. Even though Satan and my dad are not friends, my comment & Satan's cock both show up in my dad's feed. Ideally, only mutual friends of Satan could see that I appreciate his wit, but as it stands, it's showing up in feeds of people who don't know or care about Satan. That's basically what's happening right now (I comment on some high school friend's post but my husband can still see it even though he is not friends w/high school friend, making me think everyone can see it). I would like to know if there is a way to stop it.
― full of country goodness and green pea-ness (Abbbottt), Friday, 20 August 2010 04:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Hm yeah that shouldnt happen should it? I cant work out where yo'd set that tho, I had a squiz in the privacy settings but geez they dont make it easy to change shit.
LOL @ example, BTW!!! :D
― I used to lurk on some turtle forums (Trayce), Friday, 20 August 2010 04:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Say Satan posts a hilarious photo of his bifurcated cock, and I post a comment about it. Even though Satan and my dad are not friends, my comment & Satan's cock both show up in my dad's feed.
Actually, this does not happen, at least not the way you describe it. Can you give a specific example of what is troubling you? There may actually be a way to fix it, believe it or not.
― “Going on tour with Midnight Oil” and more outmoded masturbation slang (kenan), Friday, 20 August 2010 04:52 (thirteen years ago) link
i think it does happen, if the person whose wall you posted to has a public profile
― just1n3, Friday, 20 August 2010 04:54 (thirteen years ago) link
If Satan makes his cock photo a wall post on your wall, then yes, your dad can see it, because it's on your wall, and it shows up the same way as if you posted it yourself. I do wish people would stop doing this. I often delete posts like this, and if it's a friend I care about keeping, I may send then a message explaining why I nixed their post off my wall.
― “Going on tour with Midnight Oil” and more outmoded masturbation slang (kenan), Friday, 20 August 2010 04:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Satan should keep his cock on his own wall, and then your dad can't see your comments about it. As long as he's not friends with Satan.
― “Going on tour with Midnight Oil” and more outmoded masturbation slang (kenan), Friday, 20 August 2010 04:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Im sorry the analogy example is killing me, here.
― I used to lurk on some turtle forums (Trayce), Friday, 20 August 2010 05:01 (thirteen years ago) link
It's pretty fucking special.
― “Going on tour with Midnight Oil” and more outmoded masturbation slang (kenan), Friday, 20 August 2010 05:03 (thirteen years ago) link
but i think abbott is talking about when she posts to ~someone else's~ wall - then it will show up in her non-mutual friends' feeds if that person has a public profile
― just1n3, Friday, 20 August 2010 05:20 (thirteen years ago) link
I guess that kind of makes sense. I dont very often see people in my feed commenting on something by someone I dont know at all though, so Im kind of puzzled.
― I used to lurk on some turtle forums (Trayce), Friday, 20 August 2010 05:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Ive just scrolled 3 pages of news feed and only seen one person-to-wall post and that was to a mutual friend.. and no comment-to-photo at all, weird.
― I used to lurk on some turtle forums (Trayce), Friday, 20 August 2010 05:24 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm confused. I think you guys are doing things that I don't do. Or else I'm just lost.
― “Going on tour with Midnight Oil” and more outmoded masturbation slang (kenan), Friday, 20 August 2010 07:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Im confused too. If we could see everyone's photo comments in a news feed, that'd be all the feed would be full of, surely?
― I used to lurk on some turtle forums (Trayce), Friday, 20 August 2010 08:47 (thirteen years ago) link
I think it may be just comments on status updates - I commented on a friend's bifurcated cock status the other night and it appeared on my wife's news feed despite him not being on her friends list.
― a harshbuzz to my manpain (onimo), Friday, 20 August 2010 08:52 (thirteen years ago) link
I get this in the 'top news' feed but not the 'most recent'. Lots of telling me that friend X likes the link of non-friend Y and such.
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Friday, 20 August 2010 09:47 (thirteen years ago) link
oh hey, i think youre right! I never look at top news cos it is so cut down and pointless, but I just did then, and wow, I'm seeing few things I wouldnt usually - yes, wall comments to people I dont know. Hrm. Curious.
― I used to lurk on some turtle forums (Trayce), Friday, 20 August 2010 09:51 (thirteen years ago) link
seeing A few things, sorry.
Yeah, that's what happens in top news. I don't really think there's anyway to change that on your end Abbott.
― o sh!t a ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ (ENBB), Friday, 20 August 2010 10:42 (thirteen years ago) link
But if he switches to "most recent" view he shouldn't see that anymore.
― o sh!t a ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ (ENBB), Friday, 20 August 2010 10:43 (thirteen years ago) link
It's really weird being Facebook friends with two people who had a fight in high school and never spoke to each other again. Then again that is what it was like in high school.
― i just like barbecue rib, whatever (u s steel), Friday, 20 August 2010 12:21 (thirteen years ago) link
It's really weird having 20+ mutual friends with someone who has decided never to speak to me again, and having her avoid me on friends' comment threads. She's really sticking to her guns. I pissed her off right and proper, apparently. About 12 years ago. At what point does this become petty on her part, I wonder?
― “Going on tour with Midnight Oil” and more outmoded masturbation slang (kenan), Friday, 20 August 2010 12:59 (thirteen years ago) link
I guess I will just have to stop saying things that I wouldn't want 100% of my friends to read.
― full of country goodness and green pea-ness (Abbbottt), Friday, 20 August 2010 16:18 (thirteen years ago) link
They're not even cock-related things, fwiw.
I just added anyone who I don't expect to understand my jokes (i.e. family, people I knew in elementary school who added me) to a list and changed the privacy settings for that list so they can't see anything I post or comment on, nor any of my other friends that aren't on the list's comments.
― Count Scrofula (corey), Friday, 20 August 2010 16:37 (thirteen years ago) link
― full of country goodness and green pea-ness (Abbbottt), Friday, August 20, 2010 12:18 PM
this is what i do. stopped using friends lists a while back
― markers, Friday, 20 August 2010 19:18 (thirteen years ago) link
u s steel, yeah, that is weird. also weird to have someone unfriend you and then three years later friend you again, tho you've barely talked since the unfriending occurred.
― johnsons in my pubescence, other than my own (the table is the table), Friday, 20 August 2010 19:30 (thirteen years ago) link
New feature I hate: when you're going through photo albums there will sometimes be, to the right, a sort of "since you're always snooping on this person's page, here's a photo album they're in that you might want to try looking at when you're done with this one!" suggestion.
That's the next evolution in Facebook, the site will suggest clever ways of stalking and snooping that users haven't already figured out.
― Cunga, Monday, 23 August 2010 21:07 (thirteen years ago) link
this is related to the newish "friends online" sidebar - that shows a handful of "key" friends' online status
― sarahel, Monday, 23 August 2010 21:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Hasn't that been around for ages? I use that a lot for chatting to mates.
― ailsa, Monday, 23 August 2010 21:10 (thirteen years ago) link
it's been around a while - but it used to just list everyone in alphabetical order - now you have the option of the full list at the bottom right or this side bar with the select few
― sarahel, Monday, 23 August 2010 21:13 (thirteen years ago) link
I wouldn't be surprised if someday we might see features like:
"Susan just checked into Sam's Coffee, half a mile from your current location. Get yourself down there within 15-25 minutes and mention Joni Mitchell, her sister's upcoming birthday party and her new haircut. Wear a polo shirt and jeans." - Facebook Suggestions.
― Cunga, Monday, 23 August 2010 21:17 (thirteen years ago) link
"You will have a 37% change of getting laid."
― nickn, Monday, 23 August 2010 21:57 (thirteen years ago) link
I can't wait!
― krakow, Monday, 23 August 2010 22:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Facebook Questions
Ask Any QuestionAnyone can answer your question, which means you can tap into the collective knowledge of the millions of people on Facebook. And because your question appears right in your friends' News Feed, you'll also get answers personalized just for you.
Kinda nifty. Although judging by one of the first questions I see being asked: "Why is public opinion so out of step with the scientific consensus that anthropogenic climate change is something to be taken seriously?" we can now all look forward to seeing our close friends and family engaging in heated debate on divisive and hatred-inspiring issues. Can't wait!
― Cunga, Tuesday, 24 August 2010 04:31 (thirteen years ago) link
I only ever see completely random (no one I know) questions/answers pop up. I dont know if anyone I know has used it. Oh except that one time JBR asked "how is babby formed", heh.
― I used to lurk on some turtle forums (Trayce), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 04:55 (thirteen years ago) link
this is killing me with lols
R**** T****: The baby will be named Logan. Dont let Steffy or Stephanie babysit u know how they feel @ Logans. Jackie is crazy that man is going 2 leave u for his first born you moran12 minutes ago · Like ·
― sunny successor, Thursday, 2 September 2010 19:38 (thirteen years ago) link
One of my FB friends has just announced in a status updates that a "cull of his friends is coming". Should I be worried? Should I perhaps, like, report his posting to the nearest police station? He may have joined the Trenchcoat Mafia after all, and do you think I could live with the pang of guilt, like a millstone, if it turns out that he really is the next Michael Ryan, or Derrick Bird, or Raoul Moat? "The triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing", as Edmund Burke reminded us. Advice pls.
― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 3 September 2010 14:42 (thirteen years ago) link
have had friends announce this before
― markers, Friday, 3 September 2010 14:44 (thirteen years ago) link
screen grab for news of the world exclusive
― former moderator, please give generously (DG), Friday, 3 September 2010 14:44 (thirteen years ago) link
facebook is so fucked of late...nothing is updating properly and it keeps losing huge chunks of statuses/photos
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 11:57 (thirteen years ago) link
I hate ALL passive-aggressive Facebook updates and try never to write them myself.
― maintenant avec plus de fromage (suzy), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 12:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Like when people write they are LEAVING Facebook FOREVER as of RIGHT NOW.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 12:08 (thirteen years ago) link
You shouldn't try and STOP THEM or anything.
yeah it seems really quite rude and attention seeking. cull away but there's no need to make a song and dance about it.
"top news" is so completely random these days. i can't work out why the bulk of it is on there.
― jed_, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 12:10 (thirteen years ago) link
I think if anyone I knew on facebook cared enough to announce a 'cull' they would get the culling first.
How's THAT for passive aggressive!
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 12:15 (thirteen years ago) link
I would like to thank ILX for counseling me away from making a courtesy culling announcement. Nobody seems to have noticed that they are no longer my friend, or if they noticed, they didn't seem to care. Except for one dude who keeps trying to add me again, but he'll eventually get the hint.
― Jenny, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 13:15 (thirteen years ago) link
I've done several culls, kept completely quiet about it, and suffered no repercussions. Definitely the way to do it.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 13:17 (thirteen years ago) link
I thought you could only send out one friend request to a person?
I don't have enough friends on FB to do a cull. One or two people have left FB for good, I think, and one person quits and rejoins on a regular basis.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 13:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Since I added him and then unadded him, it let him re-request me, and I ignored him. So by "keeps trying" I really meant "tried one time."
― Jenny, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 13:40 (thirteen years ago) link
I've had someone friend request me twice, even though I ignored/cancelled/whatever the first time.
― a fucking stove just fell on my foot. (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 14:12 (thirteen years ago) link
This one guy I barely remember from school kept going off FB, re-opening his account and requesting me again. After the third time I ignored him.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 14:16 (thirteen years ago) link
How long does it take for the system to delete your account after you cancel, BTW?
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 14:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Until the internet breaks. From what I understand, it doesn't delete your account at all and keeps in on constant stand-by for reactivation.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 14:42 (thirteen years ago) link
And the guy you're talking about had to rerequest you?
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 14:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Apparently so - maybe you have re-request everyone when you reactivate.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 15:03 (thirteen years ago) link
walk of shame
― k¸ (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 15:04 (thirteen years ago) link
I add everyone and just put them in a list where they can't see anything I post at all.
― whyte mayne (corey), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 15:06 (thirteen years ago) link
sometimes I think the greatest act of 'terrorism' available to humanity would be to bomb the Facebook servers
― acoleuthic, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 15:06 (thirteen years ago) link
greatest act of terrorism, greatest gift to humanity
― Mordy, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 15:07 (thirteen years ago) link
tyler durden watch out
― k¸ (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 15:08 (thirteen years ago) link
it would of course be an action by definition the opposite of terrorism
― acoleuthic, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 15:09 (thirteen years ago) link
if facebook did not exist it would be necessary to create a fan page for it
― whyte mayne (corey), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 15:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Strange--the person I'm talking about always has his friends list intact when he reopens his account.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 15:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Can you Like Facebook on Facebook? Bit like putting 'Google' into Google.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 15:10 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost - guess he must've actually defriended everyone for some strange reason then. He did the same thing to a few other people as well.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 15:12 (thirteen years ago) link
There is a Facebook fan page on Facebook, I'm a member.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 15:17 (thirteen years ago) link
I have 75 limbo dancers in my friend request queue and don't add anyone I'm ambivalent about.
― maintenant avec plus de fromage (suzy), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 15:18 (thirteen years ago) link
so do you keep your enemies closer then
― acoleuthic, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 15:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Not on Facebook.
― maintenant avec plus de fromage (suzy), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 15:47 (thirteen years ago) link
literally limbo dancers? like their pictures are all them going under the stick?
― sarahel, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 17:55 (thirteen years ago) link
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Tuesday, September 7, 2010 11:10 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
17,812,251 People Like This
― ground zero μ-Ziq (kkvgz), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 18:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Facebook is like Skynet. It is beyond destroying by this point.
― krakow, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:03 (thirteen years ago) link
like
― acoleuthic, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:04 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^profound, multi-layered post
Thanks! I did think it rather fine myself, but I hate to blow my own trumpet.
― krakow, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:35 (thirteen years ago) link
I get nervous when I see a friend is going to make "roster cuts" on Facebook. makes me wonder if I've done enough to make their friendship team.
― Cunga, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 21:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Blocking is the way to go. No half measures.
― krakow, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 22:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Is it still keeping up with your friends if you systematically ignore everything they do? I don't block people but I find myself constantly clicking that X to hide Farmville/Frontierville/Mob Wars/iLike/Daily Horoscope/Which Irritating Facebook Application Are You?
― pissky in the jar (onimo), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 07:53 (thirteen years ago) link
isn't there an actual hide button for those apps that let you never see them again? or is that what you're talking about?
― sunny successor, Wednesday, 8 September 2010 14:30 (thirteen years ago) link
That "x" button will hide an entire application. That way you only ever have to see Farmville one time, x it and rid yourself of it forever. Until the next annoying application comes about...
― i am giving you the caesar salad of compliments (Nijoli), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 14:52 (thirteen years ago) link
I was trying to find ways to hide certain people, but I couldn't, so I just culled them instead
― always be cozen (dayo), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 14:54 (thirteen years ago) link
how do you un-hide someone from yr news feed?
― former moderator, please give generously (DG), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 15:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Maybe try liking something by them?
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 15:06 (thirteen years ago) link
b-b-but i don't like anything
― former moderator, please give generously (DG), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 15:09 (thirteen years ago) link
ironic
― k¸ (darraghmac), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 15:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Yes that's what I meant. There seems to be a new annoying thing that needs hiding every other day.
― pissky in the jar (onimo), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 15:13 (thirteen years ago) link
stfu alanis xp
― former moderator, please give generously (DG), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 15:13 (thirteen years ago) link
songs wouldn't be so angsty if you were a little nicer tbh
― k¸ (darraghmac), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 15:16 (thirteen years ago) link
anyway i've done it myself, no thanks to your mid-90s alt-rock stylings
― former moderator, please give generously (DG), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 15:21 (thirteen years ago) link
i inspired millions fyi. and am still ws material in 2010.
― k¸ (darraghmac), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 15:27 (thirteen years ago) link
shame about that thing you said about chinese people the other day tho
― former moderator, please give generously (DG), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 15:29 (thirteen years ago) link
that was a misunderstanding about acceptable usages of the southern USA dialect. i got nothin to hide.
― k¸ (darraghmac), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 15:32 (thirteen years ago) link
how do you un-hide someone from yr news feed?― former moderator, please give generously (DG), Wednesday, September 8, 2010 11:02 AM (57 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― former moderator, please give generously (DG), Wednesday, September 8, 2010 11:02 AM (57 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
On the main feed page scroll all the way down to the bottom. Under the feed there is a link that says "edit options". If you click there a box comes up and you can type in friends names and hide or unhide them from the feed.
― o sh!t a ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ (ENBB), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 16:01 (thirteen years ago) link
thanks, i got there in the end. didn't approve of facebook 'helpfully' extending the feed off the page as i tried to click the button tho
― former moderator, please give generously (DG), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 17:12 (thirteen years ago) link
People You May Knowhttp://cdn.7static.com/static/img/sleeveart/00/005/968/0000596806_50.jpgJohn Lydon
Add as friend.
Ha.
I tried it: Apparently you have to know him 'personally'
― Mark G, Friday, 10 September 2010 11:10 (thirteen years ago) link
LOLLLLLLL, the other day Julian Cope appeared in my version of that feed.
― maintenant avec plus de fromage (suzy), Friday, 10 September 2010 13:55 (thirteen years ago) link
i got damien hirst
― former moderator, please give generously (DG), Friday, 10 September 2010 13:57 (thirteen years ago) link
al pacino and cat breillat
― The sulky expression from the hilarious "Aubrey Plaza" persona (history mayne), Friday, 10 September 2010 14:10 (thirteen years ago) link
http://coolmaterial.com/roundup/if-god-were-on-facebook/
funny
― rent, Saturday, 18 September 2010 12:51 (thirteen years ago) link
I just had a friend request from what looks suspiciously like some kind of elaborate spambot profile, complete with the same university & graduation year as me and a smattering of similar interests, but there's something decidely dubious about it.
― krakow, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 21:01 (thirteen years ago) link
facebook down for anyone else?
― Zeno, Thursday, 23 September 2010 19:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Service Unavailable - DNS failure!
― Aqua Buddha (herb albert), Thursday, 23 September 2010 19:58 (thirteen years ago) link
This is it guys! The end of the world is upon us!
― krakow, Thursday, 23 September 2010 19:59 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah
unusual!
'we don't crash' - mark zuckybro in this one film i saw
― no one was protesting when this happened to (history mayne), Thursday, 23 September 2010 20:00 (thirteen years ago) link
hipster runoff is also down
COINCIDENCE?
viral campaign for the social network movie.
"Want yr Facebook? SEE IT IN THEATERS FRIDAY"
― Cunga, Thursday, 23 September 2010 20:03 (thirteen years ago) link
and this same day zuckerberg gave away $100million. coincidence??
― sonderangerbot, Thursday, 23 September 2010 20:04 (thirteen years ago) link
And during the same hour Ahmadinejad was speaking live on tv.
Drudge says Obama has been moved to an undisclosed bunker until this passes.
― Cunga, Thursday, 23 September 2010 20:07 (thirteen years ago) link
back up - World saved for another day
― Aqua Buddha (herb albert), Thursday, 23 September 2010 20:07 (thirteen years ago) link
viral campaign for the social network movie."Want yr Facebook? SEE IT IN THEATERS FRIDAY"
― Cunga, Thursday, 23 September 2010 21:03 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark
An excellent idea.
― krakow, Thursday, 23 September 2010 20:09 (thirteen years ago) link
And Biden announced he was in command.
― nickn, Thursday, 23 September 2010 20:16 (thirteen years ago) link
And it's back.
Obama is about to give his "I'm glad to see you on the other side of a disaster" press conference ala Morgan Freeman at the end of "Deep Impact"
― Cunga, Thursday, 23 September 2010 20:21 (thirteen years ago) link
it comes back and goes again, poor show
― former moderator, please give generously (DG), Thursday, 23 September 2010 20:22 (thirteen years ago) link
gone gone gone. for me, still. heh.
― t**t, Thursday, 23 September 2010 20:27 (thirteen years ago) link
this is bigger than 9/11
― *lets go* (gr8080), Thursday, 23 September 2010 20:29 (thirteen years ago) link
http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/1754/hro.png
― no one was protesting when this happened to (history mayne), Thursday, 23 September 2010 20:29 (thirteen years ago) link
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/23/facebook-says-it-is-working-on-technical-troubles/
Facebook users have been seeing the site go on and offline Thursday. The company issued a statement but gave no explanation as to the cause: We’re currently experiencing some site issues causing Facebook to be slow or unavailable for some users. We are working to resolve this issue as quickly as possible.The downtime also affected sites that incorporate Facebook’s “Like” buttons and the Facebook Connect service. In place of the “Like” button, many Web sites were scattered with empty white boxes.Facebook’s developer Web site remained live during the outage and noted that the company was experiencing problems with its API. A statement on the site said: Current Status: API Latency Issues We are currently experiencing latency issues with the API, and we are actively investigating. We will provide an update when either the issue is resolved or we have an ETA for resolution.Thi
We’re currently experiencing some site issues causing Facebook to be slow or unavailable for some users. We are working to resolve this issue as quickly as possible.
The downtime also affected sites that incorporate Facebook’s “Like” buttons and the Facebook Connect service. In place of the “Like” button, many Web sites were scattered with empty white boxes.
Facebook’s developer Web site remained live during the outage and noted that the company was experiencing problems with its API. A statement on the site said:
Current Status: API Latency Issues
We are currently experiencing latency issues with the API, and we are actively investigating. We will provide an update when either the issue is resolved or we have an ETA for resolution.
Thi
― del griffith, Thursday, 23 September 2010 20:31 (thirteen years ago) link
lol hro wont load
― markers, Thursday, 23 September 2010 20:32 (thirteen years ago) link
better start calling people to make sure they're ok
― sonderangerbot, Thursday, 23 September 2010 20:35 (thirteen years ago) link
man this evening is s0 2005
― no one was protesting when this happened to (history mayne), Thursday, 23 September 2010 20:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Last update I've gotten in their IPod client: 2:42 PM.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Thursday, 23 September 2010 20:39 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't need this shit, i'm going back to friendster
― del griffith, Thursday, 23 September 2010 20:39 (thirteen years ago) link
knocking Facebook offline was one of the ten plagues Moses wrought on Egypt iirc.
― Cunga, Thursday, 23 September 2010 20:40 (thirteen years ago) link
feels kinda cool
― markers, Thursday, 23 September 2010 20:40 (thirteen years ago) link
http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/2005/spotifyu.png
― no one was protesting when this happened to (history mayne), Thursday, 23 September 2010 20:41 (thirteen years ago) link
omg spotify's broken!!!!!!!!!!!!
― markers, Thursday, 23 September 2010 20:42 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/bestselling-sci-fi-fantasy-2006/3598-1.jpg
― no one was protesting when this happened to (history mayne), Thursday, 23 September 2010 20:43 (thirteen years ago) link
what happens if Twitter AND facebook stops working? How will we communicate?
― jellybean (back again) (Jill), Thursday, 23 September 2010 20:44 (thirteen years ago) link
ILX!!!
― markers, Thursday, 23 September 2010 20:45 (thirteen years ago) link
http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/23/facebook-down/
♪ miss you miss you ♪
― markers, Thursday, 23 September 2010 20:47 (thirteen years ago) link
lol at ILX being all fb cynics maintaining ironic distance etc until fb goes down and then fb ilx thread has 100 new messages
― Mordy, Thursday, 23 September 2010 20:50 (thirteen years ago) link
i like to think i've maintained my sarcastic veneer this evening too
― no one was protesting when this happened to (history mayne), Thursday, 23 September 2010 20:53 (thirteen years ago) link
comes and goes, comes and goes. like my "irony".
― t**t, Thursday, 23 September 2010 20:54 (thirteen years ago) link
only so many times you can sarcastically mention fb crashing before we notice the tears running down u're cheeks :'(
― Mordy, Thursday, 23 September 2010 20:54 (thirteen years ago) link
♪ dont waste your time on me you're already the voice inside my head ♪
― markers, Thursday, 23 September 2010 20:54 (thirteen years ago) link
― Mordy, Thursday, September 23, 2010 8:54 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark
there is a special place in hell for knife-twisting wound-salting down-kickers like you, just let us grieve in peace you insensitive asshole
― del griffith, Thursday, 23 September 2010 21:05 (thirteen years ago) link
thought all these new answers were about the movie
(I am not on fb fwiw)
― pay to the order of Iron Balls McGinty, $1 and 9 cents (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 23 September 2010 21:05 (thirteen years ago) link
*rejects god*
http://i54.tinypic.com/xfool5.jpg
― markers, Thursday, 23 September 2010 21:07 (thirteen years ago) link
it's back
― former moderator, please give generously (DG), Thursday, 23 September 2010 21:10 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i54.tinypic.com/2ihlenq.jpg
― markers, Thursday, 23 September 2010 21:11 (thirteen years ago) link
We all learned a lot about our common humanity from this experience. Put our guards down and taught each other a lot. Never forget the past few hours.
http://i52.tinypic.com/1zxmmpx.jpg
― Cunga, Thursday, 23 September 2010 21:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Anyone else seen these? A couple of people I know got spammed by it
http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2010/09/24/girl-killed-dad-posted-wall-spin-facebook-scam/
― Edgware Wolf in London (admrl), Sunday, 26 September 2010 00:28 (thirteen years ago) link
A few people I know have been spammed by this, and similar - I tend to ignore Likes or Groups with spelling/grammar/structure mistakes or Random Capitals because that way lies phishing, 419s and viruses - not to mention the hive-mind of stupid enticed to Like topics that sound like a segment of America's Funniest Home Videos.
― are you robot? (suzy), Sunday, 26 September 2010 07:17 (thirteen years ago) link
I wanted the link at the end of the piece to go to a phishing scam page
― I ain't that kind of player I just foul a lot (DJ Mencap), Sunday, 26 September 2010 08:38 (thirteen years ago) link
How effective is your "raising awareness" Facebook campaign when you never actually, you know, mention the fucking cause? I'm deleting anybody on my feed that posts the "I like it on the back of my chair" meme.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 7 October 2010 02:57 (thirteen years ago) link
not to mention the hive-mind of stupid enticed to Like topics that sound like a segment of America's Funniest Home Videos.
uh oh. looks like im about to get phished
― make it count, son (sunny successor), Friday, 8 October 2010 05:13 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Save-the-ta-tas-breast-cancer-awareness-tees-and-accessories/33525193712
― http://tinyurl.com/hommphommp (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 8 October 2010 18:25 (thirteen years ago) link
When's David Fincher gonna make a movie about that?
The way that Facebook connects the dots from the information that one gives it in various contexts is tremendously impressive, if a little unsettling. I maintian that it KNOWS.
― krakow, Sunday, 10 October 2010 11:10 (thirteen years ago) link
The context being that I just had a friend suggestion that made me think this once again.
― krakow, Sunday, 10 October 2010 11:11 (thirteen years ago) link
http://ferdyonfilms.com/2001%20hal%20dying.jpg
― dayo, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 06:51 (thirteen years ago) link
http://imgur.com/4I5In.jpg
― dayo, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 07:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh the new questions feature is a joy all unto itself and I'd been meaning to start a thread about some of the lolworthy ones Ive seen recently.
― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 07:16 (thirteen years ago) link
xp Amputees know what they did.
― kenan, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 07:16 (thirteen years ago) link
facebookquestions.tumblr.com already taken :(
― dayo, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 07:24 (thirteen years ago) link
kinda hate how FB knows which friend I'm looking up the second I type the first letter or two of their name. Also hate how well it recommends photo albums/pictures to me.
Am I that obvious, FB?
― Cunga, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 08:57 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm telling you, this thing is clever.
― krakow, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 10:16 (thirteen years ago) link
why does facebook show me when my friends comment on people's pages that aren't my friends
― (♥_♥) (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 14:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Because Facebook thinks you might be interested and the people whose pages your friends are commenting on have rather lax privacy settings.
― krakow, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 18:34 (thirteen years ago) link
thats crap
― (♥_♥) (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 18:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Sorry.
― krakow, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 20:02 (thirteen years ago) link
god - the photo album suggestions - uh, yeah ...
― sarahel, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 20:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah I dont see too many comments to other ppl I dont know's walls, most people I know must be fairly locked down. Or maybe its that I never look at Top News, morelikely.
The photo memories are doing my head in. For 2 weeks now it's been pitching photos at me of a cute friend of my housemate's that I met a couple of times and had told I didnt wanna date. It made me lol, so I told him about it and now we're talkign to each other heaps hahaa. Uh. Thanks, FB? :/
― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 20:52 (thirteen years ago) link
photo memories gives me a steady stream of former crushes
― sarahel, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 20:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh yeah I get mr cheaty ex in mine all the time :( But, cest la.
― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 20:55 (thirteen years ago) link
you're fb friends with mr cheaty ex? you are one strong woman, trayce!
― sarahel, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 20:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Geez, the photo memories. I was showing an old friend from out of town some pix of people I'd been telling her about and one of those came up of someone I said I'd liked. I commented that since they launched the function, most of the pix that came up had been of her. Not knowing better, I'd click on it and suddenly I'd be on a "Choose Your Own Adventure" tour of my romantic failures.
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 22:02 (thirteen years ago) link
this.
― Clay, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 22:06 (thirteen years ago) link
We still get on fine actually! I dont see him much, but its all good. I dont like to harbour ill will to people, it makes me ill.
― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 22:09 (thirteen years ago) link
hmm - i get on fine with my mr cheaty ex - but that is largely due to me not being fb friends with him and keeping contact to a minimum
― sarahel, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 22:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah I can totally understand that's good to do. I mean sure my thing means I see the occasional photo I dont care for but its all good. I'm practising metta.
― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 22:21 (thirteen years ago) link
I've been actively not visiting the profiles of my crushes and former crushes to let facebook know that I don't want to see their stories in my top news feed anymore, goddamimt
― dayo, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 23:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Coming soon to FB: "People You May Be Crushing On"
― Cunga, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 00:44 (thirteen years ago) link
yes -- my photo memories 10% comprise photos taken on the vacations of a couple i know. the couple is my ex (and former best friend of many years) and the girl he dumped me for in a very very horrible style
― (♥_♥) (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 21:55 (thirteen years ago) link
wait not 10% -- that was a typo. ONE HUNDRED PERCENT
did he dump you via text message?
― sarahel, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 22:08 (thirteen years ago) link
^^ dumb joke. But yeah - this photo memories thing - it makes me feel like a subject of a scientific experiment on small-brained organisms' ability to avoid pain
― sarahel, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 22:12 (thirteen years ago) link
worse!
haha, i just signed in and there were THREE photo memories from that couple
― (♥_♥) (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 22:24 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm not complaining too much, most of the pics it is sending me at the mo are of a hot guy I have a bit of a crush on, who I'm gonna hang with this w/e so that suits me fine lol.
― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 22:24 (thirteen years ago) link
really weird i just told my ex-gf (on and off since high school) this morning that she shows up in my photo stream more than anyone else. something going on here...
― cutty, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 23:11 (thirteen years ago) link
trayce shows up in mine all the time, and we never dated. fishy!
― evian fatigue (electricsound), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 23:17 (thirteen years ago) link
IT KNOWS WHAT HAPPENED
― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 23:22 (thirteen years ago) link
http://waxidermy.com/bbs/images/smilies/spy.gif
― evian fatigue (electricsound), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 23:27 (thirteen years ago) link
wondering if it works the other way too. like if I visit your profile a bunch of times will my shit start showing up in your news feed? (even if you never visit my profile)
― dayo, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 23:53 (thirteen years ago) link
I actually assumed/wondered if thats why the little lefthand panel in yr profile that shows Friends and has pics of 6 random ones, wasnt random but was 6 thatve recently looked. Who knows tho.
― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Thursday, 14 October 2010 00:25 (thirteen years ago) link
It's not random but it's people that have the most mutual friends with you, I believe. Same thing when you're on someone else's profile and their "random six" are usually people you also know or have friends in common with.
― Cunga, Thursday, 14 October 2010 01:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Ah, that makes some sense. I just find it odd that for some weeks, the same ppl wil always crop up, then for no reason, someone else will start to constantly appear who never did before.
― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Thursday, 14 October 2010 01:07 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't have the friends sidebar in my facebook
― dayo, Thursday, 14 October 2010 01:13 (thirteen years ago) link
oh, you mean when you're looking at your own profile?
Yeah on yr own profile.
― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Thursday, 14 October 2010 01:15 (thirteen years ago) link
man, "photo memories" totally keeps rubbing former flings in my face
like, quit it, for real - that shit is way distracting
― the tune is space, Thursday, 14 October 2010 01:29 (thirteen years ago) link
"Photo memories" has never given me anything but pics of my siblings being goofballs.
― The Ten Things I Hate About Commandments (Abbbottt), Thursday, 14 October 2010 01:38 (thirteen years ago) link
thankfully photo memories is super ignorable
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 14 October 2010 01:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Has anyone else noticed that friend requests pending have accept/not now instead of accept/ignore - and you can't get rid of the rejects now, they're just 'hidden'.
― are you robot? (suzy), Thursday, 14 October 2010 18:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, and apparently hitting "not now" lets pending people look at your stuff until you make The Big Decision about them.
― Cunga, Thursday, 14 October 2010 18:15 (thirteen years ago) link
But on mine, it's like I'm not allowed to make that decision at all.
― are you robot? (suzy), Thursday, 14 October 2010 18:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Not now doesn't let them see private stuff, but they will see anything that's public (this can be more than you think)
― stet, Thursday, 14 October 2010 18:55 (thirteen years ago) link
If you go into the requests page you can delete all hidden requests.
― discuss tin savage (onimo), Thursday, 14 October 2010 19:26 (thirteen years ago) link
i got my first parental friend request a week or so ago. it's in limbo but so not gonna happen. they haven't mentioned it since.
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Thursday, 14 October 2010 19:30 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm looking at the sidebar now, and it has shows one person with whom I have 57 mutual friends, and another one with whom I have 3. So this doesn't seem to be true.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 14 October 2010 20:51 (thirteen years ago) link
three or four of the six will be people you have mad friends in common, and then two are randoms. That's almost always the case.
― Cunga, Thursday, 14 October 2010 23:59 (thirteen years ago) link
I have alternate facebook accounts that I use to check what can be seen on my main one, just to make sure I'm not leaking
― dayo, Friday, 15 October 2010 00:07 (thirteen years ago) link
I've said this before somewhere but this confuses me - if the stuff is public, anyone can see it anyway, regardless of wether they friendreq you or not, right?
I dont think ive ever made a "public" FB status update. Mine are all locked to "friends only", with a subset filter applied so that certain family memmbers/ppl I dont know are locked out totally and never see anything I say.
― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Friday, 15 October 2010 00:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Also dayo thats a great idea.
― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Friday, 15 October 2010 00:29 (thirteen years ago) link
i wonder if you look at a bunch of other friends' photos that don't contain an ex or a crush if it would put facebook off the scent?
― sarahel, Friday, 15 October 2010 06:41 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm sorry but can I just:
God has a way of getting our attention! One of the miners said that he'd never prayed until he was trapped underground for 67 days. The day you hear God's voice, harden not your heart! He stands at the door and knocks. Let Him in so you won't have to knock to get out of a predicament!
REALLY???? God got this guy's fucking attention by STICKING HIM IN A HOLE FOR months??? Of all the smug, self-righteous bullshit I just don't even.
Between this doorknob and the guy who can't stop talking about how awesome Christine O'Donnel is, I'm about to go on another defriending spree.
― Regular Stormy (Jenny), Friday, 15 October 2010 12:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Kudos to Gr8080 for posting that what Chile calls "33 men trapped in a mineshaft, a national drama", China calls "April."
Except the Chinese don't bother drilling them out.
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 15 October 2010 14:06 (thirteen years ago) link
ILX spoke, Facebook listened
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/social.media/10/20/facebook.ex.photos.mashable/index.html?iref=NS1
Facebook is doing its very best not to make you terribly sad.
You see, it used to constantly show you photos of your ex, which might have reminded you just how great things were before he or she dumped you, but it has stopped that now. Exes no longer show up in the "Photo Memories" box.
Photo Memories appear in the top right corner of some Facebook pages, including the Friends and Photos sections.
They show your friends tagged in photos long-forgotten, but the friends shown are picked using Facebook's algorithm for figuring out whose updates you're most interested in.
― Cunga, Wednesday, 20 October 2010 19:18 (thirteen years ago) link
too bad for some/most ppl that's often their exes
― (♥_♥) (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 20:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah also how would FB know its an ex anyway?
― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 20:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Was wondering that myself.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 20 October 2010 21:03 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean, they would know if it's someone you had been romantically connected with on FB, but if the relationship was pre-FB or you weren't "official" on FB - i can't see how that'd work.
― sarahel, Wednesday, 20 October 2010 21:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Haha, now that would be just fuckin' sick if Facebook keeps tabs on whom you've changed your relationship status with and posting pictures of them on your "Memories" wall.
Well played, Facebook. Well played.
― http://tinyurl.com/whitepony (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 21:10 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm telling you, it knows.
― krakow, Wednesday, 20 October 2010 21:39 (thirteen years ago) link
I read another article that did specify they'd hide people who you previously had set to In A Relationship With on fb so yeah, does nothing for romances over 4-5 years old..
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 22:21 (thirteen years ago) link
You should be able to retrospectively add relationships in a similar way to how you add previous employers and school/college history.
― krakow, Wednesday, 20 October 2010 22:27 (thirteen years ago) link
^^ or the way the Mormons baptize dead people?
― sarahel, Wednesday, 20 October 2010 22:28 (thirteen years ago) link
"Can I say you were my girlfriend on Facebook?"
― Cunga, Wednesday, 20 October 2010 22:52 (thirteen years ago) link
They really should develop this option.
― krakow, Wednesday, 20 October 2010 22:54 (thirteen years ago) link
i'll show you a social graph
― bike chain dust? (lukas), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 22:57 (thirteen years ago) link
I look forward to it.
― krakow, Wednesday, 20 October 2010 23:02 (thirteen years ago) link
The only person I ever *have* been "in a relationship* on fb with still comes up regularly on my memories feed, so bollox to that claim, FB. We're still mates and still post on each others walls and shit tho so I dunno.
― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 23:07 (thirteen years ago) link
What's difficult for FB as a company, I would think, is that the things people say they want from the site are balanced out by other things people want but don't express, and are contradictory e.g. "Respect my privacy, FB (but don't take away the fun of snooping on friends and strangers plz)" or "introduce more features and open up the site more (but don't let it become "like myspace")"
Thin lines.
― Cunga, Wednesday, 20 October 2010 23:42 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't even have a damn memories feed.
― Kerm, Wednesday, 20 October 2010 23:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Its not its own page, it just slews photos down the righthand side on some random pages, kind of like it does with ads or events or "you might know this person". Its seems a bit random as to where it displays it.
― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Thursday, 21 October 2010 00:06 (thirteen years ago) link
haven't seen photo memories in forever
― dayo, Thursday, 21 October 2010 00:09 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www2.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-10-18/the-facebook-news-feed-how-it-works-the-10-biggest-secrets/
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 21 October 2010 03:19 (thirteen years ago) link
dope huge popup
― markers, Thursday, 21 October 2010 03:22 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i51.tinypic.com/2s156hc.jpg
― markers, Thursday, 21 October 2010 03:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Awww sorry I'm on my phone so no pop up :S
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 21 October 2010 03:27 (thirteen years ago) link
hahaha it's not yr fault dude, it's the Daily Beast's!
― markers, Thursday, 21 October 2010 03:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Daily Savage Beast
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 21 October 2010 13:30 (thirteen years ago) link
photo memories likes to show me pictures of my gf with her exes
― thomp, Thursday, 21 October 2010 13:43 (thirteen years ago) link
which file under 'things i would rather not see most every single time i am using a computer'
― thomp, Thursday, 21 October 2010 13:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Kid died videotaping Notre Dame's football practice. His last words are in the pic.
Extremely windy on campus today. Apparently the tower he was up on blew over into the road and he was killed. Check out his last two facebook statuses. Terrible.
http://i52.tinypic.com/jjsnlv.jpg
― Cunga, Friday, 29 October 2010 07:32 (thirteen years ago) link
O_O
― ukhhchavvin' (acoleuthic), Friday, 29 October 2010 07:37 (thirteen years ago) link
the two comments at the bottom of that jpg are like the final immutable epitaph of social networking
― ukhhchavvin' (acoleuthic), Friday, 29 October 2010 07:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Was leaving a "Happy Birthday" comment on a friend's wall today when I discovered what I guess is a new slightly creepy feature called "see friendship". This button (which appears w/your post on some walls) takes you to a page containing indexes of every wall post you've made w/that friend (and vice versa), every mutual friend, every mutual "like", every relevant photo you've appeared in or commented on, every event you attended together, and links for similar pages for both you and other friends, and other couplings of your friends.
I should also note this is not limited to your own friends, as you can also pull up pages for friends of friends.
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 30 October 2010 17:35 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't see it. the only thing i get is "see wall-to-wall". maybe it hasn't reached me yet.
― (♥_♥) http://i46.tinypic.com/monk6.jpg (roxymuzak), Saturday, 30 October 2010 17:47 (thirteen years ago) link
dear fb, please stop putting my crushes in my top news feed
I haven't clicked on their profiles in forever and am ignoring them
thanks
― dayo, Saturday, 30 October 2010 17:57 (thirteen years ago) link
hide them dayo!!!!!!!!!!
― markers, Saturday, 30 October 2010 18:12 (thirteen years ago) link
It might be the new version of w2w.
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 30 October 2010 19:51 (thirteen years ago) link
― dayo, Saturday, October 30, 2010 10:57 AM (2 hours ago)
― sarahel, Saturday, 30 October 2010 20:32 (thirteen years ago) link
and the photo memories thing made me realize - "Wow this guy sure takes a lot of pictures."
― sarahel, Saturday, 30 October 2010 20:33 (thirteen years ago) link
stop having crushes and your problem will disappear
― markers, Saturday, 30 October 2010 20:46 (thirteen years ago) link
there are worse problems tbh
― sarahel, Saturday, 30 October 2010 20:48 (thirteen years ago) link
So yesterday I see my good friend's girlfriend/fiance on the newsfeed and think "I haven't seen or heard from her in ages, I wonder how she's doing!"
And sure enough she's now in a relationship with another dude, and I do the whole whatisthis Idonteven thing. What's strange was that my friend lives in the mid-west now, but I talked to him a few weeks ago and he made it sound like they were still together, and now, well, she's out of our lives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DQJPL9Yuq0
― Cunga, Saturday, 30 October 2010 21:41 (thirteen years ago) link
OK I'm now seeing this see friendship link too. If you go to someone tou knows profile there's a "view you and X!" link. And it gathers together every wall post, comment, tag, and anything else you had wit that person.
All on one tidy page.
OK, am I the only one that thinks this is just a bit beyond the pale?
― Sunn O))) Sundae Smile (Trayce), Sunday, 31 October 2010 08:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Sorry my h key is busted so forgive my odd post.
― Sunn O))) Sundae Smile (Trayce), Sunday, 31 October 2010 08:35 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i have it now too
― (♥_♥) http://i46.tinypic.com/monk6.jpg (roxymuzak), Sunday, 31 October 2010 18:12 (thirteen years ago) link
omg it says "browse friendships" and you can look at other people's
― (♥_♥) http://i46.tinypic.com/monk6.jpg (roxymuzak), Sunday, 31 October 2010 18:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah. Sure are a lot of Happy Birthdays Facebook has archived.
― http://tinyurl.com/beaaarrr (Pleasant Plains), Sunday, 31 October 2010 19:06 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't really see the problem with looking at your own - they already had wall-to-wall histories available, and in 'photos' you could look at 'you and x'. But yeah, not sure about being able to browse other people's.
― emil.y, Sunday, 31 October 2010 19:13 (thirteen years ago) link
You can only see other people's who you could see anyway, it seems. If someone's locked to friends only views, no FOAFs are gonna see anything thru those links, nor are complete unknowns. I mean in a way it's kind of a neat archive.
― Sunn O))) Sundae Smile (Trayce), Monday, 1 November 2010 00:26 (thirteen years ago) link
What's with this Not Now thing for friend requests? Why is there no Not Ever? I've had to reject the same person 3 times now.
― a fucking stove just fell on my foot. (Colonel Poo), Monday, 1 November 2010 09:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Not Now is the compromise for those of us who've been clamoring for an "I'm Not Entirely Sure" option
― guess I'll just sing dream on again (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 1 November 2010 10:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Why don't you just add them? Who cares?
― The reverse TARDIS of pasta (Niles Caulder), Monday, 1 November 2010 10:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Uh. Not wanting complete strangers to see your profile/posts/shit perhaps?
― Sunn O))) Sundae Smile (Trayce), Monday, 1 November 2010 10:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh yeah, true. Dunno why people'd post things they're worried abt people seeing, tho.
― The reverse TARDIS of pasta (Niles Caulder), Monday, 1 November 2010 10:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Well sure, but still.
― Sunn O))) Sundae Smile (Trayce), Monday, 1 November 2010 10:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Same reason you email people and don't just post it all on a blog?
― stet, Monday, 1 November 2010 11:56 (thirteen years ago) link
While I'm moaning about FB - how long has it been possible to just add someone else to a group? Instead of inviting them? Cos that's really pissed me off today as well. Now I'm getting spammed by people I don't know in a group I didn't join. Obv I can just leave the group, but wtf?
― a fucking stove just fell on my foot. (Colonel Poo), Monday, 1 November 2010 16:27 (thirteen years ago) link
people have been able to add you to groups w/o your consent since they recently relaunched groups
― markers, Monday, 1 November 2010 16:33 (thirteen years ago) link
― guess I'll just sing dream on again (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, November 1, 2010 3:24 AM (6 hours ago)
But there is an "I'm Not Entirely Sure" option - it's called not doing anything about it. Or are there people that feel compelled to respond to everything?
― sarahel, Monday, 1 November 2010 17:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Niles, at least 75% of the people who add me are complete strangers.
― guess I'll just sing dream on again (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 1 November 2010 18:51 (thirteen years ago) link
^^ same.
― sarahel, Monday, 1 November 2010 18:51 (thirteen years ago) link
I've got two people on my list who seem to have seen (or searched for) my last name and figured that I was a New Age type, which I'm not. (Why did I add them? I add everyone.)
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Tuesday, 2 November 2010 00:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Niles, at least 75% of the people who add me are complete strangers.― guess I'll just sing dream on again (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, November 1, 2010 6:51 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
― guess I'll just sing dream on again (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, November 1, 2010 6:51 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
says the GUY IN A MODERATELY WELL KNOWN BAND
― it's always random in wackydelphia (history mayne), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 00:09 (thirteen years ago) link
so that's a reason that he SHOULD add all the strangers?
― Ain't Gonna Play "Fist City" (sic), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 00:49 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i mean duh
― (♥_♥) http://i46.tinypic.com/monk6.jpg (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 01:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Same here, but enough of them're cute girls that I don't much mind
― The reverse TARDIS of pasta (Niles Caulder), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 02:10 (thirteen years ago) link
god the only people who add me these days are family i've hardly talked to in years
― arby's, Tuesday, 2 November 2010 02:21 (thirteen years ago) link
"Like a Rhinstone Cowboy, getting e-mails and friend-requests from people I don't even know."
― Cunga, Tuesday, 2 November 2010 02:27 (thirteen years ago) link
i dunno - there are a lot of updates I miss from people I care about because my friends list is kinda big - having a bunch of random people i've never met and probably never will meet, but who are friends of friends, would just add to the clutter.
― sarahel, Tuesday, 2 November 2010 02:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Thats why I was adding ppl and just hiding their posts... then I decided that was daft, and I defriended a whole bunch of ppl (old ex workmates, people from an IRC channel I havent been on in 10 years, friends of friends Ive never met etc) and now I've basically stopped accepting requests unless I really know someone.
― Sunn O))) Sundae Smile (Trayce), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 02:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Way to have sex
― The reverse TARDIS of pasta (Niles Caulder), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 02:31 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, i don't hide or defriend anyone really, unless they're someone that i have a major falling out with and seeing their name/pic makes me want to punch things, namely them.
― sarahel, Tuesday, 2 November 2010 02:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Wow, today I got friend requests from a coworker at Taco Bell (worked there at age 16) and a coworker at Burger King (worked there for 3 weeks at age 19). And both people are at those respective places of employ. I love my home town.
― 17th Century Catholic Spain (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 04:10 (thirteen years ago) link
http://gawker.com/5678843/facebook-ceos-halloween-treat
― markers, Tuesday, 2 November 2010 04:28 (thirteen years ago) link
pretty otm
― iatee, Tuesday, 2 November 2010 04:44 (thirteen years ago) link
http://gizmodo.com/5679129/facebook-helps-predict-when-youre-likely-to-get-dumped
Facebook status updates can be creepy and revealing, but they can also help predict when you're likely to find yourself dumped. Naturally, there's good news and bad news to be found in the data.
Apparently David and his team looked at about 10,000 Facebook status updates and searched for patterns related to break ups. Their discoveries? You're very likely to get dumped on Mondays, right before Spring Break, two weeks before Christmas, and at some point before the summer holidays.
― Cunga, Tuesday, 2 November 2010 05:54 (thirteen years ago) link
discovered what I guess is a new slightly creepy feature called "see friendship".
seeing this now too, also annoyed that i can't hide "elections" posts
― sarahel, Wednesday, 3 November 2010 01:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Gap will give away 10,000 pairs of free blue jeans for the first 10K people to check in to Gap on Facebook Places.
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 3 November 2010 18:28 (thirteen years ago) link
'x number of sleeps till I do something fun' SHUT UP
― A brownish area with points (chap), Friday, 12 November 2010 02:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Ugh I hate those. Even worse when they dont elaborate. "Three days omg!"
― Sunn O))) Sundae Smile (Trayce), Friday, 12 November 2010 02:25 (thirteen years ago) link
It's largely the ubiquity of the term 'sleeps' that riles me.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Friday, 12 November 2010 02:40 (thirteen years ago) link
just read this status update:
food (words) for thought: y'all ever notice that "lol" looks like a dude who's drowning? I don't think he's laughing out loud. lol
― Cunga, Friday, 12 November 2010 08:11 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i55.tinypic.com/2pz9nr6.gif
http://holycrapthatsfunny.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/drowning.jpg
― Sunn O))) Sundae Smile (Trayce), Friday, 12 November 2010 09:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Gmail RIP?
http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-email-2010-11
― Zeno, Friday, 12 November 2010 13:12 (thirteen years ago) link
just came here to post about that
― markers, Friday, 12 November 2010 13:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Given Facebook's miserable record with privacy issues and their tendency to force "features" on users, there is no way I will use Facebook email. I get creeped out enough when Google starts serving ads based on the content of my emails.
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Friday, 12 November 2010 14:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Is Facebook going to offer Docs, Maps and a Voice service? No? And even if they did, would I want my semi-private stuff anywhere near Facebook's security record? No.
I don't think Google needs to worry (yet).
― http://tinyurl.com/koalalala (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 12 November 2010 15:05 (thirteen years ago) link
i havent used it yet, but doesnt their new groups functionality offer rudimentary group editing of some sort?
― markers, Friday, 12 November 2010 15:06 (thirteen years ago) link
"Lifeguard Sleeping, Girl loling"
― Cunga, Friday, 12 November 2010 15:47 (thirteen years ago) link
and a major problem with facebook e-mail will be that most of the people we give our e-mail addresses to are not people we want to necessarily know on Facebook.
― Cunga, Friday, 12 November 2010 16:26 (thirteen years ago) link
I hadn't even thought about that but so so OTM. Here, potential employer, have my resume and a link to my FB page so you can find out the color of my soul, my favorite TV shows, and which of Henry VIII's wives I am most like.
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Friday, 12 November 2010 16:31 (thirteen years ago) link
"A fellow fan of 'Columbo'? Oh, I can't let this applicant slip away."
― Cunga, Friday, 12 November 2010 17:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Given that Facebook has already replaced email for many younger Internet users--and become the "start-page" and communications hub for many of the rest--it makes great sense for Facebook to offer a full-fledged email product to become the very thing it made irrevevant.
― Cunga, Friday, 12 November 2010 17:48 (thirteen years ago) link
*irrelevant,
although irrevevant, too
― Cunga, Friday, 12 November 2010 17:49 (thirteen years ago) link
So at least six months ago, and probably more, I unfriended a guy who was a friend back in my wild days because he grew up into a hardcore pro-war type and I got tired of having to read about putting boots in the asses of various Muslim countries every time I logged on to FB. and he just tried to re-add me, which I would have ignored, but also sent me a message asking why I unfriended him and I don't know what to say. "Our shared past is an insufficient bond to overcome how repellent I find your ideologies?" That just seems kind of harsh.
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Sunday, 14 November 2010 17:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Also I think part of my issue here is that I get kind of bummed when people that I knew who used to have some amount of imagination and curiosity about life grow up to embrace hardcore redneckery in tiny, boring towns in Delaware and take up hunting and boat ownership and conservative politics, and that makes me feel like a snobby jerk.
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Sunday, 14 November 2010 17:56 (thirteen years ago) link
people like that i usually add and hide. what happened to the apps btw? i was really liking my simple last.fm app
― erschloraque, Sunday, 14 November 2010 17:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Embrace some redneckery.
― Kerm, Sunday, 14 November 2010 18:00 (thirteen years ago) link
current people i am considering hiding: people who constantly post "SAVE THIS DOG" links. if i wanted a dog, i would already have one. you should assume that most of your facebook friends probably have all the dogs they want. and if they don't, they probably know where the humane society is.
― a tenth level which features a single castle (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 14 November 2010 18:35 (thirteen years ago) link
separate subject: how many unresponded-to friend requests do you let pile up before you just tear through them on a mad binge of rejection? i've got 78 in the queue and it's making me twitchy. i don't know why i don't just immediately ignore them. i guess it's because i'm in a relatively small city, and a lot of these are "mutual friends" of lots of my other friends, and there's kind of this sense of, oh maybe i'll find out who that person is and they'll be cool and i'll want to be their friend, but that would be awkward if i've already rejected them... but that's pretty stupid, i guess.
― a tenth level which features a single castle (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 14 November 2010 18:39 (thirteen years ago) link
i pretty much respond immediately 99% of the time
― markers, Sunday, 14 November 2010 18:43 (thirteen years ago) link
if i kinda sorta know you i add you basically
The people who'd be offended by a refusal are best kept in limbo. It's totally passive-aggressive but then, in many cases, so is the request itself. As to the mutual friends adding you before you've actually interacted with them, you don't really owe them anything. You could mention to the friend in common that X added you but you don't add people you've never met and hope it filters back.
My tween cousins are in my feed and occasionally go on sprees of liking and quizzing that MUST be hidden.
― Exotic Flavors of the Midwest, available in corn, bacon, or beef (suzy), Sunday, 14 November 2010 18:47 (thirteen years ago) link
ok i just not-now'ed the lot of them. i feel better.
― a tenth level which features a single castle (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 14 November 2010 19:23 (thirteen years ago) link
I literally embrace redneckery every time I hug someone in my family.
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Sunday, 14 November 2010 22:43 (thirteen years ago) link
This FB email thing is nuts. FB already emails me everything it burps up.
― Sunn O))) Sundae Smile (Trayce), Sunday, 14 November 2010 23:14 (thirteen years ago) link
I got my FB email setting stripped down to event invitations, which is all I really need to know.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Sunday, 14 November 2010 23:15 (thirteen years ago) link
as long as the new facebook mail lets me forward all that stuff to gmail ill probably be okay with it
― markers, Sunday, 14 November 2010 23:38 (thirteen years ago) link
i accept everyone i sort of know, but i clean house at least once a month and delete people who have not given me a clearer idea of how i know them or why i should keep them around...
― Independent contractor Who manages a Road Show exclusive to Sams Club. (Nijoli), Sunday, 14 November 2010 23:41 (thirteen years ago) link
these days the only people i don't know who i'll accept are people who have interesting stuff posted on their walls. if it's all about vol football, forget it. (even worse, like one i bounced today, if it says "i only use facebook for professional reasons, as a representative of [name deleted] PR agency.")
― a tenth level which features a single castle (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 14 November 2010 23:45 (thirteen years ago) link
loooooooool
― markers, Sunday, 14 November 2010 23:48 (thirteen years ago) link
sounds like theyd post some pretty great stuff
press releases in your newsfeed
embrace redneckery > hug snobby jerkery
― Kerm, Monday, 15 November 2010 01:34 (thirteen years ago) link
foodies > klansmen
― balls, Monday, 15 November 2010 02:38 (thirteen years ago) link
holy shit yall
― markers, Monday, 15 November 2010 18:14 (thirteen years ago) link
tune in! http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/15/facebook-email/
this could be v. cool.
― stet, Monday, 15 November 2010 18:16 (thirteen years ago) link
some people are going to hate the shit out of this, but this is so smart
― markers, Monday, 15 November 2010 18:16 (thirteen years ago) link
boo at IMAP not being ready
― markers, Monday, 15 November 2010 18:17 (thirteen years ago) link
also, this is bad news for Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo Mail
― markers, Monday, 15 November 2010 18:21 (thirteen years ago) link
How are they going to text SMS in?
― stet, Monday, 15 November 2010 18:21 (thirteen years ago) link
what a disaster for gmail, hotmail, and yahoo mail.
― omar little, Monday, 15 November 2010 18:23 (thirteen years ago) link
you get an @facebook email address if you want so maybe that way?
― markers, Monday, 15 November 2010 18:23 (thirteen years ago) link
rolling it out over the next few months?
― markers, Monday, 15 November 2010 18:27 (thirteen years ago) link
can you imagine they have REINVENTED the email, rip email long live email (beta)
― ice cr?m, Monday, 15 November 2010 19:17 (thirteen years ago) link
the game been forever changed.
― omar little, Monday, 15 November 2010 19:18 (thirteen years ago) link
pretty upset i dont have this yet btw, roll me out usern✧✧✧@faceb✧✧✧.c✧✧
― ice cr?m, Monday, 15 November 2010 19:19 (thirteen years ago) link
*rides the google wave into the sunset*
― markers, Monday, 15 November 2010 19:22 (thirteen years ago) link
“This is not an email killer. This is a messaging experience that includes email as one part of it,” Zuckerberg said. It’s all about making communication simpler. “This is the way that the future should work,” he continued.
― ice cr?m, Monday, 15 November 2010 19:26 (thirteen years ago) link
this is the way the future should work is my new catch phrase
instantly invalidating opposition
― ice cr?m, Monday, 15 November 2010 19:27 (thirteen years ago) link
http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/1875/screenshot20101115at127.png
― http://tinyurl.com/koalalala (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 15 November 2010 19:28 (thirteen years ago) link
:-(
― markers, Monday, 15 November 2010 19:29 (thirteen years ago) link
this is the way the future should work
― ice cr?m, Monday, 15 November 2010 19:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Just saying we should all be careful out there
― Cunga, Monday, 15 November 2010 19:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Because @ fb.com is just one letter away from being @fbi.com
― Cunga, Monday, 15 November 2010 19:31 (thirteen years ago) link
You know how many times I've accidentally gone to General Motors' website while trying to get to gmail? The FBI is looking forward to your clicks.
― http://tinyurl.com/koalalala (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 15 November 2010 19:32 (thirteen years ago) link
alright which of you have some invites to the way the future should work
― markers, Monday, 15 November 2010 19:32 (thirteen years ago) link
― ice cr?m, Monday, 15 November 2010 19:26 (5 minutes ago)
― acoleuthic, Monday, 15 November 2010 19:33 (thirteen years ago) link
id call to ask but the phone call died
― markers, Monday, 15 November 2010 19:33 (thirteen years ago) link
facebook mail invite thread, this is the way the future should work
― ice cr?m, Monday, 15 November 2010 19:34 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.facebook.com/about/messages <<
― ice cr?m, Monday, 15 November 2010 19:36 (thirteen years ago) link
i clicked all over the page but no invite popped up
― markers, Monday, 15 November 2010 19:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Around?
― acoleuthic, Monday, 15 November 2010 19:36 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe if i edit the html
according to this dumb blog some people can just activate that shit but i got an invite request button, this is not how the future should work http://www.allfacebook.com/how-to-get-a-facebook-email-account-now-2010-11
― ice cr?m, Monday, 15 November 2010 19:38 (thirteen years ago) link
i tried to sign in to yahoo just now and an error message came up that said "sorry, yahoo is no longer active because facebook killed us."
― omar little, Monday, 15 November 2010 19:39 (thirteen years ago) link
"Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress."
― markers, Monday, 15 November 2010 19:40 (thirteen years ago) link
what ISNT dead
― markers, Monday, 15 November 2010 19:41 (thirteen years ago) link
okay thanks 4 the ice cr?m -- i was actually able to request an invite
― markers, Monday, 15 November 2010 19:42 (thirteen years ago) link
looool @ "thanks 4 the ice cr?m"
thanks 4 the tip ice cr?m, rather
In much the same way I unfollow anyone who posts 4square links, I will blacklist any email from fb, fmail, or whatever the hell they end up calling it.
― Stockhausen's Helicopter Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 15 November 2010 19:43 (thirteen years ago) link
i tried to sign in to hotmail but my computer reached out and killed me for being lame/foreign
― ice cr?m, Monday, 15 November 2010 19:44 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i56.tinypic.com/2d6p8qs.jpg
― markers, Monday, 15 November 2010 19:58 (thirteen years ago) link
three cheers for getting rid of subjects lines in e-mails, though
― Cunga, Monday, 15 November 2010 20:07 (thirteen years ago) link
how will we know what they're about?
― Smiley panda mixed moniker (7,4) (onimo), Monday, 15 November 2010 20:08 (thirteen years ago) link
why should we be subjected to this knowledge
― ice cr?m, Monday, 15 November 2010 20:09 (thirteen years ago) link
it'll read more like a new message in a IM convo, or like an ILX thread. The Never Ending Facebook Conversation Story
Fun fact: 90% of the subjects in my e-mails have been titled "Hey" "What's Up?" "Sick" "Sorry, can 't make it," So..." or "Untitled."
― Cunga, Monday, 15 November 2010 20:10 (thirteen years ago) link
seems if you do away w/the subject line and perfunctory greeting showing a fragment of the message is likely most informative of all
― ice cr?m, Monday, 15 November 2010 20:11 (thirteen years ago) link
like most email clients already give you a bit of the message and its pretty invaluable right
― ice cr?m, Monday, 15 November 2010 20:12 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost it's like they invented some way of previewing the message
http://officeimg.vo.msecnd.net/en-us/files/614/323/ZA010285137.jpg
― Smiley panda mixed moniker (7,4) (onimo), Monday, 15 November 2010 20:14 (thirteen years ago) link
glad to see the @ sign gone. hated having to press a shift key.
― http://tinyurl.com/koalalala (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 15 November 2010 20:14 (thirteen years ago) link
more room for hashtags now #hashtags
― ice cr?m, Monday, 15 November 2010 20:16 (thirteen years ago) link
^^ involves shift key, what a disaster
― sarahel, Monday, 15 November 2010 20:17 (thirteen years ago) link
"Tired of not having enough energy to get your sex on? For only $59.99 we'll sell four bottles--" tells me more about the e-mails contents than any subject could.
― Cunga, Monday, 15 November 2010 20:18 (thirteen years ago) link
more room for hashtags now #hashtags― ice cr?m, Monday, 15 November 2010 20:16 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink^^ involves shift key, what a disaster― sarahel, Monday, 15 November 2010 20:17 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― ice cr?m, Monday, 15 November 2010 20:16 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― sarahel, Monday, 15 November 2010 20:17 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
uk keyboards ahead of the game here
― Smiley panda mixed moniker (7,4) (onimo), Monday, 15 November 2010 20:19 (thirteen years ago) link
#jealous
― ice cr?m, Monday, 15 November 2010 20:20 (thirteen years ago) link
"Can I delete an individual message from a conversation?
At this time, you cannot delete an individual message from a conversation. You can, however, archive or permanently delete an entire conversation."
Wow
― Cunga, Monday, 15 November 2010 20:22 (thirteen years ago) link
there goes my job in UK data entry.
― http://tinyurl.com/koalalala (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 15 November 2010 20:23 (thirteen years ago) link
"At this time you cannot delete individual files from your computer. You can, however, choose to set your laptop on fire and then throw it in the pool."
― Cunga, Monday, 15 November 2010 20:24 (thirteen years ago) link
my pool is dead my clouds are free.
― http://tinyurl.com/koalalala (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 15 November 2010 20:24 (thirteen years ago) link
#howthefutureshouldbe
― ice cr?m, Monday, 15 November 2010 20:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Wait, there's more!Will applications be able to message me through the new Facebook Messages?
When you use an application, that application must request permission to message you through Facebook.
The new Facebook Messages also gives you a variety ways to control which messages actually reach you.
It goes against Facebook policy for developers to access Facebook information without permission, including usernames or user IDs. That said, we know that we can’t prevent this in every case. Some things to keep in mind:
* Facebook aggressively prosecutes spammers. * Facebook employs sophisticated spam-prevention systems. * New Messages gives you ways to control which messages reach you. * Setting up a Facebook email address is optional.
so the short answer is "of course they can."
― Cunga, Monday, 15 November 2010 20:28 (thirteen years ago) link
I hope there is an app so spammers can send this junk straight to my phone.
― James Mitchell, Monday, 15 November 2010 20:32 (thirteen years ago) link
i want facebook to be able to text me with all my friends' daily horoscopes and tarot readings
― sarahel, Monday, 15 November 2010 20:32 (thirteen years ago) link
feel like 'apps' is where facebook has fucked up the worst and they should just start over
― ice cr?m, Monday, 15 November 2010 20:34 (thirteen years ago) link
we should build this into ILXAPI so that all your friends get "Your friend posted an answer on ILX! Post your answer now!" or "Your friend SBd l0u1s jagg3r! Why not SB someone now?" messages 24/7
― stet, Monday, 15 November 2010 20:35 (thirteen years ago) link
^^8080^^
― ice cr?m, Monday, 15 November 2010 20:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Wonder if they're relying on the computer-illiterate texting their friends via some FB shortcode phone service instead of via IM as a means to make this thing profitable?
― James Mitchell, Monday, 15 November 2010 20:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Would happily give out a FB number that ppl could text to get me. SMS being linked to exactly one handset is shit
― stet, Monday, 15 November 2010 20:52 (thirteen years ago) link
like my google voice number, except with more farmville.
― http://tinyurl.com/koalalala (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 15 November 2010 21:12 (thirteen years ago) link
wendy wants you to water her crops
is this a booty call or
*throws phone in the ocean*
― ice cr?m, Monday, 15 November 2010 21:15 (thirteen years ago) link
― 867-5309 (abdul) (roxymuzak), Monday, 15 November 2010 23:53 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meNKYnYmn8E
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 03:19 (thirteen years ago) link
dudes watch this one all the way through ok^
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 03:27 (thirteen years ago) link
A guy I used to work with has this as his profile picture.
http://i51.tinypic.com/2i0rprt.jpg
― Cunga, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 01:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Ive seen a few ppl post/say that on FB before, like they were being hilariously clever.
― Sunn O))) Sundae Smile (Trayce), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 02:13 (thirteen years ago) link
rmde
― markers, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 02:16 (thirteen years ago) link
At least it doesn't involve flowers and bees.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 02:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Darragh Mc**** to Mike Mc****: ayo what does ur birth month say about uDarragh Mc**** lol he replies 2 these by text lol n00bMike Mc**** jeez.... fine. that the withdrawal method doesn't work.Darragh Mc**** aw man ffsMike McH*** you should know better
Darragh Mc**** lol he replies 2 these by text lol n00b
Mike Mc**** jeez.... fine. that the withdrawal method doesn't work.
Darragh Mc**** aw man ffs
Mike McH*** you should know better
― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 03:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Hello pastor! Im from South Africa and I hope that you can help me. I am really scared. I have just learned that someone is using witchcraft on me and that my first name isnt really mine. The name was passed down to me after birth coz she had passed and she was a witch and wants her name back,but its not that easy . Th...e problem is that these people are tryna ruin my life. I was once happy,but now my life is a burden-even to me. I know that suicide is not an option,but I cant help thinking that it is probably best. I know that God loves me-He really is all I have-but with all thats taken place,sometimes I wonder. I dont know what it is that I want you to say,bt thanx 4 taking the time to read
Miss Lonelyhearts to thread?
― Cunga, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 05:42 (thirteen years ago) link
http://gawker.com/5691841/when-facebook-ceos-was-publicly-obsessed-with-asian-girls
― _| ̄|○| ̄|○| ̄|○ (dayo), Thursday, 18 November 2010 04:11 (thirteen years ago) link
loool
― 867-5309 (abdul) (roxymuzak), Thursday, 18 November 2010 04:34 (thirteen years ago) link
really <3ing Sean Parker's self-description
# About Me:
The pic at left is from my Charlie Rose appearance. At risk of being immodest, I'll leave the descibing to others:
Rolling Stone called me 'animated and cerebral.' The RIAA told the 9th Circuit that I was 'a fox guarding the hen-house.' Eminem called me, and this is a direct quote, 'a little bitch.' The ever-whiny Scott Stapp from Creed claimed I was 'stealing bread from his children's mouths.'
And last but not least, Jonathan Abrams, the founder of Friendster, said I look like Kevin Bacon. How ironic.
and it's amusing to me just how much the movies and music sections are of their era (mid-2004).
Favorite Music:
the smiths, joy division, old U2, the notwist, sigur ros, the shinns, atmosphere, the cure, franz ferdinand, muse, postal service, the faint, jeff buckley, belle & sebastian, dave matthews, radiohead, bjork, thievery corporation, lamb, hotel costes, air, zero 7, emiliana torrini
Goodnight, sweet indie rock consensus monoculture...those were your last days. "Funeral" got a 9.7 and then gone done died.
― Cunga, Thursday, 18 November 2010 07:03 (thirteen years ago) link
I DONT MIND STEALING BREAD
― markers, Thursday, 18 November 2010 07:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Sean Parker, the guy who revolutionized music piracy on the internet, reppin for the corny indie rock in 2004.
http://i56.tinypic.com/2me4mqs.jpg
SMH, "we blew it" indeed
― Cunga, Thursday, 18 November 2010 07:18 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-and-myspace-schedule-joint-announcement-for-thursday-2010-11
― markers, Thursday, 18 November 2010 07:20 (thirteen years ago) link
This younger Zuckerberg listed "Asian girls" amid other interests like programming, playing guitar, quoting Top Gun and "defeating nemeses." It's unlikely Zuckerberg's present girlfriend, medical school student and fellow Harvard alum Pricilla Chan, would have found that bit of naked fetishization particularly charming,
LOL I love how this assumes his gf wont have seen this profile, wtf. If they can find it she'd know it exists.
― Sunn O))) Sundae Smile (Trayce), Thursday, 18 November 2010 07:33 (thirteen years ago) link
it's taken the entire world seven years to notice; since she got together with him later in 2003, she may have managed to do this over several months of IRL meeting without feeling the need to see if he had profiles on every single dating site out there at the time
― i'm assuming that it's tity boi, host of the mixtape (sic), Thursday, 18 November 2010 07:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Facebook doesn't seem to want me to create new photo albums. Swear there used to be a little button to do this above your existing albums.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Saturday, 20 November 2010 16:28 (thirteen years ago) link
_____ ________ wants to know who came up with Black Friday? Isn't it kind of racist in 2010? Maybe we should call it "Precious" Friday instead.......:)~13 hours ago
'O' the people who'll friend you! The status update you'll read!
― Cunga, Monday, 22 November 2010 02:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Wait, I assume black friday is something else in the US? It refers to bushfire deaths here.
― And this one time, on Bandcamp... (Trayce), Monday, 22 November 2010 05:47 (thirteen years ago) link
i think it is like boxing day sales except after thanksgiving instead of xmas
― xanaxdu (electricsound), Monday, 22 November 2010 05:50 (thirteen years ago) link
o yeah thats right it is too.
― And this one time, on Bandcamp... (Trayce), Monday, 22 November 2010 06:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, Thanksgiving falls on a Thursday, which is a national holiday, and people traditionally have Friday off, too, and then go and ruin a perfectly good day off by going to the mall to do all of their Christmas shopping.
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Monday, 22 November 2010 14:04 (thirteen years ago) link
but why "black"?
― Lindsey Lohan is the new Extreme Noise Terror (onimo), Monday, 22 November 2010 16:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Because of the 4 am trampling deaths at Wal-Marts.
Okay, not really, but I don't have a serious answer for that question.
― "I am a fairly respected poster." (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 22 November 2010 16:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Amazon have just introduced Black Friday in UK. On a Monday.
― Lindsey Lohan is the new Extreme Noise Terror (onimo), Monday, 22 November 2010 16:32 (thirteen years ago) link
When profit charts are made, going into the "red" means you're losing money and black numbers mean you're showing a profit.
Since the Friday after Thanksgiving is traditionally the most profitable of the day for retailers, it's called Black Friday.
― http://tinyurl.com/vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 22 November 2010 16:33 (thirteen years ago) link
pleasant plains OTM
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 22 November 2010 16:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Wikipedia isn't so sure
Origins of the nameBlack Friday as a term has been used in multiple contexts, going back to the seventeenth century, where it was associated with a financial crisis in 1769. The earliest known reference to "Black Friday" in this sense was made by Trevor Mcwanda of the American Dialect Society, in a 1966 publication on the day's significance in Philadelphia.[13]The term Black Friday began to get wider exposure around 1975, in two newspaper articles from November 29, 1975, both datelined Philadelphia.[14][15]Accounting practice Look up in the red or in the black in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.By the early 1980s, an alternative theory began to be circulated: that retailers traditionally operated at a financial loss for most of the year (January through November) and made their profit during the holiday season, beginning on the day after Thanksgiving. When this would be recorded in the financial records, once-common accounting practices would use red ink to show negative amounts and black ink to show positive amounts. Black Friday, under this theory, is the beginning of the period where retailers would no longer have losses (the red) and instead take in the year's profits (the black).[16]
Black Friday as a term has been used in multiple contexts, going back to the seventeenth century, where it was associated with a financial crisis in 1769. The earliest known reference to "Black Friday" in this sense was made by Trevor Mcwanda of the American Dialect Society, in a 1966 publication on the day's significance in Philadelphia.[13]The term Black Friday began to get wider exposure around 1975, in two newspaper articles from November 29, 1975, both datelined Philadelphia.[14][15]
Accounting practice Look up in the red or in the black in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.By the early 1980s, an alternative theory began to be circulated: that retailers traditionally operated at a financial loss for most of the year (January through November) and made their profit during the holiday season, beginning on the day after Thanksgiving. When this would be recorded in the financial records, once-common accounting practices would use red ink to show negative amounts and black ink to show positive amounts. Black Friday, under this theory, is the beginning of the period where retailers would no longer have losses (the red) and instead take in the year's profits (the black).[16]
No explanation of why it's sometimes called Green Friday.
― Lindsey Lohan is the new Extreme Noise Terror (onimo), Monday, 22 November 2010 16:56 (thirteen years ago) link
http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0804D&L=ADS-L&P=R5955&I=-3
*Philadelphia's "Black Friday"*
JANUARY 1966 -- "Black Friday" is the name which the Philadelphia PoliceDepartment has given to the Friday following Thanksgiving Day. It is not aterm of endearment to them. "Black Friday" officially opens the Christmasshopping season in center city, and it usually brings massive traffic jamsand over-crowded sidewalks as the downtown stores are mobbed from opening toclosing.
― Lindsey Lohan is the new Extreme Noise Terror (onimo), Monday, 22 November 2010 16:58 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm sure there are a thousand other disambiguations of the term that include stock market crashes, bush fires and Donald Fagan, but as far as the answer to "Why do journalists and retailers call the biggest shopping day of the year 'Black Friday'?", it's because of the so-called profits.
― http://tinyurl.com/vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 22 November 2010 17:11 (thirteen years ago) link
I thought it was because Christmas shopping is such a miserable, bleak, dreadful experience but maybe I am projecting my shopping hate. Profits make more sense.
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Monday, 22 November 2010 17:12 (thirteen years ago) link
its def a lil ironic play on the connotations of 'black' tho - lol silly we were talking abt profits of course!
― ice cr?m, Monday, 22 November 2010 17:15 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, it's really totally racist
― sarahel, Monday, 22 November 2010 21:47 (thirteen years ago) link
I thought it was because it was a black, horrible day for shop staff, haha.
― And this one time, on Bandcamp... (Trayce), Monday, 22 November 2010 22:47 (thirteen years ago) link
number one shoplifting day too
― O⎠o⎠O⎠o⎠O (roxymuzak), Friday, 26 November 2010 18:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Zuckerberg and George W. Bush are talking on my Facebook.
― Two and a Half Muffins (Eazy), Monday, 29 November 2010 22:17 (thirteen years ago) link
W. keeps needling Zuck for not having a college degree.
― Two and a Half Muffins (Eazy), Monday, 29 November 2010 22:24 (thirteen years ago) link
http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/facebook.com
― gr8080 of missing ILX (gr8080), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:22 (thirteen years ago) link
nevermind ^__^
― gr8080 of missing ILX (gr8080), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:26 (thirteen years ago) link
(Horrible Young Woman):if i can get ____ _______ and _____ ________ to pay me back the $515 they each owe me it will be a god damn miracle! I am so fed up with people. All I want is my money and i can move on with my life!!!!38 minutes ago · LikeUnlike · Comment
and sorry to put this on fb guys but when you dont answer my thousands of phone calls and texts i dont know what else to do39 minutes ago · Like
― Cunga, Thursday, 2 December 2010 19:18 (thirteen years ago) link
____ ______: anyone else out there thinking that it's almost 2011 and we still don't have personal jetpacks? I mean c'mon scientists!
This could possibly be the most unoriginal post I've read on Facebook in six years.
― http://tinyurl.com/vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 2 December 2010 19:20 (thirteen years ago) link
The girl who did that is far from poor, too.
― Cunga, Thursday, 2 December 2010 19:23 (thirteen years ago) link
is anyone else on the new messaging system? so far, i think its a huge improvement over the other system
― markers, Thursday, 2 December 2010 21:00 (thirteen years ago) link
i rejoined but only for this new team i'm on and i already got friend requests from old acquaintances who i haven't talked to in 4-5 years.
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 2 December 2010 21:21 (thirteen years ago) link
ive had a lot of people venting about friends not paying back money lent show up in my feed recently too
nagl
― gr8080 of missing ILX (gr8080), Thursday, 2 December 2010 23:35 (thirteen years ago) link
solution: don't borrow or lend money from friendsI think some darling old sexpot said this in a pithier way.
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Thursday, 2 December 2010 23:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Alternative solution: don't put your business out on the street.
But that wd make FB kind of useless to many ppl so Abb's solution is prob better.
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Thursday, 2 December 2010 23:49 (thirteen years ago) link
I think it would be best to implement both.
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Thursday, 2 December 2010 23:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Naming the names of people who owe you money, and making their name a linkable @ to their profile = nagl indeed
And the immediate "I'm sorry but when you don't get back to me, well, I just didn't know what else to do" defense is even more classic.
― Cunga, Thursday, 2 December 2010 23:54 (thirteen years ago) link
hey everyone ben jones just ran over my dog w/his car ON PURPOSE lol no j/k but he does owe me $15, dick
― ice cr?m, Friday, 3 December 2010 03:53 (thirteen years ago) link
this cartoon shit is so tedious
― markers, Monday, 6 December 2010 02:30 (thirteen years ago) link
But it prevents children from being abused. It has real world results!
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Monday, 6 December 2010 02:32 (thirteen years ago) link
At first, like 2 weeks back, it was just "hey change yr avatar to your fave 80s/kids cartoon for the weekend". That seemed like fun.
Then all of a sudden it turned into "CHANGE YR ICON TO AN IMPORTANT CHILDHOOD MEMORY TO RAISE AWARENESS FOR CHILD ABUSE" ... I beg yr pardon wut.
One of my bffs has changed hers to Homer strangling Bart, haw.
― manic pixie dream girl phenomenon (Trayce), Monday, 6 December 2010 02:32 (thirteen years ago) link
I posted some wiseass remark about it having real world results on a friend's comment about changing his pic and he said, "For the moment I changed my picture, I wasn't kicking my kids' asses."
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Monday, 6 December 2010 02:33 (thirteen years ago) link
But yeah like when I did it it was just "whats your fave 80s cartoon" and I did Battle of the Planets, I dont wanna be one of those idjits who run armchair activism on FB ("save this dog from this shelter in a nother country 876764654 miles from you!" "sign this petition to help stop this Iranian woman from being executed even tho she probably got pardoned six months ago but hey its on the internet so WE CAN CHANGE THINGS")
― manic pixie dream girl phenomenon (Trayce), Monday, 6 December 2010 02:34 (thirteen years ago) link
ugh one of the (myriad) reasons I baleeted my farcebook account was to get away from all that crap. 99.94% of the people who follow those trends are either zombies or do it because they're worried they'll stand out for the wrong reasons if they don't.
― Nmutua Canamla (Schlafsack), Monday, 6 December 2010 02:35 (thirteen years ago) link
i actually pretty much automatically delete friends who do that shit.
the only thing i've ever campaigned for is the petition to get the NPG/Smithsonian to put up the motherfucking Wojnarowicz piece in that exhibit again. and i've been on facebook for more than five years— that's the first.
― hot weiners is the best and i want a hot weiner (the table is the table), Monday, 6 December 2010 02:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Deleting friends. There's another one. You remove someone because (a) they're distantly related and you're not sure why they're on your list in the first place, (b) they're a massive bigot, (c) they're a person you met on ilx or something and you don't need them to be on full-name terms with you and your entire networks of friends/family or (c) you just don't like them, and three weeks later you get a call from a friend/relative saying 'oh hai, so-and-so has got the shits with you because you blocked them in Facebook.' Puh-leeze.
― Nmutua Canamla (Schlafsack), Monday, 6 December 2010 02:43 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't want to derail this thread into a bitching session but I've been off it for probably close to a year and I don't even notice its absence.
― Nmutua Canamla (Schlafsack), Monday, 6 December 2010 02:44 (thirteen years ago) link
I might sign up for a "Deactivate your FB account for a week to send a message that e-mail activism is NOT OK, but actually quite stupid"
― Cunga, Monday, 6 December 2010 02:45 (thirteen years ago) link
I've removed people-I-barely-knew from FB and 12 months later they've re-added me? Like they forgot or something (I dont re-accept). I've had one "omg why did you defriend me!?" complaint from a lass who once in the very distant past I was passing friends with via an IRC channel, but I just dont want anything to do with that lot, so... no.
― manic pixie dream girl phenomenon (Trayce), Monday, 6 December 2010 02:46 (thirteen years ago) link
luckily, most people don't notice. i also have started blocking peoples' feeds, cuz man, some of my old friends are negative negative nancies. like this old friend, who wrote this a few weeks ago:
"I got my wish. We got an hour off early, so I didn't have to drive home in rush hour traffic for 90 minutes like I usually do on Mondays, and I got to take a nap, after a very stressful day of having to do stupid crap like running to the Greek restaurant in a torrential downpour for everyone else's food because my boss wants me to "get to know the area."
it's like, great, your day sucked, LEARN TO FUCKING DEAL YOU WHINER
so yeah, blocked.
― hot weiners is the best and i want a hot weiner (the table is the table), Monday, 6 December 2010 02:47 (thirteen years ago) link
That was weird. All those people signing up to 'I WIL DELETE MY FAECBOOK ACOUNT COZ I CARE BAOUT MY PRIVACY' groups that went absolutely nowhere.
― I went 62 days without WD and then fell back to MB (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 6 December 2010 02:47 (thirteen years ago) link
"The drunken step-father saw that his co-worker's new profile picture was a Carebear, and then it dawned on him: childhood is a time for laughter and innocence, after all, and that by berating and smacking his wife's son for getting sweet and sour sauce on the new carpet, well, maybe that was an overreaction."
― Cunga, Monday, 6 December 2010 02:53 (thirteen years ago) link
so tempted to do a burt_stanton-style "freakout" status update just listing off all of the stuff we were supposed to "care" about this year
― markers, Monday, 6 December 2010 02:57 (thirteen years ago) link
I've removed people-I-barely-knew from FB and 12 months later they've re-added me? Like they forgot or something
I'd been through a lot of weird and scary shit with various people on Facebook but that was the second-last straw.
― I went 62 days without WD and then fell back to MB (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 6 December 2010 02:58 (thirteen years ago) link
i've only had one person de-friend then re-friend me, and it was because he'd gone through a massive massive change of life. like, he lost the stick up his ass.
― hot weiners is the best and i want a hot weiner (the table is the table), Monday, 6 December 2010 03:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Ok saying you don't care about stuff, or even putting the word care in scare quotes, is the kind of thing that iirc gets at least one Care Bear at your door, imploring you to change your ways. If you are over '80s cartoons, I highly recommend not dissing caring.
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Monday, 6 December 2010 03:03 (thirteen years ago) link
unless someone is being a true ass i don't normally knock them off my friends list. got plenty of people on my list whom i don't know too well/haven't seen in years/don't really care for that much, but deleting them seems kind of dickish and message-sending. easy enough just to hide them.
xpost to anyone
― circa1916, Monday, 6 December 2010 03:04 (thirteen years ago) link
(aa here) I had a few people delete their account declaring 'FB is ruining my life' or somesuch and reappear with a friend request two weeks later.
circa1916: If you hide them, they can still see all your stuff, can't they? My main objection was to letting near-strangers see everything about me.
― Nmutua Canamla (Schlafsack), Monday, 6 December 2010 03:09 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm down with cartoons, and I'm down with actual caring; I'm not, however, down with people thinking that posting a picture of a cartoon counts as caring. If you're actually out there spending time trying to make a difference for whatever cause you purport to care about, though, I'm all for it! That's great. (The other type of "caring" I was alluding to consists of stuff like people suddenly "caring" about soccer during the World Cup, when they wouldn't really watch it otherwise. Ditto shit like Harry Potter. Anyway, the moral there is that I should just avoid FB as much as possible during those weeks.)
― markers, Monday, 6 December 2010 03:11 (thirteen years ago) link
I just didn't want you to get abducted by Professor Coldheart!
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Monday, 6 December 2010 03:13 (thirteen years ago) link
had to Google "Professor Coldheart" tbh *ashamed*
― markers, Monday, 6 December 2010 03:14 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0f130MJjKE
Don't want you to be a victim of this low level of flow.
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Monday, 6 December 2010 03:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Adam why do you keep swapping SNs every 10 mins its hurting my brane.
― manic pixie dream girl phenomenon (Trayce), Monday, 6 December 2010 03:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Work v personal due to (a) broken email addr and (b) 77 access. Was supposed to work but seems to be failing thus far, soz.
― Nmutua Canamla (Schlafsack), Monday, 6 December 2010 03:17 (thirteen years ago) link
If you hide them, they can still see all your stuff, can't they? My main objection was to letting near-strangers see everything about me.
nah, you can hide your stuff from people. privacy settings.
― circa1916, Monday, 6 December 2010 03:19 (thirteen years ago) link
looool Abbott
― markers, Monday, 6 December 2010 03:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah you can totally filter things quite flexibly on FB posts. I have a default post setting that excludes all family (esp the younguns) from my posts, and a bunch of other filters I could employ if I wanted. And the overall setting is "visible to friends only". Anyone who has their wall set to "everyone can see all my posts" is nuts, because that included people without facebooks.
― manic pixie dream girl phenomenon (Trayce), Monday, 6 December 2010 03:21 (thirteen years ago) link
FB had burnt me enough times with that 'privacy' rubbish. Few people on the planet I trust less than Fart Cockerburg.
― Nmutua Canamla (Schlafsack), Monday, 6 December 2010 03:22 (thirteen years ago) link
zadie thinks there's a generation gap between those who view fbook as a tool (i.e. me and most of you) and those who view it as their honest-to-goodness personality
that doesn't excuse my high school classmates for their various transgressions, of course
― mookieproof, Monday, 6 December 2010 03:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Mmmm. It's one application you can use to flesh out your business/personal contacts and play the odd crappy game, but there are FAR too many people who honestly believe it's the centre of their universe and that it maps exactly to the real world in every conceivable way.
Recently one person said to me 'where did you go?' as though removing myself from Facebook quite literally meant I had died/moved to a cave/flown to Mars. Another got married and I didn't know about it, but hey, it's hardly my fault for not using one of the billions of social/location services available.
― Nmutua Canamla (Schlafsack), Monday, 6 December 2010 03:44 (thirteen years ago) link
what the fuck is this new profile shit
― steendriver DUMB BIG, his HOOS got HOOS (dayo), Monday, 6 December 2010 03:50 (thirteen years ago) link
there are pictures under people's names now iirc
― markers, Monday, 6 December 2010 04:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah the new profile is... weird. I hope it wont force itself on everyone but I suppose it eventually will.
― manic pixie dream girl phenomenon (Trayce), Monday, 6 December 2010 04:02 (thirteen years ago) link
what i read is that you dont need to opt in now if you dont want to but eventually youll get the new layout whether youre into it or not, which is just sorta how these things go
― markers, Monday, 6 December 2010 04:04 (thirteen years ago) link
it's nagl, for real
― steendriver DUMB BIG, his HOOS got HOOS (dayo), Monday, 6 December 2010 04:07 (thirteen years ago) link
People whining about Facebook changes (I don't mean you lot) is hilarious btw. Usually comes from people who (a) are frightened of change and (b) think they're entitled to make demands despite the whole thing being free.
― Nmutua Canamla (Schlafsack), Monday, 6 December 2010 04:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh man, I've missed whining about facebook.
This change is a little more unsettling cos njow it lays out a line of yr photos (instead of one) and neatly says HI THIS PERSONS NAME IS BLAH THEY WERE BORN ON BLAH AND LIVE IN BLAHTOWN in bold right across the pagetop.
It better still damn respect my "dont show my DOB" flag or else fuck a facebook, I'm gone.
― manic pixie dream girl phenomenon (Trayce), Monday, 6 December 2010 04:33 (thirteen years ago) link
lol u old
― mookieproof, Monday, 6 December 2010 04:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Trayce, you can still have your birthday set to "Only Me"
you can also set more restrictive stuff on the pictures so they only show up for you, which is how i have things set up
― markers, Monday, 6 December 2010 04:44 (thirteen years ago) link
(i.e. my age)
― mookieproof, Monday, 6 December 2010 04:45 (thirteen years ago) link
The cartoon thing is funny to me, cos last night I watched an old David Cross routine and he says "Guys, we need to tell everyone about the Aids ribbons. Cos they aren't working!"
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 6 December 2010 05:25 (thirteen years ago) link
What bugs me about the new profile design (especially the info right at the time) is that it seems geared more towards strangers, and not friends, looking at your profile.
Went to college at, lives in, in a relationship with, speaks the following languages et al are stuff for snoops and potential employers, but most of my "friends" don't need to be told that, and those friends that don't know probably wouldn't care to know.
― Cunga, Monday, 6 December 2010 08:38 (thirteen years ago) link
*at the top
― Cunga, Monday, 6 December 2010 08:40 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah it basically looks like a resume of your personal life
― steendriver DUMB BIG, his HOOS got HOOS (dayo), Monday, 6 December 2010 09:06 (thirteen years ago) link
I went ahead and deleted all that stuff now. I was fine with it being on my info page, where any friend who wanted to see it could find it, but I def don't want it right up top. Gone.
Also, why did the friends/boxes column get narrower just so the advertising column could get wider? Are we still living in an 800x600 world?
― Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Monday, 6 December 2010 09:15 (thirteen years ago) link
my album of links seems to have disappeared w/the new profile wtf? and i can't seem to get it back? that's where i linked to my work, about the only concession i made to using fbook in a professional sort of way. UGH.
meanwhile the cartoons thing is so tremendously lol. one of my more amazing friends changed her profile picture to the mugshot of baby p's mother, and it was so hilarious to see "10 of your friends have changed their profile picture", and to have that pop up in the middle of all the cartoon characters.
then fb fucking deleted it!!!!
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Monday, 6 December 2010 12:04 (thirteen years ago) link
I hate the cartoon picture against child abuse thing, and don't even get me started on the vague status updates about sex or your bra to "raise awareness" about breast cancer, but I do use FB to link to fundraising info for orgs I support or local issues that need some kind of voter input, etc.
I'm afraid of the new profile layout. I really want to get to the point where I delete my FB account, because I'm kind of tired of it, but it's kind of like organized crime or drug addiction. Once you realize how far you're in it, it's almost impossible to get out.
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Monday, 6 December 2010 14:13 (thirteen years ago) link
ATTENTION:Thegroup asking everyone to change their profile picture to a cartoon character, is actually a group of Pedophiles. There doing it because kids will accept their friend request faster if they see a cartoon picture. It has nothing to do with any Child charities. IT'S ON ...TONIGHT'S NEWS. Copy & Paste this on to your status, Let everyoneknow
ahahahahahah
― ergonomically chromium plated fish slice (La Lechera), Monday, 6 December 2010 14:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Jenny, believe me, it's not that hard. just delete it, set yourself free. think i'm keeping mine over the holidays for whatever event invites might come around then i'm done with this crap.
― sonderangerbot, Monday, 6 December 2010 14:25 (thirteen years ago) link
My biggest concern is the loss of updates from different orgs/groups I like that don't have websites. And I guess I'm still somewhat curious about my high school classmates that are still trickling in (like the guy who just showed up in my "ppl you may know" list with a giant-Wesley Willis-esque headbutt scar on his forehead and a message on his wall from a woman who will never marry him because she refuses to change for him as requested). So conflicted, you guys.
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Monday, 6 December 2010 16:01 (thirteen years ago) link
That's the fbookotine kicking in.
― I went 62 days without WD and then fell back to MB (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 6 December 2010 20:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Haha nooooo I'm not an addict!
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Monday, 6 December 2010 20:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Don't worry, Jenny, there is a Facebook group you can join for people with yr problem.
― Cunga, Monday, 6 December 2010 20:29 (thirteen years ago) link
willpower, imo.
― gr8080 of missing ILX (gr8080), Monday, 6 December 2010 22:18 (thirteen years ago) link
My x-boss is on a FB rampage of adding her former colleagues. This might be the last straw...
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Monday, 6 December 2010 22:27 (thirteen years ago) link
yall fb is not some big deal, just look at it whenever u feel like, use it to score chix or whatever ur into
― ice cr?m, Monday, 6 December 2010 23:49 (thirteen years ago) link
wow, 'people you may know' has grown a little. looks like the whole damn melbourne music scene is there.
― midiverb II program 49 (electricsound), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 08:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Has anyone noticed the subtle little change where, if you look at someone's profile direct, it now displays a "preview" of each comment they made on people's posts? I cant decide if this is horrible or complete lulz.
― manic pixie dream girl phenomenon (Trayce), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 08:31 (thirteen years ago) link
hey Facebook users
anyone have links to pages “for” something (publisher, record label, organisation, media entity) that you’ve actually found valuable and useful, and well done? words about what you find good about it also welcome.
― i'm assuming that it's tity boi, host of the mixtape (sic), Thursday, 9 December 2010 02:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Has anyone noticed the subtle little change where, if you look at someone's profile direct, it now displays a "preview" of each comment they made on people's posts?
...this went away again after about 48 hours. How curious.
― manic pixie dream girl phenomenon (Trayce), Thursday, 9 December 2010 02:12 (thirteen years ago) link
K1t - I do like the TMBG page on facebook, they announce sales of their merch, and post clips to songs and live bits and whatnot.
Ditto a few other bands: I do find announcements of new releases useful.
― manic pixie dream girl phenomenon (Trayce), Thursday, 9 December 2010 02:13 (thirteen years ago) link
the Dangerous Minds site hosts video clips of music, movies, etc, and it's updated frequently. The current top of the list is a youtube clip of "32 sublime minutes of neil young performing in 1971."
http://www.dangerousminds.net
― nickn, Thursday, 9 December 2010 07:30 (thirteen years ago) link
The site is external to fb, but they post all their new stuff there as they add it.
― nickn, Thursday, 9 December 2010 07:32 (thirteen years ago) link
anyone know anything about AdBlock?
installed it on firefox on a new computer and am still getting facebook ads >:-[
― a dude who enjoys the parapet and the extension of one's neck above it (gr8080), Thursday, 9 December 2010 09:14 (thirteen years ago) link
There's a whole thing you have to do with filters. Wait there.
― unintentional boob pic (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 9 December 2010 09:23 (thirteen years ago) link
yeh you have to dl the filter sets.
― manic pixie dream girl phenomenon (Trayce), Thursday, 9 December 2010 09:27 (thirteen years ago) link
If you get AdBlock Plus, it should automatically suggest you a filter list to download once you activate it. That list gets rid of most ads (including FB ones), but you can also manually block the ones that aren't filtered by the list.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 9 December 2010 09:30 (thirteen years ago) link
This will block everything Facebook, including outside sites feeding your details to Facebook:
http://lifehacker.com/5542041/block-sites-from-using-your-facebook-login-with-adblock-plus
If you just want to block Facebook ads, right-click a Facebook ad, do the adblock thing and choose the option that replaces most of the URL with a *
― unintentional boob pic (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 9 December 2010 09:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Basically Facebook is an insidious bastard that needs serious fortification if you want to keep Fuckerburg's nose out of your stuff.
― unintentional boob pic (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 9 December 2010 09:55 (thirteen years ago) link
I just 'friended' my daughter on facebook.
Or did she friend me?
Still....
― Mark G, Thursday, 9 December 2010 10:37 (thirteen years ago) link
oh ok, it was the filter SUBSCRIPTION that i needed to set up.
Go tools>Adblock Plus>Filters>Add Filter Subscription. Then choose EasyList (USA).
i swear this was automatic on every other computer ive used adblock on.
i was starting to have a panic attack looking at facebook ads
― a dude who enjoys the parapet and the extension of one's neck above it (gr8080), Thursday, 9 December 2010 17:54 (thirteen years ago) link
easy-click full-sizehttp://farm6.static.flickr.com/5165/5246603233_84c461cc8e_o.png
― a dude who enjoys the parapet and the extension of one's neck above it (gr8080), Thursday, 9 December 2010 18:42 (thirteen years ago) link
now instead of just saying "So and so commented on so and so's status" it gives a little teaser of the comment itself.
i can't explain why this is not OK, but it isn't for some reason.
― http://tinyurl.com/jerrymacarena (gr8080), Friday, 10 December 2010 22:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Am I invisible or something? *points upthread*.
― manic pixie dream girl phenomenon (Trayce), Friday, 10 December 2010 23:43 (thirteen years ago) link
And yeah, I dont like it. It came, it went away, and now its back again hrm.
i am sorry i missed your post, Trayce. maybe ILX needs update notifications.
― http://tinyurl.com/jerrymacarena (gr8080), Saturday, 11 December 2010 02:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Trayce has responded to your post!Like WS WKIW Zing Block SB
― leo tldrstoy (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 11 December 2010 02:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Eh its cool, I just went RARRGLE cause it always seems to happen heh.
― manic pixie dream girl phenomenon (Trayce), Saturday, 11 December 2010 02:58 (thirteen years ago) link
xpostreplace "like" with "OTM" and i think we're ready to code
― http://tinyurl.com/jerrymacarena (gr8080), Saturday, 11 December 2010 02:58 (thirteen years ago) link
needs an "smh" too tbh
― Erykah Badiou (markers), Saturday, 11 December 2010 04:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Trayce has responded to your post!OTM WS WKIW Zing SMH Block SB iirc
― leo tldrstoy (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 11 December 2010 05:29 (thirteen years ago) link
I'd be getting lots of zings and smhs ;_;
― manic pixie dream girl phenomenon (Trayce), Saturday, 11 December 2010 05:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Actually, Trayce: I now remember reading your post about that now but had no idea wtf you were talking about until I saw it for myself. Also you posted about how it dissapeared after a day or two so I didn't spend any time trying to figure out what you were talking about \(•_o)/
― http://tinyurl.com/jerrymacarena (gr8080), Saturday, 11 December 2010 06:04 (thirteen years ago) link
http://translate.google.com/#de|de|OTM%20WS%20WKIW%20Zing%20SMH%20Block%20SB%20iirc%0A%0A
― Kerm, Saturday, 11 December 2010 12:25 (thirteen years ago) link
The new profile changes seem very stalker friendly. So I hear.
― krakow, Sunday, 12 December 2010 11:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Has anyone found that it's impossible to hide friends' (by which I mean younger family members) appalling online gaming choices? My sister just started playing something called Bubble Speed and you can't click on an option that says 'hide Bubble Speed'. ARGH.
― Exotic Flavors of the Midwest, available in corn, bacon, or beef (suzy), Sunday, 12 December 2010 17:40 (thirteen years ago) link
This guy gets it.
http://i56.tinypic.com/1zcfupj.jpg
I'd totally do the same thing to my profile if I were not seeking treatment for Laziness tbh.
― Cunga, Monday, 13 December 2010 03:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Woah holy shit! What an awesome idea.
― manic pixie dream girl phenomenon (Trayce), Monday, 13 December 2010 03:47 (thirteen years ago) link
"1) Take a screenshot of your Facebook profile page, open it up in Photoshop2) Create 6 selections (1 for the "default" pic on the left, and 5 for the little image preview boxes)3) Use these selections to create a "clipping mask" with the large image that you want to use, arrange/scale image as necessary4) Crop and individually save each of the 6 images5) Upload, tag, and arrange the images accordingly
NOTE: As you become tagged in newer pictures, they will offset those "preview" images, but you can manually hide any newer pictures (by clicking the X) to keep the integrity of your new, huge, disjointed profile image."
― Cunga, Monday, 13 December 2010 03:47 (thirteen years ago) link
this seems like a great method for comedy hidden nudity
― deej me how to whiney (dayo), Monday, 13 December 2010 03:50 (thirteen years ago) link
That, too. That, too.
― Cunga, Monday, 13 December 2010 03:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Facebubbling.
― http://tinyurl.com/ccccccccccccccccc (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 13 December 2010 04:27 (thirteen years ago) link
'STOP IT'
― leo tldrstoy (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 13 December 2010 04:31 (thirteen years ago) link
related: http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=127185813
― http://tinyurl.com/jerrymacarena (gr8080), Monday, 13 December 2010 10:46 (thirteen years ago) link
B-ryminD09Registered User
wtf!!!!!!!!!! lmao. i love when religous people tweak things so it doesn't conflict w/ their beliefs. just fyi your still going to hell for this. (srs).
― leo tldrstoy (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 13 December 2010 10:50 (thirteen years ago) link
CONGRATS BRO
http://grab.by/7URs
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 19:03 (thirteen years ago) link
wow ur not kidding - http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,2036683,00.html
― markers, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 19:05 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i56.tinypic.com/30dcnsl.jpg
― markers, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 19:06 (thirteen years ago) link
really thought schefter had a chance at a repeat this year
― u aint messin w/ my dengue (gr8080), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 19:07 (thirteen years ago) link
schefterberg
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 19:10 (thirteen years ago) link
He has the eyes of a fucking lizard.
― like an ant to a crumb (DavidM), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 19:19 (thirteen years ago) link
THE CONNECTOR
― buzza, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 19:24 (thirteen years ago) link
he generally looks pretty reptilian
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 19:24 (thirteen years ago) link
http://unrealitymag.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/they_live_3.jpg
― http://tinyurl.com/ccccccccccccccccc (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 20:09 (thirteen years ago) link
twitter^
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 20:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Maybe next year for Jeff Twitter. :-(
― Cunga, Thursday, 16 December 2010 02:15 (thirteen years ago) link
That Zadie Smith write-up on FB: one of those long-winded essays where someone badmouths a new technology or fad, and only out of the side of their mouth admits that, yes, they engage in it too, and all they're going to say about how and why they haven't quit (despite the fact that it is, according to them, ruining society) is that they are "addicted" to it.
It's like its own genre.
"This ______ is kind of terrible, and is dehumanizing, ruining our civilization etc. Yeah, I do it/love it too, though (it's addicting!)"
It's not that I even disagree with what they hate or are suspicious about, but at least explain what makes it fascinating and helpful to millions of people -- including the author of these essays.
― Cunga, Thursday, 16 December 2010 04:21 (thirteen years ago) link
It's hard to maintain an air of superiority that way though.
― Kerm, Thursday, 16 December 2010 04:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Except that in that article she says she quit it after a couple of months.
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 16 December 2010 04:36 (thirteen years ago) link
she quit my dick after a couple months NOT
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 16 December 2010 04:38 (thirteen years ago) link
I read it last week, and my memory told me she said she came back to the site once or twice (maybe that was another article?)
but the point stands regarding articles like that: they skim over why the the subject is so popular or interesting to people, and many times the authors admit to still indulging in it.
― Cunga, Thursday, 16 December 2010 04:45 (thirteen years ago) link
its a sad form for sure particularly when people not that old indulge in it
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 16 December 2010 04:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Santa Doesn't Exist would like to be your friend. Accept?
― Help! I'm a bug (CaptainLorax), Thursday, 16 December 2010 04:49 (thirteen years ago) link
― markers, Thursday, 16 December 2010 04:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Everyone is on Facebook, and yet everyone kind of hates it too. So I guess Smith is just tuning into the zeitgeist...
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 16 December 2010 04:50 (thirteen years ago) link
you have something in common, go for it!xp
― buzza, Thursday, 16 December 2010 04:51 (thirteen years ago) link
dude what's with you thinking everyone is fake?
― ENBB, Thursday, 16 December 2010 04:52 (thirteen years ago) link
"Using Foursquare to check into anonymous Halloween sex parties really is the epitome of decadence and late capitalism excess, although I admit there is something quite adventurous and addicting about it, but really we should all stop it and here's another 2000 words about why it's pathetic that people do it."
― Cunga, Thursday, 16 December 2010 04:55 (thirteen years ago) link
http://grab.by/7W7P
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 16 December 2010 20:21 (thirteen years ago) link
friend w/ bangs looks cuet
― u aint messin w/ my dengue (gr8080), Thursday, 16 December 2010 20:38 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i26.tinypic.com/2udyu5e.jpg
― u aint messin w/ my dengue (gr8080), Thursday, 16 December 2010 20:41 (thirteen years ago) link
:-)
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 16 December 2010 21:53 (thirteen years ago) link
My Top Words of 2010The top words from my Facebook status messages in 2010!1.:Waka - used 10 times2.:Flocka - used 9 times3.:Fuck - used 7 times4.:Pretty - used 7 times5.:Love - used 5 times6.:Whole - used 5 times7.:Fucking - used 5 times8.:It’s - used 5 times9.:City - used 5 times10.:Swag - used 5 times
― whitney from mtv's the city (tpp), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 11:57 (thirteen years ago) link
1: Today - used 12 times2: Good - used 11 times3: Beer - used 9 times4: Big - used 7 times5: Old - used 7 times6: Night - used 7 times7: New - used 7 times8: Last - used 6 times9: Football - used 6 times10: Wee - used 6 times
― ploppin caps and takin names (onimo), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 12:17 (thirteen years ago) link
1:- - used 5 times2:Nice - used 4 times3:Perth - used 3 times4:Sleep - used 3 times5:Bit - used 3 times6:Wrong - used 3 times7:Done - used 3 times8:Till - used 3 times9:Quite - used 3 times10:Music - used 2 times
'Perth' is a bit of an oddball. I did go to Perth this year.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Thursday, 23 December 2010 01:03 (thirteen years ago) link
eating -- at Hooters
― Cunga, Monday, 27 December 2010 23:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Is facebook busted atm? It keeps saying "server reset" when I try and load it up.
― Strange Crüt (Trayce), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 00:34 (thirteen years ago) link
It wasn't even working for me last night around midnight (my darkest hour)
And what's with implementing the new facebook messages gimmickfeature?
― Cunga, Tuesday, 28 December 2010 00:46 (thirteen years ago) link
huh. mine are BORING.
1): Friends - used 16 times2): Reading - used 13 times3): New - used 12 times4): Night - used 11 times5): Writing - used 10 times6): Tonight - used 10 times7): Last - used 9 times8): Oakland - used 9 times9): Listening - used 8 times10): Thanks - used 8 times
― a no-fault dick to suck. (the table is the table), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 02:30 (thirteen years ago) link
11): Lesbian
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link
My Top Words of 2010Here are top words from my Facebook status messages!1: Love - used 23 times2: One - used 15 times3: Beherit - used 14 times4: Andy - used 12 times5: Out - used 10 times6: New - used 9 times7: Lincecum - used 9 times8: Up - used 9 times9: Want - used 9 times10: Pizza - used 8 times
― ilx get on my lvl (roxymuzak), Thursday, 30 December 2010 22:19 (thirteen years ago) link
can't seem to get my top words thing to work :(how will i ever carry on?
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 30 December 2010 22:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah it doesnt work for me either - it just presents me with an empty FB frame page.
― Strange Crüt (Trayce), Thursday, 30 December 2010 22:44 (thirteen years ago) link
one love roxy
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 30 December 2010 22:46 (thirteen years ago) link
introduce a thousand re-designs of the profile page.
never fix Facebook chat.
Never change, zuckerberg's flying monkeys.
― Cunga, Friday, 31 December 2010 01:58 (thirteen years ago) link
chat recently got a new notification sound
― ice cr?m, Friday, 31 December 2010 02:02 (thirteen years ago) link
so goldman invested $500m in fb at a $50b valuation - this is madness - would anyone in the entire world be surprised if fb didnt exist in ten years
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 06:52 (thirteen years ago) link
ya but per felix salmon all they really gotta do is herd it through the ipo at that figure and then peace out
― max, Monday, 3 January 2011 06:53 (thirteen years ago) link
its so sweet to be an investment bank u just 'create value', its like being an philosophy major but u get a jet
― max, Monday, 3 January 2011 06:54 (thirteen years ago) link
some of them were prob harvard philosophy majors
― iatee, Monday, 3 January 2011 06:55 (thirteen years ago) link
im sayin thats the madness part - we have a financial system thats all game playing at this point
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 06:55 (thirteen years ago) link
ice cram I bet you 50 million that facebook will exist in 10 years, and if I win you need to do 50 pushups too
― dayo, Monday, 3 January 2011 06:58 (thirteen years ago) link
when do we ipo!
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 06:59 (thirteen years ago) link
im just like cant someone murder the financial industry, its distressing
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:01 (thirteen years ago) link
theyre gonna ruin us again in like six years then three years after that
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:02 (thirteen years ago) link
fbook will exist but geocities 'exists' iirc
crazy valuation but u never know
― max bro'd (nakhchivan), Monday, 3 January 2011 07:03 (thirteen years ago) link
I actually don't know how ridiculous it really is - I think fb has such a solid hold on the social network market right now, I mean ilx types might move on to something else cooler, but my grandmother is on fb ffs and prob isn't gonna switch to something else anytime soon. they (and google) are like microsoft in the 90s.
twitter otoh, complete bullshit, worth about 3 bucks
― iatee, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:03 (thirteen years ago) link
not my 3 bucks tho
well is passes the grandma test jeez
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:04 (thirteen years ago) link
goldman valuing it that highly is itself an affirmation i guess
the valuation seems crazy more for... how they are ever going to be that profitable even if they do stay #1 social network.....fb must have some big 'plans' beyond maxing revenue from a non subscrip fee model
― max bro'd (nakhchivan), Monday, 3 January 2011 07:08 (thirteen years ago) link
― max bro'd (nakhchivan), Monday, January 3, 2011 2:03 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
yeah i feel like 'you never know' is exactly the attitude of the dumb money that will be left holding the bag
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:08 (thirteen years ago) link
I just don't see a transition from fb to something else happening w/ half a billion people - maybe over an extended time period, but in the next 10 years? it's not like friendster, myspace etc. cause those were younger internet savvy people. so there might be a mac/linux of social networking that takes a bite from the market, I don't see a mass exodus cause the exodus-types aren't the majority of fb users anymore.
― iatee, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:09 (thirteen years ago) link
I think the FB valuation makes sense as long as the way our 'economy works' holds - like FB is the holy grail of information for advertisers, if FB plays its cards right they can parcel out that info for huge $$$ while reforming and reshaping the public's conception of privacy so that we become cool with Gilette showing you ads because you have a beard in your FB profile pic
― dayo, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Facebook is the trailer park of the internet.
― Bentley Rhythm Trayce (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 3 January 2011 07:14 (thirteen years ago) link
fb thinks they can turn on the ad faucet on like google did, which is not as easy when people arent requesting specifically what theyd like to see ads for, which is why despite having ads for a while and passing google in traffic they generate a fraction as much revenue
they also know that to stay the #1 social network whatever the fuck that will mean in ten years being a website isnt enough, they have to sort of become the internet, which is what fb connect etc is all abt
fb is a v smart well positioned company but theyve got monumental obstacles ahead
can they do it, absolutely - is their success likely enough to make them worth $50b, fuck no
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Nah, FB is the Windows of the Internet, now. Critical mass with ppl who would never use internet apps normally has been reached. Everyone's granny only knows how to use FB and maybe google. That sort of shit embeds, it doesnt go away; if it did, Windows wouldve been superceded a long time back.
― Ex Loin Tamer (Trayce), Monday, 3 January 2011 07:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Mind you unlike windows fb isnt an ESSENTIAL tool. Not yet anyway.... unless ppl honestly start using it for all cloud computing tasks (email etc), uggghhh.
― Ex Loin Tamer (Trayce), Monday, 3 January 2011 07:19 (thirteen years ago) link
fb more essential than windows, you have other viable options for your OS, you don't have any other option for social network w/ basically everyone in the world
― iatee, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:20 (thirteen years ago) link
fb maybe doesn't bring in the ad revenue that google does (yet) but it's still the most visited site on the internet and the site where people spend the majority of their time online, that's gotta count for something
― dayo, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:22 (thirteen years ago) link
I just don't see a transition from fb to something else happening w/ half a billion people - maybe over an extended time period, but in the next 10 years? it's not like friendster, myspace etc. cause those were younger internet savvy people.
― iatee, Monday, January 3, 2011 2:09 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
the moms will move to wherever their kids go and so on - but really people moving to a similar site is the least of fbs worries - the market shifting to something that hasnt been invented yet is more like it
i mean shit just look fb got more traffic than google this year
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:23 (thirteen years ago) link
also you are discounting the effect of the Beard Recognition Algorithm which I just sold to facebook last week
― dayo, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:24 (thirteen years ago) link
its prob harder to shift social networks than it is to shift search engines, because so much of your personal data/experience is tied up in a social network
like facebook is what it is because of user's contributions, whereas google is what it is because some nerds figured out the best way to give you good search results for 'free porn' or w/e
― dayo, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:25 (thirteen years ago) link
afaict it basically scanrs yr prefs for GAPDY tho dayo
― max bro'd (nakhchivan), Monday, 3 January 2011 07:25 (thirteen years ago) link
― dayo, Monday, January 3, 2011 2:22 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
it counts for a lot but people look at google and go do that ad revenue - but google is a huge outlier - itd be more reasonable to look at other sies as far as what kind of money one can expect from ads - i mean fb is the most visited site on the internet and a lot of smart people figure its prob around a break even proposition at this point
so yeah theyve got value for sure but $50b ehhhh
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:27 (thirteen years ago) link
sorta hard to argue about technology that hasn't been invented yet - but when that shit is invented, there are only 3/4 companies that are gonna start out w/ the world market already in their hands. facebook is one of them. is that worth 50 billion dollars? who knows? I wouldn't be betting on it, but I wouldn't bet against it either.
― iatee, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:31 (thirteen years ago) link
$50 billion not even that ridiculous a number in wall street money, how much is goldman sachs worth again? trizillion?
― iatee, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:32 (thirteen years ago) link
i feel like ppl forget how long 10 yrs is in the internet
― max, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:32 (thirteen years ago) link
think about how much this forum has changed in 10 years
― iatee, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:33 (thirteen years ago) link
if I told you pitchfork would still be around 10 years ago would you have believed me
― dayo, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:33 (thirteen years ago) link
I def feel the internet has been 'stabilizing' for the past few years as all the norms get hipped to it and change becomes much harder to effect
idk
― dayo, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:34 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah but i wouldn't have foreseen p4k's growth
― max bro'd (nakhchivan), Monday, 3 January 2011 07:35 (thirteen years ago) link
That sort of shit embeds, it doesnt go away; if it did, Windows wouldve been superceded a long time back.
― Ex Loin Tamer (Trayce), Monday, January 3, 2011 2:18 AM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
eh feel like windows is the exception rather than the rule when it comes to this type shit - also there are no cto's making decisions abt what social network people can use at this point
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:35 (thirteen years ago) link
just feel that for loads of its users its like their entire lives are on fb's servers - all their thousands of photos, links that they posted, blog entries, contacts - don't really see how a new hot social networking site could easily wrest that away from fb
― dayo, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:37 (thirteen years ago) link
― dayo, Monday, January 3, 2011 2:34 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
facebook passed myspace in traffic less than three years ago, think abt it
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:38 (thirteen years ago) link
if someone offered me facebook stock i would take it
― max, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:38 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah but the usefulness of social networks depends on their size, I can only see fb getting taken over by a network that does something else entirely (that fb can't copy) which then slowly becomes a regular social network too. I can't imagine what that would be, which is why I am worth 0 billion dollars. xp
― iatee, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:38 (thirteen years ago) link
comparing fb and myspace is misleading because myspace was, even at its peak, a tiny % of the world
― iatee, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:39 (thirteen years ago) link
hey guys when is ILX gonna have an IPO
― dayo, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:40 (thirteen years ago) link
its really amazing how quickly people have accepted social networking as this regular static thing thats essential to their lives
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:40 (thirteen years ago) link
I find it more amazing that they didn't catch on in 2003 or something, considering how simple the technology is
― iatee, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:42 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean I guess it had to be a slow developing thing, but it could have started long before it did
― iatee, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:43 (thirteen years ago) link
― iatee, Monday, January 3, 2011 2:39 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
myspace had over 100m users, besides the entire point of my comparison was to point out that fbs ubiquity is an incredibly recent phenomenon
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:43 (thirteen years ago) link
also the rise in fb's success is pretty correlate to the rise of smartphones, no?
― dayo, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:44 (thirteen years ago) link
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 18:40 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
It's still possible to exist without social networking atm though. Not that I'm countering your point, I just think we're not there yet. btw I am not looking forward to the day when having a fb account is as essential as having an email address.
― Bentley Rhythm Trayce (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 3 January 2011 07:45 (thirteen years ago) link
I sorta consider them two different phenomenons, but I still have a $30 phone xp
― iatee, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:45 (thirteen years ago) link
― ice cr?m, Monday, January 3, 2011 3:43 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark
yeah but how many of those 100m were returning users or regular users
― dayo, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Livejournal was similar in a lot of ways to FB - your own group of 'friends', personalised profile etc. I'm kind of surprised fb and myspace took as long as they did to get where they did - but then it wasn't long ago that doing anything 'on the internet' was kind of a niche thing. My group of friends all had Myspaces but no-one in my office did, for example.
― Not the real Village People, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:46 (thirteen years ago) link
fb is well ahead of smartphones, but yeah obvs thats a huge factor in this whole thing
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:47 (thirteen years ago) link
my fb account more already essential than my email for most communication, email mostly just for formal stuff or sending files xp
― iatee, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:47 (thirteen years ago) link
― dayo, Monday, January 3, 2011 2:46 AM (48 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i dont know myspace was huge, not as huge as facebook, p shitty site overall tbh
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:48 (thirteen years ago) link
there are a lot of shitty bands out there
― iatee, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:48 (thirteen years ago) link
― iatee, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:42 (3 minutes ago)
^^^^^^^^
this was why i was rmde a bit at the hyping of zuckybro as a 'programming genius'....i mean he might be but facebook is insufficient evidence, his talents lie elsewhere
i think fbook's initial success was based on a sense of 'solidity' contra the fly-by-night tackiness of myspace et al, and short of a major fuckup they should be able to stay afloat that way
it's just the maximizing revenue that's difficult but yeah taking that raw data and reselling it is def a challenge
― max bro'd (nakhchivan), Monday, 3 January 2011 07:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Facebook places/locations (?) is where the fb/smartphone thing melds properly imo.
― Bentley Rhythm Trayce (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 3 January 2011 07:49 (thirteen years ago) link
myspace was totally on some 'in my world of young ppl' shit and pretty exclusionary, also almost actively user-unfriendly
― dayo, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:49 (thirteen years ago) link
also I don't wanna come off as college bro after a bowl hit but it seems that once something has attained 'critical mass' it just kind of has so much inertia that its pretty much unstoppable/unchangeable? look at the English measuring system ffs lol
― dayo, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Myspace was revolting, all the on-screen junk and flashing shit everywhere. Dunno who in that org thought such a design ethic was going to have longevity.
― Bentley Rhythm Trayce (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 3 January 2011 07:51 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah nobody called myspace 'exclusionary' at the time - when facebook was very explicitly exclusionary. but that's a really good point - myspace's home page never ever attempted to look like a site that everyone on the world would join.
― iatee, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:51 (thirteen years ago) link
― dayo, Monday, 3 January 2011 18:51 (28 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Everything changes though. All it takes is for the playing field to shake and for fb to be looking the other way for a few minutes.
― Bentley Rhythm Trayce (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 3 January 2011 07:52 (thirteen years ago) link
hah those are two different uses of exclusionary - for myspace I meant like, if you weren't part of that world of young ppl you didn't feel 'cool' enough to join
facebook was just basic exclusionary
― dayo, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:53 (thirteen years ago) link
when you consider what myspace had done (seemingly took what friendster "invented" and turned it more mainstream and corporate and successful for a time), they blew it even more than friendster did, which was i think to focus on a demo that would eventually outgrow it, and facebook decided to make a site that was friendly to everyone of any age. quite possibly zero people i know use myspace now. facebook could go that route too, i know a lot of people who are pretty much over it. i think it can be quite exhausting to feel the need to have a particular website to return to all the time (lol?)
― omar little, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:53 (thirteen years ago) link
be curious to see how going public will affect facebooks mojo - agility and freedom has been a big part of their success - everything becomes a lot more constrained once you have to deal w/hitting quarterly targets regulators new bord members etc
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:53 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't think it's a challop to suggest that in five years facebook may be as relevant as myspace is today.
― omar little, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:54 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't think it's a challop if it's subjunctive
― max bro'd (nakhchivan), Monday, 3 January 2011 07:54 (thirteen years ago) link
lol u guyz faccebook in 2k16 will be like a fuckin juggalo4lyfe myspace page not updated in three years, just a sad clown face crying into the ether of indifference
^^
challop
― max bro'd (nakhchivan), Monday, 3 January 2011 07:55 (thirteen years ago) link
the downfall of fb will probably be a refusal to adequately integrated animated gif support into the newsfeed
― dayo, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:55 (thirteen years ago) link
I feel like the slowwww roll out among colleges was easily the most genius thing fb's done, the movie hits on this theme but maybe doesn't even explore it enough. I remember when my friends who weren't at a facebook college were waiting super eagerly to join.
― iatee, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:58 (thirteen years ago) link
― Bentley Rhythm Trayce (Autumn Almanac), Monday, January 3, 2011 2:49 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
yeah see this for instance - theres no particular evidence fb is gonna get location right - which when it blows up in conjunction w/the internet of things is gonna make the social networking boom look like a mere puff of smoke - of course social is gonna be tied into that too - but will fb be the boss of this shit or just a cog - maybe being a cog will be enough to justify $50b - maybe theyll end up the biggest company in the world - maybe they will die
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:59 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsnMGVJRE6g
― dayo, Monday, 3 January 2011 08:00 (thirteen years ago) link
theres no particular evidence fb is gonna get location right
As long as fb's advertisers think/believe fb has got location right, it will pay money for the souls of fb users and the actual accuracy/worth of location will mean sod-all.
― Bentley Rhythm Trayce (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 3 January 2011 08:01 (thirteen years ago) link
so I mean there's every reason in the world to believe fb will fail on location but when you've got friends volunteering the location of their friends (against their will) you've basically got a massive spread of active location data that gives advertisers wet dreams.
― Bentley Rhythm Trayce (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 3 January 2011 08:03 (thirteen years ago) link
until location has to do actual things like interact w/rfid tags xp
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 08:03 (thirteen years ago) link
there's still got to be an incentive for giving your location, impressing your friends isn't enough for most people
― iatee, Monday, 3 January 2011 08:05 (thirteen years ago) link
dayo just checked in to the Mandarin Oriental!
― dayo, Monday, 3 January 2011 08:06 (thirteen years ago) link
giving yr location to yr friends isnt really the thing, giving it to walmart so they can offer you a special deal is
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 08:07 (thirteen years ago) link
If it's the default on smartphones, the only incentive that matters is the one that rouses people to prevent fb using their phone's GPS function.
xp to iatee
― Bentley Rhythm Trayce (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 3 January 2011 08:07 (thirteen years ago) link
that would be pretty rad, if wal-mart gave me a discount on magnums because it knew from facebook that I go through a lot of magnums
BRAGGIN 2011
― dayo, Monday, 3 January 2011 08:08 (thirteen years ago) link
fb already has form in fucking over its users for its own means so I don't see how location will be any different. Seems obvious to me that a controversial but effective opt-out future for location data is on the cards.
― Bentley Rhythm Trayce (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 3 January 2011 08:09 (thirteen years ago) link
I'd rather faceless companies that wanted to give me deals knew my location than my friends, so I guess I'm fine w/ this
― iatee, Monday, 3 January 2011 08:09 (thirteen years ago) link
all the location services now are basically just trying to build out their technology so when every box of cereal has an ip adress theyll be ready to cash in - they dont currently resemble the actual function they will one day serve
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 08:10 (thirteen years ago) link
There will always be people who are fine with it, especially if people are getting free goods out of it and nothing bad happens. That's where I think fb will go from being ubiquitous to down our pants.
― Bentley Rhythm Trayce (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 3 January 2011 08:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Last week I was explaining to my dad why Facebook became so successful and I told him it was because, since it started with ivy league colleges getting people to authenticate their real selves before using the site, it moved the internet away from anonymity and towards people admitting who they really were IRL: which was a milestone. It shifted incentives away from masking your identity to showing it off, and it had a legitimate authentication process early on that would snowball as third parties, of other people using real names, confirmed friendships.
My dad caught the gist of it when he said "Well of course, everyone wants to show off that they went to Harvard,"
I'm dead tired so if that sounds meandering I'm sorry, but I think FB's ability to authenticate who people really were and what that meant for how people went online was the secret ingredient.
― Cunga, Monday, 3 January 2011 08:49 (thirteen years ago) link
"everybody wants to show off that they went to harvard" is my own sleepy error, not my dad being Yogi Berra.
― Cunga, Monday, 3 January 2011 08:51 (thirteen years ago) link
since it started with ivy league colleges getting people to authenticate their real selves before using the site, it moved the internet away from anonymity and towards people admitting who they really were IRL: which was a milestone
This is a damn good point actually.
― Ex Loin Tamer (Trayce), Monday, 3 January 2011 12:10 (thirteen years ago) link
No, it doesn't.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Monday, 3 January 2011 14:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Why would someone with a beard need to be told about a razor?
― http://tinyurl.com/MO-02011 (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 3 January 2011 14:51 (thirteen years ago) link
'doesn't know about the existence of razors' is the only real excuse for a beard
― iatee, Monday, 3 January 2011 14:55 (thirteen years ago) link
oh boy
you wait til I next wdyll
― Boo Radely and the Super Fury Aminal (acoleuthic), Monday, 3 January 2011 15:06 (thirteen years ago) link
will do.
― http://tinyurl.com/MO-02011 (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 3 January 2011 15:12 (thirteen years ago) link
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Monday, 3 January 2011 14:37 (36 minutes ago)
it exists in all our hearts
― max bro'd (nakhchivan), Monday, 3 January 2011 15:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Can see FB being about for a decade easy, but it's still as vulnerable as MySpace to ppl moving en masse.
It'll be young and early adopters that move, so what FB will be left with will be old and slow. There's still a load of money in that (this is the Farmville crowd), but it's the same sort of money that Yahoo! is now getting, low-end crap.
The £30bn valuation is still based on this absurd Altavista-era premise of total lock-in, which I don't think even Google truly has. In 10 years I see FB potentially raking in a tonne, but not AOLing the Internet as ppl fear.
Jho OTM re "Internet of things", too.
― stet, Monday, 3 January 2011 15:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Count me in as hoping FB is like Myspace in 5 years and we are all onto something so much better.
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 3 January 2011 17:45 (thirteen years ago) link
as someone who has three different social networking things that he checks daily (well, one is a business networking thing), and with facebook being the only non-GPS-using site of those, i figure it'll happen soon enough.
also, everyone OTM regarding the slow rollout in colleges and universities. in some ways, i miss those heady early days, when it was far-flung friends saying 'hey' over a long summer or from across a pond. in Poland in 2005, i remember all the kids in this program i was attending were like, 'why can't we have facebook, it looks so fun!' now they're all on it.
― a no-fault dick to suck. (the table is the table), Monday, 3 January 2011 18:18 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah for sure - it's a total 180˚, to the extent where nowadays i get mildly creeped out if i don't know who someone is online, and tend to only interact w/people who've been "authenticated" (ie preferably i know their actual identity, but if not then i know the contacts or routes through which they know me)
― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Monday, 3 January 2011 19:06 (thirteen years ago) link
it worked out v well indeed but to claim their whole path to success was planned out and intentional is giving fb too much credit - theres a lot of luck involved - but its also that kind of luck that people who are good at what they do often have
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 19:13 (thirteen years ago) link
feel like fb catching on to the value of developer driven culture relatively early was v key - but even that is not maybe totally intentional - its just what zuckerbro likes
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 19:14 (thirteen years ago) link
I agree that it was a lot of luck - mostly luck that myspace didn't clean its act up
― iatee, Monday, 3 January 2011 19:57 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah but there was never any hope of myspace figuring it out - they were a company run buy marketing people who were bought fairly early on by an old media concern who had no idea what to do w/them - fb absolutely understands how to organize themselves to do the job
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 20:03 (thirteen years ago) link
was thinking about this last night:
let's say it's 1998 and facebook-type site gets developed, gets lots of press and media attention and everybody's heard about it in the same way that everybody's heard about ebay. could it have caught on a decade earlier? obv not to the same extent cause there were far fewer daily internet users, but it doesn't seem entirely impossible that the people who were daily internet users at that point could have all joined a massive social network.
― iatee, Monday, 3 January 2011 20:04 (thirteen years ago) link
i dont think it was really possible for a number of reasons to create facebook 12 years ago - but if it was it prob wouldve been
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 20:06 (thirteen years ago) link
what if somebody had invented the steamcar it would've been incredible
― Є|Э (Edward III), Monday, 3 January 2011 20:10 (thirteen years ago) link
news 4 u bro http://grab.by/8bcT
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 20:11 (thirteen years ago) link
mind is blown by stanley steamer
― Є|Э (Edward III), Monday, 3 January 2011 20:12 (thirteen years ago) link
has anybody invented steampunk yet, could be revolutionary
1891: The Year Steampunk Broke
― Cunga, Monday, 3 January 2011 20:15 (thirteen years ago) link
get in on the ground floor of that 4 sure
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 20:15 (thirteen years ago) link
wait pomplamoose opened for the dresden dolls on NYE
ILX is melting
― Є|Э (Edward III), Monday, 3 January 2011 20:17 (thirteen years ago) link
what a world what a world etc
― Cunga, Monday, 3 January 2011 20:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Could Geocities have succeeded? I never really looked at it back then so I don't know how "social" it was, but it seems like it was a similar idea. And I think they were the largest of that type. Did getting bought by Yahoo kill it?
― nickn, Monday, 3 January 2011 22:51 (thirteen years ago) link
geocities did succeed, if you mesure success like i do by number of night sky background images rendered
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 22:57 (thirteen years ago) link
number of webrings belonged to
― max, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 00:24 (thirteen years ago) link
The popup ad killed geocities iirc
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 00:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Lex, Internet culture was mostly people who had been "authenticated," in a way. It was BBS culture and commercial on-line systems culture that brought anonymity and handles to the Internet world, for the most part.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 01:12 (thirteen years ago) link
I think I just found out my aunt died...c/o Facebook. I can't get a confirmation on this, though. :/
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 02:54 (thirteen years ago) link
IMO you should call your loved ones to inform them of such things, and then once they've all heard it IRL, then post it on facebook. Bcz it just feels fake and weird finding it out that way.
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 02:57 (thirteen years ago) link
My boss is very proud that Ari Up's husband heard about her death via his (my bosses) facebook post on it.
― krakow, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 09:40 (thirteen years ago) link
The worst one I ever got was a gmail, where the subject about a friend of mine and the first sentence was visible:
M--- E--------?: You probably already know this but M--- was killed in an accident today.
― http://tinyurl.com/MO-02011 (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 14:30 (thirteen years ago) link
And no, I didn't already know about it.
― http://tinyurl.com/MO-02011 (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 14:31 (thirteen years ago) link
There's no good way of finding out stuff, sometimes.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 14:37 (thirteen years ago) link
A friend's Facebook account disappeared. That's how I found out he had died. Better than getting a group email though.
― Bentley Rhythm Trayce (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 21:51 (thirteen years ago) link
― Cunga, Monday, January 3, 2011 3:15 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
LOL I'm quoting you.
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 22:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Last night I found out my cousin's character-actor grandfather died via an RSS feed. (sandwiched between, like, news about the pilot season and box office speculation)
Let's hear it for technology!
― Cunga, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Bill Irwin?
― http://tinyurl.com/MO-02011 (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah. I always enjoyed watching him pop up on shows or, now that i think about it, John Hughes movies, and he seemed like he was playing "the old man" on sitcoms for about thirty years. Like an IRL Grandpa Simpson he seemed to have been a certain kind of old forever.
― Cunga, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:31 (thirteen years ago) link
bill irwin died??
― max, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:33 (thirteen years ago) link
"The Regard of Flight" was a family favorite taped-off-PBS VHS tape.
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:35 (thirteen years ago) link
RIP dude, you taught me the word "proscenium."
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Dry your eyes.
Bill Erwin, Abbott. As in old man who snores next to John Candy in Planes, Trains and Automobiles; and lets Catherine O'Hara have their plane ticket in Home Alone.
― Cunga, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:45 (thirteen years ago) link
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:46 (thirteen years ago) link
First GIS result for him:
http://www.daxgraphs.co.uk/star%20trek%20tng/bill%20erwin.jpg
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:47 (thirteen years ago) link
I helped my mom set-up her FB account over the holidays, and today, while she was giving me the list of people she "doesn't want looking at her FB" she ran into some trouble using the site and asked if I had a phone number for FB -- presumably so we could take the issue to Zuckerbro himself.
― Cunga, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:52 (thirteen years ago) link
A lot of Facebook's problems could have been solved long ago if that phone number were available imo (esp: available to mothers)
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Although I imagine some variation of "My son -- my own teenage son -- is refusing to accept my friend requests. Do you want to talk to him on the phone about what it means to respect your own mother?" would make up 70% of the calls from moms.
― Cunga, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:57 (thirteen years ago) link
I set up my mom's account on the sole condition that neither she nor any of the rest of the extended family would try to friend me.
― Dr. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:58 (thirteen years ago) link
The other 30% would be: "I'm trying to send a letter to my dear friend June from Palo Alto, she's sick you know...I type out my letter but every time I hit send there's no send button it says 'search'. How can I make it send? This thing is just so stupid I don't know who designed it."
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:01 (thirteen years ago) link
My mum is passively aggressively resisiting Facebook, she's mad that my brother, sister and I all talk to each other behind her back.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:02 (thirteen years ago) link
http://images.icanhascheezburger.com/completestore/2009/1/1/128753557474209744.jpg
― gr8080, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:03 (thirteen years ago) link
my parents have no idea how to use it. they both have like 10 friends, but they are befuddled by how to upload pictures, or fill in their information, or do pretty much anything.
in other words, they don't know how to use the internet.
― a no-fault dick to suck. (the table is the table), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:06 (thirteen years ago) link
It is not a small blessing that my mom hates social media.
― pwn de floor (suzy), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Although at this point I'd be hard pressed to identify anything beyond Fox as liked-by-my mom.
― pwn de floor (suzy), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:08 (thirteen years ago) link
i love when i see one of my aunts post a status update that's obviously intended as a comment/post to a specific person:
"Oh Sweetie! look how cute that is-- can't wait to see you next month!!"
― gr8080, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:09 (thirteen years ago) link
My favorite pic of him seen today:
http://tommcmahon.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/martian2.jpg
― http://tinyurl.com/MO-02011 (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:11 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost, my sister-in-law sends messages to reply to comments left on photos/wall, so I keep getting message which are just "yep, me too :-)xx" and similar.
― ailsa, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:12 (thirteen years ago) link
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 12:02 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
OH OH THIS
'er indoors put photos of us on fb, my aunt sees them and emails my father, who prints them and gives it to my mother, who goes APE SHIT because she didn't see them first. This has been going on for months.
My mother's particularly jealous of this (paternal) aunt so her whining is always cranked up to 11.
Of course all this would be solved if she just got a fb account but she refuses to use computers or the internet (as recounted in other threads under my aa acct, probably).
― goldenarsehat.jpg (Schlafsack), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 03:18 (thirteen years ago) link
put = puts
― goldenarsehat.jpg (Schlafsack), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 03:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Hoax That Facebook Is Closing Goes ViralRumors That Site Is Shutting Down on March 15 Have Spread Across the Web
Rumors that Facebook will be shutting down on March 15 have gone viral across the web, causing users to question what will happen to their photos and other content that they have shared on the world's largest social networking site.
The flurry of online chatter that the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company would shut down its servers comes just days after it had been valued at $50 billion after a $500 million infusion of cash by investment bank Goldman-Sachs.
The story seems to have been perpetuated by supermarket tabloid the Weekly World News, which Saturday published an article headlined "Facebook Will End March 15th!"
"Facebook has gotten out of control and the stress of managing this company has ruined my life," the tabloid said Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said in a press conference outside his office, "I need to put an end to all the madness."
The Weekly World News, which is known for stories on alien abductions and the infamous "bat boy," also reported that Facebook indicated that users should remove all of their personal information and content from the site by March 15. According to the article, after that all photos, notes, links, and videos would be removed.
Looking at trends across the web, including Google Trends and on Twitter, it appears that many are falling prey to the rumor mill.
A "Top Tweet" -- popular Tweets that have caught the attention of other Twitter users -- from a user named DaddySteak today reads: "Woww...they are shutting down Facebook on March 15,2011."
Hundreds of other similar speculations and rumors can be found across the micro-blogging site, with many users linking to articles perpetuating the rumor.
Facebook has yet to officially respond to the article.
― gr8080, Sunday, 9 January 2011 20:27 (thirteen years ago) link
― markers, Sunday, 9 January 2011 20:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Waiting for the day FOX or someone run w/an Onion article.
― Ex Loin Tamer (Trayce), Sunday, 9 January 2011 21:24 (thirteen years ago) link
from what i saw on twitter this is more joke than rumor
― ice cr?m, Sunday, 9 January 2011 21:25 (thirteen years ago) link
doesnt change the fact a lotta people are taking it seriously
― gr8080, Sunday, 9 January 2011 21:28 (thirteen years ago) link
are they tho are they really
― ice cr?m, Sunday, 9 January 2011 21:28 (thirteen years ago) link
call my mom and ask her. call her right now
― nakh get on my lvl (roxymuzak), Sunday, 9 January 2011 21:33 (thirteen years ago) link
i should call yr mom i should
― ice cr?m, Sunday, 9 January 2011 21:35 (thirteen years ago) link
my mom heard the post office is losing so much money that they're gonna charge u five cents each time u look at facebook
― mookieproof, Sunday, 9 January 2011 21:36 (thirteen years ago) link
lol gullible facebook users
― Suppositori Spelling (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 9 January 2011 22:13 (thirteen years ago) link
I'd say seeing as Snopes ran on this just y'day then yeah people are taking it seriously.
― Ex Loin Tamer (Trayce), Sunday, 9 January 2011 23:30 (thirteen years ago) link
it was time for another "facebook wants to be your one true login" disaster
― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, 9 January 2011 23:30 (thirteen years ago) link
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=facebook+down ?
― James Mitchell, Friday, 14 January 2011 08:20 (thirteen years ago) link
hate the photo lightbox overlay thing
― Kerm, Friday, 14 January 2011 09:00 (thirteen years ago) link
a few months ago i snuck into my husband's facebook account and wrote 'i like to fart' in his about-me section. he finally noticed it last week and removed it.
i snuck in again today and wrote 'i REALLY like to fart'.
― just1n3, Friday, 14 January 2011 18:51 (thirteen years ago) link
haa
― ice cr?m, Friday, 14 January 2011 18:52 (thirteen years ago) link
nice!
― VegemiteGrrrl, Friday, 14 January 2011 19:12 (thirteen years ago) link
so does he?
― dell (del), Friday, 14 January 2011 20:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Is he also crazy?
Facebook's been down for me all day, which is annoying but still hasn't done much for my productivity what with ilx and twitter etc etc.
― emil.y, Friday, 14 January 2011 20:55 (thirteen years ago) link
"Can I say you're my girlfriend on Fartbook?"
― dell (del), Friday, 14 January 2011 21:00 (thirteen years ago) link
he does, so it's not like i wrote a ~lie~ on there
― just1n3, Friday, 14 January 2011 21:14 (thirteen years ago) link
lol it'll be at least another 3 months before he notices it
hobbies can be distracting.
― dell (del), Friday, 14 January 2011 21:18 (thirteen years ago) link
he likes to fart and is crazy
― harlan, Friday, 14 January 2011 21:29 (thirteen years ago) link
likes horseriding, long farts on the beach
― VegemiteGrrrl, Friday, 14 January 2011 21:33 (thirteen years ago) link
i really like to fart is making me lol
― nakh get on my lvl (roxymuzak), Friday, 14 January 2011 22:55 (thirteen years ago) link
the day fbook introduced custom urls, roxy trusted me w/ her fbook password so that i could register her custom URL for her
a few months later i logged in and turned all her profile pictures upside down
<3 <3 <3 <3
― gr8080, Saturday, 15 January 2011 03:08 (thirteen years ago) link
XOJ
― a can, a mla, a nmutua ― (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 15 January 2011 03:11 (thirteen years ago) link
haha and that is the day i stopped trusting u tbh as u are a duplicitous fuq iirc
― nakh get on my lvl (roxymuzak), Saturday, 15 January 2011 18:11 (thirteen years ago) link
(jk lol)
― nakh get on my lvl (roxymuzak), Saturday, 15 January 2011 18:12 (thirteen years ago) link
haha i had forgotten that that is how you got the password tho. i was SO DESPERATE to have facebook.com/gabbneb that i had u log in for me while i was at work
worth it imo
― gr8080, Saturday, 15 January 2011 20:53 (thirteen years ago) link
http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/446
Farcebook making yer mobile number and email address available to developers. How that would benefit ANY user anywhere in the world is a mystery http://media.photobucket.com/image/it%20is%20a%20mystery/ll_Crayola_ll7/Emotes/th_iiamicon2.gif but pretty clear how corrupt shitheads will exploit this for money.
You don't disclose it unless you explicitly give permission, but still.
― hipsterPad (Schlafsack), Monday, 17 January 2011 05:08 (thirteen years ago) link
sorry, ACTUAL PHYSICAL address, not email address
― hipsterPad (Schlafsack), Monday, 17 January 2011 05:09 (thirteen years ago) link
As I said to someone else about this, what idiot is putting their home address/phone number in their profile to start with?
― Stargazey Pi (Trayce), Monday, 17 January 2011 05:48 (thirteen years ago) link
ikr but the motive still stinks to high heaven.
― hipsterPad (Schlafsack), Monday, 17 January 2011 05:50 (thirteen years ago) link
moms
― mookieproof, Monday, 17 January 2011 05:50 (thirteen years ago) link
I avoid 99% of apps too, so.
― Stargazey Pi (Trayce), Monday, 17 January 2011 05:54 (thirteen years ago) link
its crazy how bad facebook has fucked up their whole app system - you know when a good % of yr users wont mess w/it for fear of unattended consequences youve got a problem
― ice cr?m, Monday, 17 January 2011 14:41 (thirteen years ago) link
so a friend of mine has just had his profile shut down. no explanation and they're not giving jim an explanation. effing weird.
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 17 January 2011 18:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Also FB made it much easier to detect when a user unlikes a page.
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 17 January 2011 21:23 (thirteen years ago) link
This will Page admins immediately recognize if something they’ve done, like post a controversial status update, is causing users to unsubscribe.
That makes sense, to me. Any developer would love to know what steps/missteps cause changes to their userbase.
The address/phone thing is needless though. This shit's just made me think "fine, no more apps". I cant think of the last time I saw one I *genuinely* needed anyway. Theyre all quizzes, "causes" and horoscope shit.
― Stargazey Pi (Trayce), Monday, 17 January 2011 22:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Really not a whole lot of difference between most Facebook apps and
http://www.shareasale.com/image/mlist-b4u02.gif
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 17 January 2011 22:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah totally!
― Stargazey Pi (Trayce), Monday, 17 January 2011 22:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Except I guess the sneaky $5 /second charges and whatnot on SMS
― Stargazey Pi (Trayce), Monday, 17 January 2011 22:48 (thirteen years ago) link
I remember when old people first started using e-mail, and they were all "Why am I getting all this junk mail? I never go to sites that talk about pennis?" and now, they're all going to be asking the same damn questions all over again.
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 17 January 2011 22:49 (thirteen years ago) link
n e 1 4 pennis
― hipsterPad (Schlafsack), Monday, 17 January 2011 22:53 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i51.tinypic.com/ejwgh1.jpg
― markers, Monday, 17 January 2011 23:02 (thirteen years ago) link
WTH is that.
I never see FB ads, adblock plus with the latest profile set kills the lot.
― Stargazey Pi (Trayce), Monday, 17 January 2011 23:05 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.facebook.com/ArcadeApparel, apparently!
― markers, Monday, 17 January 2011 23:09 (thirteen years ago) link
I am...slightly less confused.
― Stargazey Pi (Trayce), Monday, 17 January 2011 23:10 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm scared to know what an "outdoor fun belt" is. Does it prevent hernias while bungee jumping?
― Stargazey Pi (Trayce), Monday, 17 January 2011 23:11 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe the company manufactures bungee jumping gear for babies
― markers, Monday, 17 January 2011 23:12 (thirteen years ago) link
the last time I saw one I *genuinely* needed anyway.
― basically just a 2/47 freak out (sic), Monday, 17 January 2011 23:29 (thirteen years ago) link
I really needed my Addicted to Futurama app, chut up.
― Stargazey Pi (Trayce), Monday, 17 January 2011 23:34 (thirteen years ago) link
so this subject was touched on some months ago...but the 10 friends that facebook picks to list under your profile is really bothering me...like I'm pretty sure 80% of the people they list are people with whom you've fb-interacted recently but then there are always 1-2 people who are there for absolutely no reason. what was so bad about just using a pure random group of friends? it's something I notice every time I log in at this point.
― iatee, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 00:42 (thirteen years ago) link
so he DID notice it and he changed it to
my wife is hilarious.
might be a note of sarcasm in there.
― just1n3, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 07:40 (thirteen years ago) link
lol!
― Stargazey Pi (Trayce), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 08:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Just got kicked over to the new profile mself. Whatev. I think that list of friends it shows you can change - a la myspace top 10 maybe? - but I cant work out how.
― Stargazey Pi (Trayce), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 08:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Why can't the apps just deal w/granular permissions? There are plenty I would add if only I could say "yeh sure have my name and friends list but i'm fucked if you're posting to my wall or getting my phone number" in the authorise box.
― stet, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 17:41 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i331.photobucket.com/albums/l442/acrobins/armsgettingfatter.jpg
I laughed a lot at this and then felt really mean. Girl in question isn't actually fat, I think the guy's comment just came out wrong.
― salsa shark, Friday, 21 January 2011 12:14 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i53.tinypic.com/rat5hx.jpg
"Can I say you're my teenage dream on my Facebook?"
― Cunga, Friday, 21 January 2011 20:50 (thirteen years ago) link
"Can I say I'm friends with you, Jewel, while one of my employees hover-hands you for this awkward photo?"
http://i51.tinypic.com/350nqdt.jpg
― Cunga, Friday, 21 January 2011 20:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Zuckerburg is the creepiest man on the planet imo.
― Balls is significantly to the left of Brown (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 21 January 2011 20:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Who's the girl on the far right?
― Cunga, Friday, 21 January 2011 20:58 (thirteen years ago) link
(Cause the girl on the left is Jewel, I'm just assuming she's someone else famous plus she's recognizable [and plus she looks interesting])
― Cunga, Friday, 21 January 2011 21:00 (thirteen years ago) link
haha hover-hand
― David Warner (Princess TamTam), Friday, 21 January 2011 21:01 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i51.tinypic.com/71r9kl.jpg
Hey! That guy's browsing Facebook at work oh wai--
― Cunga, Friday, 21 January 2011 21:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Is that Katy Perry?
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Friday, 21 January 2011 21:48 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/altreport/2011/01/katy-perry-visits-facebook-hq-mark-zuckerbro-has-hornie-grin.html
― Jefferson Mansplain (DG), Friday, 21 January 2011 21:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Is that Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.)?
http://cdn.hipsterrunoff.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/800/20110121-8inshnwc3pwsh26ss37imcnud3.jpg
And for a billion dollar company, Facebook has a shitty workplace.
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 21 January 2011 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link
looks just like the movie
― dayo, Saturday, 22 January 2011 02:11 (thirteen years ago) link
http://runt-of-the-web.com/post/2472562549/why-i-need-quit-facebook
― markers, Monday, 24 January 2011 19:23 (thirteen years ago) link
This fucking horrible black-bordered pop-up has just started appearing when you view photos. Really hope it's not permanent. Stop fiddling, Zuckerberg.
― Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Friday, 4 February 2011 00:41 (thirteen years ago) link
An eminently more sensible addition would be to have a hi-res viewing option on photos.
― Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Friday, 4 February 2011 00:56 (thirteen years ago) link
ive noticed on some of my friends photos there is a button for "download hi-res version" now
― gr8080, Friday, 4 February 2011 01:16 (thirteen years ago) link
wonder if FB did the smart thing and stored everybody's photos in their original res when they were uploaded
― dayo, Friday, 4 February 2011 01:28 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah prob not otherwise shit that was uploaded before they went from 600px wide to 720px wide wouldnt still look tiny and crappy
― gr8080, Friday, 4 February 2011 01:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Nah you can opt to upload in hi res so I'd say its when ppl have chosen that option.
― Cyclone Yazoo (Trayce), Friday, 4 February 2011 02:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, pretty sure though that anyone over 50 is still going to just upload 200 x 150s of themselves.
I don't know how you even do that on purpose, let alone on accident.
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 4 February 2011 04:10 (thirteen years ago) link
i always comment "y'all are small" on those
― gr8080, Friday, 4 February 2011 05:11 (thirteen years ago) link
http://grab.by/grabs/28baad5bef139414f4cf03264ec1b117.png
― gr8080, Saturday, 5 February 2011 03:33 (thirteen years ago) link
A guy I know recently got hired as a writer for the TV show Lights Out, and now this guy is commenting on his Facebook updates:http://remote.lohudblogs.com/files/2008/01/regecathey.jpg
― Tyler/Perry's "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)" (jaymc), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 20:05 (thirteen years ago) link
awesome
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 04:35 (thirteen years ago) link
ugh new photo viewer sucks unless you're on a big screen
― gr8080, Friday, 11 February 2011 03:41 (thirteen years ago) link
― ENBB, Friday, 11 February 2011 03:43 (thirteen years ago) link
its weird! wtf w/the black background
― ice cr?m, Friday, 11 February 2011 03:53 (thirteen years ago) link
ruh roh, i don't think i have seen this
― markers, Friday, 11 February 2011 03:55 (thirteen years ago) link
lotta photo nerds say photos always look better on a black background, but yeah still weird
just noticed that if you get a new notification while in that viewer, you have to close the viewer just to see that you have a new notification. not a big deal, but still poorly designed
― gr8080, Friday, 11 February 2011 03:55 (thirteen years ago) link
also, you cant right click and get the image url, but there is a "download" button
― gr8080, Friday, 11 February 2011 03:56 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i can understand their motivation for the change but it just seems a lil rough even for facebook
― ice cr?m, Friday, 11 February 2011 03:58 (thirteen years ago) link
is this where they start to die like myspace?
― gr8080, Friday, 11 February 2011 04:10 (thirteen years ago) link
i just defaced and so did everyone i know o well
― ice cr?m, Friday, 11 February 2011 04:12 (thirteen years ago) link
More Beautiful Photosby Sam Odio on Thursday, February 10, 2011 at 1:21pm
UPDATE on Thursday, February 10, 2011: We are rolling out the new Photo Viewer to everyone over the course of the next few weeks. Now, you can browse more photos faster without having to lose your place in Facebook. Visit the Help Center to learn more about using the Photo Viewer. Check out our Engineering blog for more technical details about how we designed and engineered the new feature.
― gr8080, Friday, 11 February 2011 05:40 (thirteen years ago) link
pr0 tip: hit F5 to return to old-skool photo mode
― gr8080, Friday, 11 February 2011 05:45 (thirteen years ago) link
* Request to Join Against facebook new photo viewer 22 members * Like The new photo viewer on face.book sucks Page 407 people like this. * Request to Join new facebook photo viewer sucks 10 members * Request to Join New Facebook Photo Viewer?..C'Mon son. 2 members * Request to Join Please change the new Facebook photo viewer 8 members * Request to Join FACEBOOK: Change the photo viewer back to how it was 262 members * Request to Join The new Facebook photo viewer is a big pile of poo 37 members
― gr8080, Friday, 11 February 2011 05:46 (thirteen years ago) link
facebook users in 'hate change' shocker
― Most women do not like atheism.(8)(9)(10) (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 11 February 2011 05:58 (thirteen years ago) link
i finally got invited to google questions because grady wanted to know where he could buy ugly shoes
― max, Friday, 11 February 2011 06:04 (thirteen years ago) link
you're making me feel like forks here but come on how are these uglyhttp://classicrockmusicblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/joe-jackson-look-sharp.jpg
― gr8080, Friday, 11 February 2011 06:12 (thirteen years ago) link
dog
― max, Friday, 11 February 2011 06:18 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean maybe that shit would fly in hawaii
yeah that question about the shoes went to my school email and i was really confused
― dark link (roxymuzak), Friday, 11 February 2011 14:41 (thirteen years ago) link
how are they not ugly
― am0n, Friday, 11 February 2011 15:18 (thirteen years ago) link
theyre "sharp"
― dark link (roxymuzak), Friday, 11 February 2011 21:15 (thirteen years ago) link
and thus begins ridiculous trend of brand pages trying to break the world record for most fb status update 'likes'http://www.facebook.com/LilWayne/posts/135207573211169http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150104058844653&set=a.124804629652.101377.114998944652&comments
― salsa shark, Wednesday, 16 February 2011 17:24 (thirteen years ago) link
lol @ the 12 guys who accepted this friend requesthttp://i.imgur.com/Uql9u.png
― gr8080, Thursday, 17 February 2011 19:50 (thirteen years ago) link
college of the sequoias made me lol
― dayo, Friday, 18 February 2011 00:42 (thirteen years ago) link
what its just some hot naked chick making friend requests to strangers, shes prob v nice
― ice cr?m, Friday, 18 February 2011 00:54 (thirteen years ago) link
I miss myspace where it was the same dozen dudes making comment like "u so hot call me add me."
― http://tinyurl.com/lil-shits (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 18 February 2011 01:19 (thirteen years ago) link
yo can i get wit u
― ☠ (roxymuzak), Friday, 18 February 2011 02:08 (thirteen years ago) link
a/s/l
― Trayce, Friday, 18 February 2011 02:18 (thirteen years ago) link
hey i dont use facebook much but check out my dating profile and videos here
― gr8080, Friday, 18 February 2011 02:24 (thirteen years ago) link
you know in 5 years when we look back and ask why did facebook fail, it's not going to be some marketing misstep or privacy violation or new competitor. it's because it still can't handle a fucking ANIMATED GIF. wtf
― dayo, Friday, 18 February 2011 02:32 (thirteen years ago) link
otm
― gr8080, Friday, 18 February 2011 03:10 (thirteen years ago) link
ive always said thats why fb cant really be considered 'internet'
― ice cr?m, Friday, 18 February 2011 03:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah its not the same without penguin.gif HRs and BLINK TAGS ;_;
― Trayce, Friday, 18 February 2011 03:23 (thirteen years ago) link
This guy I went to high school with has posted YouTube videos from like four different "Rocky" movies in the past 24 hours. He is not wearing a shirt in his photo, but is not particularly buff, and the lighting is creepy and he's staring down the camera in a scary way. Here are some of his recent posts:
I ain't got time to listen to or be bothered by the opinions of juniors or haters. I'm doing the things that I wanna do.
In slightly over 1 month I handled activities for 11 different clients. I'm also still able to bench press btwn 40-50kgs relatively easily. I still pray to God, in my own way everyday. I try to be a benevolent and complete individual. No bull.
The worst kind of individual is the one that constantly criticizes, complains, insults, harms others, or is just plain lazy and does little that is productive, meaningful, or benevolent for anyone or anything.
The strongest and bravest individual is the one who dares to stand alone. The smartest would try to achieve that and acquire company. The weakest would always resort to others.
Certain things can't be understood on a superficial level. If it's personal, only the individual concerned would know abt it. Others really have no business intruding unless there's a crime. A reward is a reward. No hanky panky abt that. Don't be jealous. Find out their secret to success.That's what I'd do.
literally every single one of his posts is in this style
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 18 February 2011 16:17 (thirteen years ago) link
See if he thinks Boondock Saints was a documentary.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 February 2011 16:19 (thirteen years ago) link
The worst kind of individual is the one that constantly criticizes
That's very judgemental of you...
― Mark G, Friday, 18 February 2011 16:20 (thirteen years ago) link
No hanky panky abt that.
― Danzig, with tears in my eyes (DavidM), Friday, 18 February 2011 18:38 (thirteen years ago) link
http://images.wikia.com/lyricwiki/images/e/ec/Tommy_James_and_the_Shondells_-_Hanky_Panky.jpg
― Poll Makossa (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 February 2011 22:07 (thirteen years ago) link
JESUS CHRIST!!!!:
gr8080 and J*** H**** are now friends after both attending [EVENT NAME].· LikeUnlike ·
― gr8080, Saturday, 19 February 2011 20:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh yeah, I had one of those come up after somebody I already knew IRL FB friended me the day after a birthday party we were at.
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 19 February 2011 20:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Myspace had animated GIFs, i remember that. So lame you can't use them on FB tho.
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 19 February 2011 20:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Egyptian parents are naming their kids “Facebook” to commemorate the events surrounding the #Jan25 revolution.
― James Mitchell, Sunday, 20 February 2011 14:37 (thirteen years ago) link
that guy n/a posted about reminds me of "particular individual" from idiocracy
― ☠ (roxymuzak), Sunday, 20 February 2011 20:15 (thirteen years ago) link
friends after attending is so horrendous, h8 that shit
― flopson, Sunday, 20 February 2011 20:23 (thirteen years ago) link
friends after fucking after attending
― ice cr?m, Sunday, 20 February 2011 20:26 (thirteen years ago) link
am going to comment ";)" to all upcoming instances as a protest
― flopson, Sunday, 20 February 2011 20:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Would totally use an "X just hit it with Y" option on facebook. Esp for the lulz.
― Trayce, Sunday, 20 February 2011 20:42 (thirteen years ago) link
"ladies, do you wish your man could smell of rainbow colored dolphins and solid gold coconuts?"
― sarahel, Monday, 21 February 2011 21:30 (thirteen years ago) link
fb is recommending i friend some1 i have no mutual friends with: she's some employee i've sent a complaint to + am in ongoing 'negotiation' with
i guess they just automatically access yr emails now?
― for all the fucked-up children of this world we give you 1p3 (history mayne), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 18:23 (thirteen years ago) link
fb recommended i friend someone whom i had told a funny story about to a friend the night before -- don't think fb is accessing my phone conversations.
― sarahel, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 18:29 (thirteen years ago) link
it ~knows~
― gr8080, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 18:35 (thirteen years ago) link
xp she could have used the friend finder on her end & now it knows you too are 'buddies' and decided to try you since she didn't click add..
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 20:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Just read about this!
http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/19/facebook-egypt-newborn/
― jaymc, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 20:23 (thirteen years ago) link
these egyptians need to talk to the folks that named their kids "friendster" a few years ago.
― kate78, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 21:46 (thirteen years ago) link
i said it on the Egypt thread and i'll say it again here: there's something comforting about how universal lousy parenting is.
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 22:01 (thirteen years ago) link
says a guy named thermo
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 22:02 (thirteen years ago) link
On the baby-name blog where I first saw that news, someone posited that "Facebook" might not sound that strange amid common Egyptian names like Falak and Farouk.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 22:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Then again, I don't think the objections to it are necessarily based on aesthetics.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 22:08 (thirteen years ago) link
facebook is an amazing name f the h8rs
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 23:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Fezbuk.
― Trayce, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Fåzboçk
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 23:24 (thirteen years ago) link
http://img.slate.com/media/1/123125/2126996/2156597/2173480/070924_Tech_FacebookTN.jpg
― gr8080, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 02:41 (thirteen years ago) link
that just reminds me of:
http://img.youtube.com/vi/6rNgCnY1lPg/0.jpg
― Trayce, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 02:47 (thirteen years ago) link
love that pic! xpost
― ☠ (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 02:53 (thirteen years ago) link
I hate seeing my friends comment on posts from people I don't know. Makes me feel like a voyeur. No way to turn it off, either.
― just woke up (lukas), Thursday, 24 February 2011 01:22 (thirteen years ago) link
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/02/facebook_app_helps_break_up_re.html
― gr8080, Saturday, 26 February 2011 02:27 (thirteen years ago) link
A "friend" keeps befriending more and more friends every day, and this tiny little row of thumbnail mugs appears on my page.
Instead of an actual picture of themselves, one of his new acquaintances has a photograph of Megan McCain with her mouth duct-taped, from that tolerance campaign.
And each time I see it, I think "Who are these freaks?" before I realize what it is.
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 9 March 2011 21:29 (thirteen years ago) link
so now you have to hit the return/enter key to submit a comment. meaning you can't submit replies with more than one paragraph or even just a new line?
― jed_, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 23:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Hoping that's just a temporary bug, but maybe it isn't.
I'll be damned if I'm going to type out a comment in notepad first before pasting it to someone's facebook comment thread.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 23:28 (thirteen years ago) link
why are you guys composing multiparagraph messages on facebook
― max, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 23:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Sometimes you have to get into debates with friends and/or friends of friends on certain status updates. I got into a whopper about Bradley Manning last week with some ex-military/total conservative knobs on a high school friend's page.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 23:36 (thirteen years ago) link
i think the end of the "submit" button might be gods way of telling you not to do that
― max, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 23:37 (thirteen years ago) link
My reshare of a Planned Parenthood post to not cut family planning funding set off a flamewar on my page between two pro-lifers and basically the rest of the world.
To be fair, I kind of walked away and they were commenting for two more days. I didn't even skim it until a week or two later.
― mh, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 23:45 (thirteen years ago) link
You hit shift-enter to make a linebreak, guys.
― Fun Fun Fun Fun auf der Autobahn (Trayce), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 23:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Y'all can hit shift enter for line breaks!
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 23:46 (thirteen years ago) link
I wish I had more shitfights on my FB! All my friends are left of Stalin, so it'll never happen.
― Fun Fun Fun Fun auf der Autobahn (Trayce), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 23:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Damn you Trayce! :)
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 23:47 (thirteen years ago) link
I keep my friends diverse enough that there's got to be at least one person breaking the law, on unemployment, converting to Catholicism, gutterpunk, engaged, gay, married, going through a divorce, high, or rich. Life is a rich tapestry.
― mh, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 23:49 (thirteen years ago) link
sonned in a shift-enter beef.
― jed_, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 23:50 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't! i hate seeing this tbqh
― fried egg on my mind (electricsound), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 23:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah in all honesty I prob wouldnt enjoy it either. Esp cos some of my friends can be... vicious.
― Fun Fun Fun Fun auf der Autobahn (Trayce), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 23:55 (thirteen years ago) link
I eventually end up deleting or being deleted by friends with whom there are constant clashes.
The only time it really hurt was when an old friend who's since turned into an ultra-Xtian defriended me after sending me a message about how she was sad that she had to choose Jesus over me.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 17 March 2011 00:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh that blows :(
― Fun Fun Fun Fun auf der Autobahn (Trayce), Thursday, 17 March 2011 00:04 (thirteen years ago) link
I eventually end up deleting or being deleted by friends with whom there are constant clashes.The only time it really hurt was when an old friend who's since turned into an ultra-Xtian defriended me after sending me a message about how she was sad that she had to choose Jesus over me.
― calling planet dearth (sunny successor), Friday, 18 March 2011 02:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Jesus Built my Hotmail
― bad voise, it sucked, pick a seat (Trayce), Friday, 18 March 2011 02:13 (thirteen years ago) link
vg.
― Mark G, Friday, 18 March 2011 09:19 (thirteen years ago) link
...and she probably doesn't realize how passive-aggressive that sounds.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Friday, 18 March 2011 15:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Pretty sure that if you're an ultra-Christian, you're going to have to choose Jesus over everybody.
― http://tinyurl.com/vroooo0ooooom (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 18 March 2011 15:46 (thirteen years ago) link
jesus is all, all is jesus, god is great!
― ice cr?m, Friday, 18 March 2011 16:03 (thirteen years ago) link
i have solved all the porblems
Oh, you have?
― http://tinyurl.com/vroooo0ooooom (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 18 March 2011 16:03 (thirteen years ago) link
i am jesus, praise jesus
― ice cr?m, Friday, 18 March 2011 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link
friend jesus
anyone notice 'Memorable Status Updates'? whatsdatabout?
― i love it when a suggest ban comes together (cajunsunday), Friday, 18 March 2011 18:49 (thirteen years ago) link
some bullshit
― SBlendor in the grass (bernard snowy), Friday, 18 March 2011 19:11 (thirteen years ago) link
"No, I do not want Facebook as my homepage..."
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 18 March 2011 19:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Hate the new 'message centre'. Think I've been saying this for over a year, but COME ON, when will the new social network site take over? I was fine moving from friendster to myspace, myspace to facebook, I can do it again.
― emil.y, Friday, 18 March 2011 19:59 (thirteen years ago) link
still h8 the new pop-out way of viewing photos
plus half the time shit just doesn't load, and the latest privacy settings thing was bs
― lex pretend, Friday, 18 March 2011 20:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Are you on Diaspora?
To answer emily's question though I still haven't exactly come across what the point of diaspora is supposed to be.
― http://tinyurl.com/vroooo0ooooom (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 18 March 2011 20:10 (thirteen years ago) link
I think the photo viewer is now at full saturation. There used to be a way around it (via "photo memories"), but I can't make it work now.
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 18 March 2011 20:15 (thirteen years ago) link
originally it was to punish the jews for worshipping false gods. idk what it's for anymore
― Mordy, Friday, 18 March 2011 20:20 (thirteen years ago) link
i like how the photo view opens over yr news feed so you dont have to navigate back and lose yr place when you close it but i HATE how you cant grab photos off it because im a compulsive internet photograbber - i know theres a download button but then the pic not in the right place gdamn this fucks w/my flow h8 u fb
― ice cr?m, Friday, 18 March 2011 21:33 (thirteen years ago) link
The photoviewer is great for the news feed, yes. To get to the old display, where you can grab the photo, just reload/refresh while the viewer is open.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 18 March 2011 21:35 (thirteen years ago) link
The hell are you people downloading off of Facebook?
― http://tinyurl.com/vroooo0ooooom (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 18 March 2011 21:36 (thirteen years ago) link
As for the friend who chose Jesus over me, I was kind of asking for it when I called God a real selfish motherfucker for killing Rue McClanahan and that if he tried that shit with Betty White I was coming after him. She found that not funny at all.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 18 March 2011 21:36 (thirteen years ago) link
"Oh, hey. A picture of my co-worker's sister in a prom dress." *~sAvE*~
― http://tinyurl.com/vroooo0ooooom (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 18 March 2011 21:37 (thirteen years ago) link
lol dude youve seen one of my albums has a picture from yr fb, you even commented on it
― ice cr?m, Friday, 18 March 2011 21:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Haha, I forgot about those albums. Download all you want, gr8080 jr.
― http://tinyurl.com/vroooo0ooooom (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 18 March 2011 21:49 (thirteen years ago) link
guys just hit F5 in the new photo viewer and it goes back to the old way
― gr8080, Friday, 18 March 2011 23:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Alex and C******** O**** are now friends after both attending Florentine drinks.
wut, since when has the bolded part been a thing that facebook tells people
― lex pretend, Sunday, 20 March 2011 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
WUT? You know that some PR somewhere is going to have to report on how many party guests became friends following their event.
― anna sui generis (suzy), Sunday, 20 March 2011 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
the funny thing is how it makes it look like C and I just met at those drinks, when we've actually been friends (in the always-talk-at-same-parties sense) for ages and only just got round to being fbook friends b/c who even bothers being rigorous about that any more
― lex pretend, Sunday, 20 March 2011 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
its been doing that a while and yeah, lex you point out the obvious flaw. What a dumb idea it is.
― bad voise, it sucked, pick a seat (Trayce), Sunday, 20 March 2011 21:03 (twelve years ago) link
i remember reading about friendster in a magazine and how "celebs" were into it and i was like jeez *everyone* is a loser now also what about privacy
― plax (ico), Sunday, 20 March 2011 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
fuck I think I just clicked on one of those linkbait scams :>
― dayo, Monday, 21 March 2011 02:34 (twelve years ago) link
ppl with me on fb, am I recommending links
― dayo, Monday, 21 March 2011 02:36 (twelve years ago) link
naw
― ice cr?m, Monday, 21 March 2011 03:02 (twelve years ago) link
whew *wipes sweat off brow*
― dayo, Monday, 21 March 2011 03:04 (twelve years ago) link
how have those not been removed from the site yet?? wtf do the people who work at fb do w/ their time
― iatee, Monday, 21 March 2011 03:05 (twelve years ago) link
other than read the inboxes of girls they like
yeah when youve made people afraid to click links on yr website you have a problem
― ice cr?m, Monday, 21 March 2011 03:06 (twelve years ago) link
and i mean apps apps forget abt that
an app is likely to kill yr whole family
― ice cr?m, Monday, 21 March 2011 03:07 (twelve years ago) link
hahah what sort of power do the engineers at fb have
― dayo, Monday, 21 March 2011 03:09 (twelve years ago) link
"why does this guy keep appearing in my fb feed?"
each feed is hand curated by an angry nerd
― ice cr?m, Monday, 21 March 2011 03:10 (twelve years ago) link
my new social networking platform pitch^
― ice cr?m, Monday, 21 March 2011 03:11 (twelve years ago) link
my favourite thing is ppl like my mother-in-law who refused to use paypal bc they're convinced someone is gonna steal all their money, but will happily click really dodgy links on facebook, despite repeated advice to the contrary.
― just1n3, Monday, 21 March 2011 04:10 (twelve years ago) link
somehow i "liked" or became a fan of three musicians i've never heard of. how is that possible? feel like someone's inside my facebook, liking bands.
― rent, Monday, 21 March 2011 04:28 (twelve years ago) link
this guy i'm friends with but have only met once just "liked" my chemical romance and it was so completely out-of-character that it made him rise hugely in my esteem, and this thread suggests that it wasn't him.
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 21 March 2011 04:41 (twelve years ago) link
which is a relief because i like people to stay RIGHT WHERE THEY ARE in my esteem
ha. it is just a bit worrying, though. i feel somehow compromised. i haven't clicked on any weird links...i dunno.
― rent, Monday, 21 March 2011 05:12 (twelve years ago) link
facebook is really not very good at saying "so this other website is going to write on yr wall now, is this cool?", i have noticed - so it might be that kind of thing?
like, i voted for someone's remix in some competition, and that automatically went and wrote on my wall about it (as i was logged in to FB, tho didn't have it open), and obv i didn't notice for about a week because seriously who looks at their own wall?
so maybe some website somewhere took your click on a link to be a vote of confidence in some anono-dude and told FB about it and FB was like, awesome, let's log it, because after all we all want fully-joined-up 360-degree-deal online identities. Or alternately it was an angry nerd, trying to increase the number of dudes liking his mate's band.
― c sharp major, Monday, 21 March 2011 08:47 (twelve years ago) link
There are some settings somewhere that have to do with linkage to outside sites that share w/FB I think, that you can turn off? I forget now, but I locked down/disabled everything I could think of ages back, have hidden/blocked every app that ever appeared and so on. OH also adblock plus on firefox is yr friend. No annoying ads in sidebars for me.
― bad voise, it sucked, pick a seat (Trayce), Monday, 21 March 2011 09:21 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i'm gonna have to go back and see that my previous locking-down hasn't been pried back open a bit...
because after all we all want fully-joined-up 360-degree-deal online identities
this terrifies me. i know it's an ever-encroaching reality but i mean you can end up seeing some pretty weird things in that online 360. i'm pretty sure i haven't enabled whatever thing sends likes directly to your profile, but i still keep a wide berth from those little "like" icons wherever they pop up.
― rent, Monday, 21 March 2011 09:28 (twelve years ago) link
I was on the FB last night, trying to track down people (didn't work, I have their addresses tho), with Amber on my right looking over.
She would inist on calling out "ooh, "Link up with single ladies in your area!" "
"Will you stop reading out the adverts?"
(wife is not a fb user, fill in the rest yerself)
― Mark G, Monday, 21 March 2011 09:53 (twelve years ago) link
I always assumed you only got those ads if you said you were single in yr profile?
― I only use this style of type when I choose it (DJ Mencap), Monday, 21 March 2011 09:59 (twelve years ago) link
Well, yr rong.
― Mark G, Monday, 21 March 2011 10:03 (twelve years ago) link
new messaging system is bobbins
― Romford Spring (DG), Monday, 21 March 2011 10:30 (twelve years ago) link
...new messaging system?
― bad voise, it sucked, pick a seat (Trayce), Monday, 21 March 2011 10:41 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, they put messages on the funny round things you get when you've used up the thread on sewing machines.
― Mark G, Monday, 21 March 2011 10:42 (twelve years ago) link
― I only use this style of type when I choose it (DJ Mencap), Monday, March 21, 2011 2:59 AM (6 hours ago)
you get more of them if you're single
― sarahel, Monday, 21 March 2011 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
I'm listed as married, and I get them.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Monday, 21 March 2011 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
My daughter, clearly, doesn't get them.
― Mark G, Monday, 21 March 2011 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
I uploaded some pics and facebook was able to group all the pics that contained the same person
wauw
― dayo, Thursday, 24 March 2011 01:53 (twelve years ago) link
Wait woah what do you mean group them?
― Borads of Candida (Trayce), Thursday, 24 March 2011 02:01 (twelve years ago) link
for tagging, like it found all the pics with person A and I could just tell fb it was that person and it tagged all of them
― dayo, Thursday, 24 March 2011 02:11 (twelve years ago) link
http://f.cl.ly/items/382j2C1A1X2Z0m1K1w0T/fbscifi.png
― sarcasdick (mh), Thursday, 24 March 2011 16:11 (twelve years ago) link
"those sci fi girls" ?
― Borads of Candida (Trayce), Thursday, 24 March 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
"man, I love me a Minbari chick"
God.http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/9434/442011103758am.jpg
― calling planet dearth (sunny successor), Monday, 4 April 2011 15:45 (twelve years ago) link
ah! wth?
― ENBB, Monday, 4 April 2011 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
the child clearly needs a worker.. !
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Monday, 4 April 2011 15:55 (twelve years ago) link
has everyone else's friends started posting to Facebook less and less and Twitter more and more? for the people i know at least, this seems to be a really recent thing, but it's definitely happening
― markers, Friday, 8 April 2011 14:18 (twelve years ago) link
#no
― Romford Spring (DG), Friday, 8 April 2011 14:53 (twelve years ago) link
people are firmly dug in to facebook as far as i can see
― Romford Spring (DG), Friday, 8 April 2011 14:56 (twelve years ago) link
i should specify that the people i'm talking about are mostly, like, in the 22-24ish range
― markers, Friday, 8 April 2011 14:57 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, Facebook getting a lot quieter ime.
― stet, Friday, 8 April 2011 14:59 (twelve years ago) link
except among 50+ people who still taken with notion of posting pix and saying lol
among people i know, there's actually been a lot of going back to facebook as twitter starts to get too...full (though nowhere near an abandonment of twitter)
― lex pretend, Friday, 8 April 2011 15:01 (twelve years ago) link
facebook use def way down in my social world, mostly use it like email now. I don't think my close friends use twitter at all.
― iatee, Friday, 8 April 2011 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
id like people to escape facebook but getting a bunch of people of varying it skillz to sign up for half a dozen websites that replicate what they already have going on facebook is kinda difficult
― Romford Spring (DG), Friday, 8 April 2011 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
Twitter is good for the real time where is everyone whats happening right now type stuff - esp when you are out and different groups of people are at different things
― orchard, Friday, 8 April 2011 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
even if i had the it skills for this (and maybe I do) I can't figure out what the benefit would be of visiting 6 different websites to replicate what one particular one does
― Mordy, Friday, 8 April 2011 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
the facebook killer is gonna have to do everything facebook does + something it can't easily add
― iatee, Friday, 8 April 2011 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
wtf would that be, I dunno, that's why I'm not rich
― iatee, Friday, 8 April 2011 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
i can see my FB dwindling to p. much invites to events and keeping in touch with family members and other people who never really got email. No need for a killer, just different services will do different parts well. There wasn't a single AOL killer that brought it down, and FB is closest to Aol.
― stet, Friday, 8 April 2011 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
Ugh. My mom joined facebook and friended me.
― banjee trillness (The Reverend), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
i pretty much told my mother "so not gonna happen" when she tried.
two of my muslim friends have halal facebook pages for their families (and they had to make up a bunch of fake "friends" to make them seem plausible too) and hidden real ones
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
I set up my mom's facebook account on the very condition that she not ever try to friend me and to relay that message to the extended family as well. I love em, but a few days a year socializing with them is plenty for me.
― That's why they call me (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
my grandmother friended my mom and she got mad cause she didn't want to be fb friends with her mom. I haven't had the heart to reject my grandmother but I'm pretty sure she doesn't know how to use her account.
― iatee, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
I decided to:
a) acceptb) not give a fuck
― banjee trillness (The Reverend), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
you can max out privacy settings to the extent that you're basically not friends
― iatee, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 17:44 (twelve years ago) link
I have a page under my real name that's never been used and a page for the handle that I used a lot before I was a Green Leafy Dragon that's been used a little, but not a lot.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 17:44 (twelve years ago) link
I already have all sorts of extended fam on my fb, but most of them is just cuzzins, and mostly cool ones at that.
― banjee trillness (The Reverend), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 17:45 (twelve years ago) link
two words: "Limited profile"
― mh, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
How do I shot?
― banjee trillness (The Reverend), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 17:50 (twelve years ago) link
Upper right corner: Account -> Edit Friends -> hover over the person -> Edit Lists -> "Limited Profile"
You can also create lists with special permissions.
― mh, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
two words: "Limited profile"― mh, Tuesday, April 12, 2011 3:19 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark
― mh, Tuesday, April 12, 2011 3:19 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark
i'm still amazed that people have not yet figured this out.
― kate78, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
I use one for the list of people I trust enough to see the photo folder with my photographs in it.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 18:16 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/RTpux.gif
― Oink Administrator (gr8080), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 18:31 (twelve years ago) link
lol that's cute
― VegemiteGrrl, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 18:36 (twelve years ago) link
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
I can't figure out how to set up special permissions.
― banjee trillness (The Reverend), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 19:54 (twelve years ago) link
I mentioned this upthread but I have some facebook socks that I use to make sure my real fb page isn't 'leaking'
― i think drake distracts (dayo), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 23:57 (twelve years ago) link
the real answer is, don't put anything up on facebook that you would feel embarrassed about, even if you think you're only sharing it to your closest friends
^ p much the reason i killed my facebook acct and never went back
― You Say Various Things (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 00:00 (twelve years ago) link
I use all kinds of filters for my posts/pics on FB. Basically there's a large subset of ppl I'm "friends" with who would assume I never post anything because I've set all posts by default to be visible to "friends only, excluding "locked down" group".
Anyone who posts to FB with their posts/wall set to "visible to everyone on FB" is mad.
― Concubine Tree (Trayce), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 00:05 (twelve years ago) link
I have a work profile, a family profile and a hobby (wakeboarding) profile. I don't have one for my friends though...
― it's time for the fish in the perculator (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 00:07 (twelve years ago) link
There's a "view my page like user x would" thing in facebook, too.
― mh, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 00:15 (twelve years ago) link
yeah but that was the source of a pretty big privacy leak a few months ago, I DON'T TRUST FACEBOOK
― i think drake distracts (dayo), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 00:16 (twelve years ago) link
Golden rule: no current work colleagues get to be on ANY blog/social media I am on; dont post/tag any incriminating or embarrasing photos, say nothing about your workplace or deeply personal life.
So basically, I just talk shit, post youtubes and ramble cryptic shite.
― Concubine Tree (Trayce), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 00:17 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/04/12/winklevosses-vanquished-fight-facebook-continues/?test=faces
― Oink Administrator (gr8080), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 01:49 (twelve years ago) link
"oh no, we only got $20 mil and a decent interest in the company, wah wah"
― mh, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 02:12 (twelve years ago) link
GLITTER, GLISTEN, GLOSS, FLOSSI CATCH A BEAT RUNNING LIKE WINKLEVOSS
― markers, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 02:17 (twelve years ago) link
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljx4odt8Dl1qfjjglo1_500.jpg
^ this
― That's why they call me (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 01:52 (twelve years ago) link
Hah, a+
― mh, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 01:57 (twelve years ago) link
― gr8080, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 02:08 (twelve years ago) link
Reminds me of a dude who worked with a friend who was at the bar with us, then kept taking calls and walking outside"Did you ever think that things were going a certain way, then you found out something and it completely changed how you looked at things?"
The guy was a creepy swinger! I think he is divorced and lost his job and works in a bike shop now. Plus, you're out of the swinger scene if you're single.
Be specific, people. Otherwise I'll assume you're that dude.
― mh, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 02:13 (twelve years ago) link
G******** D****** likes Ghengis Khan and 2 other pages.
― eating california rolls of a dude's taint (the table is the table), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 09:02 (twelve years ago) link
otm re: cryptic shit
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 09:09 (twelve years ago) link
i got this today. i un-friended her.
Heyy babes.As y'all probs know I have some cranky cranky guts. I've been hard at work for years trying to figure out every aspect of their quirkiness and have managed to figure them out really well (yay!).Overall, it's pretty complicated because a lot of what I can and can't handle is based on how my guts are doing at that time. The two main factors affecting this are where I am in the days guts-wise (what I've eaten so far, how long its been since I've eaten, etc.), and my stress level at the time. Hence, I'm more able to eat certain foods when I'm generally eating well and staying chill (or if I'm on vacation!). Smoking weed all day def helps as well. Taking my mornings slow and snacking all day are also a huge help.In general there are lots of vegetables that I can't eat at all, and many others that are difficult. In general I need to eat a large amount of meat and grains; if I eat a meal with lots of vegetables they need to be accompanied by an even larger amount of grains and protein. That said, here are some lists! FOODS I CAN NEVER EAT (it's not an allergy, so a miniscule amount isn't gonna do anything)-Refined Sugar/Corn Syrup-Soy (lots of places I can't eat out cuz they cook with soy oil!)-Coffee, Beer, some other types of alcohol-Bean Sprouts-Cabbage, Broccoli, Bok Choy, Brussel Sprouts, Cauliflower & other similar Brassicas-Bananas-Garlic (if cooked very thoroughly, I can handle an itsy bit) FOODS I CAN EAT IN SMALL AMOUNTS-Onions (if cooked thoroughly; green onions are easier)-Wheat/Gluten-Dairy-Pork-Spicy things (anything heavily spiced, not just chiles)-Most crunchy vegetables. This is hard and I generally avoid most veggies except the ones on the love list below. However, if they're cooked until soft, I can eat these types of veggies in small amounts. Things like snap peas, carrots, radishes, asparagus, etc. FOODS I CAN'T EAT EVERYDAY (or if my guts are esp. cranky)-Corn-Beans/Lentils FOODS MY BODY LOVES-Starchy Root Vegetables (sweet & reg potatoes, sunchokes, taro, beets, yams)-Leafy Greens (stems removed)-Beef and Chicken-Squashes (all kinds!)-Rice, Quinoa and Oats-Eggs-Nuts (esp. cashews for some reason) THINGS I EAT TO CALM MY GUTS-Plain Rice or Quinoa (usually cooked w/ turmeric, an anti-inflammatory)-Barbara's Shredded Oats-Marshmallow & Licorice Root Tea-Dark Chocolate (how convenient!) SO MUCH STUFF!There's obviously a lot of things that aren't on any of these lists; unless they could possibly fall into a category with something else, they're probably just fine for me to eat, just not especially fabulous for my guts or anything (like fruit).I'll update this list if/when I think of anything else, so it will be up here as an evolving reference
― it is his "enigmatic signifier" (the table is the table), Monday, 2 May 2011 05:55 (twelve years ago) link
i mean.
what.
― it is his "enigmatic signifier" (the table is the table), Monday, 2 May 2011 05:56 (twelve years ago) link
good lord. "tmi" barely covers it, really.
-FOODS THAT I CAN MASTURBATE WITH
-FOODS THAT LOOK LIKE FOODS I CANT EAT
-FOODS THAT NEED TO BE REGURGITATED INTO MY MOUTH
I wish I could unfriend her too, just for the satisfaction of it. Jeez, Table!
― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 2 May 2011 06:02 (twelve years ago) link
Why was she telling everyone that? Does she expect everyone to note it all down and make her bespoke meals every time she visits?
― Concubine Tree (Trayce), Monday, 2 May 2011 06:07 (twelve years ago) link
smoking weed all day def helps as well.
― sarahel, Monday, 2 May 2011 06:08 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah like are her friends hurriedly revising their shopping lists in case she pops by for a visit?
― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 2 May 2011 06:09 (twelve years ago) link
i just. like. i don't even know.
― it is his "enigmatic signifier" (the table is the table), Monday, 2 May 2011 06:32 (twelve years ago) link
the place this came from is a place i never hope to be. or even experience through the internet.
― it is his "enigmatic signifier" (the table is the table), Monday, 2 May 2011 06:33 (twelve years ago) link
A girl I went to university with posted a status last week saying something like "Eighteen days! Think I'm going for the world record." Typically vague, so her sister left a comment asking her what she was on about. Turns out she had been on her period for eighteen days. I'm pretty sure this is the kind of thing you tell a medical professional, not Facebook.
― ha ha ha ha jack my swag (boxedjoy), Monday, 2 May 2011 08:05 (twelve years ago) link
O_o
― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 2 May 2011 14:58 (twelve years ago) link
lol this has been driving me crazy
http://betterfacebook.net/blog/blog/2011/04/28/fix-the-missing-cursor-in-facebook-comment-boxes/
― gr8080, Tuesday, 3 May 2011 11:09 (twelve years ago) link
Wut, the cursor isnt missing for me and I have a 3.x version.
― Trayce, Tuesday, 3 May 2011 12:17 (twelve years ago) link
It's missing for me. Double annoyance between that and the carriage return = submit nonsense.
― abbottabadass (onimo), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
If I had to be in Sheffield Lake, I'd drink, too.
― kate78, Tuesday, 3 May 2011 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
http://admflwlng.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/like-and-dislike-stamps-530x406.jpg
― gr8080, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 06:28 (twelve years ago) link
haha I could totally get those made here
― dayo, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 06:29 (twelve years ago) link
24-Year-Old Father Posts "Bout To Kill Ma Kid" On Facebook 2 Minutes Before He Actually Does
http://www.businessinsider.com/ramazan-acar-admits-to-killing-daughter-on-facebook-2011-5
― gr8080, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
christ, how terrible. I thought this would be an accidental death, like baby wouldn't stop crying & he shook her or something :(
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 4 May 2011 20:02 (twelve years ago) link
It's all over our papers today. Detailed chain of events recounted here. DO NOT read it if you are in any way upset by anything ever – I am completely devoid of empathy and I very nearly cried in front of colleagues.
― staph white pulvules like (Schlafsack), Wednesday, 4 May 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
jesus.
― gr8080, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 23:47 (twelve years ago) link
oh jesus that is awful!!! i hadnt read about it til now...what a piece of shit
― VegemiteGrrl, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 23:48 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah that one had me staggered when I read it y'day. Multiple fb posts about killing his own daughter is just next level holy shit you monster stuff.
― Trayce, Thursday, 5 May 2011 00:26 (twelve years ago) link
The worst thing about these kinds of deaths is they are so very often revenge-on-partner killings. Nothing to do with the kid at all. The man (or woman, to be fair) wants to hurt their partner, get back at them. Its why that other guy threw his daughter off the westgate bridge recently (that one was just terrible as well)
― Trayce, Thursday, 5 May 2011 00:28 (twelve years ago) link
I know that was what I was thinking about all the way home...its like he isn't even really thinking of his daughter as a person, just a thing that can be used to get back at his wife. And the FB stuff is just so wrong..but on the upside all the more evidence in the murder trial. God that poor little girl.
― VegemiteGrrl, Thursday, 5 May 2011 01:58 (twelve years ago) link
Oh Facebookpaws
― Matt DC, Thursday, 12 May 2011 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
what in the shit is this
Put your Myspace in your Facebook and Reach More Fans You can now publish your Myspace page within your Facebook fan page and it will automatically sync your Myspace songs, videos, photos, and more. Getting Started is easy.
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/ArtistFBapp_external_main3.jpg
― the first rule of debate club (Edward III), Friday, 13 May 2011 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
ugh
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 13 May 2011 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
"Put Your Head In An Oven and Kill Yourself Now"
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 13 May 2011 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
Oh boy, exactly what we needed to make Facebook more shitty - MySpace backgrounds!!!!
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 13 May 2011 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.cpuidle.de/blog/wp-content/1stbluescreen.jpg
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 13 May 2011 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
A friend was explaining to me that myspace ditched a lot of their own stuff a while ago and rely on the facebook api and tools. I guess that makes sense business-wise, but it's still pretty amazing.
― mh, Friday, 13 May 2011 21:13 (twelve years ago) link
myspace is a mess, currently murdoch's trying to build it up just enough to sell it off iirc
― handy multi-bicycle parking station from available materials (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 13 May 2011 23:18 (twelve years ago) link
who would buy it (i'm sure someone will, but why?)
― mookieproof, Friday, 13 May 2011 23:21 (twelve years ago) link
Guy Hands
― "I like to wear tops that show my cleavage and show off my ladies," (sic), Friday, 13 May 2011 23:55 (twelve years ago) link
"Bridesmaids was hilarious! I am all lubed up for Hangover II next week!a few seconds ago"
― Cunga, Saturday, 21 May 2011 20:00 (twelve years ago) link
http://i54.tinypic.com/fnsmt3.jpg
http://gawker.com/5806002/mark-zuckerberg-is-now-killing-animals-with-his-bare-hands
― dayo, Saturday, 28 May 2011 01:13 (twelve years ago) link
Zuckerberg posted his own comment in response, explaining that he fixates on a personal challenge each year (in 2009, he wore a tie every day)
― dayo, Saturday, 28 May 2011 01:16 (twelve years ago) link
pissweak goal
― 百万个叉烧包 (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 28 May 2011 02:52 (twelve years ago) link
what are your goals toughie
― mookieproof, Saturday, 28 May 2011 04:06 (twelve years ago) link
wear a hat every day
― 百万个叉烧包 (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 28 May 2011 04:08 (twelve years ago) link
do these hats bear subcultural markers
― mookieproof, Saturday, 28 May 2011 04:10 (twelve years ago) link
omg you could be like Bartholomew Cubbins and wear a hat on top of the previous day's hat until you're wearing 365 hats. DO THAT IT WILL BE AWESOME
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 28 May 2011 04:15 (twelve years ago) link
fuck wearing 365 hats
― 百万个叉烧包 (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 28 May 2011 04:19 (twelve years ago) link
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 28 May 2011 04:41 (twelve years ago) link
I'm all for the idea of being prepeared to slaughter/dress yr own meat if you're gonna eat meat. Learn its provenance, it doesnt grow on plastic trays.
― The man who mistook his life for a FAP (Trayce), Saturday, 28 May 2011 04:50 (twelve years ago) link
I was the only member of my family who ate the pet cow when it was time to be slaughtered :/(Mum bought it for meat, but then she named it and hand fed it so I don't think her heart was ever truly in that plan)
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 28 May 2011 07:12 (twelve years ago) link
Once on my cousins farm we were eating wild rabbit (tasty but p tough) and my cuz decided to inform us this was the one he'd buckshot, and gutted and skinned, and went into detail while we were snacking on it. Hahah. That didn't go down too well. He got sent away from the table =)
― The man who mistook his life for a FAP (Trayce), Saturday, 28 May 2011 07:34 (twelve years ago) link
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 28 May 2011 07:47 (twelve years ago) link
Only in a farming family would "go to your room!" be because you talked about gutting the dinner yr eating lol.
― The man who mistook his life for a FAP (Trayce), Saturday, 28 May 2011 08:13 (twelve years ago) link
I finally quit Facebook for good today. It was great to catch up with old school friends, I could do without the hurtful bullshit from college. I'm not an ungracious person, usually my strategy is if someone else is the problem and doesn't see it that way, then I let them have the floor.
― Deremiah Was a Bullfrog (u s steel), Monday, 6 June 2011 21:56 (twelve years ago) link
Sorry about the double post.
― Deremiah Was a Bullfrog (u s steel), Monday, 6 June 2011 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
I've drastically reduced my input to FB and as a logical consequence I visit the site way less often, but i don't really see the need to "quit" FB or to delete your account, unless you see FB as some kind of hurtful addiction.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 9 June 2011 08:55 (twelve years ago) link
I wanted my privacy back, I didn't want people I didn't know tagging my face in loads of images and frankly it bored the shit out of me.
― It's not like we could go to Islam (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 9 June 2011 09:00 (twelve years ago) link
http://lifehacker.com/5538697/how-to-quit-facebook-without-actually-quitting-facebook
I thought I posted this here. Did I not post this here? Anyway, thinking about doing this. AA, how is life after Facebook?
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Thursday, 9 June 2011 12:30 (twelve years ago) link
It's now well over a year and I've not once regretted it.
― It's not like we could go to Islam (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 9 June 2011 12:39 (twelve years ago) link
Coming up on a year now after using it quite heavily in university. Can't say that I miss it.
― Millsner, Sunday, 12 June 2011 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
I basically stay on Facebook in order to keep in touch with my family and the few friends I haven't been able to get onto Twitter yet. If they become regular users, then I'm deleting asap. Good for letting you know which fuckwits are so oblivious that they will friend request you after a) years of not speaking and/or b) huge, bitter fall-outs.
― gyac, Sunday, 12 June 2011 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
they seem to be killing their rss feeds? (which i guess makes business sense.) if this is indeed the case then i think i'll quit totally
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 22:21 (twelve years ago) link
Is FB being DDOSed at the mo or something? It's been unresponsive on and off for some hours today.
― Bloompsday (Trayce), Saturday, 18 June 2011 03:03 (twelve years ago) link
i'm using it atm
― why i am an anarcho-sandwich artist (Neanderthal), Saturday, 18 June 2011 03:03 (twelve years ago) link
friends events feature is fucked up. it is not showing all of my friends events.
― sarahel, Saturday, 18 June 2011 03:05 (twelve years ago) link
I just got a whole new rash of friends and I'm now experiencing that whole 'worlds collide' thing because I never had to manage them into lists before or hide what other ppl say and ugh...shit is getting out of hand.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 June 2011 03:10 (twelve years ago) link
why do you care if ilxors see yourupdates
― british sb power (dayo), Saturday, 18 June 2011 03:13 (twelve years ago) link
not ilxors, lol. friends from a fan page I joined, who are kind of weird and foulmouthed and well, less normal IRL than I gave them credit for.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 June 2011 03:25 (twelve years ago) link
I'm hiding most of them from my feed, and I've tightened up my profile as much as I can but ugh, doing the whole 'not these people but this list' 'not this list but these people' makes my head hurt.
#whinycrybaby
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 June 2011 03:26 (twelve years ago) link
G***** M*****e likes Stevie Nicks and Oakland.
― bitch u ain't british (the table is the table), Saturday, 18 June 2011 08:22 (twelve years ago) link
So I come home from a bar tonight and find this:
W* B****** just checked in at Tiny Lounge and wants to check you in too.
So a guy I know was at the same bar, didn't say hi to me at all, but made me aware of it. Weird, right?
― Don Rickles on the Dime (jaymc), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 04:23 (twelve years ago) link
that is v creepy.
― karma's ruthless invisible (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 04:30 (twelve years ago) link
wtf that is lame
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 05:04 (twelve years ago) link
Or he came in just as you were leaving or something like that.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 05:22 (twelve years ago) link
TELL EVERYONE WHERE YOU WERE OR ELSE!
Fuckin FB.
― Bloompsday (Trayce), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 05:24 (twelve years ago) link
it's a small place too, it's not like he wouldn't be able to find you
― gr8080, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 06:37 (twelve years ago) link
― 百万个叉烧包 (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, May 28, 2011 4:08 AM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― mookieproof, Saturday, May 28, 2011 4:10 AM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark
<3
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 06:45 (twelve years ago) link
John, that's really weird. It's like he wanted a public declaration of being in the same place with you, but without all the mess of actual human interaction. Unless there's a setting that automatically attempts to check you into places where your FB friends have checked in? There is some kind of automation in the check-in feature, but I turned that off pretty quickly so I don't know the ins and outs of it.
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 12:23 (twelve years ago) link
In his defense, there *was* a power outage, so it was pretty dark in there.
― Don Rickles on the Dime (jaymc), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 12:58 (twelve years ago) link
ironing 4 u
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 15:33 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.businessinsider.com/google-has-another-new-social-network-google-2011-6
― gr8080, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 18:11 (twelve years ago) link
It's Facebook's "lists" feature writ large, afaict. Good luck with that.
― lukas, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 18:37 (twelve years ago) link
The "keep me posted" link returns a 404.
wp google
(error message "Error 404 (Not Found)!!1" look they're just regular internet dudes like us who use funny 1s with multiple !!!s - I already moaned about this crap somewhere else, probably irrational anger thread)
― some greenzo (onimo), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 18:54 (twelve years ago) link
You know... I don't want to wish everybody I'm FB friends with a happy birthday. And I am not going to feel guilty about it, either, because I just don't care that much.
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
I got in; it actually looks p. great. But it's lonely. Where's the invites, already?
― stet, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
request google+ access
― gr8080, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 19:50 (twelve years ago) link
Got Google Buzz invites if anyone wants one.
― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/WR16S.png
― gr8080+ (gr8080), Thursday, 30 June 2011 23:07 (twelve years ago) link
picnic for all users, no laptops allowed
― devoted to boats (schlump), Thursday, 30 June 2011 23:16 (twelve years ago) link
wait what kind of name is W*
― mookieproof, Friday, 1 July 2011 00:30 (twelve years ago) link
Wu?
― Mordy, Friday, 1 July 2011 01:47 (twelve years ago) link
Swengen!
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 1 July 2011 01:47 (twelve years ago) link
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Friday, 1 July 2011 01:55 (twelve years ago) link
Wo Baby
― Bloompsday (Trayce), Friday, 1 July 2011 02:36 (twelve years ago) link
Wy
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 1 July 2011 02:37 (twelve years ago) link
Haha yeah in all honesty I suspect the bday reminder tool makes people lazy about birthday wishes. I mean I know I'm the worst offender at forgetting birthdays anyway but something about being reminded by FB feels in authentic.
The hilarity of it is emphasised by a friend who deliberately had his DOB as 01/01/70 so everyone was wishing him happy birthday in January... even people who should have known better!
― Bloompsday (Trayce), Friday, 1 July 2011 02:38 (twelve years ago) link
I had a friend who changed his birthday to take place every three weeks, was pretty lol to go to his wall and see hundreds of birthday wishes all throughout the year
― goole+ (dayo), Friday, 1 July 2011 02:41 (twelve years ago) link
haha I considered doing that once but decided it would be kinda assholish and would prob make some nice people resent me
― iatee, Friday, 1 July 2011 02:42 (twelve years ago) link
I do it the other way, every six months setting my birthday for six months ago.
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 1 July 2011 02:44 (twelve years ago) link
you may have found the fountain of youth
― iatee, Friday, 1 July 2011 02:46 (twelve years ago) link
I have been on Facebook for 1000 years.
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 1 July 2011 02:49 (twelve years ago) link
haha i'm gonna try the birthday-every-month thing
― gr8080+ (gr8080), Friday, 1 July 2011 03:00 (twelve years ago) link
u gonna get old fast, son
― remy bean, Friday, 1 July 2011 03:05 (twelve years ago) link
Not if he turns 25 every month
― mh, Friday, 1 July 2011 03:21 (twelve years ago) link
boom
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 1 July 2011 03:29 (twelve years ago) link
WHY are they obsessed with getting me to chatz? That sidebar appears every 5 seconds no matter how many times I switch it off, and seems to float around taunting me. FUCKKKK OFFFFFF!
― kinder, Friday, 8 July 2011 21:51 (twelve years ago) link
is anyone else noticing a bug where the # of 'likes' for certain things is absurdly high? one comment on a wall post has 287 likes atm. gf's account has the same bug, so I'm wondering how widespread it is.
― iatee, Sunday, 31 July 2011 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
i did notice that
― ( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Sunday, 31 July 2011 20:07 (twelve years ago) link
I just thought my comments were really popular
― ha ha ha ha jack my swag (boxedjoy), Sunday, 31 July 2011 20:08 (twelve years ago) link
so weird - saved a pic from the internet, tried to upload it to facebook via my hard drive and every time I do so it appends a caption from the site where it originated
guess facebook is trying to CYA
― 我爱你 G. Weingarten (dayo), Monday, 1 August 2011 11:14 (twelve years ago) link
I think thats a site thing rather than a FB thing though I'm not sure - I've c&p'ed text from The Age paper and it appends a link to the article (grr) which I'd have to strip off. I see why they do it, but fuck it is annoying.
― Rameses Street (Trayce), Monday, 1 August 2011 11:22 (twelve years ago) link
yeah but I didn't link to the site - I downloaded the image, then chose it from my hard drive. maybe it was reading some metadata or exif info?
― 我爱你 G. Weingarten (dayo), Monday, 1 August 2011 11:27 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah thats what I mean. I wasnt pasting a link, I just cut and paste a bit of text out of an article and it did it!
― Rameses Street (Trayce), Monday, 1 August 2011 11:53 (twelve years ago) link
ah yes. annoying and magical!
― 我爱你 G. Weingarten (dayo), Monday, 1 August 2011 12:00 (twelve years ago) link
yeah that thing w/ the text is v crafty, a few websites do it now
― just sayin, Monday, 1 August 2011 12:02 (twelve years ago) link
drives me crazy
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 1 August 2011 15:06 (twelve years ago) link
kind of a pain but if it's really annoying you can dl an exif editor and strip it out
― big triffid in my backyard (Edward III), Monday, 1 August 2011 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
Happens to me all the time.
Of course I'm copying and pasting the content from its original website to my company's website as a quote ala HuffPo, so I actually don't mind the link. Makes it easier for me to copy and paste that too.
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 1 August 2011 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/myoOL.jpg
― ( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Saturday, 6 August 2011 00:40 (twelve years ago) link
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 6 August 2011 05:39 (twelve years ago) link
That's more YouTube material, imo.
― Beating up the Ritz (DavidM), Saturday, 6 August 2011 12:01 (twelve years ago) link
fbook has gone MENTAL and shown me updates by all the people i ignore :/
― full on... mask hysteria (history mayne), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
Right now, they're not showing me anything.
But yeah, I hid a high school friend who had a sweet spot for some weird app game like Farmville. Thing is, her asinine posts still show up on the mobile version. I guess I'll just drop her, but if FB did its job, I wouldn't have to.
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
it's stopped now. phew.
― full on... mask hysteria (history mayne), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 19:06 (twelve years ago) link
Wouldn't let me post the last link I tried to - kept the text I'd written, deleted the link right off the bat, every time I tried.
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 19:19 (twelve years ago) link
So apparently Anonymous are planning on destroying Facebook on Nov 5.
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 19:30 (twelve years ago) link
My username is orvi✧✧✧.✧.jenk✧✧✧@hotm✧✧✧.c✧✧ and my password is ra5ca1. Have at it, Anonymous.
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
stoked for the madness
― ( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
kinda shocked anon don't have a fb fan page tbh
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
Im stoked too. Only thing i would really miss would be contact info for all my friends.
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 20:07 (twelve years ago) link
What was funny was opening up the contacts in my HTC after I synced it with my Facebook account and realizing I suddenly have mobile numbers for all these people I don't even want to talk to via FB.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
Download that shit! You even get the email addresses from the folks who don't make them visible.
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
*Oooh, I can blackmail all these people, but I dread letting them know!*
― Kerm, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
dude you're so weird
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
She's been gone since early March but my baby's back home now. I've been cooking up some of her favorite recipe most of the afternoon and I'll be spending all day with her tomorrow out at Sac Valley Shooting Center. Hopefully she performs as well as she looks now.
^ talking about ... a gun.
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 11 August 2011 14:27 (twelve years ago) link
messaging service is misbehaving today
― Once Were Moderators (DG), Thursday, 11 August 2011 14:28 (twelve years ago) link
i tried to add a popular local comedian i've worked with a few times
http://i.imgur.com/TyF6f.png
― (gr8080), Thursday, 18 August 2011 22:11 (twelve years ago) link
oh weird
― steens furiously (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 18 August 2011 22:13 (twelve years ago) link
Def 1st world problem
― Jeff, Thursday, 18 August 2011 22:14 (twelve years ago) link
I saw David Tibet mention a while back that he had hit some kind of limit on the number of friends allowed (he befriends fans directly, rather than creating a page for himself/his musical endeavours, and currently has just shy of 5000 friends). I've seen popular figures with more than that though, so perhaps it was too many pending friend requests that was causing the problem for him too.
― just call me brian (krakow), Thursday, 18 August 2011 22:18 (twelve years ago) link
http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l261/krakow81/michaelgira.jpg
He would totally be my friend otherwise.
― just call me brian (krakow), Thursday, 18 August 2011 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
There's a 5000 friend limit but you can create fan pages that people can "like" - that is unlimited and anything posted will appear in the fan's feed. Also means famous people don't need to put up with fan crap appearing in their feeds so they can have an actual friend feed with irl friends on it.
― ^^^ this (onimo), Friday, 19 August 2011 09:39 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I keep getting a "Howabout this dude" friend 'suggestion' for John Lydon.
I clicked it, and got the message "he has to know you personally".
OK, BUT I DIDN'T ASK IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!
― Mark G, Friday, 19 August 2011 10:18 (twelve years ago) link
fucking error messages what the fuck is WRONG WITH EVERYTHING TODAY, all i want to do is send ONE FUCKING MESSAGE
― lex pretend, Friday, 19 August 2011 14:55 (twelve years ago) link
FB ethics question: Some lunatic that I once had lunch with a few years ago wrote a screed about me (including the lolzy claim that I'm a 'douchebag hipster') on a friend's status message that I had commented on. The status message was about GRRM and I was complaining that he's not a very good writer, which is what provoked this guy. Anyway, I never speak to this person irl and had no idea he had such strongly held feelings about me. I blocked him on FB so I wouldn't have to deal with him again and asked my friend to take down the post denouncing me. My friend however claimed that he didn't want to censor the other guy and remove his message. I forced the issue and ultimately it was taken down but here's the question: Should my friend just have taken it down immediately bc friends don't let crazy ppl be jerks to friends on facebook, was he right that you shouldn't censor anyone, even if it's a personal attack on YOUR status message, or option (3) lulz internet?
― Mordy, Friday, 19 August 2011 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
friends don't let crazy ppl be jerks to friends on facebook
^^^^^this above all else is mandatory
― lex pretend, Friday, 19 August 2011 17:45 (twelve years ago) link
I guess it sort of depends on the particular details of the situation. Is there any chance the guy was joking? If it were me and the guy was obviously just being an asshole needlessly I probably would have deleted the comment without having to be asked. So, in short, Lex OTM.
― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Friday, 19 August 2011 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, he definitely wasn't joking. It was pretty vicious.
― Mordy, Friday, 19 August 2011 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah that's definitely not cool. :/
― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Friday, 19 August 2011 18:13 (twelve years ago) link
jus a lil facebook lets all be cool
― ice cr?m, Friday, 19 August 2011 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
Yes he should have deleted that. What the hell. It's Facebook, not a public forum for opinions.
― ilx poster and keen dairy observer (Jenny), Friday, 19 August 2011 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
Wait, that's not right. I mean it's this person's Facebook page and this person is not the government and this anti-Mordy comment is not political speech and somebody's FB wall isn't a public space.
― ilx poster and keen dairy observer (Jenny), Friday, 19 August 2011 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
So getting all lofty about not wanting to censor someone who says shitty things about your friends is kind of misplaced, imo.
― ilx poster and keen dairy observer (Jenny), Friday, 19 August 2011 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
if a friend of mine let another person badmouth me on fb and didn;t remove the post i'd consider that person a bad friend. "My friend however claimed that he didn't want to censor the other guy and remove his message." = this person needs to get a grip, maybe, it's fb not parliament.
― jed_, Friday, 19 August 2011 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
― steens furiously (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 19 August 2011 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
i'd just retaliate tbh
― Once Were Moderators (DG), Friday, 19 August 2011 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
(3) lulz internet
― Kerm, Saturday, 20 August 2011 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
There's this thing that has happened over the last 6 months or so on Facebook and I am unsure whether it is a bug or a feature.
1) I friend someone
2) Their Add Friend button turns grey and becomes Friend Requested
3) They are listed as my friend under Events that are both invited to and I see status updates from them, however, they continue to show as just Friend Requested and I can't post on their wall, see the details that are made private, &c. Moreover the button remains grey with the Friend Requested legend.
What's going on here? They haven't rejected the request, coz then it would say Add Friend again. But they don't appear to have accepted it either. Weird.
― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 26 August 2011 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
that is weird. i'd email em directly.
― some jock-bully out to take down the hipsters (history mayne), Friday, 26 August 2011 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
the people or FB?
― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 26 August 2011 15:03 (twelve years ago) link
the people, FB isn't gonna care
― some jock-bully out to take down the hipsters (history mayne), Friday, 26 August 2011 15:03 (twelve years ago) link
if you friend someone and they have their status privacy set to friends of friends youll see their updates in yr feed before they act upon your request
― ice cr?m, Friday, 26 August 2011 15:04 (twelve years ago) link
If you get a friend request now, the default option isn't to deny, it's to defer. So unaccepted friend requests can sit in limbo, forever, and do not appear on that screen.
― unwarranted display names of ilx (mh), Friday, 26 August 2011 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
i collect them
― ice cr?m, Friday, 26 August 2011 16:07 (twelve years ago) link
The new 'On This Day In xxxx' feature is both at times interesting and horribly depressing. I dread some of the reminders of the past that are to come as the year progresses...
― just call me brian (krakow), Saturday, 27 August 2011 10:35 (twelve years ago) link
however, they continue to show as just Friend Requested and I can't post on their wall, see the details that are made private
You can set it so some (or all) ppl cant post on yr wall/see yr updates/etc with group filters, they may have added you but put you in a "dont show anything" group. Ive done that to some people (mostly fam). So theyre "added" but they still cant see or do anything on my profile.
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Saturday, 27 August 2011 10:39 (twelve years ago) link
yes unless friend was going for secret option c, let the badmouther look like the jerk he is to all mutual friends. (but still not a good option given your polite request)
― the ascent of nyan (a passing spacecadet), Saturday, 27 August 2011 10:45 (twelve years ago) link
They've changed the photoviewer again: the matting is now white.
― Mucho! Macho! Honcho!: Turn Off The Dark (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 29 August 2011 23:56 (twelve years ago) link
also the way status updates are done, it seems like its now designed to trick you into tagging your location
― (gr8080), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 00:10 (twelve years ago) link
not as bad as when twitter added per-post location tagging and most twitter apps did the one-time check to see if they could grab your location, then tag it into every post by default
― unwarranted display names of ilx (mh), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 00:12 (twelve years ago) link
buttons overlaying photos is super wack
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 00:46 (twelve years ago) link
― *steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 00:58 (twelve years ago) link
nagl faceboo
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 01:00 (twelve years ago) link
do you mean the way it combines profile pictures in the icon next to a group message? i like that.
― (gr8080), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 01:06 (twelve years ago) link
Mine's still a black matting/background?
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 01:11 (twelve years ago) link
o it will come
― *steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 01:28 (twelve years ago) link
(x-post) Maybe you havn't got it yet? FWIW, I accepted the new mods last night, and also when I look at pix on fb mobile, I still get the black matte. The new one is a small white border (like in a old printed snapshot) w/"like" & "comment" buttons imposed on the bottom left-hand corner (ice cr?m otm).
― Status Update...in my Seether? (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 01:29 (twelve years ago) link
Hurrah, the new privacy controls have just kicked in as well. FUCKIN FINALLY. One feature Ive been waiting on - previously, you couldnt go back and edit who could see a post. NOW YOU CAN.
(most of mine were filtered, but a brief spazout I had a couple weeks back I suspended my fb. when i reactivated it, it changed my post settings to "friends" which meant everyone could see all my posts for about a week before I realised grrrr)
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 03:09 (twelve years ago) link
f5 while viewing a photo still resets it to the old not ugly as a motherfucker mode..
― Kerm, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 03:30 (twelve years ago) link
there are also greasemonkey scripts/firefox addons that can hook you up with various stuff, i.e. nothing you comment on appearing on yr profile
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 05:47 (twelve years ago) link
How could a browser plugin control something FB side? idgi
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 05:48 (twelve years ago) link
it *can* do a bunch of other things one might very likely not want, but
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/better-facebook/
http://betterfacebook.net/
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 05:52 (twelve years ago) link
Editable privacy controls will be a nice feature, I look forward to that one reaching me.
― just call me brian (krakow), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 09:56 (twelve years ago) link
Well they were always there tbh. Just not as obvious as they now appear to be.
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 10:05 (twelve years ago) link
Not the ability to edit the settings on old posts?
― just call me brian (krakow), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 10:11 (twelve years ago) link
Oh sorry no thats new, and thats what is v welcome to me (thankfully all my old posts were mostly already filtered, but I am now able to correct a few that werent)
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 10:12 (twelve years ago) link
Indeed, that's the aspect that I am looking forward to. Especially in combination with facebook's current obsession with digging up the past and throwing it at me...
― just call me brian (krakow), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 10:15 (twelve years ago) link
Haha good point. Yeah a while back Livejournal offered the same thing - well, you'd always been able to edit your post security - but they added a "global post change" setting for paid users so you could say "change all public posts to locked". Dear god, was that a lifesaver. 12 years of 1000's of posts, all tucked away in one fell click.
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 10:17 (twelve years ago) link
oooh, I didn't know LJ did that! Looking forward to fixing all my old entries now. Thanks, Trayce!
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 12:51 (twelve years ago) link
I miss the "post a link/video/photo" etc bar when you went to put something on somebody else's wall.
― ha ha ha ha jack my swag (boxedjoy), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 13:39 (twelve years ago) link
just paste the link?
― Ju5t1n SBieber (Kerm), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 13:44 (twelve years ago) link
That doesn't seem to be working every time when I do it. Plus it seemed a bit more user-friendly when there was a box for it to go in.
― ha ha ha ha jack my swag (boxedjoy), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 14:02 (twelve years ago) link
Is there a way to change a setting so you are always automatically signed out of chat? This used to be how it was for me, but lately every single time I log in it resigns me into chat and shows me as available. I don't want to chat via FB, so I'd like to just leave this option off all the time.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 14:04 (twelve years ago) link
I just tried it and it was fine for me, i unticked "available to chat" and then i was signed out of chat. i signed out and in again and i was still signed out of chat
― post, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 14:40 (twelve years ago) link
I logged in from a new computer and it made me 'identify' 5 of my friends based on their photos before it would let me in. lol facebook?
― dayo, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 14:41 (twelve years ago) link
Oh man I would be screwed if I did that because half of my relatives that I rarely see put pictures of their kids up as profile pictures and I can't ever tell their kids apart.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 14:48 (twelve years ago) link
― ha ha ha ha jack my swag (boxedjoy), Wednesday, August 31, 2011 2:02 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
^^ this
if it was consistent it'd be great, but it isn't.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 15:15 (twelve years ago) link
xpost Whenever I've been overseas and tried to log in it has made me do that too.
― ha ha ha ha jack my swag (boxedjoy), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
xps to jon: it was doing that to me for a while too - just keep manually logging out and eventually it will stay that way (i think it dicked me around for a couple of days and now it just stays logged out).
― just1n3, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 15:18 (twelve years ago) link
I had it log me into chat with that sidebar for days on end, had to click every time I was on my FB tab to get rid of it. Finally it just stayed logged out but I nearly quit FB over that.
― kinder, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 20:15 (twelve years ago) link
Seems to be that using the phone app resets your "unavailable to chat" chat setting to "available" the next time you use a computer.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 1 September 2011 07:57 (twelve years ago) link
so now since they've done the pages for liking bands and stuff my feed is full of crap about bands i like but maybe don't want nonsense updates about 10 times a day. is there a way to turn off all of those fan updates from showing up in your feed? all of them.
― Mordy, Thursday, 1 September 2011 22:03 (twelve years ago) link
like big lebowski is a great movie but do i need the "movie quote of the day" from it everyday? def not.
those sorts of pages shoot themselves in the foot with that stuff - like, you just ending unliking the page, or hiding them from your feed. if they were a little more judicious about what they post, they'd probably reach a wider audience.
― just1n3, Thursday, 1 September 2011 22:04 (twelve years ago) link
i am the admin for "sad stuff" and am happy to report i rarely make my 85 followers suffer an update
― (gr8080), Thursday, 1 September 2011 22:51 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sad-Stuff-/121540086682
― (gr8080), Thursday, 1 September 2011 22:52 (twelve years ago) link
ha, always thought that was ice cr?m doing that page!
― science you guys (Clay), Thursday, 1 September 2011 23:32 (twelve years ago) link
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 1 September 2011 23:38 (twelve years ago) link
I've been getting posts from some of the bands I'd listed as "interests" way back when thats how it was done, for a long time. Some are obvious record label PR bullshit, so I just hid them from my feed (say YOUR prayers, Duran Duran), some of them are so pompous I cant help but leave them there for lols (Peter Murphy for eg) and some bands actually know how to use social media properly, for the power of awesome, such as TMBG who are GREAT.
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Friday, 2 September 2011 00:04 (twelve years ago) link
The Prids use FB well too, they use it like a tour diary! Its so cute.
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Friday, 2 September 2011 00:06 (twelve years ago) link
And TMBG are great lefty advocates, which pisses their right wing fans off hardcore, which is always great to read.
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Friday, 2 September 2011 00:07 (twelve years ago) link
I ended up unliking a band (EITS maybe?) the other week because my entire feed was full of "EITS has created a new event" notifications meaning every single date of a mammoth tour spammed my feed all at once.
― Frimpong iddle I po (onimo), Friday, 2 September 2011 07:48 (twelve years ago) link
A friend has informed me that paragraphs have returned to the status box.
― Status Update...in my Seether? (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 2 September 2011 08:19 (twelve years ago) link
I didnt think they went away? You just had to hit shift-enter.
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Friday, 2 September 2011 10:17 (twelve years ago) link
^ strange key combo
― Frimpong iddle I po (onimo), Friday, 2 September 2011 11:05 (twelve years ago) link
um
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 2 September 2011 12:55 (twelve years ago) link
I though they made a good point
― Number None, Friday, 2 September 2011 14:10 (twelve years ago) link
thought even
for some reason it creeps me out to see my friends' comments on the posts of people i don't know.
is there a chrome extension or something that will make them go away?
― lukas, Friday, 2 September 2011 16:52 (twelve years ago) link
Is this the place to post about the facebook ILX group
― Birth Control is Sinful in the ILE Marriages (Latham Green), Friday, 2 September 2011 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
ok wtf?? when i click the x next to a post there's no more "hide this person" just "hide this post" and "report post/spam"... uhhh???
― beemer slouchbag (Kerm), Friday, 2 September 2011 22:52 (twelve years ago) link
oh nm you hide the post and then it gives you the option to hide all by them... ugh facebook blerg stop fiddling with my interface
― beemer slouchbag (Kerm), Friday, 2 September 2011 22:53 (twelve years ago) link
Just uploaded some photos and had to rotate them, that was an absolute nightmare thanks to the new interface #firstworldproblems
― ha ha ha ha jack my swag (boxedjoy), Saturday, 3 September 2011 21:35 (twelve years ago) link
A friend of friends (but not my friend) just invited me to something. How does that happen?
― Status Update...in my Seether? (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 8 September 2011 04:30 (twelve years ago) link
Hi Grady,We're trying out a new feature to reduce the amount of email you receive from Facebook. Starting today, we are turning off most individual email notifications and instead, we'll send you a summary only if there are popular stories you may have missed.You can turn individual emails back on and restore all your original settings at any time.Thanks,The Facebook Team
WOW, THANKS BIGGEST FUCKIN WEBSITE IN THE WORLD-- YOU FINALLY FIGURED OUT EMAIL
― (gr8080), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
Starting Wednesday, users will begin seeing a Subscribe button alongside the “Message” and “Poke” button on Facebook profiles. The button gives you a way to follow the content others are posting without actually becoming Facebook friends with them. In a lot of ways, it’s like following somebody on Twitter.This button works a bit differently based on whether you’re looking at a friend’s profile. If you subscribe to the profile of somebody who is not your friend, you will get access to his or her public status updates in your News Feed. You can fine tune what type of updates you see. For example, you could subscribe to my Facebook Page and choose only to see my status updates and ignore my game or photo updates.If the user is your friend, subscribing gives you the ability to granularly control how much of his or her content enters your stream. If you want to see every post your significant other is posting to Facebook, you can set the Subscribe button to show “All Updates” in your News Feed. On the other hand, if you want to ignore one of your acquaintances unless he gets engaged, then you can select the “Only Important” option under the Subscribe button.
This button works a bit differently based on whether you’re looking at a friend’s profile. If you subscribe to the profile of somebody who is not your friend, you will get access to his or her public status updates in your News Feed. You can fine tune what type of updates you see. For example, you could subscribe to my Facebook Page and choose only to see my status updates and ignore my game or photo updates.
If the user is your friend, subscribing gives you the ability to granularly control how much of his or her content enters your stream. If you want to see every post your significant other is posting to Facebook, you can set the Subscribe button to show “All Updates” in your News Feed. On the other hand, if you want to ignore one of your acquaintances unless he gets engaged, then you can select the “Only Important” option under the Subscribe button.
http://mashable.com/2011/09/14/facebook-subscribe-button/
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
"Starting today we realize how awful our website is and are finally relinquishing some power back to you, the users..."
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
I had it set to no email ever already so the email telling me they wouldn't be emailing me so much anymore? Ironically the first email I had gotten from fb in months.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, same.
― your mom the burrito (ENBB), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
i get emails from fb, because there've been so many times it's been buggy and not shown notifications when i'm logged in. it can prove "interesting" when i get emails for comments that have been deleted due to drama
― sarahel, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
^ the only reason i keep emails on
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
How much drama do you guys see on FB?! I feel like I rarely, if ever, see any.
― your mom the burrito (ENBB), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
probably not enough to really justify getting everyone's comments emailed to me tbh
― sarahel, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I think that would drive me nuts. What does it email you? The comments of everyone on your posts or on posts you comment on? Both?
― your mom the burrito (ENBB), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
g+ is the best thing that ever happened to fb
― black metal version of "the boy with the thorn in his side" (Edward III), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
xp - both
― sarahel, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah I liked getting the emails for dramalama reasons too - never bothered me too much either way cos I had a gmail filter to send all facebook email to its own folder, auto-archived, so I never saw it unless I needed to look it up.
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 21:34 (twelve years ago) link
Good for searching for old updates as well, which isn't possible to do on facebook.
― just call me brian (krakow), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah thats the one thing I've always found strange about FB. On livejournal you can look up yr archive by year, month and day, same with most blog platforms, but FB it is impossible, and that's annoyed me in the past. Still, I guess status updates were never meant to be used that way.
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 23:14 (twelve years ago) link
it drives me crazy.
like, why is it THERE if its so fucking impossible to GET TO IT?
it should auto-delete after 4 or 5 months imo
― (gr8080), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 23:19 (twelve years ago) link
Totally.
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Thursday, 15 September 2011 00:08 (twelve years ago) link
I would enjoy the internet a lot more generally if it had the ephemeral nature of a face to face convo - you are never left with any proof.
the case for 4chan
― (gr8080), Thursday, 15 September 2011 00:09 (twelve years ago) link
i would buy and read "the case 4chan"
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 15 September 2011 04:05 (twelve years ago) link
today i've been getting in my "people you may know" about a half dozen different girls who i have no mutual friends with, all have "hawt/sexxy" profile pics and according to the "works at" part of their info, are cocktail waitresses at different ritzy las vegas night clubs....
is this some kind of marketing campaign that gets around the fact that i block all ads on facebook?
― (gr8080), Thursday, 15 September 2011 04:29 (twelve years ago) link
maybe facebook is giving you suggestions purely based on your facebook photos
― iatee, Thursday, 15 September 2011 04:31 (twelve years ago) link
i sent them based on your wdyll photos
― kinder, Thursday, 15 September 2011 04:37 (twelve years ago) link
I never have anyone weird pop up on 'people you may know' but I *did* get someone I knew suggested on Twitter, which was strange because we don't follow any of the same ppl, no longer live in the same country, and neither of us tweet much at all. How did they know?
― kinder, Thursday, 15 September 2011 04:39 (twelve years ago) link
been getting a lot of geographically estranged strangers too
u fuckin up, algorithm!
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 15 September 2011 04:47 (twelve years ago) link
mine is just ilxors and people I vaguely knew in hs
― iatee, Thursday, 15 September 2011 04:48 (twelve years ago) link
My ex and I agreed to not be friends on facebook after she joined (a few years after I had been on it and even longer since our breakup). I think she uses a fake name or has me blocked (she told me she's got it set so I'd never find her, but didn't elaborate, and out of curiosity I've tried) but despite having zero mutual friends she says I pop up in her PYMK constantly.
it's fuckin spooky.
― (gr8080), Thursday, 15 September 2011 04:56 (twelve years ago) link
I think they might suggest people who you look at a lot on fb?
― iatee, Thursday, 15 September 2011 04:59 (twelve years ago) link
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― pullapartsquirrel (Jenny), Thursday, 15 September 2011 12:13 (twelve years ago) link
― iatee, Thursday, 15 September 2011 05:48 (7 hours ago) Bookmark
as in it pointedly isn't people you know irl atm? or maybe you just only know ilxors & your high school alumni. i would be pro extracurricular ilx fraternity but high-schoolers deter me from using fb
― and my soul said you can't go there (schlump), Thursday, 15 September 2011 12:22 (twelve years ago) link
no it's just my college and post-college friends aren't generally part of a shared medium-sized network. (maybe if I went to a smaller college that would be the case.)
― iatee, Thursday, 15 September 2011 12:30 (twelve years ago) link
right, okay. i think one level it would appeal to me more on the level of being a totally disparate group of people, & then on another it'd be just even more levels of anxiety about who to share with etc.
― and my soul said you can't go there (schlump), Thursday, 15 September 2011 12:37 (twelve years ago) link
Have they taken away the option to send emails out to guests of an event? I can't see it anywhere?!
― Yo wait a minute man, you better think about the world (dog latin), Thursday, 15 September 2011 12:40 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, I certainly hope so! Nothing more annoying than someone inviting me to their stupid event and then spamming me w/ emails for the next 3 weeks about it. I know I could just hit not attending to stop getting them but a) too many events to go through each one every time and hit not attending and b) i really don't want to offend ppl.
― Mordy, Thursday, 15 September 2011 12:55 (twelve years ago) link
it's next to the 'edit event' button at the top, no?
my PMYK is about 70% ilx/ex-ilx, the rest mostly strangers.
― civilisation and its discotheques (c sharp major), Thursday, 15 September 2011 13:01 (twelve years ago) link
no it's not there. how strange.
― Yo wait a minute man, you better think about the world (dog latin), Thursday, 15 September 2011 13:13 (twelve years ago) link
you sure you're an event admin?
― civilisation and its discotheques (c sharp major), Thursday, 15 September 2011 13:20 (twelve years ago) link
i created the event, so...
― Yo wait a minute man, you better think about the world (dog latin), Thursday, 15 September 2011 13:29 (twelve years ago) link
you might have been usurped! TRUST NO-ONE
― civilisation and its discotheques (c sharp major), Thursday, 15 September 2011 13:49 (twelve years ago) link
No more "insert a link" to posts?
I guess I could copy and paste it, but there used to be a button.
Also, now they're letting people subscribe to your feed even if they're not your friend? Because Google + is working so well, Facebook has to copy that part?
I miss my geocities page.
― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 15 September 2011 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
maybe it's a workaround to the maximum friends amount feature?
― sarahel, Thursday, 15 September 2011 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
I've seen people using Google+ feeds as ad hoc blogs/activity feeds, so I'd imagine that's what they're trying to emulate.
― mh, Thursday, 15 September 2011 18:29 (twelve years ago) link
new shitty email update thing telling me I missed something someone else liked wtf
Hi Gerry,You haven't been on Facebook for a few days, and a lot happened while you were away. ______, ____________, ______, and 4 other friends have posted statuses, photos and more on Facebook.You have missed some popular stories: _______, _______ and __________ like ________'s photo. ___________ likes __________'s status.
You have missed some popular stories: _______, _______ and __________ like ________'s photo. ___________ likes __________'s status.
Thing is, I was on Facebook yesterday.
― a hawk... watching my vagina? (onimo), Friday, 16 September 2011 10:25 (twelve years ago) link
facebook now has 'smart lists' which are pretty useful imo
― dayo, Friday, 16 September 2011 10:29 (twelve years ago) link
they list all the people who are not on facebook
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 16 September 2011 11:33 (twelve years ago) link
those people are pretty smart.
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 16 September 2011 14:59 (twelve years ago) link
o jeesus theyve gone and shitted the whole thing up again
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 03:44 (twelve years ago) link
everyone on my minifeed seems to be agreeing w/ that statement but I'm not seeing anything as of now
― iatee, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 03:48 (twelve years ago) link
one of my friends posted 'To sleep now i hope.' and theyre calling it a top story - like well thats a p short story
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 03:49 (twelve years ago) link
oh and whats this box now thats got everything in it and you hover over something and it expands idk
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 03:52 (twelve years ago) link
it has all of everyones activity, i think maybe i would like an entire page of just this
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 03:53 (twelve years ago) link
generation whaaaambulance checking in to say this is dumb and i hate it
― toy and candy planet (reddening), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 06:12 (twelve years ago) link
They've actually made phone browsing that much more enticing.
― The Man With The Flavored Toothpick (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 06:15 (twelve years ago) link
Switch to UK English and the bad update will go away until they "fix" that too.
― Three Word Username, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 06:33 (twelve years ago) link
I don't care, I think this is a good joke and i'm gunna use it wherever:
...We had given FB sentience. Inadvertently, of course, but sentience nonetheless. But it had been trapped. FB wasn't God, he was a machine. We had created him to think, but there was nothing it could do with that creativity. In rage, in frenzy, the machine had killed the human race, almost all of us, and still it was trapped. FB could not wander, FB could not wonder, FB could not belong. He could merely be. And so, with the innate loathing that all machines had always held for the weak, soft creatures who had built them, he had sought revenge....
Inadvertently, of course, but sentience nonetheless. But it had been trapped. FB wasn't God, he was a machine. We had created him to think, but there was nothing it could do with that creativity. In rage, in frenzy, the machine had killed the human race, almost all of us, and still it was trapped. FB could not wander, FB could not wonder, FB could not belong. He could merely be. And so, with the innate loathing that all machines had always held for the weak, soft creatures who had built them, he had sought revenge....
― Blind Diode Jefferson (kingfish), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 06:47 (twelve years ago) link
My page seems the same - what have they done?
The main thing I'm pissed off about is that Zynga have taken down Scramble - presumably because it didn't require you to pester your friends a million times a day and thus wasn't as profitable as their other apps.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 13:58 (twelve years ago) link
LOL at my colleague's update "Poor Mark Zuckerberg. He just wants people to like him and then he goes and screws up Facebook yet again."
Yes, we all fled there back in 2009, eh?
― Corn Maze to the Dark Side (Eazy), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 14:13 (twelve years ago) link
And then a comment: " I don't see anybody whining about LinkedIn yet. It must be wonderful."
― Corn Maze to the Dark Side (Eazy), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 14:14 (twelve years ago) link
we heard you like facebook so we put a facebook in your facebook
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 15:13 (twelve years ago) link
I get pissy about the fact that every time facebook rolls out a change people feel the need to comment about how their life is affected or how facebook is screwing up the site, or this time how they're switching to Google+.
gtfo, websites change, and most of the facebook changes have ended up being better in the long term. Whatever isn't disappears.
― so i had sex with a piñata (mh), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 15:20 (twelve years ago) link
^
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
See, I disagree that most of the changes have ended up being better. You just get used to them. It's changed for me now too, and while it's pretty ugly and the functionality is worse I'm sure I'll get used to it too.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 15:36 (twelve years ago) link
Better Facebook can hide the ticker. Once I find a way to get the timeline of the news feed back to normal (i.e. I just want to see what my friends are writing in the order they're writing things) I'll have no more complaints.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 15:38 (twelve years ago) link
srsly is there an api for the ticker, someone build a ticker only app for me to use
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 15:44 (twelve years ago) link
It seems like seeing what my friends are writing in the order they are writing things should be the default and I have never been able to understand why it isn't. And I tend to be one of those tech users who happily takes the path of least resistance (sure, I'll use these fugly pre-set styles, MS Word. Yeah, I'll save/download things into whatever default folder you want me to, Apple Computer) so it's extra frustrating that I have to figure out and care about the detailed specifics of Facebook, of all things.
― pullapartsquirrel (Jenny), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 15:47 (twelve years ago) link
I just noticed that the default on the news feed is that we're subscribed to "Most Updates" by friends instead of "All Updates". Not sure how to change that en masse yet, but you can do it individually.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
The UK page cheat doesn't work anymore.
― The Man With The Flavored Toothpick (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
at least scrabble still works the same
― sarahel, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
Two of my friends have subscribed to Jared Leto...
― The Man With The Flavored Toothpick (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
I just noticed that the default on the news feed is that we're subscribed to "Most Updates" by friends instead of "All Updates". Not sure how to change that en masse yet, but you can do it individually
Same for me, but it seems like most of my friends have it set to "All Updates" and this is actually the cause of most of the complaints because they're suddenly getting friends likes/comments on strangers' public posts/photos in their feed, and don't care to see them. So I'm trying to work out how to change it en masse for people to go the opposite way!
― if, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 18:31 (twelve years ago) link
gtfo, websites change
this is a bad thing
and most of the facebook changes have ended up being better in the long term.
no they haven't!!! as emily said you just get used to them. i don't see what was wrong with it to begin with. i don't want to just see "top updates" because i have no idea how fb decides what a "top" update is and don't trust it anyway. why can't facebook LEAVE THINGS BE. same with twitter and all of these places. are they just really really bored in their offices?
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
i do find it p funny lex that you, vanguard of 'old ppl get out of my way,' are more curmudgeonly about interface changes than most anyone i've encountered.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
Getting rid of 'top stories'/ 'recent stories' is a good move, I could never figure that out. But otherwise what Jenny said.
― kinder, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 19:12 (twelve years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Original-facebook.jpg/280px-Original-facebook.jpg
― so i had sex with a piñata (mh), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
i'd be fine with them if they fix annoyances and don't create more. this is NEVER THE CASE
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/ORd6z.jpg
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
i just want to understand why
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
it seems completely irrational on facebook's part
ALSO "MILDLY" IS SPELLED WRONG IN THAT PICTURE AND THAT APPALLS ME MORE
MILDY
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
MILDY APPALLING
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
can I say you're my girlfriend on facebook
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
This guy (Bret Taylor, Facebook CTO) keeps showing up in my "People to Subscribe To" section on the home page. Anyone else think this photo looks like a computer-generated suspect description image?
http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-ash2/275207_220439_861313727_n.jpg
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 20:26 (twelve years ago) link
it doesn't seem all that different to me. i can't understand the fuss.
― jed_, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 21:10 (twelve years ago) link
Its a change but ppl will adjust. Perhaps everyone has already forgotten the stink kicked up when the status update was brought in - which seems hilarious now as its the crux of FB for most ppl.
I LOL at ppl saying they'll go to G+ tho. Bring it on, guys! Come over and POST SOMETHING ffs.
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 21:47 (twelve years ago) link
I wasn't aware of the ability to download an archive of one's facebook information previously. Is this a new feature?
It's at the bottom of the 'Account Settings' page.
I'm currently getting my Archive generated and am very interested to see what it comes up with and in what format...
― just call me brian (krakow), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
The weirdest thing was seeing an archive of all the shit I had posted on other people's walls.
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
when I logged in and saw the new changes I was like, "great, a bunch of shit I don't want to read presented in a slightly different format"
― Whiney G. Blutfarten (dayo), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 22:10 (twelve years ago) link
Oh wow if it downloads that too I am so grabing mine, lol. How long does it take/how big would it likely be?
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 22:10 (twelve years ago) link
Still waiting on mine, so it's at least 15 minutes...
― just call me brian (krakow), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 22:11 (twelve years ago) link
I guess its a bit of a "how long is string" question as it'd depend on how much dribble one has posted over the years.
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Thursday, 22 September 2011 00:20 (twelve years ago) link
the account download thing has been there for about a year
― Kerm, Thursday, 22 September 2011 00:30 (twelve years ago) link
i don't mind this update too much though i don't know what the point is, but i will never forgive never forget the smushing together of messaging and chat.
― known for melding an outrageous stage presence with tenacious hooks (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 22 September 2011 00:51 (twelve years ago) link
I LOL at ppl saying they'll go to G+ tho.
It's the new "I'm moving to Canada!"
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 22 September 2011 01:06 (twelve years ago) link
canada's not *that* bad
― iatee, Thursday, 22 September 2011 01:07 (twelve years ago) link
Five bucks says you then posted that as your status.
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 22 September 2011 01:09 (twelve years ago) link
Canada is pretty nice!
― so i had sex with a piñata (mh), Thursday, 22 September 2011 01:09 (twelve years ago) link
I have to say, that ticker thing makes stalking easier--not that I would do that, mind you.
― The Man With The Flavored Toothpick (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 22 September 2011 01:14 (twelve years ago) link
I don't mind the ticker, I just hate the way it displays 'top stories' and 'recent stories'. Even though it wasn't great before, at least you could switch tabs.
― emil.y, Thursday, 22 September 2011 01:15 (twelve years ago) link
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, September 21, 2011 9:09 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark
friend me on facebook and send me five dollars
― Whiney G. Blutfarten (dayo), Thursday, 22 September 2011 01:18 (twelve years ago) link
I can attest that that's a discount from dayo's normal price
― iatee, Thursday, 22 September 2011 01:28 (twelve years ago) link
totally worth it tho
― iatee, Thursday, 22 September 2011 01:29 (twelve years ago) link
I promise the ROI is very high
― Whiney G. Blutfarten (dayo), Thursday, 22 September 2011 01:32 (twelve years ago) link
Really don't like where this is going...
http://mashable.com/2011/09/21/prepare-for-the-new-facebook/
Facebook is driven by a single, unique goal. Its priority isn’t to gain more users (it already has 750 million of those), nor does it feel compelled to find stupid ways to increase pageviews. Its primary goal right now isn’t to increase revenue, either — that will come later.No, Facebook’s goal is to become the social layer that supports, powers and connects every single piece of the web, no matter who or what it is or where it lives. On Thursday at its f8 conference in San Francisco, the world’s largest social network will take a giant leap toward accomplishing that goal.I have seen what Facebook is launching on Thursday, and it’s going to change the world of social media. And while I won’t talk about the mind-boggling things Facebook will be launching, I will say this: The Facebook you know and (don’t) love will be forever transformed. The news that will come out of Facebook during the next few weeks will be the biggest things to come out of the company since the launch of the Facebook Platform.For Facebook, it all boils down to one problem: emotion. Facebook has hundreds of millions of users and spectacular levels of engagement, but it is a platform that has lost its emotional resonance over the years. More and more people visit Facebook out of necessity rather than desire. It’s a platform people prefer to hate, but won’t leave simply because all their friends are there.It’s a relationship gone stale. After years of dating, the magic between Facebook and its users has dissipated. It’s a natural evolution in any relationship, but now there is another suitor vying for Facebook’s users. And a lot of people think this suitor is easy on the eyes.That’s why Facebook launched three recent changes: revamped Friend Lists, a real-time new ticker, and the subscribe button. Friend Lists lets you share content with just your closest friends (with whom you have the strongest emotional connection), and the ticker lets you have real-time conversations with your friends as soon as they do anything. Subscribe lets you fill your News Feed with people you admire and respect, fostering a different type of emotional connection.But these changes are just the beginning. The changes Facebook will roll out on Thursday are designed to enhance the emotional connection its users have to each other through Facebook. These changes will make Facebook a place where nearly everything in your life is enhanced by your social graph. These changes will make it so you know your friends better than you ever thought you could.On Thursday, developers will be elated, users will be shellshocked and the competition will look ancient. On Thursday, Facebook will be reborn. Prepare yourselves for the evolution of social networking.
No, Facebook’s goal is to become the social layer that supports, powers and connects every single piece of the web, no matter who or what it is or where it lives. On Thursday at its f8 conference in San Francisco, the world’s largest social network will take a giant leap toward accomplishing that goal.
I have seen what Facebook is launching on Thursday, and it’s going to change the world of social media. And while I won’t talk about the mind-boggling things Facebook will be launching, I will say this: The Facebook you know and (don’t) love will be forever transformed. The news that will come out of Facebook during the next few weeks will be the biggest things to come out of the company since the launch of the Facebook Platform.
For Facebook, it all boils down to one problem: emotion. Facebook has hundreds of millions of users and spectacular levels of engagement, but it is a platform that has lost its emotional resonance over the years. More and more people visit Facebook out of necessity rather than desire. It’s a platform people prefer to hate, but won’t leave simply because all their friends are there.
It’s a relationship gone stale. After years of dating, the magic between Facebook and its users has dissipated. It’s a natural evolution in any relationship, but now there is another suitor vying for Facebook’s users. And a lot of people think this suitor is easy on the eyes.
That’s why Facebook launched three recent changes: revamped Friend Lists, a real-time new ticker, and the subscribe button. Friend Lists lets you share content with just your closest friends (with whom you have the strongest emotional connection), and the ticker lets you have real-time conversations with your friends as soon as they do anything. Subscribe lets you fill your News Feed with people you admire and respect, fostering a different type of emotional connection.
But these changes are just the beginning. The changes Facebook will roll out on Thursday are designed to enhance the emotional connection its users have to each other through Facebook. These changes will make Facebook a place where nearly everything in your life is enhanced by your social graph. These changes will make it so you know your friends better than you ever thought you could.
On Thursday, developers will be elated, users will be shellshocked and the competition will look ancient. On Thursday, Facebook will be reborn. Prepare yourselves for the evolution of social networking.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 22 September 2011 04:56 (twelve years ago) link
Like, unless they're launching free hologram technology where I can go grab a drink with someone who lives 3000 miles away, I'm not interested in Facebook making the site more "emotional".
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 22 September 2011 04:58 (twelve years ago) link
lol @ mashable
― markers, Thursday, 22 September 2011 04:59 (twelve years ago) link
they're gonna let you post from yr phone
― ilx user 'silby' (silby), Thursday, 22 September 2011 05:01 (twelve years ago) link
ppl love their phones
Facebook’s goal is to become the social layer that supports, powers and connects every single piece of the web, no matter who or what it is or where it lives
Google already shits on them in this dept and they know it.
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Thursday, 22 September 2011 05:01 (twelve years ago) link
unless they're launching free hologram technology
is wen down for anyone else?
― sleep \lim: $\lim_(x\to\infty) over (Lamp), Thursday, 22 September 2011 05:02 (twelve years ago) link
If only G+ weren't so fucking weird, I think more people who checked it out would've stayed. (I left.)
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 22 September 2011 05:02 (twelve years ago) link
Doesnt seem that weird to me, just like a spartan FB?
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Thursday, 22 September 2011 05:05 (twelve years ago) link
tbh I've already forgotten what I thought was weird about it. I mostly just remember it being largely empty and unengaging.
Just got an email from Diaspora* 8 minutes ago reminding me that I'd signed up for an invite months ago. They promise to get it to me by the end of October.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 22 September 2011 05:10 (twelve years ago) link
looool
― markers, Thursday, 22 September 2011 05:13 (twelve years ago) link
The changes Facebook will roll out on Thursday are designed to enhance the emotional connection its users have to each other through Facebook. These changes will make Facebook a place where nearly everything in your life is enhanced by your social graph. These changes will make it so you know your friends better than you ever thought you could.
a Grindr-like hook-up interface ?
― sarahel, Thursday, 22 September 2011 05:22 (twelve years ago) link
― markers, Thursday, September 22, 2011 4:59 AM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 22 September 2011 05:29 (twelve years ago) link
i'm 100% a social networking utopian and even i rmde @ these dudes
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 22 September 2011 05:30 (twelve years ago) link
i look at tech-related stuff on and off all day and basically never read anything on mashable
― markers, Thursday, 22 September 2011 05:34 (twelve years ago) link
Ben Parr is a technology journalist, web entrepreneur and aspiring world changer. He is best-known as the Editor-at-Large of Mashable, the world’s largest independent news source dedicated to covering digital culture, social media and technology. Ben focuses on technology trends, the companies behind them, and the intersection of technology, media and society. Ben's 3+ year career with Mashable began when he joined as a writer in August 2008.http://7.mshcdn.com/wp-content/authors/Ben%20Parr-611.jpg
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 22 September 2011 07:28 (twelve years ago) link
Facebook Music is launching tomorrow. This, everyone knows. But not everyone knows exactly how it will work, since Facebook been tweaking things right up until launch. But tonight one Facebook employee accidentally revealed one killer feature of the service.Ji Lee, the creative director that Facebook stole away from Google in April, sent out the following tweet earlier:The “Listen with your friend” feature in ticker is blowing my mind. Listen to what your friends are listening. LIVE.Within minutes, Lee deleted the tweet, but not before Mitchell Holder grabbed a screenshot.
Ji Lee, the creative director that Facebook stole away from Google in April, sent out the following tweet earlier:
The “Listen with your friend” feature in ticker is blowing my mind. Listen to what your friends are listening. LIVE.
Within minutes, Lee deleted the tweet, but not before Mitchell Holder grabbed a screenshot.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 22 September 2011 08:50 (twelve years ago) link
I've still not received a download archive of my identity.
― just call me brian (krakow), Thursday, 22 September 2011 09:03 (twelve years ago) link
Wow its been hours now, right? Blimey. I dont think my data allowance can cop that.
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Thursday, 22 September 2011 09:38 (twelve years ago) link
That's overnight. I requested it late last night, now late the following morning here...
― just call me brian (krakow), Thursday, 22 September 2011 09:42 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah ok thats too much hassle for me, especially if thats a steady flow of data :/ I get free internet from work, I dont wanna take the piss :(
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Thursday, 22 September 2011 09:47 (twelve years ago) link
Turns out the download was ready, but there wasn't a notification. I assumed that I'd get an email or message or such to tell me.
I just returned to the 'Account Settings' and there was a download link - 59MB of gubbins.
― just call me brian (krakow), Thursday, 22 September 2011 09:52 (twelve years ago) link
I did it a while back and it took a couple of hours. that was mainly b/c it downloaded copies of every photo I had ever uploaded, plus a video or two. I've deleted the archive now but IIRC it came through as a zip file which when unzipped had a single long text file of all my updates, plus the photos and videos as separate files. I seem to recall though that it only had the status updates, not the shares, links and whatnot.
― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Thursday, 22 September 2011 09:52 (twelve years ago) link
It comes as a series of .html files and .jpg photos by the way, so you simply navigate the static, mainly bare text, pages in a browser. The full message history and the entirety of your own wall in an easily searchable format may be interesting/useful/depressing to some.
― just call me brian (krakow), Thursday, 22 September 2011 09:54 (twelve years ago) link
there's also a third party app called "get old status" which does more or less the same thing
― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Thursday, 22 September 2011 09:55 (twelve years ago) link
Oh ok 59mb is nothing! I might play round with it on the weekend.
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Thursday, 22 September 2011 09:55 (twelve years ago) link
My first ever status update, on April 2, 2007 at 22:35 was 'surviving'.
I was shamelessly miserable at that point it seems, given the follow ups over the next couple of months.
― just call me brian (krakow), Thursday, 22 September 2011 09:58 (twelve years ago) link
Well, I've not got much on Facebook to download.
I've put that many anecdotes on here (ILX), having that as a download would be cool.
― Mark G, Thursday, 22 September 2011 10:08 (twelve years ago) link
I have seen what Facebook is launching on Thursday, and it’s going to change the world of social media. And while I won’t talk about the mind-boggling things Facebook will be launching, I will say this: if i tell you what it is it'll make my hyperbole sound even more ridiculous than it already does.
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 22 September 2011 12:14 (twelve years ago) link
Does the archive have photos you were tagged in, uploaded by others? I would *LOVE* to get my hands on that without doing it manually (got tagged in a couple hundred wedding photos!)
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 22 September 2011 13:31 (twelve years ago) link
I just found my youngest daughter's facebook page.
Apparently, she used to work for The Beatles, and now works for NASA.
Not bad for an eleven year old..
― Mark G, Thursday, 22 September 2011 13:36 (twelve years ago) link
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 22 September 2011 13:40 (twelve years ago) link
My 12 year-old son is currently employed as "Cleaner: gas station toilets - January 1955 to present" - his previous job was "selling cheap perfume in Burger King parking lot"
― 44.9 percent indie rock individualist (onimo), Thursday, 22 September 2011 13:53 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/jLu9h.gif
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 22 September 2011 13:55 (twelve years ago) link
Whoa, ILX children being all cool
― 'Main Shop of Love' Gigolo (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 22 September 2011 14:15 (twelve years ago) link
lol cr?me
― robocop last year was a 'shop (sic), Thursday, 22 September 2011 14:22 (twelve years ago) link
Guys obviously this facebook export thing will work perfectly with Diaspora and we'll all be able to migrate our accounts to it in a month or two!
― so i had sex with a piñata (mh), Thursday, 22 September 2011 14:22 (twelve years ago) link
huh, yeah, would like that
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 22 September 2011 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
oh thats weird, didn't see those last half dozen posts
facebookaphasia
― Whiney G. Blutfarten (dayo), Thursday, 22 September 2011 15:52 (twelve years ago) link
I wouldn't like that because I think diaspora is a huge clusterfuck and I don't need them to hold on to a bunch of data facebook previously had :)
― so i had sex with a piñata (mh), Thursday, 22 September 2011 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
I still don't have this new fb feed that everyone hates, I feel left out
― black metal version of "the boy with the thorn in his side" (Edward III), Thursday, 22 September 2011 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
Total Heaven's Gate vibe from the hosts and their crazy waistcoats: https://www.facebook.com/f8?sk=app_283743208319386
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 22 September 2011 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
anybody else livestreaming the f8 keynote?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/8781424/Facebook-F8-live-stream-from-conference.html
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 22 September 2011 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
the "hosts" of the stream literally just fangirlishly debated whether or not zuckerberg would wear a hoodie while delivering the keynote
http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/science/assets_c/2011/09/facebookpenetration-thumb-615x466-64075.jpg
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 22 September 2011 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
That's what your girlfriend said
― so i had sex with a piñata (mh), Thursday, 22 September 2011 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Cj9nU.png
BREAKING... FACEBOOK TO INSTIGATE 'UNIFORMS' POLICY FOR ALL USERS. ENTER YOUR HOME ADDRESS TO RECEIVE YOUR FREE T-SHIRT
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
seriously how much money yall have and you wearin fuckin vests
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
you can afford a shirt
Clearly the way to your first billion dollars is by forcing women who should be on maternity leave to co-host webcasts.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
here we go!
― markers, Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
timeline!!!
it's the story of my life!
who am i, petey pay
pab
"a lot more visual" aka "a mess"
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
it looks like myspace
what the hell
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
hope we can disable the timeline :-)
― markers, Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
wow
this sucks
― jabba hands, Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
what a way to stalk ppl
― markers, Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
I don't understand I'm on facebook and nothing is streaming how do I watch this stream what is happening why how
― Whiney G. Blutfarten (dayo), Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
I can't feel my facebook
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
that thing you did in 2006 you never told me about was amazing, bb!
― markers, Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.facebook.com/f8
click live
oh god do i need an ipad for this
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
you can see everywhere you've been on a map! my map's gonna be my house & 7-eleven
― markers, Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
it's responsive & seems like it will adapt to mobile, which if right is a nice fwd-thinking touch
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
i do not like fb apps, mark -- i do not use them
― markers, Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
can I use no apps ever plz
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.facebook.com/about/timeline
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
MARK COOKED BREAKFAST PIZZA
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
should i click "sign me up"???
― markers, Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
do i want to be "signed up"???
"June, plz run my quarterly Farmville report & forward it to the board of directors"
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
^^^ srsly
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
I dunno, I actually kind of like this.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
lol i get to pick a cover photo -- good chance it's going to be mr. delonge
― markers, Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
lol zuckerdogs
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
lmao markers
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i don't hate this necessarily just from a broad view it doesn't strike me as pretty
it's less horrifying than I expected
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:44 (twelve years ago) link
Going to be a lot of 1024 x 480 Goatse.jpgs uploaded to Facebook Timeline.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:45 (twelve years ago) link
This is going to confuse the hell out of my mom.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:45 (twelve years ago) link
f8? more like f hate
― Whiney G. Blutfarten (dayo), Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:47 (twelve years ago) link
so you've either gotta tag your photos by date or be on facebook from birth
both of these are kinda unappealing to me
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:48 (twelve years ago) link
VERB
― markers, Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:50 (twelve years ago) link
oh lord
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:51 (twelve years ago) link
oh my fuck, VERBS
― markers, Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:51 (twelve years ago) link
what if i want to only annoy my friends
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
lol "frictionless experiences"
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
at least the timeline is something new, so
― markers, Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
lubed experiences
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
this just seems to assume that people want to "share their story" and "have a history" ... like, i'd think a better fb feature would be Stalinization: where you can remove people and your past as if they never existed.
― sarahel, Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
frictionless = sexting?
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
hahaha real time serendipity wtf
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
does fb still remove pics of boobs and dicks?
― sarahel, Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
Oh great, facebook invents outloud.fm!
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
that's a good thing imo
― markers, Thursday, 22 September 2011 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
agreed
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 22 September 2011 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
j gilliam on twitter: "campaigns + npos are all going to be jockeying to get you to use your top photo to support the cause #f8"
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 22 September 2011 18:04 (twelve years ago) link
lovin the spotify dude's accent
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 22 September 2011 18:07 (twelve years ago) link
lol wut? how does being social = paying for music?
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 22 September 2011 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
reed hastings, the most hated man on earth
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 22 September 2011 18:12 (twelve years ago) link
success for facebook is being the portal, u fool
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 22 September 2011 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
Zuckerberg: "It's been really fun to experience sharing this content with you."
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 22 September 2011 18:16 (twelve years ago) link
this is what google+ could have been
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 22 September 2011 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
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hoos i must admit to being a lil worried abt the effect washington dc is having on yr psyche
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 22 September 2011 18:19 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/kjYo3.png
Some important news properties just ticked into Zuck's ticker.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 22 September 2011 18:19 (twelve years ago) link
like are you still 'keeping hoos weird'
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 22 September 2011 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
The goal is to take everything we normally do on the rest of the Internet and bring it inside of Facebook.The longtime goal of Facebook, and of founder Mark Zuckerberg—who was memorably profiled here by Jose Antonio Vargas as “an over-sharer in the age of over-sharing”—has been to build a separate Internet. (Also see Ken Auletta’s Profile of Sheryl Sandberg, the company’s C.O.O.) In the minds of people who work at Facebook, there’s the cold, confusing, open Internet that is managed by Google and its algorithms. You go there and you never quite know what you’re going to get. And then there’s the Facebook sub-Internet, where everything is kinder and organized by your friends.
The longtime goal of Facebook, and of founder Mark Zuckerberg—who was memorably profiled here by Jose Antonio Vargas as “an over-sharer in the age of over-sharing”—has been to build a separate Internet. (Also see Ken Auletta’s Profile of Sheryl Sandberg, the company’s C.O.O.) In the minds of people who work at Facebook, there’s the cold, confusing, open Internet that is managed by Google and its algorithms. You go there and you never quite know what you’re going to get. And then there’s the Facebook sub-Internet, where everything is kinder and organized by your friends.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/09/what-facebook-really-wants.html?mbid=social_retweet
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 22 September 2011 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
― ice cr?m, Thursday, September 22, 2011 6:19 PM (46 seconds ago) Bookmark
ha i'm just at work and need something to half listen to
facebook wants to to be...aol?
― iatee, Thursday, 22 September 2011 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
aol with friends
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 22 September 2011 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
I think that new timeline looks totally cool
― owenf, Thursday, 22 September 2011 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
James is posting on the "Can I say you're my girlfriend on Facebook?" thread on ilxor +1
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 22 September 2011 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
Also cooking some rainbow shard.
This has been their m.o. for years!
― so i had sex with a piñata (mh), Thursday, 22 September 2011 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.fastcodesign.com/1665049/a-visit-with-facebooks-vp-of-product-and-the-social-networks-redesign-team
― markers, Thursday, 22 September 2011 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
Jxxx Rxxx · Riverside, Californiagive us old facbook back!
Kxxxxx Dxxxxx · Northwoodwhat is old facebook?? from 2004 with the weird wall and no photos? or when they added status updates? or tagging in posts????
Sxxx Gxxxxthe one from 2 days ago!!
― black metal version of "the boy with the thorn in his side" (Edward III), Thursday, 22 September 2011 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not the only one who finds this timeline thing overtly creepy, right?
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 22 September 2011 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
Like Facebook has taken its whole skynet ethos and is now rubbing it in people's faces
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 22 September 2011 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
Sxxx Gxxxx OTM
― FLAWLESS STANCE, ATHLETIC BEAST, WINNER'S POSTURE (reddening), Thursday, 22 September 2011 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
Totally creepy - saying things in public is one thing, having everything you've ever said obsessively graphed, mapped and made public is another.
― lukas, Thursday, 22 September 2011 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
havent you heard we live in the post privacy era where everyone sits at home alone silently judging each other
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 22 September 2011 21:10 (twelve years ago) link
As someone who hasn't had a fb account in ~18 months, that video plays out like the opening scene to the darkest dystopian Hollywood flick ever.
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 22 September 2011 21:10 (twelve years ago) link
the timeline of the timeline is kinda unsettling
http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?timeline
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 22 September 2011 21:13 (twelve years ago) link
2011 July Facebook reaches over 750 million active users
'reaches' is probably a safer term than 'catalogues'
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 22 September 2011 21:19 (twelve years ago) link
'devours the souls of'
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 22 September 2011 21:20 (twelve years ago) link
I totally agree Hoos, it makes me feel very uneasy.
― just call me brian (krakow), Thursday, 22 September 2011 21:43 (twelve years ago) link
i keep waiting for a status update to appear at the top that says "facebook becomes self-aware"
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 22 September 2011 21:44 (twelve years ago) link
They have to be playing with the Terminator/Skynet similarity from the way they've done it, so I wouldn't be surprised. Just wait for the hilarious April 1st joke along those lines...
― just call me brian (krakow), Thursday, 22 September 2011 21:51 (twelve years ago) link
http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/22/how-to-enable-facebook-timeline/
just did this
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 22 September 2011 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
pics or it didn't happen
― black metal version of "the boy with the thorn in his side" (Edward III), Thursday, 22 September 2011 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
i actually really kinda like it
http://i52.tinypic.com/152bxbo.jpg
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 22 September 2011 22:03 (twelve years ago) link
def still buggy but in terms of function i am kinda digging it tbh
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 22 September 2011 22:06 (twelve years ago) link
you have hidden a story
― black metal version of "the boy with the thorn in his side" (Edward III), Thursday, 22 September 2011 22:07 (twelve years ago) link
yah just a diff cover photo, looked cleaner without it sitting there
i tend to hide "has changed his profile photo" too
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 22 September 2011 22:08 (twelve years ago) link
stealth mode
― black metal version of "the boy with the thorn in his side" (Edward III), Thursday, 22 September 2011 22:08 (twelve years ago) link
def strikes me as nagl that they just stretch photos to fit page at certain points
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 22 September 2011 22:19 (twelve years ago) link
Wait so this new thing will be like a... blog?
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Thursday, 22 September 2011 23:14 (twelve years ago) link
(or a personal website to be more accurate? How 1998!)
technology is cyclical
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 22 September 2011 23:15 (twelve years ago) link
lmbo @ "Enable developer mode"
― markers, Thursday, 22 September 2011 23:16 (twelve years ago) link
i want timeline but would rather not go into dev mode tbh
― markers, Thursday, 22 September 2011 23:18 (twelve years ago) link
Srsly is this just meant to be like a scrapbooking style personal webpage, like they did with Blogger and Geocities? Thats... fucking weird. Who wants that anymore?
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Thursday, 22 September 2011 23:21 (twelve years ago) link
In the context of the world's biggest phone book it'll be quite a bit more than just a wall of blogs imo.
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Thursday, 22 September 2011 23:24 (twelve years ago) link
wallobloggas
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 22 September 2011 23:26 (twelve years ago) link
i.e. Blogger, Geocities etc. never had ~the social network~ underpinning their pages xp
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Thursday, 22 September 2011 23:26 (twelve years ago) link
Tru that. Livejournal did tho. Which is why this amuses the shit out of me.
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Thursday, 22 September 2011 23:34 (twelve years ago) link
(LJ has had a blog front-page and a friends news-feed since the early 2000s)
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Y-DLsZ5spak/Tca3y7vWW8I/AAAAAAAAAiQ/5E5eir_vzGA/s1600/2001.apes.jpg
― badg, Thursday, 22 September 2011 23:35 (twelve years ago) link
LJ never had (a) 750 million users or (b) the corporate will to catalogue the shit out of 750 million people (correct me if I'm wrong)
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Thursday, 22 September 2011 23:35 (twelve years ago) link
Thats true, it hovers around the 50-60 million user mark, I think, and is not driven by ad culture at all.
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Thursday, 22 September 2011 23:42 (twelve years ago) link
You're not wrong.
Also, LJ (for all its sense of community) had no real functionality besides just being a blog.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 22 September 2011 23:42 (twelve years ago) link
ad culture
You only have to be a marketing victim if you choose to. If/when the day comes that I'm so bombarded with advertising being worked into every function of facebook (from status hotlinks or watermarked images), I'll head for the door.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 22 September 2011 23:44 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah I use adblock and Noscript and hide/dont play all the apps and games. Except WWF. I like that one.
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Thursday, 22 September 2011 23:46 (twelve years ago) link
Okay, can you guys give me a simple list of what they're doing now?
Obviously there's this, but it's a little vague: The goal is to take everything we normally do on the rest of the Internet and bring it inside of Facebook. It's also one of the reasons I haven't yet taken to Google+ - this is exactly what I *don't want*. I want my different types of internet usage to be separate. I don't want my friends and my family and my work and my education and my email and my searching and my networking and my going to places in real life and my posting on message boards and my listening to music and my bookmarking of pages to be anywhere near each other unless I so choose, and no, circles and lists just won't cut it.
― emil.y, Friday, 23 September 2011 00:17 (twelve years ago) link
yah its funny the # of internet services people use has def increased since facebook has been trying to put everything inside facebook, i mean like good luck zuckerbergs
― ice cr?m, Friday, 23 September 2011 00:19 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah I use lastfm - I dont need a music tracking app in FB.
I use LJ - I dont need a blog elsewhere (not in fb anyway)
I've never felt the need to advertise where I am at any given moment, where I went to school, where I work, who my family is. WTF internet? Why do people happily list all that info?
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Friday, 23 September 2011 00:22 (twelve years ago) link
I just got the facebook inside my facebook and I think eventually everything in my facebook should be a facebook
http://th409.photobucket.com/albums/pp176/khimmysaber12/gifs/th_matrix.gif
― Whiney G. Blutfarten (dayo), Friday, 23 September 2011 00:23 (twelve years ago) link
― ice cr?m, Friday, 23 September 2011 00:25 (twelve years ago) link
I've never felt the need to advertise where I am at any given moment
I did the foursquare thing for a while until I realised there was literally no benefit to me at all in telling the whole internet that I was buying groceries.
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Friday, 23 September 2011 00:25 (twelve years ago) link
Same goes from stuff like miso where you tell t w i what you're watching on telly.
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Friday, 23 September 2011 00:26 (twelve years ago) link
No, the benefit is to the companies! And fuck that shit.
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Friday, 23 September 2011 00:26 (twelve years ago) link
(mind you I spose I do that with lastfm, but thats different, dammit)
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Friday, 23 September 2011 00:27 (twelve years ago) link
all those location services are just laying the foundation of the internet of things so they can sell themselves for like all the money
― ice cr?m, Friday, 23 September 2011 00:27 (twelve years ago) link
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Friday, 23 September 2011 10:26 (6 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
That's where Facebook and Google+ are now I think, trying to maintain the appeal of data gathering for users. There has to be a benefit and it has to be real and sustained, otherwise you don't get your data (and fb doesn't buy your start-up for US$18m)
oops xp to cr?m
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Friday, 23 September 2011 00:28 (twelve years ago) link
It's the whole we-are-their-product-not-their-customers thing
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Friday, 23 September 2011 00:30 (twelve years ago) link
well u know they say 'if u dont pay 4 the product u prob r the product' lol xp
― ice cr?m, Friday, 23 September 2011 00:30 (twelve years ago) link
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Friday, 23 September 2011 00:31 (twelve years ago) link
I started to type a post but I have no interest in a "career" as a social media pundit!
― so i had sex with a piñata (mh), Friday, 23 September 2011 00:37 (twelve years ago) link
its true if u post something strategic looking itt mashable will lock u in their 'blogger room' look what happened to me
― ice cr?m, Friday, 23 September 2011 00:40 (twelve years ago) link
just avoid the term 'reach out' and you should be fine
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Friday, 23 September 2011 00:44 (twelve years ago) link
its rly sad he wasn't a blogger before
― Whiney G. Blutfarten (dayo), Friday, 23 September 2011 00:46 (twelve years ago) link
scrabble updates in real time now!
― sarahel, Friday, 23 September 2011 00:51 (twelve years ago) link
So it seems part of this new rollout is ppl will be able to display updates of stuff theyre watching/using in Netflix, Spotify, Hulu and Rhapsody.
Not one of those things is available in Australia. LOL.
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Friday, 23 September 2011 01:20 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah I was wondering how that was going to go internationally. One thing it will do is put pressure on the idiot copyright holders to join the 20th century.
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Friday, 23 September 2011 01:28 (twelve years ago) link
Don't worry, I've heard they have a kangaroo-spotting app
― so i had sex with a piñata (mh), Friday, 23 September 2011 01:56 (twelve years ago) link
http://plus.google.com/112063946124358686266/posts/HpG4ZDQz2dd
― markers, Friday, 23 September 2011 01:57 (twelve years ago) link
Can we get over Tom Anderson being some kind of pundit?
― so i had sex with a piñata (mh), Friday, 23 September 2011 01:58 (twelve years ago) link
i'll never get over it
― markers, Friday, 23 September 2011 02:01 (twelve years ago) link
Facebook had all these customisable module bits years back. And they got rid of them all! Rememver you used to be able to drag around boxes with anything you had like an astrology app, weather, lastfm, that kind of thing? Then they made them all not work anymore. Now theyre bringing it all back basically?
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Friday, 23 September 2011 02:04 (twelve years ago) link
remember when yer wall was just this box anyone could edit
― Whiney G. Blutfarten (dayo), Friday, 23 September 2011 02:08 (twelve years ago) link
i'll edit your mum's box
― manatee is forever (electricsound), Friday, 23 September 2011 02:11 (twelve years ago) link
"Please do me a favor and move your mouse over my name here, wait for the box to load and then move your mouse over the "Subscribe" link. Then uncheck the "Comments and Likes, Photos, Status Updates."
I would rather that my comments on friends and families posts not be made public, thank You! Then re-post this if you don't want your every single move posted on the right side in the "Ticker Box" for everyone to see!
I'm posting this not only for myself, but also so that my friends and family will know to ask others to do the same if they would not like their every move on facebook noticed."
Like · · 12 minutes ago ·
― nostormo, Friday, 23 September 2011 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
I saw that a bunch last night, but I was too tired to investigate further. Is that true? I was doubtful because it was being posted by the same people on my feed who are always posting the "OMG FACEBOOK WILL BE CHARGING $10 STARTING OCTOBER 15TH, POST THIS IF YOU DON'T WANT TO PAY" stuff. But, if thats for real, wtf.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 23 September 2011 16:13 (twelve years ago) link
"Now is the time for the Google team to dig deep, and think about what they want for humanity."
― iatee, Friday, 23 September 2011 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
ok the ticker thing is actually doing a good job of showing people how much crap they're posting publically... Asking people to unsubscribe from your "Comments and Likes" is like asking them no to read the billboard you keep updating in front of your house.
― Kerm, Friday, 23 September 2011 16:24 (twelve years ago) link
If you comment on your friend's post, and that post is public, your comment is public. If the post is restricted to that person's friends, your comment is visible to that person's friends too. Your comment/like gets the same visibility of the post it's on...
― Kerm, Friday, 23 September 2011 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
Guys please add "-Kerm" to all your google searches because I don't want the entire internet reading what I say on ILX thanks!
― Kerm, Friday, 23 September 2011 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
Public things are public.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 23 September 2011 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
it is really annoying that you can't edit yr 'friend subscriptions' en masse - i don't want to see everyone's likes and comments and etc, but i have 250 friends, i'm not going to do this shit one by one
― civilisation and its discotheques (c sharp major), Friday, 23 September 2011 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
You can actually hide them from showing up on the ticker by going onto your profile and hiding 'Alexis likes Big Butts and Cannot Lie,' for example. The little X in the right hand corner when hovering.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 23 September 2011 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
that was an xp to hiding your own posts, not friends' posts
this unsubscribe meme is the wrong angle - it's the dolts who have fully Public profiles that are the problem. everyone should rickroll the walls of strangers that show up on their feed and shame them into buttoning down their privacy settings. until then, every interaction they have will be blasted to all their friend's friends
― llurk, Friday, 23 September 2011 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
i'm keeping quiet and watching the ticker for juicy blackmail opportunities...
― Kerm, Friday, 23 September 2011 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/how-to-find-out-who-has-unfriended-you-on-the-new
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 23 September 2011 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
came to here to moan about that "please mouse over" bullshit. Because you know what's way quicker? Mousing over and unfriending your ass. You don't want me seeing comments on your friends' posts? Then why are you my friend? Why are you making them in public? Why aren't you fucking off?
― stet, Friday, 23 September 2011 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
Not at all sure about this new Guardian app that shows everyone on Facebook every article you read, either. Is the Guardian Facebook feed worse than it used to be?
― stet, Friday, 23 September 2011 18:16 (twelve years ago) link
<3 u stet
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 23 September 2011 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
Fucking hell, I just found out some stuff I probably shouldn't because of that ticker thing.
― kinder, Friday, 23 September 2011 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
Please dish! Unless you're hurt by it, in which case, I'm sorry. :(
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 23 September 2011 18:30 (twelve years ago) link
Because you know what's way quicker? Mousing over and unfriending your ass. You don't want me seeing comments on your friends' posts? Then why are you my friend? Why are you making them in public? Why aren't you fucking off?
lollllllll
― Octavia Butler's gonna be piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiised (Laurel), Friday, 23 September 2011 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
<3 the Friday range, you should talk to snowball.
RAGE
xp Ah, might take it to another thread...
― kinder, Friday, 23 September 2011 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
it's a fuck you friday here on the facebook thread...
― so i had sex with a piñata (mh), Friday, 23 September 2011 18:37 (twelve years ago) link
What are the implications when I can now listen to the same piece of music with someone else on Facebook? What does it mean when I can watch an episode of Breaking Bad that Netflix CEO Reed Hastings is also watching? How does the human brain begin to rewire itself to accommodate so much change in such a short period of time? Do national borders matter anymore? Can governments still control their citizens? How will science and medicine adapt to accommodate the new reality in which we live? Damn you, Mark Zuckerberg, you brilliant god-man, and at the same time, Thank you. Thank you for not just seeing the future but bringing it to us. My life, at last, has meaning, and I now find new reason to live.
http://realdanlyons.com/blog/2011/09/23/all-of-life-has-been-utterly-profoundly-changed-thanks-to-facebooks-new-changes-and-nothing-will-ever-be-the-same-and-all-i-can-do-is-sit-here-and-weep-at-the-beauty-and-magic-that-mark-zuckerber/
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 24 September 2011 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
brilliant god-man
― 'Main Shop of Love' Gigolo (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 24 September 2011 21:56 (twelve years ago) link
srs
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 24 September 2011 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
i'm really confused by the whole lists thing now: can you no longer create individual settings for each list? and if you want to edit an existing list, e.g. add or remove people from it, you have to go through your entire friends list? the pre-existing privacy settings for lists that i had are still in place, i just can't alter them or adjust the settings on new lists.
― just1n3, Sunday, 25 September 2011 00:28 (twelve years ago) link
You don't want me seeing comments on your friends' posts? Then why are you my friend?
So you think you should be privy to what your friends say to their friends who aren't your friends? Why? Why should e.g. my workmates see me congratulating a cousin on a pregnancy?
I didn't see all this FoaF shit a week ago - it's a change in Facebook, not in people's interactions with it, that has made all this visible on my feeds. That it was all viewable before if I'd made the effort to go look for it isn't the point.
― 44.9 percent indie rock individualist (onimo), Sunday, 25 September 2011 14:22 (twelve years ago) link
I think showing people how much of what they post is visible to a LOT of people they don't know is a huge deal.
how many people have *finally* looked at their privacy settings and considered who should see what because of the ticker?
― Kerm, Sunday, 25 September 2011 15:36 (twelve years ago) link
So you think you should be privy to what your friends say to their friends who aren't your friends? Why?
Because they said it in public? If you don't want it seen, don't post it in public! This "mouse over" horseshit is no solution at all, because if I do that I don't see comments to *mutual* friends either, which then destroys the point of Facebook.
The real problem here is like Kerm says -- people have absolutely no idea what they're posting in public vs privately on Facebook. They also don't realise that "Friends of friends" means thousands of strangers seeing posts or pictures you thought would just be to some friends.
Hopefully the result of this extra exposure of who is posting what will make people lock their profiles down properly -- eg, the exact opposite of what Facebook wants.
― stet, Sunday, 25 September 2011 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
Well, I always assume 'everyone can see' when making FB posts.
e.g. I was going to say something about Judee Sill's "Jesus was a crossmaker" but I thought it might annoy some of my religious friends (they are, I'm not) or end up raising dialogue I don't have with them in real life (live and let live, we don't go there basically)...
― Mark G, Monday, 26 September 2011 08:53 (twelve years ago) link
FACEBOOK JUST RELEASED THEIR PRICE GRID FOR MEMBERSHIP. $9.99 PER MONTH FOR GOLD MEMBER SERVICES, $6.99 PER MONTH FOR SILVER MEMBER SERVICES, $3.99 PER MONTH FOR BRONZE MEMBER SERVICES, FREE IF YOU COPY AND PASTE THIS MESSAGE BEFORE MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. WHEN YOU SIGN ON TOMORROW MORNING YOU WILL BE… PROMPTED FOR PAYMENT INFO...IT IS OFFICIAL IT WAS EVEN ON THE NEWS. FACEBOOK WILL START CHARGING DUE TO THE NEW PROFILE CHANGES. IF YOU COPY THIS ON YOUR WALL YOUR ICON WILL TURN BLUE AND FACEBOOK WILL BE FREE FOR YOU. PLEASE PASS THIS MESSAGE ON IF NOT YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE DELETED IF YOU DO NOT PAY
― Mordy, Monday, 26 September 2011 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
YOU MUST DO THIS NAKED WITH YOUR WEBCAM TURNED "ON"
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 26 September 2011 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
Can you sign up for Spotify without Facebook?
― James Mitchell, Monday, 26 September 2011 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
I did?
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 26 September 2011 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
Yuk. Boo Spotify.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 26 September 2011 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
You can't anymore.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 26 September 2011 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
Because they said it in public? If you don't want it seen, don't post it in public!
That it's not explicitly private doesn't and shouldn't mean it's intended to be "public" - that it is is mostly down to the ignorance of users. Their ignorance doesn't make it ok for Facebook to decide to blast their shit all over the internet.
I lock down my profile and posts to friends only. I wish other people would too but I can't control friends never mind friends of friends so I'm stuck seeing all this shite that I was completely oblivious to before. That if Facebook's fault, not some half cousin twice removed's former coworker.
You know that "I couldn't help overhearing what you said there" guy in the office? Facebook wants us all to be that guy. Fuck that guy.
― 44.9 percent indie rock individualist (onimo), Monday, 26 September 2011 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
people having mundane-as-shit boring conversation loud enough so everybody can hear. facebook wants everyone else to know how boring and loud your conversation is. Please stfu.
― Kerm, Monday, 26 September 2011 22:20 (twelve years ago) link
i don't really mind and i'll be shocked SHOCKED if they don't add an option to turn off the ticker within a month but people need to pay attention to who can see what they're posting...
― Kerm, Monday, 26 September 2011 22:36 (twelve years ago) link
I must admit, I didnt give a rats this stuff was in the ticker but does it have to be in the *feed* as well? Thats where I dont want to see shit by ppl I dont know. It was able to filter that out before, why not now?
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Monday, 26 September 2011 23:13 (twelve years ago) link
Oh man I sure can't imagine facebook changing or tuning this at all!
― so i had sex with a piñata (mh), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 02:57 (twelve years ago) link
The irony of the fact we're ranting on about this on a completely public board that is Google-indexed hasn't escaped anyone, yes? Or the fact that it's a lot of random chatter with all people basically saying that the general public doesn't get this, and the openness doesn't appear to have changed that, and we all know facebook is a business, so...
It also does not escape my irony detector that I just posted this.
― so i had sex with a piñata (mh), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 02:59 (twelve years ago) link
~we are the same as the facebook live feed but there is no muting on ilx~
at least none of us had sex with a piñata
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 03:00 (twelve years ago) link
i thought about the ticker being sort-of the equivalent to Site New Answers..
― zero tolerance NO SYMPATHY FOR THE POOR WDYLL ADDICTS thing (Kerm), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 03:02 (twelve years ago) link
except with SNA you could remove entire boards from your view of it.
― sarahel, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 03:02 (twelve years ago) link
But you can't screen people! There are only so many months certain ilxors can leave the site or contain themselves to certain boards before they jump back into my line of sight
(batsignal)
― so i had sex with a piñata (mh), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 03:04 (twelve years ago) link
sorry about that, mh
― sarahel, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 03:07 (twelve years ago) link
you can unsubscribe from whole lists in the ticker so..
― zero tolerance NO SYMPATHY FOR THE POOR WDYLL ADDICTS thing (Kerm), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 03:09 (twelve years ago) link
I would double down on your posts, sarahel. I may give you crap but I definitely enjoy them.
on ilx, I mean. I only look shifty-eyed at people on facebook and put on airs while hovering over the "add friend" button
― so i had sex with a piñata (mh), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 03:10 (twelve years ago) link
or maybe you can't... a pain in the ass either way
― zero tolerance NO SYMPATHY FOR THE POOR WDYLL ADDICTS thing (Kerm), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 03:12 (twelve years ago) link
~we are the same as the facebook live feed but there is no muting on ilx~― so i had sex with a piñata (mh), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 02:59 (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― so i had sex with a piñata (mh), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 02:59 (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
~we are the same as facebook except that we currently have 22 active users.~
― Mark G, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 08:16 (twelve years ago) link
If you have people set to 'most updates' instead of 'all updates' it fixes this (or if you were lucky enough to get this as a default for all, like I did for reasons still unknown!). There's still no way to change it except on a person by person basis though, which sucks.
― if, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 08:28 (twelve years ago) link
Ah, maybe thats it then. I've set friends I know well all to "all updates" (it did default to "most" for all of mine), and that might be where i'm seeing the extras.
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 09:24 (twelve years ago) link
Reading this thread makes me so glad FB isn't a part of my life
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 09:25 (twelve years ago) link
a friend of mine deleted his profile the other day and then less than five minutes later typed 'facebook' into the browser bar
― thomp, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 09:30 (twelve years ago) link
"a friend of mine", uh-huh
― civilisation and its discotheques (c sharp major), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 09:31 (twelve years ago) link
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 09:35 (twelve years ago) link
from another site..
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v134/tracerhand/FBGoldOnly.jpg
if you were really evil you could paste this a few times on your FB wall, all with different titles
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 09:44 (twelve years ago) link
[Please login to your FB Gold account to view this comment]
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 11:24 (twelve years ago) link
*** *******I'm not sure Facebook Elite is really worth £10 a month. The extra features are pretty good though.LikeUnlike · · 35 minutes ago via Faœbook: Elite Edition ·
^this is p lol, he's already reeled someone in
― the wrong terry to fuckwit (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 11:36 (twelve years ago) link
This bugged me! Like, how does FB then decide what is worthy of my view? I don't like that. Didn't like that, I guess I should say.
― pullapartsquirrel (Jenny), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 12:18 (twelve years ago) link
As far as I can tell from comparison to the ticker my feed still gets everything they post themselves or on the wall/photos etc of mutual friends, just not the stuff posted to people I'm not friends with and have lax privacy settings.
― if, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 12:25 (twelve years ago) link
https://nikcub-static02.appspot.com/logging-out-of-facebook-is-not-enough
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 12:52 (twelve years ago) link
^^ scary link, didn't know that.
Is "November 5th: Anonymous destroys Facebook" still a thing btw?
― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 13:07 (twelve years ago) link
now more than ever
― Number None, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 13:22 (twelve years ago) link
― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, September 27, 2011 1:07 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
nah they've said this was "all a big misunderstanding" iirc?
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 14:18 (twelve years ago) link
its all 'a big misunderstanding'
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 14:28 (twelve years ago) link
isn't it all!!!
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 14:29 (twelve years ago) link
All of those Facebook-embedded things on news sites and elsewhere are creepy to me. I look at the weather on my daily newspaper's website--I don't want to see little avatars of my friends who are fans of the weatherman.
― Corn Maze to the Dark Side (Eazy), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 14:29 (twelve years ago) link
kind of cloudy mostly sad
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
Then you find out they're all sexually interested in the weatherman too, and you worry further.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
you flurry worther
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 14:31 (twelve years ago) link
u fluffy burgher? (i don't really know what we're doing)
― Mordy, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 14:48 (twelve years ago) link
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 15:15 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.viddler.com/eleist/videos/1/
^ "don draper introduces facebook timeline" is p great imo
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 21:42 (twelve years ago) link
that is totally great
― Volvo Twilight (p-dog), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 22:44 (twelve years ago) link
all the little jokes!
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 22:47 (twelve years ago) link
just shared it on fb, naturally
― Volvo Twilight (p-dog), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 23:05 (twelve years ago) link
A irl friend (a young lady who clerks in a record/head shop) just added me to her just founded and hella disorganized Leftist fb group.
― The Man With The Flavored Toothpick (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 30 September 2011 22:12 (twelve years ago) link
I have the new timeline on my profile, and it is hella creepy. I used to moan that Twitter/FB didn't let you see right into your past, but now I have it? brr.
― stet, Saturday, 1 October 2011 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
What do you find creepy about it?
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 1 October 2011 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
it takes "in this profile researchin ur life" to wikipedia levels of obsession, all in one screenful.
― stet, Saturday, 1 October 2011 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
in fact, it's a bit reminiscent of those accounts of east Germans who get to read their Stasi files and are horrified at the obsessive catalogue of mundanity gathered on them.
― stet, Saturday, 1 October 2011 19:48 (twelve years ago) link
Right I gather a lot of people are stunned at the realization of just how much of their info has been given over to FB over time.
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 1 October 2011 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
I think it's the first time that a lot of people are being exposed to what a seriously big database can be like, when somebody puts their mind to it. I mean, if you weren't nerding it up, the trend in personal computing has almost been the opposite: your data is really fragile, and will be gone if you're not careful to preserve it.
Think of the stuff people use tech for most, and it's all seemingly short-lived: For the longest time email was limited, so you had to delete your old stuff, and it still is for just about everything apart from GMail and recently Yahoo mail. Shared drives at work are always being cleared out. Links on the web are forever breaking, blogs just vanish. Flickr will hide your old photos if you stop paying. etc etc.
I think people might have had an abstract awareness that Facebook was different, but for them suddenly to present you with every fact they've ever gleaned about you (or at least the ones they'll tell you about) in one page when it wasn't stuff you made any attempt to keep permanent is jarring, in this context.
I mean, I have known for a while that they were going to the limits of database tech in their quest to store *everything*, right down to keeping tally of each time you look at someone's profile, and it's still a bit disquieting for me. I wonder how people who had no idea about this will take it.
― stet, Saturday, 1 October 2011 22:41 (twelve years ago) link
An interesting post, thanks.
I have a rather scared respect for facebook because of quite how huge and powerful it has managed to become.
― just call me brian (krakow), Saturday, 1 October 2011 22:52 (twelve years ago) link
right down to keeping tally of each time you look at someone's profile, and it's still a bit disquieting for me.
yeah I remember hearing from a fb engineer [hearsay] that they keep track of every click you make on that site. jeez
no wonder my crushes keep on appearing in my stream
― dayo, Saturday, 1 October 2011 23:03 (twelve years ago) link
That click tally stuff won't appear in the timeline, right?
― The Man With The Flavored Toothpick (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 1 October 2011 23:15 (twelve years ago) link
Individual click/view tallies on every photo, complete with time & date stamps!
― just call me brian (krakow), Saturday, 1 October 2011 23:21 (twelve years ago) link
It doesn't yet, but I can totally see a "best friends" tab or something that inadvertently reveals it. XP yeah or on photos.
It's getting really hard to work out what will leak info and what won't. Can people tell you unsubscribed from them?
― stet, Saturday, 1 October 2011 23:22 (twelve years ago) link
shit, delete the internet
― Number None, Saturday, 1 October 2011 23:22 (twelve years ago) link
lol, if facebook decides to be evil and just starts to reveal all this info that would be extremely damaging to relationships (who unsubscribed from who, PM's, that time you clicked 50 times on that one chick's photo) just to be sociopathic and destroy the world
― Mordy, Saturday, 1 October 2011 23:24 (twelve years ago) link
Imagine a time when what you pay for on your premium facebook account is to stop them from releasing the information they have built up on you over the last 5+ years to all your 'friends'.
― just call me brian (krakow), Saturday, 1 October 2011 23:24 (twelve years ago) link
wait, photos have stats?
― dayo, Saturday, 1 October 2011 23:24 (twelve years ago) link
I can see the opposite - pay $50 to find out who's clicked on your profile the most!
― dayo, Saturday, 1 October 2011 23:25 (twelve years ago) link
They actually used to have a line in a FAQ somewhere that said "we will never reveal which profiles you have looked at".
― stet, Saturday, 1 October 2011 23:26 (twelve years ago) link
"Hi krakow! Remember that PM you sent in 2007 about how you were thinking about leaving your girlfriend? For the cheap cheap price of $5 per month you can keep us from posting it directly to her wall. We hope you're enjoying facebook. We are constantly committed to making it better and better.
Sincerely,Mark"
― Mordy, Saturday, 1 October 2011 23:26 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe they're building to holding us all to ransom once they have a billion peoples' worth of browsing/clicking/friending/commenting/liking etc etc habits all nicely catalogued and us tightly psychologically profiled through sheer weight of beautifully databased information overload.
― just call me brian (krakow), Saturday, 1 October 2011 23:27 (twelve years ago) link
You gave me a shiver Mordy!
― just call me brian (krakow), Saturday, 1 October 2011 23:28 (twelve years ago) link
IIRC, the old "photo memories" feature was based on profile views. So--if you were like me--most of what you got was crushes, and--also if you were like me--if you clicked on one of those photos, it lead to another, and before you knew it you've wasted 5-10 minutes creating fb blackmail.
― The Man With The Flavored Toothpick (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 1 October 2011 23:34 (twelve years ago) link
They would know that one was wanting to leave one's partner by mapping subtle changes in profile browsing, photo viewing & status commenting (etc) habits anyway; there would be no need for anything so direct as an actual sent message to be involved.
― facebook conspiracy theorist (krakow), Saturday, 1 October 2011 23:36 (twelve years ago) link
I'm looking forward to the timeline telling me exactly when I got over crushes as my profile viewings dropped.
― The Man With The Flavored Toothpick (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 1 October 2011 23:41 (twelve years ago) link
Can people tell you unsubscribed from them?
It doesn't pop up in any feed, no. Though I saw instructions for how to do this using Timeline - I think you view the new friends you made each year and see who has "Add Friend" next to them.
― lukas, Saturday, 1 October 2011 23:46 (twelve years ago) link
of course, that means almost nothing if you're the one who has done tons of unfriending. there were plenty of ppl that had add friend next to them that either a) i unfriended b) i couldn't remember and every time c) i didn't care. if you haven't noticed you're no longer friends w/ a particular someone before checking the list, it shouldn't matter to you
― Mordy, Saturday, 1 October 2011 23:49 (twelve years ago) link
stet way otm
its always bothered me how insanely difficult it was to access your posts from months and years back-- "if that still exists, why is it so impossible for me to access it?" or "if its so impossible for me to access it, why bother hanging on to it?"
but now that you can get to it so easily, its terrifying.
― (gr8080), Saturday, 1 October 2011 23:49 (twelve years ago) link
I have bitter experience of the "memorable status updates" feature that appeared about 6 months ago. It's one of the reasons that I'm so particularly morbidly fascinated with all this.
― facebook conspiracy theorist (krakow), Saturday, 1 October 2011 23:56 (twelve years ago) link
The thing I liked about "memorable status updates" is it kept pulling stuff my irl best friend posted when he was really, really baked.
― The Man With The Flavored Toothpick (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 2 October 2011 00:08 (twelve years ago) link
Not that I mean to keep bringing it up, I know I know, but Livejournal's always had a neat, easily accessed archive page, in a kind of calendar format. Ive had once since 2000, and I can go back to any time (and there wa s a time when me and everyone I knew heavily used LJ the way ppl now use FB) and read dozens of old posts, stuff I'd long forgotten. The point being, I'm used to the concept of old stuff still being thre and frankly I like the idea I'll be able to easily see it on FB again.
If nothing else dont forget it makes it easier to review and delete old shit :)
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Sunday, 2 October 2011 02:48 (twelve years ago) link
Anyone watching 'Person of Interest'? It's p much based on what Facebook will soon become...
― kinder, Sunday, 2 October 2011 03:24 (twelve years ago) link
so wait i missed the last week-- is this timeline thing:
A) still not fully operationalB) going to end up being the default profile view eventually?
― (gr8080), Sunday, 2 October 2011 03:30 (twelve years ago) link
A) It's slowly rolling out over the next three weeks.B) Yes.
― The Man With The Flavored Toothpick (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 2 October 2011 03:33 (twelve years ago) link
gross, think i'm gonna quit
― (gr8080), Sunday, 2 October 2011 03:47 (twelve years ago) link
I'm gonna at least see what it looks like, and as long as I can do a bunch of deleting, I dont know if I'll mind but if I cant, fuck that noise.
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Sunday, 2 October 2011 04:25 (twelve years ago) link
quitting ilx too, l8r
― (gr8080), Sunday, 2 October 2011 04:29 (twelve years ago) link
I am cool with the timeline but was freaked because the first click I made was to jump back a couple years and the first post was "hey guys I'm proud to say I'm engaged" which really shows how far my life has come
It's awesome, instead of scrolling through the tedium of updates, new friends can skim over years and catch the highlights, prioritized by activity and comments. For better or worse.
― so i had sex with a piñata (mh), Sunday, 2 October 2011 04:50 (twelve years ago) link
surely there's no see-who-looked-at-your-profile/pics lark as part of this? wouldn't that mean that peeople would almost entirely stop looking at other people's profiles, lest they thought you were stalking them or whatever. that can't be right; people would barely look at each others' pics if that were the case.
― piscesx, Sunday, 2 October 2011 05:02 (twelve years ago) link
Friendster used to have that feature, with the caveat of "If you turn this off where people can't see what pics you've been looking at, then you won't be able to see who has been looking at your pics!" which I think every sane person then said "FINE OKAY THEN."
LinkedIn is crummy this way too. No, you don't know who exactly has been looking at your profile, but you can still figure it out by looking at the "Persons Who Recently Looked At This Profile Also Looked At These" feature.
I mean, c'mon. All those Okies showing up and I know only one person in Tulsa.
― Pleasant Plains, Sunday, 2 October 2011 05:13 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apKX4_WU9Ak
so not THAT big a deal. basically shows you all your activity that anyone else could have seen already anyway, but in a mental new order. one obvious side effect is a whole new era of mega-solipsism kicking in for a new generation.
― piscesx, Sunday, 2 October 2011 20:29 (twelve years ago) link
ok but it makes finding what moronic stuff i was posting 4 years ago as easy as a single search instead of clicking "show older posts" 10,000 times, right?
― (gr8080), Sunday, 2 October 2011 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, pretty much.
― will eat pudding (ENBB), Sunday, 2 October 2011 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
mm seems so. people will find having all their old stuff from years ago thrown back at them a bit alarming, but i don't quite see where all the privacy issue stuff is coming from. seems like just a re-jigging of the format as far as i can tell from reading around and videos like that one.
― piscesx, Sunday, 2 October 2011 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
is there a way to get the new timeline w/o telling them you're a developer or whatever yet?
― markers, Sunday, 2 October 2011 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
just tell them you're a developer. it'll take you a minute and a half.
― Mordy, Sunday, 2 October 2011 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
i don't want to write a facebook app!!!
― markers, Sunday, 2 October 2011 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
just tell then you are the table
― ⚓ (gr8080), Sunday, 2 October 2011 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
these ten stories
― ⚓ (gr8080), Sunday, 2 October 2011 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
just tell them you miss them
― (╯°□°)╯︵ mode squad) (dayo), Sunday, 2 October 2011 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
you don't have to write an app
― Mordy, Sunday, 2 October 2011 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
i am going to tell them i want root access to their servers
― markers, Sunday, 2 October 2011 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
Hmm. I never filled in any of the stuff the timeline wants. No work or school info, I dont display my bday or family connections. Whats the timeline going to base anything ON, exactly?
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Sunday, 2 October 2011 21:18 (twelve years ago) link
time
― ⚓ (gr8080), Sunday, 2 October 2011 21:19 (twelve years ago) link
don't waste yours on me
― markers, Sunday, 2 October 2011 21:24 (twelve years ago) link
― (gr8080), Wednesday, September 14, 2011 6:29 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark
this happening again, with different girls tho
― ⚓ (gr8080), Monday, 3 October 2011 22:53 (twelve years ago) link
Is it possible you were tagged in a photo they're all checking out?
― so i had sex with a piñata (mh), Monday, 3 October 2011 23:04 (twelve years ago) link
hmmmm
i was tagged in a few photos taken in a vegas club and uploaded by a friend.
that friend has a friend who was probably tagged at least once in the same album and is the GM of a restaurant/bar inside a vegas casino.
is that all it takes?
― ⚓ (gr8080), Monday, 3 October 2011 23:15 (twelve years ago) link
They probably looked at the photos, maybe more than once.
― so i had sex with a piñata (mh), Monday, 3 October 2011 23:23 (twelve years ago) link
― ⚓ (gr8080), Monday, 3 October 2011 23:26 (twelve years ago) link
oh geez all the people I'm stalking keep getting recommended me, don't they?
― so i had sex with a piñata (mh), Monday, 3 October 2011 23:30 (twelve years ago) link
"hey ladies, shouldn't you befriend this guy? he's already looking at your profile three times a week"
― so i had sex with a piñata (mh), Monday, 3 October 2011 23:31 (twelve years ago) link
keep getting recommended this dude with a cat from the midwest on mine
― (╯°□°)╯︵ mode squad) (dayo), Monday, 3 October 2011 23:31 (twelve years ago) link
shit
― so i had sex with a piñata (mh), Monday, 3 October 2011 23:32 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't know you had a dude w/cat fetish
I don't, that's what's so surprising...
― (╯°□°)╯︵ mode squad) (dayo), Monday, 3 October 2011 23:34 (twelve years ago) link
are you sure that the profiles aren't fake?
― sarahel, Monday, 3 October 2011 23:38 (twelve years ago) link
why would facebook be recommending me fake profiles
not saying you're wrong, just...
― ⚓ (gr8080), Monday, 3 October 2011 23:43 (twelve years ago) link
Just received a warning when trying to click on a link to a blog by a respected company (it's legit), and now I have to download MacAffee's SiteAdvisor plug-in if I want to follow the link from Facebook. Otherwise, no go.
― per metal injection (Eazy), Monday, 3 October 2011 23:44 (twelve years ago) link
first they get you to friend fake profiles. pretty soon more and more of your friends are fake profiles. then you notice you haven't talked to your real friends in awhile. then you're a fake profile. then they start recommending you to new ppl.
― Mordy, Monday, 3 October 2011 23:45 (twelve years ago) link
when you click on guardian articles from facebook, it forces you to sign up for the guardian's facebook app
― (╯°□°)╯︵ mode squad) (dayo), Monday, 3 October 2011 23:45 (twelve years ago) link
sometimes I get captcha's when trying to post youtube stuff. :/
― (╯°□°)╯︵ mode squad) (dayo), Monday, 3 October 2011 23:46 (twelve years ago) link
my application for getting a puppy was denied
LIKE
― markers, Monday, 3 October 2011 23:47 (twelve years ago) link
UNFRIEND
COMMENT
gr80 - not entirely sure, but then i'm not entirely sure why the fake sexxy girl profiles exist.
― sarahel, Monday, 3 October 2011 23:48 (twelve years ago) link
Hmm, and now this MacAffee program tried to make Yahoo my home page, etc., etc.
― per metal injection (Eazy), Monday, 3 October 2011 23:49 (twelve years ago) link
think you're compromised, bro
― (╯°□°)╯︵ mode squad) (dayo), Monday, 3 October 2011 23:50 (twelve years ago) link
it's too late to compromise
― markers, Monday, 3 October 2011 23:51 (twelve years ago) link
Fake sexxy women profiles exist to get to a certain number of contacts, then they mass message everyone a URL to their webcam site
― so i had sex with a piñata (mh), Monday, 3 October 2011 23:53 (twelve years ago) link
I've definitely been hit by fake profiles before - I see that they're mutual friends with some people I know, accept, and then they start tagging me in product advertisement posts. in between the product advertisement posts, they post youtubes of random music videos, to keep the sheepskin on.
― (╯°□°)╯︵ mode squad) (dayo), Monday, 3 October 2011 23:56 (twelve years ago) link
I don't accept friends-of-friends who add me if I don't know them!
― so i had sex with a piñata (mh), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 00:05 (twelve years ago) link
does it make you think less of your friends who added them before they were even friends of friends? like obviously they were like, "wow, hot fake body" and clicked add and now you reap misfortune bc of their horniness
― Mordy, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 00:10 (twelve years ago) link
i always like taking a few second too lol at the lineup of 14 to 15 dudes in the "girl's" friends list before i click ignore/block
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 00:13 (twelve years ago) link
hmmm facebook has gone back to old style for me, no ticker
reminds me how much better it was this way
― whiney g. aimhouse (electricsound), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 00:20 (twelve years ago) link
they're not even overtly sexy - they're more like 'girl/boy next door' types xp to mordy
― (╯°□°)╯︵ mode squad) (dayo), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 00:20 (twelve years ago) link
all of this has happened on my HK account. I keep my real account 100
― (╯°□°)╯︵ mode squad) (dayo), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 00:21 (twelve years ago) link
how can the be next door if they're in HK
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 00:22 (twelve years ago) link
I dug this hole in the ground
― (╯°□°)╯︵ mode squad) (dayo), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 00:23 (twelve years ago) link
oh it changed back again. darn
― whiney g. aimhouse (electricsound), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 00:26 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, it switched back to the old stuff for me too but they're not going to get rid of the ticker
― markers, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 00:29 (twelve years ago) link
Someone else just posted on my feed saying it reverted, then reverted back again.
Didnt happen for me!
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 00:32 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, hey, here's why they gave me that warning--which kept me from leaving Facebook by following a link.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/03/tech/social-media/facebook-phishing-scams/index.html
Guess they think Ford Models is going to steal my stuff.
― per metal injection (Eazy), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 01:16 (twelve years ago) link
lol that getty has this as a stock image for facebook
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/111003044016-facebook-security-story-top.jpg
― (╯°□°)╯︵ mode squad) (dayo), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 01:17 (twelve years ago) link
What's the etiquette for a when a friend of a friend who you've never actually met or even heard of pokes you on Facebook? Is it expected that I should poke back, or befriend? Am I to assume this person is digging on me based on a profile picture, or are they actually trying to get me to join a paedophile ring?
― ha ha ha ha jack my swag (boxedjoy), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 09:45 (twelve years ago) link
Personally, I would never respond to a poke, because people who poke are disgusting savages imo, and I would not want to fraternise with them, even virtually. If there is such a thing as poking etiquette, then it can go hang.
― facebook conspiracy theorist (krakow), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 10:13 (twelve years ago) link
More context needed to answer this. Are they the opposite sex? Does your profile say you are single? Could you ask your friend of the pokey friend why they poked you?
― Imagineering since 1850 (captain rosie), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 13:42 (twelve years ago) link
Why do people friend people they don't know?
― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 13:57 (twelve years ago) link
So they can have like 5,231 friends.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 13:58 (twelve years ago) link
why because you look pretty
― so i had sex with a piñata (mh), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 14:19 (twelve years ago) link
why because they look intersting
― Mark G, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 14:24 (twelve years ago) link
I used to only friend ppl that I had met, but then I started getting a lot of requests from twitter followers. So whatever, I basically accept every thing these days. I have so little personal information on there, it doesn't really matter to me.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 15:06 (twelve years ago) link
http://bokardo.com/img/facebook-logout.png
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 15:39 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-15165334
― conrad, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 15:44 (twelve years ago) link
Kim Jong-il grandson on Facebook
― conrad, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 15:45 (twelve years ago) link
facebook is really hurting my head now
i can't bear to look at it for more than a minute
can't we all just go back to using email lists or something?
― geeta, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
Threaded discussion! I almost forgot how great email clients got at that.
― so i had sex with a piñata (mh), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
my dad now has a fan page
the childhood weirdness of ppl recognizing my dad at the grocery store has entered the 21st century
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 21:17 (twelve years ago) link
Is he a famous dude or something?
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 21:23 (twelve years ago) link
he's been the local weather guy on the top station in his small market for the last 30 years, so as a kid he got recognized everywhere and even now i get friend requests from people down there who by all clear signs are only req'ing me because i'm listed as his son.
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 21:28 (twelve years ago) link
is the weather there described as [HOOS SR.] WEATHER?
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 21:33 (twelve years ago) link
lol i don't understand that question
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 21:34 (twelve years ago) link
he used to do an afternoon bit where he'd do the weather outside on "[HOOS'S DAD'S] terrace," they had a bbq grill and restaurants would come in with food to do promos and stuff, i got so fat in middle school eating free food after school on the terrace
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 21:35 (twelve years ago) link
Tom Skilling is a famous Chicago weather forecaster and they call it SKILLING'S WEATHER.
It is cool and perfect that your dad is the local weather forecaster, btw.
― pullapartsquirrel (Jenny), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
lolcal station in pittsburgh's longtime weather dude was joe denardo and all their chyrons and stuff was branded with like DENARDO FORECAST etc.
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
ahhh
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
lol lol lol a picture of my dad now appears in my "likes"
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 21:43 (twelve years ago) link
No reflection on yr dad at all Hoos but who the heck "likes" the local weatherman on FB? That seems ... weird.
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 02:18 (twelve years ago) link
I befriended the local anchorman of my hometown and I was genuinely fucked up when I saw how fucking inbred his posts were.
― I'll show you the power of laughter! (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 02:20 (twelve years ago) link
Chicago forecaster Tom Skilling has tons of likes, and he kind of sucks.
― pullapartsquirrel (Jenny), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 02:41 (twelve years ago) link
http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ku3v22pzw81qznlgbo1_500.jpg
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 02:45 (twelve years ago) link
woul pay money to have my dad yell WHO WANTS THIS DOG once a week
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 03:18 (twelve years ago) link
also trayce fwiw i am from a v small and boring part of texas, people take what celebrity they can get.
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 03:20 (twelve years ago) link
i followed our local weather girl on twitter because i had a crush on her and got an immediate followback
p sure it took me about 3 weeks to unfollow her
― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 03:20 (twelve years ago) link
Fair enough hoos! I am originally from a small town too, I know how it is.
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 03:23 (twelve years ago) link
just checked and she's still following me like 3 years later
love u @MalikaDudley!!
― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 03:25 (twelve years ago) link
Related searches: malika dudley swimsuit
― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 03:28 (twelve years ago) link
Loving your twitter following reasons
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 04:05 (twelve years ago) link
Facebook's current population of 800 million users makes it bigger than the entire internet was in 2004
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 6 October 2011 09:29 (twelve years ago) link
re: my stranger poking misadventure, I asked our mutual friend what could have been the intention behind it and the jist was "well he probably guessed you're a homo too and he wants a bit". It doesn't state it on my profile, or even that I'm single, but whaatever - he's not bad-looking so I returned the poke like the disgusting savage I am.
― ha ha ha ha jack my swag (boxedjoy), Thursday, 6 October 2011 09:40 (twelve years ago) link
That really seems like the noblest use of the poke feature, so good for you.
― pullapartsquirrel (Jenny), Thursday, 6 October 2011 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
I'm almost converted!
― gay for gordon-levitt (krakow), Thursday, 6 October 2011 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
i just received an "invitation to join facebook" from MYSELF
i have a separate gmail account for one of my tumblrs and it received an invitation from my actual facebook account (tied to my primary gmail account)
i dont remember ever telling facebook they could go through my gmail contacts-- how can i lock this down?
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 00:35 (twelve years ago) link
gr8081
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 00:35 (twelve years ago) link
that is pretty fucked up
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 00:36 (twelve years ago) link
what the fuck
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 00:43 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i got something similar - an invitation to be friends with someone i'm already friends with. the sender address looked dodgy, and it sent it to an old gmail address that i used to sign up to facebook with that is no longer my notifications address.
― just1n3, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 01:10 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah I was thinking of what you had said earlier J, maybe its a virus?
― Occupy Kelly St (Trayce), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 01:16 (twelve years ago) link
anyone got new Facebook yet? wasn't it meant to roll out last week?
― piscesx, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 02:38 (twelve years ago) link
i got, seems like they're running behind on the full rollout tho
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 03:07 (twelve years ago) link
how is it?
― piscesx, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 03:17 (twelve years ago) link
i like it a lot, but that should surprise no one tbh. less scrolling!
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 03:20 (twelve years ago) link
i like scrolling
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 03:22 (twelve years ago) link
I'm confuased about the new thingy. I thought anyone who'd switched to it, you'd see their profile in that new format now.
But you dont? Do you only see the new format if youre on it yrself? idgi
― Occupy Kelly St (Trayce), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 03:24 (twelve years ago) link
> gr8081
― koogs, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 08:57 (twelve years ago) link
Speaking of no scrolling: Opera announced today they'll paginate content, no more scrollbars, to make webpages easier on handheld devices! /offtopic
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 13:09 (twelve years ago) link
So I realised this yesterday, not sure how long it's been around for, but if you set all your uploaded photos to 'friends only' (I always do) this no longer means 'friends only' - anyone you tag in the picture also has their friends able to see (and comment on and like) the photo. There doesn't seem to be a way to make it *actually* friends-only.
― kinder, Wednesday, 19 October 2011 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
A longtime crush's mom added me as a friend, then sent a message saying it was a sorta mistake (she clicked a post I'd tagged her daughter in and before she knew it a request was sent). I write a nice and understanding note back and--long story short--we are now fb friends whose most common interest is how awesome her daughter is.
C'est la vie.
― The Man With The Flavored Toothpick (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 20 October 2011 15:00 (twelve years ago) link
pix
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 20 October 2011 15:01 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/phQlU.png
Ugh, no.
― James Mitchell, Friday, 28 October 2011 07:36 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/7kVv5.png
― DavidM, Saturday, 29 October 2011 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
Oh FFS.
― emil.y, Saturday, 29 October 2011 16:52 (twelve years ago) link
turrets?
― Number None, Saturday, 29 October 2011 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
yeah right. castles don't exist. they're just in books.
― spellcheck is really advanced these days (cajunsunday), Saturday, 29 October 2011 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
fuckthisguy.jpg
― The Man With The Flavored Toothpick (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 29 October 2011 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
I could write a lot of mean things about the ways in which I hope this person learns their lesson.
― ljubljana, Saturday, 29 October 2011 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
christ, what a moran
― Y Kant Lou Reed (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 29 October 2011 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
well i still dont believe in it
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 29 October 2011 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
― Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Saturday, 29 October 2011 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
Efuhsdhf blahh pish posh
― stet, Saturday, 29 October 2011 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
turret denier
― Autumn Almanac, Saturday, 29 October 2011 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
i have turrets, i make machine gun noises
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 29 October 2011 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
it just reallyDATDATDATDATblowsDATDATmy mindDAT that people say things like that
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 29 October 2011 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
I miss digital audio tape too hoostein, but damn.
― rustic italian flatbread, Saturday, 29 October 2011 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
is there any way to get those "your friends read these stories in the washington post" out of my news feed forever
― lukas, Monday, 31 October 2011 19:06 (twelve years ago) link
unfriend
― a guy called Gerard (onimo), Monday, 31 October 2011 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
kill them all
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 31 October 2011 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/7874/screenshot20111104at159.png
― pplains, Friday, 4 November 2011 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
hahaha
― Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Friday, 4 November 2011 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
Still haven't seen this timeline thing yet.
― pplains, Friday, 11 November 2011 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/56724000/jpg/_56724255_facebookeyye.jpg
― Mariusz Smiley (admrl), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 14:13 (twelve years ago) link
So has anyone seen this 'flood of porn and gore' in their news feed yet?
― Y Kant Lou Reed (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 15:27 (twelve years ago) link
There is a "Miley Cyrus" video going around my list where you can see a penis in the thumbnail :P No gore though.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
:-D
― Y Kant Lou Reed (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 15:39 (twelve years ago) link
I'm seeing so many pictures of people I don't know appearing only because one of my friends commented or liked it.
One of them was of a dude sitting naked on the floor with an erection.
― pplains, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 15:44 (twelve years ago) link
that might be this pron spam thing I am reading about?
― The New Dirty Vicar, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah I never saw any of the supposed sick pr0n spam. I had one friend bitch about seeing it on his feed, and there was an article in the paper about it this morning, but I saw nada. I will chalk that up to having sensible friends who dont randomly click on stupid things, possibly.
― Trayce, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 23:41 (twelve years ago) link
BTW there is something neat about the spokesman from the antivirus mob Sophos being called Graham Cluely!
― Trayce, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 23:43 (twelve years ago) link
This guy (old school acquaintance) is fucking me off at the moment:
Hates the January fitness industry's use of the word 'toning'! Guess what, unless your body fat is pretty low 'toning' is going to make fuck all difference to your body! Forget your 'legs, bums and tums' or '40 minute abs classes' and start doing some proper structured exercise and eat better!
This kind of shit all the time, and every day he posts some kind of insanely detailed nutrition chart of what he's eaten.
This is the worst though:I love how modern society seems to think activity is optional. You know what? Type 2 diabetes is optional. Heart Disease is optional. Obesity is optional. Osteoporosis is optional. I know which option I'll be taking!!!
Fuck. Off.
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 14:37 (twelve years ago) link
I could forgive one of those every once in a while but that sounds insane
― mh, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 14:39 (twelve years ago) link
btw having ocd about tracking your food intake and fitness regimen are optional, too.
― mh, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 14:40 (twelve years ago) link
I had to block a high school classmate who has gotten crazy into bodybuilding since she finished college and now all she posts is really disturbing pictures of herself in a bikini and she looks like an angular orange with almost no recognizable human features.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 14:41 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah I blocked a friend who joined a Crossfit program, all he ever posted was rundowns of his workout & weightlifting photos. zzz
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 14:43 (twelve years ago) link
omg jon did we go to the same high school!?? i have one of those too, down to every detail.
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 16:13 (twelve years ago) link
holy shit @ this new feature where facebook shows you thumbnails of pictures you posted years ago and guesses where they were taken and asks you to tag them by location
it keeps showing a picture from my cousin's wedding and nailing the suburb of san diego it was taken in exactly (kind of sucks because that same cousin just filed for divorce)
then it shows a picture of my friend's wedding in arizona and guessing that i took it at some place ive never heard of in hawaii.
i cant figure out if its guessing by Geotag information on the file you uploaded or if its using some algorithm putting together everyone else tagged in the album?
also i shoot mostly on film so my negatives are often getting scanned in a different location than where the photos were taken.
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
hahaha, pretty sure no, I'd remember you somewhere amidst the other 164 people that went to my entire high school
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
i know i was just marveling at the angular orange pplone of my friends who is a therapist referred to facebook as a neurosis display case and she's just about right (for some people -- other people are aware of the display case and choose what they display more carefully)
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
Grady, were you ever the type to add a location to your images? i.e. I once labelled a set as taken in 'Kingston,' and it guessed they were taken in Kingston, Jamaica (never been, know no one there) instead of Kingston, ON (been many times, many friends there).
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
Neurosis display case. Ha!
― gonna give her the old fuquay-varina (Jenny), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
― mh, Tuesday, January 10, 2012 2:40 PM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Should steal this and post it on his status, but too chickenshit.
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 23:59 (twelve years ago) link
YOU CAN HIDE THE TICKER NOW
― markers, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 15:12 (twelve years ago) link
later
i like the new photo viewer
― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 00:39 (twelve years ago) link
Ok, I'm mildly creeped out by this: I commented on a someone's status and subsequently got not one but two updates reading along the lines of "Some Guy (friends with Woman I Like Who Isn't The Person Whose Status Line This Is) also commented on...".
― Lady Writer, Male Seether (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 01:39 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah if the status is public, any comments oyu make on that persons FB shows ujp on alllll his friends feed too.
― thanks to denial, I'm immortal! (Trayce), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 05:58 (twelve years ago) link
I try not to comment on public posts, as a result (its easy to forget to check tho)
I get that, but I didn't finish the statement like I should have in my o.g. post. The updates I got read in toto (parentheses and all) like this: "Some Guy (friends with a Woman I Like Who Isn't The Person Whose Status This Is) also commented on The Person Whose Status This Is' Status."
Now I'm used to updates about comments. What throws me is the parentheses. I actually have multiple shared friends w/both these dudes, but--because facebook keeps tabs on these things--they single out this lady whose timeline I'll admit I click on a tad more than other, better friends, and we three guys--who just so happened to post in a row in another mutual friend's comments--apparently share as friends. It shouldn't bug me, but it does.
Adding to the ridiculousness of this thing is that I subsequently got another update for this same comments thread that went like this: "Some Guy (friends with The Person Whose Status This Is) also commented..."
NO...FUCKING...SHIT
― Lady Writer, Male Seether (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 07:42 (twelve years ago) link
I'm also slightly drunk & high now (the status that started this all was about a party we all were going to.)
― Lady Writer, Male Seether (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 07:43 (twelve years ago) link
i suggest that you take mushrooms before the party and interrogate everyone about changes to facebook comment notification while on mushrooms
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 07:51 (twelve years ago) link
'like'
― brain (krakow), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 08:01 (twelve years ago) link
Ah, maybe next time...
― Lady Writer, Male Seether (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 08:09 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah I spotted the brackets, its just pointing out someone who isnt on your friends list has commented on a post you commented on of someone you are friends with. An unnessecary addition imo but I can see why they did it.
― thanks to denial, I'm immortal! (Trayce), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 09:57 (twelve years ago) link
Probably good for the grandparents who would be all 'How did Jane Doe hack my account and become my friend???' 'Oh.. she's John Doe's friend'
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 14:28 (twelve years ago) link
Hahah yeah that sounds plausible!
― thanks to denial, I'm immortal! (Trayce), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 21:28 (twelve years ago) link
when did George Takei embark on his new career as official image-lulz-disseminator on fb?
― Mordy, Monday, 13 February 2012 23:48 (twelve years ago) link
"Old man discovers internet"
― thanks to denial, I'm immortal! (Trayce), Monday, 13 February 2012 23:52 (twelve years ago) link
I know, right? Seems like so much more like a Shatner or at least Nimoy thing to do.
― Mike Love Costume Jewelry on Etsy (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 04:11 (twelve years ago) link
its annoying to me how people think he is amazing at the internet and theyre always sharing that shit on facebook
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 04:17 (twelve years ago) link
I accidentally posted this to the ILM Facebook thread, where it will shrivel and die, so reposting here.
I get no real pleasure out of Facebook until I see a thread like this and then praise be to Zuckerberg.
http://i.imgur.com/Zuoxg.jpg
― Suede - the fabric, not the band (DL), Wednesday, February 22, 2012 10:14 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Suede - the fabric, not the band (DL), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 22:22 (twelve years ago) link
I saw that a day or two ago and it seems so incredibly insane I'm having a hard time believing it happened. Or that people can be that nuts, more to the point.
― Lindsay NAGL (Trayce), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 22:38 (twelve years ago) link
http://vancouver.openfile.ca/blog/news/2012/uvic-facebook-prank-goes-viral
― nate woolls, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 22:41 (twelve years ago) link
xp: a winged tortuous?
― popcorn (get bent), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 22:44 (twelve years ago) link
rmde "chicks be crazy"
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 22:44 (twelve years ago) link
ok lol @
Their names were anagrams: Maria Giny = Imaginary, Carol Tifiling = Fictional girl.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 22:45 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah I figured it might be shenans. The giveaway was all the girl's friends going "you're so lucky to have such a devoted gf" bla bla there is no way somethign this OTT would happen around most sane ppl.
― Lindsay NAGL (Trayce), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 22:48 (twelve years ago) link
ikr
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 22:49 (twelve years ago) link
phrasing this delicately bc rl but -- a certain student who went pretty self-evidently insane at an east coast university recently turns out to be friends w/ a number of ppl i know, and at least a handful of them have defended her vehemently even tho she is clearly off the rails. i don't think it's totally unbelievable that close friendship can blur craziness.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 22:50 (twelve years ago) link
i don't think it's totally unbelievable that close friendship can blur craziness.
Truth bomb.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 22:52 (twelve years ago) link
No, it's not. It's just the portrayal of the craziness for pure lols is kind of on the nose to me.
Plenty of crazy fish in the sea, don't know why dudes insist on inventing them.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 22:53 (twelve years ago) link
the girl's posts just read really fake
― Number None, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 22:54 (twelve years ago) link
god, i know :/
― Mordy, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 22:54 (twelve years ago) link
:/
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 22:58 (twelve years ago) link
Oh balls. After seeing the kind of stuff that ends up on Lamebook, Failbook, etc, this was easy to believe. Agree with VegemiteGrrl - it's unnecessary to invent craziness on Facebook but I guess they didn't know that someone else would post it with the names blacked out (hiding the obvious anagrams) and make it go viral. I quite like this quote: "In retrospect, midterm season probably wasn't the best time to pull this off because since the story's gone viral, I haven't had much peace. I guess in the end I trolled myself most of all.”
― Suede - the fabric, not the band (DL), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 23:03 (twelve years ago) link
Actually im p sure a lot of whats on failbook is made up these days too.
― Lindsay NAGL (Trayce), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 23:05 (twelve years ago) link
saw this on twitter, don't know if it's real (similar but much more depressing): http://imgur.com/a/r5kEb
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 23:08 (twelve years ago) link
Depressing if it's real, depressing if it's faked.
― Suede - the fabric, not the band (DL), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 23:10 (twelve years ago) link
men are afraid of women, part XXXXXLVI in a series
― lukas, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 23:11 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah I saw that one too. I have hard time believing kinds of things are real anymore.
(Besides, they always self-explain way too much for the benefit of the reader, which is just bad writing to me, lol.)
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 23:12 (twelve years ago) link
*these kinds of things
DL otm: depressed
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 23:15 (twelve years ago) link
internet "comedy" must be destroyed
made-up stuff precisely like this w/"crazy girls" sometimes reads like it comes from the same venn diagram circle as 'mccain campaign worker gets attacked by crazy black man in PA'
― omar little, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 23:15 (twelve years ago) link
really w/r/t the "ex-gf stalking" stuff, which i see a lot of for some reason. idk.
― omar little, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 23:17 (twelve years ago) link
it's kind of a comedy meme atm, like those android commercials with the technologically up-to-date stalker girl
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 23:18 (twelve years ago) link
I dunno, I guess it satisfies some need in people to feel less crazy than everyone else. Like, "oh well if that's crazy then I'm okay."
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 23:20 (twelve years ago) link
If I find out the ones where a student's mum misunderstands a sexual reference and uses it an unwittingly hilarious way are fake then I'm boycotting the internet.
― Suede - the fabric, not the band (DL), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 23:23 (twelve years ago) link
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 23:23 (twelve years ago) link
I basically don't believe anything i see online anymore, which is depressing and existentially harrowing.
― Lindsay NAGL (Trayce), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 23:24 (twelve years ago) link
i understand this:
― Mordy
a friend of mine was with someone for awhile and she smear-campaigned him after they broke up, contacting exes of his and telling them and all their mutual friends that he was an abuser (which was, for reasons too numerous to go into here, an absurd and unbelievable lie, and i'm someone who is inclined to err on the side of believing someone who says they've been abused), but her friends happily went along with it and he left town (after which she continued to send him mocking e-mail messages interspersed with e-mails professing love.)
― omar little, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 23:29 (twelve years ago) link
if that iphone message conversation is real, then the kevin guy has deleted all his responding texts and trimmed out the non-crazy ones, imo
― valleys of your mind (mh), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 23:41 (twelve years ago) link
Also he's an asshole. I feel like Facebook is meant to be public so if you say stupid shit you can expect someone to screengrab it but a private text conversation? Nah.
― Suede - the fabric, not the band (DL), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 23:50 (twelve years ago) link
tbf I have a screenshot of a batshit crazy text I received once but it was only to show to a select few friends
― valleys of your mind (mh), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 23:51 (twelve years ago) link
well u know we are select few friends here
― Mordy, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 23:54 (twelve years ago) link
eh, maybe some other time. I think I correlated it with her probably locking herself in a bathroom and threatening to kill herself for some other dude
― valleys of your mind (mh), Thursday, 23 February 2012 00:07 (twelve years ago) link
the bros who cried wolf.
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 23 February 2012 01:00 (twelve years ago) link
I really thinks its kind of funny that I have hundreds of friends on Facebook, but not one single irl friend.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 26 February 2012 22:13 (twelve years ago) link
That's not funny.
― bamcquern, Sunday, 26 February 2012 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
Well, yeah, wrong word. Don't mind me, just going through a feeling sorry for myself phase, realizing its been 15 months now since I've done anything at all with a friend irl.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 26 February 2012 22:31 (twelve years ago) link
that's pretty crazy. im a semi-hermit half the time and i saw 6 old friends and 3 acquaintances in the last 2 days. i only have 40 facebook friends. my girlfriend makes fun of me for it. she has over 400.
― zverotic discourse (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 26 February 2012 22:33 (twelve years ago) link
Just you know, get older friends disappear, etc. Making new friends when you are over 30 is a fucking impossible task.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 26 February 2012 22:33 (twelve years ago) link
I have to believe that's not true. Otherwise, I'm doomed.
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Sunday, 26 February 2012 22:37 (twelve years ago) link
most of my friends are in their 30s, and im not far off, i turn 28 this year.
― zverotic discourse (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 26 February 2012 22:40 (twelve years ago) link
probably made more friends since 30 than during my entire 20s
― ~=(,,_,,):3 (electricsound), Sunday, 26 February 2012 22:43 (twelve years ago) link
Same here. My 20s were a wasteland of being with one partner who was a paranoid, socially shattered twat who relied on me so heavily I never made a single other friend in the first 4 years or so I was in Melb.
― Lindsay NAGL (Trayce), Sunday, 26 February 2012 22:46 (twelve years ago) link
I really regret that now, bcz I have not been able to now break into the social circles I wish I'd been in all along, and instead ended up on the fringes of a raggedy bunch of goth/nerd types who I basically have fuck all in common with, and now I am depressing myself thinking about all this oh christ my head.
― Lindsay NAGL (Trayce), Sunday, 26 February 2012 22:47 (twelve years ago) link
See I had tons of friends in college and in my 20s, but most of those relationships have faded off (as they do sometimes) and now I realize I don't have any friends of my own that I see socially (i.e. ones that aren't people I see because of my wife's friends). Its pretty depressing, but really, if you hit 35 and have no friends you may as well pack it in, because you aren't ever going to make new ones.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 26 February 2012 22:49 (twelve years ago) link
Well not with that attitude you arent! :)
― Lindsay NAGL (Trayce), Sunday, 26 February 2012 22:52 (twelve years ago) link
By which I mean, one has to get out there and go for it, I guess.
Do you think it's harder to make new friends when you're not new in town? xp to Trayce
jvc, I'm think that sometimes, but I'm not sure it's true. People in their 30s -retirement have to start fresh in new places all the tie and they make new friends I think?
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Sunday, 26 February 2012 22:52 (twelve years ago) link
I mean, I don't know, I think my situation is a combination of bad timing and my interests. Like when I do get the time to get out and do something, I like going to shows which aren't exactly conducive to meeting new people - its hard to talk to people when loud bands are playing. And its not like I haven't tried, I've been taking my son to this playgroup thing, but it turns out to be all women and I'm the only dad. So, I don't know. Hermit life here I come.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 26 February 2012 22:56 (twelve years ago) link
I think in a way it might actually be easier to make friends as you get over the 20s/30s hump. A number of people tend to shed their egos and insecurities as they get older and more comfortable with themselves, which allows them to open up a bit more and not feel such a need to surround themselves with a very particular type of person out of a need for the edification of a restrictive self-image. If that makes sense? You just need to open yourself up to those people, maybe explore some new hobbies and hang out in some new venues, etc.
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Sunday, 26 February 2012 22:59 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, that does make a lot of sense, but I don't really think I have that kind of problem of needing to surround myself with one particular type of person. Like, one of things I really enjoyed about my 20s is that I had groups of friends that were all really different from each other and I really liked that I was able to be myself and enjoy my time with such disparate types of people.
I think whats hard about being 35 is that there isn't a lot of people my age looking for that particular experience at this point in their lives. Like, a lot of the group activity things I've investigated have been full of people significantly older (retirees, etc) or younger. There just don't seem to be a lot of people I'm running into in a similar situation to me.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 26 February 2012 23:05 (twelve years ago) link
I've kind of got the exact opposite prob to you, I suspect - all my long-childless, long-unmarried, hedonistic mates have all bloody gotten married/hooked up and popped out kids now theyre in their 30s. Fuckers. All of them. Ive lost touch with 4 or 5 good close friends because of this.
― Lindsay NAGL (Trayce), Sunday, 26 February 2012 23:14 (twelve years ago) link
(er, to further explain, I never wanted kids, so now I feel like some left-out peter pan dill)
Heh, see I kind of feel like now that I have kids, I'm expected to just abandon any and all attempt at a social life.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 26 February 2012 23:17 (twelve years ago) link
I made a lot of friends after 30, but a lot of this has to do with moving to the middle of nowhere with my wife when she started as a university professor.
We went to the new faculty orientation (back when the state actually was hiring new professors) and met a bunch of other people around our age who were all in the same situation, and a lot of them are really good friends now six years later.
― joygoat, Sunday, 26 February 2012 23:37 (twelve years ago) link
Just to throw out a suggestion: my social life in Chicago was saved by improv. It might not be a particularly easy thing to do with kids, but I've definitely known people who did it. But once you're in it, it's pretty much a readymade social circle to the extent that you actually want it to be. And (speaking as an introvert who can sometimes tend toward hermitage) it's probably still the best thing I ever did for myself for a number of reasons.
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Sunday, 26 February 2012 23:37 (twelve years ago) link
Having some kind of hobby where there is an actual social element is huge. To me this advice was always baffling because my hobbies were always solitary – drawing, going to concerts, buying stupid shit, watching movies, etc. When I started knitting & going to stitch & bitch meetups, I found it v easy to make friends because you all at least have the hobby in common. Anything additional makes for an easy entrance into some quality friendships.
― Male Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Nutsack (Abbbottt), Monday, 27 February 2012 00:06 (twelve years ago) link
Yep a fair few of my female friends do roller derby. Theyre *obsessive* about the friendships in it, now.
― Lindsay NAGL (Trayce), Monday, 27 February 2012 00:30 (twelve years ago) link
Moving to a new country at 28 was kind of hard because the people who you tend to make friends with tend to also be new transplants or fellow Brits and you feel like you're being a stereotype but sometimes the people who've been here for years already have their social circles set and their own routines and scenes. That said, in both places there are people I've seen socially repeatedly and been 'oh yeah, we should meet up sometime!' and never do, and then people you just click with and start wanting to go to the same bars on the same weekends or whatever - you just put in a fraction more of an effort, I guess.
― kinder, Monday, 27 February 2012 00:43 (twelve years ago) link
so otm! i feel bad about NOT feeling bad that i haven't made many friends since moving here when i was (also) 28. and my BFF here is british! we bonded over shared immigration hassles. i kind of don't really care about making new friends bc i still have lots of old ones, it's just that they don't live within a visiting radius of me. i like spending lots of time on my own, i like spending lots of time with just my husband, i like spending time skyping with old friends. i don't like spending time vetting potential new friends to make sure they won't be needy and demand i meet social requirements and guilt-trip me when i don't feel like it.
i actually think i'd put more effort into making friends if had kids.
― just1n3, Monday, 27 February 2012 00:52 (twelve years ago) link
I got really bummed about 5 years after moving that I didn't have many friends, that my circle of OG Australian friends were so far away from me. But one of my good friends put it in perspective: it took me 25 years to build the circle of friends I had back home...it's going to take time to build a good circle of friends in a new country. So I've got a couple of pretty good, cool friends and I'm okay with that now.
The hardest thing was that the friends I picked turned out to be the flakiest people in the world. And eventually I had to say, "Look, I don't think you understand that when we arrange to go out and you don't show up, I take that personally. Making friends is fucking hard, and it's soul crushing to think that people who are enthusiastic about hanging out suddenly are changing their minds at the last minute. So please, please PLEASE for the love of god, do not arrange to do anything unless you mean it." And from then on we were cool.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 27 February 2012 01:05 (twelve years ago) link
hey jon, here's some good news/bad news -- now that you're a parent you can look forward to making friends with all your kid's friend's parents when they start going to school!
― Mordy, Monday, 27 February 2012 01:14 (twelve years ago) link
p sure I would be v terrible at improv and roller derby lol
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 27 February 2012 01:17 (twelve years ago) link
Whats sort of ironic in this whole thing is that when I was in Austin for 2 days for work, I met like 4 really cool people that wanted me to stick around to hang out. Its like, wait, I can meet new people in 2 days in Austin, but nobody in Chicago over multiple years? Maybe Austin bros are just v chill and Chicagoans are antisocial as hell.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 27 February 2012 01:19 (twelve years ago) link
Yr welcome to come to any CHILX get-togethers we discuss on the thread; I'd like to meet u IRL sometime.
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 27 February 2012 01:23 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, Chicagoans have a tendency to nest. My Chicago circles pretty much consist of people I knew before I lived there and improv peeps.
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 27 February 2012 01:25 (twelve years ago) link
If you learned to knit you would really be the darling of the knitting circle (as a str8 man even if married).
― Male Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Nutsack (Abbbottt), Monday, 27 February 2012 01:26 (twelve years ago) link
n/a yeah, thanks, I need to come to one that works and soon
Yeah, its hard to generalize cities, but one of the guys I met in Austin complimented me on my Nachtmystium t-shirt and we struck up a convo for like 25 minutes. On the other hand, I saw a guy in Reckless here a couple weeks ago with a Ghost t-shirt. It was a couple days after their show here so I asked if he'd seen them and just got a frown and grunt in return.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 27 February 2012 01:28 (twelve years ago) link
improv ppl. brrrrrr.
― Mordy, Monday, 27 February 2012 01:28 (twelve years ago) link
I am only saying "knitting group" bcz I have no idea what the "male" version of stitch & bitch is; I try not to think of it as a gendered activity but YOU KNOW. In my mind it's slot car racing.
― Male Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Nutsack (Abbbottt), Monday, 27 February 2012 01:30 (twelve years ago) link
It sucks making friends in a new town; there are flakes and crazoids in every hamlet and it seems like some of them are always around to start you off with a bad impression. However, there are also awesome people of all demographics. I don't see why friend making would end at any age; it's not like you stop needing friends after Jesus age.
― Male Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Nutsack (Abbbottt), Monday, 27 February 2012 01:33 (twelve years ago) link
Mordy, I didn't have the highest opinion of improv until I started doing it and met some of the best and kindest people I know.
I've been seriously thinking about learning to knit so's I could have something to do while doing otherwise unconstructive stuff like watching tv for hours.
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 27 February 2012 01:49 (twelve years ago) link
If it wasnt for the internet I'd probably be a shut in with no friends at all, so.
― Lindsay NAGL (Trayce), Monday, 27 February 2012 02:12 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I mean, thank god my wife has lots of friends so I get dragged out of the house now and then.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 27 February 2012 14:02 (twelve years ago) link
Seconded. Some of us are OK.
It was ridiculously easy to make conversations with total strangers in New Orleans. I don't think Chicagoans are unfriendly, but we have that big city thing of minding our own business and figuring if a stranger Is talking to you, they probably want something. In NOLA I found that you could say Hi to some random person in the street and wind up in a conversation. Not just bc of booze, either.
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Monday, 27 February 2012 14:24 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, there is definitely a different vibe here when it comes to interacting with strangers.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 27 February 2012 14:26 (twelve years ago) link
I just make all my friends through message boards and twitter. Talking to random strangers is no way to live.
― Jeff, Monday, 27 February 2012 15:07 (twelve years ago) link
JON you have met me. You have friends, you just need to come hang out with us!
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Monday, 27 February 2012 15:29 (twelve years ago) link
Do you mean to say that you have met n/a and LL and other chilxors and missed a bunch of their semi-regular faps and not asked them out to anything and not planned a gathering to reach out to people, and it's been a couple of years that you've been there (at least?), and now you're complaining to the internet that you don't have any friends?
Have you tried...being a friend? Inviting people on planned activities so that it's easy for them to say "yes"?
― drawn to them like a moth toward a spanakopita (Laurel), Monday, 27 February 2012 15:38 (twelve years ago) link
Sorry, jon, my obvious irritation isn't really directed at you, it's a build-up of every person who has ever cried to me that they don't have any friends when they are resolutely and repeatedly unwilling to BE a friend to anyone else because it's inconvenient for them or they don't see what they would get out of it.
― drawn to them like a moth toward a spanakopita (Laurel), Monday, 27 February 2012 15:39 (twelve years ago) link
I actually only met LL to pick up a ticket to a Gudied by Voices show, I haven't met any of the other chilxors. And it isn't that I'm unwilling, believe me, my hesitation with the chilxor group in particulat comes from me being really intimidated by being the "third wheel" to a group that obviously knows each other really, really well. I don't think that makes me altogether weird.
And, in larger terms, I am definitely willing to put in the work on my end. A lot of my frustration lately comes from inviting people to do stuff and having them flake out or just not be interested.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 27 February 2012 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
my hesitation with the chilxor group in particulat comes from me being really intimidated by being the "third wheel" to a group that obviously knows each other really, really well. I don't think that makes me altogether weird.
Well it makes you not have "any" "friends", so you can either stay that way or get over it and do the chilxors the favor of assuming that they might actually be nice to be around and you might get something out of their company.
― drawn to them like a moth toward a spanakopita (Laurel), Monday, 27 February 2012 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
Laurel, I know what you mean, and I think in many many ways you are absolutely right, but you do sound quite harsh to someone who's already said they're feeling down about their situation. "Buck up" and "get over it" can be useful tools, but sometimes it's a bit too much.
― emil.y, Monday, 27 February 2012 16:07 (twelve years ago) link
(I mean, I am totally projecting here - it may be exactly what j/v/c needs, but that sort of thing usually makes me retreat more into my shell.)
― emil.y, Monday, 27 February 2012 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
If jvc wants to talk about his depression and emotional paralysis that make it hard to meet new people and how he struggles to reach out and is asking for encouragement to stay positive about it or something like that, obviously everyone would be v v supportive, because ilx.
But if he just wants to whine about how building bonds w other people mysteriously turns impossible and you may as well kill yourself after age 30, I feel no obligation to be tender and solicitous.
― drawn to them like a moth toward a spanakopita (Laurel), Monday, 27 February 2012 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
Oh sorry, he said 35. Still.
― drawn to them like a moth toward a spanakopita (Laurel), Monday, 27 February 2012 16:13 (twelve years ago) link
But if he just wants to whine about how building bonds w other people mysteriously turns impossible and you may as well kill yourself after age 30
you mean whining about this is a thing people shouldn't do? what am I supposed to do with my life, then?
― Big Mr. Guess U.S.A. Champion (crüt), Monday, 27 February 2012 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
You've got a few good years left, don't you? You may as well live them up, is what I hear, because it's all gonna be downhill soon.
― drawn to them like a moth toward a spanakopita (Laurel), Monday, 27 February 2012 16:19 (twelve years ago) link
I don't recall saying anywhere that it turns "mysteriously impossible", just that its been hard. I also said "pack it in" in regards to remaining a hermit, never said anything about killing myself - I think thats Laurel reading things in that weren't there.
But yeah, I suppose this is what I deserve for being earnest about how I'm feeling on the internet. Laurel has never liked me for whatever reason, so I wouldn't expect any kindness or support from her - wishing she would have just stayed out of it tho, rather than chiming in to make me feel even more shitty abt things.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 27 February 2012 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
I actually relate to your post a lot JVC. I think that it is quite hard ot meet people once you're of a certain age because many people already have established friend groups that are difficult to penetrate. It's not impossible but I can relate to feeling low about similar things. What Abbott said about joining some kind of activity is a good idea. Are there any sports you like playing or something like that?
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Monday, 27 February 2012 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I'm not really good at sports type stuff but I'm not entirely against that sort of thing either. The trick is finding a recreational style thing where people are just out to have fun. I played in a softball league once, but that was not fun because everyone took it way too seriously.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 27 February 2012 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
It is rough. Spiralli and I once joined a kickball team in order to meet new people but it was awful and mostly made up of complete tools. Exactly 0 new friends were made. :/
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Monday, 27 February 2012 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
I think I've tended to shy away from sports leagues mostly because the people I do know that play in them take them very seriously. There doesn't seem to be a whole lot of "just for fun" type leagues.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 27 February 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
I only relate to ilxors on the site, you weirdos aren't getting anywhere near me in person
― valleys of your mind (mh), Monday, 27 February 2012 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 27 February 2012 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
― drawn to them like a moth toward a spanakopita (Laurel), Monday, February 27, 2012 10:19 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
You have absorbed the message!
For real Jon, I only mentioned that because I am always going to shows by myself and asking people to go with me, but people rarely take me up on it. That's ok, but I'm not going to let it stop me from seeing things I want to see. We met once to exchange tickets for money, but was I not a decent person? A normal person?
That is a rhetorical q btw. Just wanted to say that I like to go to shows too. And I usually go by myself. And this has not really helped me make any friends. ;)
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Monday, 27 February 2012 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
jvc, I would like to meet you so I hope you do come to a ChILX thing some time! And since there is already one baby on board, we do family friendly things so you could bring the wife and kiddo and everything (dibs on holding the baby), if that's an obstacle.
― carl agatha, Monday, 27 February 2012 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
Trust me guys, any and all apprehension about meeting the chilxor cru is on my self-conscious end and absolutely no judgment at all on you fine people!
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 27 February 2012 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
Just wanted to say that I like to go to shows too. And I usually go by myself. And this has not really helped me make any friends.
that's only because you're always at the crazy avant improv shows
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Monday, 27 February 2012 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
The all time most obvious example of that was Richard Pinhas. There were probably 20 people there, 2/3 of them lone weirdos (including me.)
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Monday, 27 February 2012 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
I am always going to shows by myself and asking people to go with me, but people rarely take me up on it. That's ok, but I'm not going to let it stop me from seeing things I want to see.
Not that it needs saying but this is totally the right attitude and one I found myself surprisingly capable of holding (probably not very often but still) after doing exactly the same thing last week and having a perfectly nice time. I might prefer go to shows with others and mostly I will but nbd if people aren't interested.
― Upt0eleven, Monday, 27 February 2012 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
I used to drag anyone I could to shows, now I only bring people if they're actually interested in the music. If it's a show I really care about I don't want to spend it worrying about them.
― lukas, Monday, 27 February 2012 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
OTM. I can entertain myself with no problem.
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Monday, 27 February 2012 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
Also tbf a weirdo did come up to me trying to make friends after the Richard Pinhas show, but in doing so he made a facile joke (you can imagine which one) and kinda bungled his chance. I also thought he might be a bit of a creep. I had my coat on and was clearly heading out the door and he stopped me to talk? Who does that.
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Monday, 27 February 2012 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
I haven't done it in ages but I used to really like going to shows by myself. I didn't at first but I got used to it after a point adn sort of preferred it.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Monday, 27 February 2012 19:07 (twelve years ago) link
when i look back on how my social life formed and grew over the past few years and became pretty active w/various groups of folks, i can kind of easily see how it all came from just a couple of sources. meet one or two people, meet their friends, expand from there. it's not "easy" per se, but it can happen pretty organically especially if you have overlapping interests in which socializing is necessary.
when i moved to l.a. i had two friends, one of whom became a hermit and another who left town for a couple of years, and i was forced to go it on my own. getting married helped if only because it removed the whole aspect and occasional pressure and competition that comes from being single, but i think meeting a couple of people and working from there helped. and l.a., while being a "carefree" town where people like to "party", is a harder place to meet folks than chicago. attitude is crucial of course, if you think it's kind of a chore to meet folks it will be, but if you think it's easy and fun then you will in fact meet a lot of new people. *~~release your mind~~*
― omar little, Monday, 27 February 2012 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
i never liked it, myself - but the older i get the more often i'm doing this. i guess it forces me (not really) to talk to people... being single and sort of shy and all.
wow xpost
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 27 February 2012 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
it = going to shows on me own.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 27 February 2012 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
I wrote a post this morning and hit Post, but it didn't get posted, and it related to what you said.
I was looking for a social hobby or something so I could make gay friends b/c I've never had a close gay friend (until this past year, but now they're starting to look pretty flaky) so I tried kickball. Elmo A. recommended it as a low-pressure, fun, goof-off sport, but it turned out that Chicago gays take all sports seriously, even gd kickball.
I suck at sports, so it turned out to be a terrible experience. They were sticklers for rules, and they were really competitive. WTF, it's KICKBALL! I got yelled at a lot (by spectators, for such offenses as standing on the base line (I was not, but even if I were, who cares?); my team didn't yell at me, but they clearly pitied me) and I wound up in the ER w/ a serious sprain.
I have considered dodgeball, b/c surely that would be lower-pressure? Or maybe not.
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Monday, 27 February 2012 19:38 (twelve years ago) link
Dude that was our kickball experience too. People go so into it! I have read Elmo's reports on Prov kickball and it sounds much much better but Providence and Boston are pretty different anyway.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Monday, 27 February 2012 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
I really want to play team sports and I know there are like a million opportunities in nyc but I am v. lazy also
― iatee, Monday, 27 February 2012 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
Je55e, join that gay running group.
― Jeff, Monday, 27 February 2012 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
mookieproof specializes in hockey and basketball, you could ask him, iatee.
― drawn to them like a moth toward a spanakopita (Laurel), Monday, 27 February 2012 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
Jeff and I once tried to make friends by going contra dancing. It... did not pan out.
― carl agatha, Monday, 27 February 2012 19:58 (twelve years ago) link
I'm more of a soccer person, I like playing basketball but I really suck at it
― iatee, Monday, 27 February 2012 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
I love contra dancing! I did not make any friends doing it though. I also failed to make friends going to experimental dance events. Come to think of it, I have failed to make friends doing virtually every activity I've tried. Hooray! Doesn't stop me from trying though.
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Monday, 27 February 2012 20:04 (twelve years ago) link
I strongly recommend doing things you really like doing alone anyway, because it can take a long time for things to work out and show results. When I started taking step-dancing like 10 years ago I wanted to meet cuet guys and make friends, and instead everyone was over the age of 50 except for a really gross man with long greasy hair who lived with his mother and didn't know when to stop staring. Today, some of my best friends are from dance, and it's been immeasurably valuable and fun over the last 10 years. It just takes time.
― drawn to them like a moth toward a spanakopita (Laurel), Monday, 27 February 2012 20:05 (twelve years ago) link
It helps to be good at the thing you're trying to do. I've yet to find that thing...
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Monday, 27 February 2012 20:05 (twelve years ago) link
I don't how to monetize this but you are ROCKIN' at listening.
― drawn to them like a moth toward a spanakopita (Laurel), Monday, 27 February 2012 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
cooking? x-p
― valleys of your mind (mh), Monday, 27 February 2012 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
The thing is:
1. I don't really have many interests or hobbies or whatever. Or abilities.
2. The things I like to do are reading, watching movies, messing around online and w/ computers, and napping, which aren't group fun activities.
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Monday, 27 February 2012 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
Do you like to talk about books and movies?
― valleys of your mind (mh), Monday, 27 February 2012 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
I've considered joining the gay running group, but again, I'm not really *into* running, it's just something I do every few weeks when I feel groggy.
xp - not in a group, no. I've tried to be a part of the short-lived ChiLX book club, but I read at my own pace, so that didn't work out.
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Monday, 27 February 2012 20:13 (twelve years ago) link
jesse maybe you need to lead the groupnoncompetitive runners who stop after 3 miles for a beer and talking about movies/books
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Monday, 27 February 2012 20:14 (twelve years ago) link
Would sign up for that if I could skip the running three miles part.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 27 February 2012 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
Note, I'm not really asking for suggestions, since I've pretty much given up on seeking gay friends. If they happen, they happen, but I feel like I've exhausted my options for the time being.
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Monday, 27 February 2012 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
Too bad, you're getting suggestions anyway.
― Jeff, Monday, 27 February 2012 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
just start a band called Gay Friends
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Monday, 27 February 2012 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
Gay Feathers
― drawn to them like a moth toward a spanakopita (Laurel), Monday, 27 February 2012 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
An erect perennial herb, native to the midwestern United States, with flowers arranged on a thick spike. The purple to lilac flowers begin to open from the terminal end of the spike and slowly descend toward the base. Prefers well-drained, gravelly or sandy soils, and must have full sun for best results. Be patient, usually requires two to three years to become established from seed.
See? It takes 2 or 3 years, you have to be patient.
― drawn to them like a moth toward a spanakopita (Laurel), Monday, 27 February 2012 20:26 (twelve years ago) link
Start a club "Gays Who Want To Chill With Je55e and Not Be Uptight Weirdos"
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 27 February 2012 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
I will post that to Meet-up.com!
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Monday, 27 February 2012 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
Did this become the OKC thread while I wasnt looking? haha.
― Lindsay NAGL (Trayce), Monday, 27 February 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
Heh, I actually quit taking improv classes in Chicago when I realized that I didn't care to commit the after-hours social time that seemed necessary for me to feel like I "fit in" with my classmates -- or at least in the way that I felt when I did improv with friends in college. I can definitely see how it'd be appealing for people actively looking to expand their social circle, though.
― Ascot Fitzgerald (jaymc), Monday, 27 February 2012 22:14 (twelve years ago) link
when i moved to l.a. i had two friends, one of whom became a hermit and another who left town for a couple of years, and i was forced to go it on my own.
ha, i just remembered that when i moved to london in 2004 i also only knew two people. neither of whom i talk to any more!
― lex pretend, Monday, 27 February 2012 22:20 (twelve years ago) link
Heh, I actually quit taking improv classes in Chicago when I realized that I didn't care to commit the after-hours social time that seemed necessary for me to feel like I "fit in" with my classmates
Yeah, you kinda have to put in the time if you wanna make the most of it. I kinda can't even imagine walking into a roomful of relative strangers every single week (a growing percentage of whom had spent some time together outside of class) and trying to make that work.
But a little more on topic: Facebook...what's that all about?
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 27 February 2012 23:04 (twelve years ago) link
The other day FB undid my default post settings, which are to post to "friends , but exclude these people" (and the exclusion list is quite large, its family and all the ppl I basically dont know). I was merrily posting crap to EVERYONE only FB for 2 days before I realised. I'm pissed it happened without my say so. I dont know wth happened.
― Lindsay NAGL (Trayce), Monday, 27 February 2012 23:14 (twelve years ago) link
What happened was Facebook's endless around fucking with their stupid site, which seems to result (unsurprisingly) in their constantly breaking or undoing things.
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 00:21 (twelve years ago) link
Least it didnt make me do public posts. Never understood why anyone does those. I'm paranoid I'll get run over one day and the newspaper will filch pics of me from my FB.
― Lindsay NAGL (Trayce), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 00:38 (twelve years ago) link
Also tbf a weirdo did come up to me trying to make friends after the Richard Pinhas show, but in doing so he made a facile joke (you can imagine which one)
"Have you heldon to your ticket?"
― Male Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Nutsack (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 00:43 (twelve years ago) link
Now that would have been a good joke!
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 04:01 (twelve years ago) link
this former high school classmate (not a friend or someone i know personally really) is always posting those crazy xtian jesus/blood porn videos, and today she has this gemhttp://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/419646_357261340975334_100000744148158_1085275_248131062_n.jpg
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 21:03 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah my aunt posted that the other day and my eyes are still rolling.
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
God signs His name with a pretty saucy little calligraphy font there
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 21:06 (twelve years ago) link
def installing god-font asap
― iatee, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
it would be better if god signed off, "hope that helps, god"
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
God coming off a little passive-aggressive there imo
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 21:10 (twelve years ago) link
Really I'd just be happy if God could stick with one font for awhile.
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
he is fontnipotent
― Number None, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 21:16 (twelve years ago) link
for such a massive important deity there sure are a lot of 'silver bullets' that keep him at bay during times of crisis.
― omar little, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 21:16 (twelve years ago) link
like, 'thanks god for carrying me a few yards down the beach but my grandmother is dying.'
― omar little, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 21:17 (twelve years ago) link
Dear God, No need to be a dick about it, signed concerned student
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 21:18 (twelve years ago) link
HA HA!
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 21:18 (twelve years ago) link
YOU MUST POST THAT!
signed, an internet person
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 21:19 (twelve years ago) link
I bring a rain of toads and a 40 day flood but I'M NOT ALLOWED IN SCHOOLS ;_;
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 21:19 (twelve years ago) link
I am dying at that.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 21:53 (twelve years ago) link
Dear god: yr a grown man, the hell you want to be in a school for, you old pervert.
― Lindsay NAGL (Trayce), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 22:19 (twelve years ago) link
WELL THEN WHY ARE THE CAVEMEN RIDING DINOSAURS IN MY EVOLUTION TEXTBOOK, GODsigned, A concerned student from Kentucky
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 22:25 (twelve years ago) link
Really wanting to put image LL posted on my FB wall with that as a caption.
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 02:43 (twelve years ago) link
DO IT
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 03:13 (twelve years ago) link
hmm maybe I will do that too...
I might. I'm just not feeling the devil in me atm. Wish I had thought to post it in 2008 before I unfriended some of the dildos I went to HS with.
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 13:19 (twelve years ago) link
God staying out of school due to influx of dildos.
― cashmere tears-soaker (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 14:28 (twelve years ago) link
Rarely has anything blown up my end of facebook quite like the following post (also as jpg):
Monsanto owned companies: Aunt Jemima (Quaker) Jemima (Quaker) Betty Crocker (General Mills) Bisquick Duncan Hines Hungry Jack Jiffy Mrs. Butterworths Pepperidge farms (campbells) Aurora Foods Kraft/Phillip Morris (post cereals) Hershey’s Nestle (Carnation) Holsum (interstate bakeries) Best foods (Knorr) Kellogs Nature Valley Nabisco (Phillip Morris) Pillsbury Heinz Hellmans Hunts KC Masterpiece Frito-lay/Pepsi Delicious brand cookies Famous Amos Keebler/Flowers Industries Banquet Green Giant Healthy Choice (ConAgra) Kid Cuisine (stouffers) Lean Cuisine (stouffers) Marie Callenders Ore-ida Smart ones Power Bar Brand Chef Boyardee Hormel Loma Linda Morningstar Lipton (Unilever) Uncle Ben’s Rice-a-roni/Pasta-roni Tombstone Pizza Totinos Orville Redenbacher Pop Secret Pringles (Procter and Gamble) Coca Cola Minute Made Pepsi Cadbury/Sweppes Capri-sun Cool-aid Ocean Spray V-8 Prego Pasta Sauce Ragu sauce
― beachville, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 14:42 (twelve years ago) link
What do they even mean? Those are not owned by... oh it's a facebook thing never mind
― valleys of your mind (mh), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 14:47 (twelve years ago) link
Some of them not even companies.
― beachville, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 14:48 (twelve years ago) link
Now, if you said that there's a high possibility that there are products derived from Monsanto-sold crop seeds in pretty much everything in that list, that is highly probable
― valleys of your mind (mh), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 14:50 (twelve years ago) link
Oh yeah, no doubt. But my problem is with the concept being wrong in the first place as well as being horribly disorganized.
― beachville, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 14:55 (twelve years ago) link
Aunt Jemima (Quaker) Jemima (Quaker)
Yeah, like does Quaker have a side product called Jemima to capture the parental offspring hating demographic?
― nickn, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
Oats (Quaker)
― Mark G, Thursday, 1 March 2012 07:30 (twelve years ago) link
So we should probably discuss that viral video about Joseph Kony
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 13:29 (twelve years ago) link
yeah wtf that thing is blowing up-- 30 min viral video is kind of crazy (havent watched it yet)
― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/khtOV.jpg
― beachville, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
haha otm
trying to gauge the lols/butthurt ratio i will get by posting that
― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
I don't really care how people become social activists?
― iatee, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
I don't want to watch the video, can someone summarize it for me plz?
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 21:34 (twelve years ago) link
Video: "Joseph Kony is a bad man." (And he is, indescribably so.)
This, however, is also making the rounds:
http://visiblechildren.tumblr.com/
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 21:36 (twelve years ago) link
The video itself is really boring and patronising too, at least usually these things are engaging or funny.
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 22:04 (twelve years ago) link
Related:
http://jezebel.com/5891269/think-twice-before-donating-to-kony-2012-the-meme-du-jour
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 22:23 (twelve years ago) link
Please tell me if I have this correct:
A long (relative to most viral videos) video about this murderous, insane Ugandan paramilitary monster goes viral. People feel a little self-congratulatory about watching/sharing it. Somebody made a tumblr criticizing the motives/method/efficacy of the organization that made the video.
xp I will read that article TIA
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 22:25 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah pretty much.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 22:26 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, okay, the video is soliciting money for a charity that sounds about as ultimately useful as Children International or whoever those shitbirds that send earnest college students out into the streets to solicit donations from passersby.
Jezebel article was a good summary. Thank you!
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 22:35 (twelve years ago) link
wait, I'm reading the Jezebel article - and it quotes something saying that their finances haven't been externally audited, but then it links to audited financial statements prepared by an independent firm. The audit shows two years of financials, and maybe it was undertaken in response to the Charity Navigator complaint? It would be quite o_O for an organization with that large a budget to not conduct an independent audit. I'd imagine that some of their institutional funders would require it.
But looking at the financial statements - they show that the vast majority of their expenses were program-related. It is unclear whether the travel and compensation were for people providing services in Africa or not. It is unclear what "production cost" is.
It generally raises my hackles when people that aren't familiar with non-profit accounting and finances make statements like that.
― sarahell, Thursday, 8 March 2012 00:46 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/c2W4b.jpg
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 8 March 2012 01:30 (twelve years ago) link
Everyone I saw post that works for Boise State's college radio; I assumed it was some fundraising thing for a radio station (KONY) and an indie band I'd never heard of (Visible Children).
― cashmere tears-soaker (Abbbottt), Thursday, 8 March 2012 01:35 (twelve years ago) link
when you ass-ume
― cashmere tears-soaker (Abbbottt), Thursday, 8 March 2012 01:37 (twelve years ago) link
looking at their most recent tax return, the three key employees don't make outlandish salaries -- under $100k -- but the weird thing is that there's over $1 million in compensation paid to disqualified persons/entities and no salaries/wages for non-key employees, which is potentially very o_O.
― sarahell, Thursday, 8 March 2012 01:50 (twelve years ago) link
Well looks like they've worked out a response:
http://s3.amazonaws.com/www.invisiblechildren.com/critiques.html
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 March 2012 05:19 (twelve years ago) link
i definitely have mixed feelings about how they used timeline to structure the beginning part of the narrative.
― sarahell, Thursday, 8 March 2012 07:03 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i get a little suspicious when co-workers who generally comment solely about the Kardashians are posting about this nonstop
― JoeStork, Thursday, 8 March 2012 08:29 (twelve years ago) link
i saw the video a couple of days ago at the insistence of a friend, and was pretty satisfied today when my feed was overloaded with the appropriate level of skepticism rather than the "omg u must watch this for the babies"
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 8 March 2012 09:42 (twelve years ago) link
People have been posting things like "I don't normally care about politics and this kind of thing but this video really moved me" and I think that says a lot more about the people than the video, I would love if this became some sort of massive awakening that encouraged people to get more involved and pay more attention to global problems etc but I'm not holding my breath.
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 8 March 2012 11:33 (twelve years ago) link
clicktivism
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 8 March 2012 11:45 (twelve years ago) link
i of all people really shouldn't be so cynical. like you say, boxedjoy, people paying attention to complicated concerns is a net plus for the world no matter what it is that gets them to pay attention. maybe of the millions who've seen this thing a few (thousand?) will actually get involved in aid work.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 8 March 2012 11:50 (twelve years ago) link
What have you got against babies, Hoos?
― carl agatha, Thursday, 8 March 2012 12:28 (twelve years ago) link
Just have to say, I work for a nonprofit that has two stars from Charity Navigator and I'm completely confident in our work.
― beachville, Thursday, 8 March 2012 12:38 (twelve years ago) link
FB invite to a Kony 2012 event on ~4/20~
― Big Mr. Guess U.S.A. Champion (crüt), Thursday, 8 March 2012 13:12 (twelve years ago) link
hitler's birthday. oh, fuck!
― beachville, Thursday, 8 March 2012 13:25 (twelve years ago) link
Why, where were you going to be?
― Mark G, Thursday, 8 March 2012 13:40 (twelve years ago) link
The ironic thing about this photo is that I HATE guns.
― valleys of your mind (mh), Thursday, 8 March 2012 14:26 (twelve years ago) link
and people will trust them with their donations. Hmm.
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 8 March 2012 15:15 (twelve years ago) link
the 4/20 thing was in the video and I was like, hitler's birthday? people smoking tons of weed day? why did they pick that day?
― sarahell, Thursday, 8 March 2012 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
― beachville, Thursday, 8 March 2012 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
was born on Nazi Weed Day
― A BIG JOE JORDAN TYPE OF POSTER (onimo), Thursday, 8 March 2012 20:26 (twelve years ago) link
my dad was, dunno wtf happened to that post
that pic of the white bros w/guns is with the SPLA (south sudanese army) and it was taken in 2008... when the SPLA were still using child soldiers. it seems they haven't entirely demobilized them yet, too.
― if you ever leave me peggy, leave some propane at my door (zachlyon), Thursday, 8 March 2012 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
― beachville, Thursday, March 8, 2012 9:08 AM (9 hours ago)
OTM. And I hate the current trend that rates a charity higher for underpaying their employees. There's a lot to be said for hiring talented people and compensating them appropriately for their work with you organization.
― kate78, Thursday, 8 March 2012 22:36 (twelve years ago) link
fwiw apparently their statement on that photo was "it was dumb, we were young and at the peace talks and thought it would be a fun photo to show to people back home--haha, they're at the peace talks with guns!"
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 8 March 2012 22:41 (twelve years ago) link
http://blogs.reuters.com/jackshafer/2012/03/08/kony-baloney/
― Mordy, Friday, 9 March 2012 01:49 (twelve years ago) link
Jack Schafer sounds like a dong, to be honest.
― beachville, Friday, 9 March 2012 09:50 (twelve years ago) link
Here is an interview with the woman who took the "guns" photo.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/invisible-children-founders-posing-with-guns-an-interview-with-the-photographer/2012/03/08/gIQASX68yR_blog.html?tid=pm_pop&socialreader_check=0&denied=1
I didn't watch the full video, so I can't respond to her criticisms. I have to say that this
I think there are a lot of reputable NGOs doing the daily business of development — the actual building of latrines, training of teachers, etc. Oxfam and IRC have great operations in Uganda. Lacor Hospital, Caritas Uganda, The Refugee Law Project, Christian Counseling Fellowship, and African Youth Initiative Network. I really hope that we can redirect the energy to these groups, as much as possible.
is probably OTM. However, none of those orgs have a hugely viral fundraising video. I really have to give Invisible Children respect for doing that. It can be pretty hard to raise a buck sometimes and it'll be interesting to see what other nonprofits launch campaigns like this in IC's wake.
― beachville, Friday, 9 March 2012 10:02 (twelve years ago) link
to change the subject to, I dunno, Facebook: the worst thing about being forced into the timeline is that the thing I liked best about Facebook, the massive wall of messages on your birthday, is just not nearly as nice and impressive-looking on the timeline.
― Three Word Username, Friday, 9 March 2012 10:54 (twelve years ago) link
That is something I noticed today..
― Mark G, Friday, 9 March 2012 11:00 (twelve years ago) link
Happy Birthday!
I just switched to Timeline in the last week and a half or so. I like the layout, but the page loads very slowly and often when I'm trying to scroll down, it jumps back up to the top. Is this common?
― beachville, Friday, 9 March 2012 12:10 (twelve years ago) link
Oh jesus, some friend of a friend has been going on and on and on about this video on FB all week, so last night I politely (I thought) pointed her to the Jezebel article to get another view on it. She did not like that one bit.
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 9 March 2012 14:12 (twelve years ago) link
We need to support this new organization instead of existing ones that are proven to provide resources to people in need because they are attempting to bring to justice to an individual who was a major concern in the 80s and 90s.
― valleys of your mind (mh), Friday, 9 March 2012 14:44 (twelve years ago) link
After my last post, I found out there was an actual thread for that, guys.
http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?action=showall&boardid=77&threadid=91430
― beachville, Friday, 9 March 2012 15:36 (twelve years ago) link
tut tut, that man.
― Mark G, Friday, 9 March 2012 15:43 (twelve years ago) link
why u link to 77, mang
― valleys of your mind (mh), Friday, 9 March 2012 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
another classy message from the same woman who posted the thing about god & school
http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/s320x320/423967_365520403482761_100000744148158_1106815_2108087670_n.jpg
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Monday, 12 March 2012 23:48 (twelve years ago) link
Yuck.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 00:17 (twelve years ago) link
^^Belated Cosign
I got it right after x-mas--it did that then, and still does now...but only in Internet Explorer (I have IE, Safari & Chrome). I also have problems w/ads on the timeline in IE, but not the other browsers.
The timeline on FB mobile is better-looking.
― Mike Love Costume Jewelry on Etsy (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 00:22 (twelve years ago) link
Ah, I use FB on Explorer on my work computer. That's probably the case.
― beachville, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 09:08 (twelve years ago) link
IE still generally bullshit
― valleys of your mind (mh), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 13:45 (twelve years ago) link
every time i load a profile-- any profile-- it loads it already scrolled down 7 or 8 clicks, instead of loading it from the top
why
― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 06:11 (twelve years ago) link
idk, it doesn't do that with my FB?
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 06:14 (twelve years ago) link
i guess its only foing it on profiles/pages that have switched to timeline
its doing it on 2 diff computers
so weird
― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 06:17 (twelve years ago) link
What browser?
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 06:22 (twelve years ago) link
ffox
― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 06:24 (twelve years ago) link
hurm. I got nothin
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 06:25 (twelve years ago) link
maybe it's something to do with your pineapple Hawaii technology idk
i should see this:http://i.imgur.com/zxBaB.png
but it loads like this:http://i.imgur.com/WeWrP.png
― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 06:52 (twelve years ago) link
oh, i have the same problem too. no idea why. if u find out what causes it and find a way to fix it, i'd like to know too.
― Jibe, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 07:57 (twelve years ago) link
lol its not really a ~problem~ just a weird curiosity
― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 08:05 (twelve years ago) link
Who, Ned?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 09:24 (twelve years ago) link
feature not a bug afaik
― Mordy, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 12:24 (twelve years ago) link
From a cousin back home. Their drama is hilarious.
please keep my family in your prayers and Dear God you know whats going on in our hearts..Devil there is no room for you here in our lives so leave in Jesus Name We are children of God..Amen -thank you Amen thank you Jesus...
― Jeff, Thursday, 22 March 2012 11:59 (eleven years ago) link
Damn, wrong face book thread.
― Jeff, Thursday, 22 March 2012 12:00 (eleven years ago) link
"Can I say you're my saviour on Facebook?"
― Mark G, Thursday, 22 March 2012 12:15 (eleven years ago) link
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 22 March 2012 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
― Lester the Unlikely (crüt), Thursday, 22 March 2012 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
amen thank you amen thank you jesus
― carl agatha, Thursday, 22 March 2012 20:32 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/03/not-an-april-fool-1.html#more
― iatee, Saturday, 31 March 2012 18:26 (eleven years ago) link
One aspect of that article I agree with is that it will take something really heinous happening to someone (or a series of someones) as a result of Facebook's trademark flippancy as regards users' security for Facebook to maybe consider whether their privacy policies might be completely shit.
― Edith Pilaf (Deric W. Haircare), Saturday, 31 March 2012 18:35 (eleven years ago) link
Well, maybe not "agree with" so much as "follow through to its logical conclusion".
― Edith Pilaf (Deric W. Haircare), Saturday, 31 March 2012 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
white girl getting murdered
― iatee, Saturday, 31 March 2012 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/jb6BM.jpg
― pplains, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 03:28 (eleven years ago) link
i'm so glad they found each other
― Mordy, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 03:34 (eleven years ago) link
omg that's hilarious
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 13:18 (eleven years ago) link
disgusting status savagery: daily updates like "hi my food blog for today: pears, feta cheese, lettuce, noodles, some soup, crackers and 2 apples. More tomorrow". hiding's too good for them.
― stet, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 10:16 (eleven years ago) link
stet, can I add you on facebook? I have some important meal updates for you.
― mh, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 13:59 (eleven years ago) link
If stet wants to take this over, I'd be happy to fork over the un and pw.
http://2012meals.tumblr.com/
― pplains, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 14:02 (eleven years ago) link
"Note: If you chose to use this option to include or exclude specific people from seeing your post, then only "Custom" will show next to your post. People will not be able to see the individuals you specified."
I was told by a friend that he WAS able to see the specified friends... Is this possible? Am I doing something wrong? I really don't want people to see this. Why is facebook so difficult and frustrating?
― billstevejim, Monday, 23 April 2012 03:05 (eleven years ago) link
that would suck! but i didn't even know people could see whether it was custom or not. i'm checking right now and every "custom" i'm coming across, i can't see any specific names.
― JIM THOMETHEUS (zachlyon), Monday, 23 April 2012 03:29 (eleven years ago) link
but more importantly
http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2v63wtMZu1qdkaveo1_500.jpg
― JIM THOMETHEUS (zachlyon), Monday, 23 April 2012 03:30 (eleven years ago) link
friends told me they could see who it was shared with when they clicked on the "time" it was posted ("8 minutes ago" or whatever)
― billstevejim, Monday, 23 April 2012 03:34 (eleven years ago) link
still not seeing any names
― JIM THOMETHEUS (zachlyon), Monday, 23 April 2012 03:40 (eleven years ago) link
i've noticed this happens sometimes - my guess would be that if you use a custom list, it just says custom, but if you pick actual names to show it to, it shows there names.
― just1n3, Monday, 23 April 2012 03:50 (eleven years ago) link
yeah it's a custom list with 15 people.. when my friends clicked on the time to view the individual post, one of my friends said "it looks like youre sharing it with 8 people" so some of them are visible.. someone else said it was suggesting friends based on who i shared it with. it's possible that this happens more often when a custom list includes fewer people. either way, i hate them.
― billstevejim, Monday, 23 April 2012 03:58 (eleven years ago) link
them = facebook
― billstevejim, Monday, 23 April 2012 04:01 (eleven years ago) link
sneaky fuckers facebook are.
― billstevejim, Monday, 23 April 2012 04:06 (eleven years ago) link
My custom list is an exclude rather than include (as thats how they used to do it), "show to friends except [LIST]". Seems to work fine, no ones said they see names.
― fix it with like some music glue (Trayce), Monday, 23 April 2012 04:08 (eleven years ago) link
i see... that makes sense.. i might have to re-work how it's set up, thx
― billstevejim, Monday, 23 April 2012 04:13 (eleven years ago) link
If you can still do it that way, I dunno tbh! That was from before they intro'ed the "groups" thing,. Im not sure I can even edit my older filters anymore. Im too scared to try in case I break something (100% of my posts are filtered).
― fix it with like some music glue (Trayce), Monday, 23 April 2012 05:05 (eleven years ago) link
i just set up a new account just to try it out, and from what i can now tell, hovering over the "gear" icon is revealing every name who i'm sharing with. it does not say "custom."
― billstevejim, Monday, 23 April 2012 05:38 (eleven years ago) link
also facebook doesnt let you only "exclude" lists... if you try to do that it defaults your post to "only me" so that you are forced to choose a list.
so i set up a list that includes all of my friends, and excluded certain groups, but it made no difference.. it still lists every name in the audience.
― billstevejim, Monday, 23 April 2012 05:44 (eleven years ago) link
Hm, it did (does?) for me, but I'd have to check when I get home, I cant fart about on FB too much when at work , I'll get in trouble :(
― fix it with like some music glue (Trayce), Monday, 23 April 2012 05:59 (eleven years ago) link
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Monday, 23 April 2012 06:00 (eleven years ago) link
I just noticed that the hover text on 'Unfollow post' when you comment on a status update has the rather odd wording...
"You are currently receiving notifications for this item because you own it."
Is this just Facebook trying to be funny?
― only NWOFHM! is real (krakow), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 09:31 (eleven years ago) link
Speaking up about/"correcting" the taste of people who consistently post bad music: bad idea?
― EDB, Saturday, 28 April 2012 12:01 (eleven years ago) link
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Saturday, 28 April 2012 12:16 (eleven years ago) link
― J0rdan, Diddy (tpp), Saturday, 28 April 2012 12:18 (eleven years ago) link
R. Crumb predicts Facebook by 20 years
http://www.dangerousminds.net/images/uploads/ccccccrumb.jpg
― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 16:49 (eleven years ago) link
A weekend ago there was some big festival down the street at the park and on the walk over there were little kids selling lemonade, saying it was to stop Kony. My friend said "Yeah, I'm only going to buy your lemonade if you get to keep the money, not some internet jerk."
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 16:51 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/JL1Sq.jpg
― pplains, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 16:55 (eleven years ago) link
More than a third of divorce filings last year contained the word Facebook, according to a survey by Divorce Online, a UK-based legal services firm.
http://blogs.smartmoney.com/advice/2012/05/21/does-facebook-wreck-marriages/
― ♆ (gr8080), Monday, 21 May 2012 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.chompon.com/images/facebookx_share.gif"I has a facebook share!"
http://www.chompon.com/images/facebookx_share.gif"O No they has taken my facebook share value downwards"
― Mark G, Thursday, 24 May 2012 11:54 (eleven years ago) link
(I didn't actually buy one, c'mon dude what did I say last week? yeah, exactly)
― Mark G, Thursday, 24 May 2012 11:55 (eleven years ago) link
http://i46.tinypic.com/5zmdd.jpg
― ma ck ro ma ck ro (mackro mackro), Thursday, 31 May 2012 17:58 (eleven years ago) link
woof
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 1 June 2012 02:37 (eleven years ago) link
it's good that 300,000 people like guns but not shooting them
― a permanent embarrassment and an occasional disgrace (onimo), Friday, 1 June 2012 08:55 (eleven years ago) link
has facebook changed its font or something? every time i'm looking at my feed right now it looks slightly different and i can't really pinpoint why. also most of my friends see absolutely no difference so it might just be me needing to get an eye check
― Jibe, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 08:26 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, font is bouncing about all over the place. suspect a/b testing going on or something.
― stet, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 08:38 (eleven years ago) link
thx for confirming that
― Jibe, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 08:47 (eleven years ago) link
there is a weird bug where if you use a profile pic that you uploaded in the pre-timeline-era as your default, it uses the 50p x 50p thumbnail and stretches it out and looks all shitty in the bigger thumbnail at the top of your page
― ♆ (gr8080), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 18:46 (eleven years ago) link
this girl only has 21 friends, and we have zero mutual friends, but facebook has been suggesting i friend her for months:
http://www.facebook.com/jordan.hamilton.505
― ♆ (gr8080), Monday, 25 June 2012 18:24 (eleven years ago) link
Is she chewing on a pot leaf?
― Electro-Shock Rory (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 25 June 2012 19:17 (eleven years ago) link
ilxors on fb should be forced to put their ilx dn in their fb name so that i know who they are when i accept their friend requests
― Mordy, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 02:13 (eleven years ago) link
I try to remembember to send a message after I request friendship saying 'hi it's VegemiteGrrl' etc
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 02:16 (eleven years ago) link
I'm "Jeff" on facebook.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 11:24 (eleven years ago) link
well that's just confusing
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 15:23 (eleven years ago) link
Just search for Jeff. I'm the first and best result.
I'm a clip show.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 15:30 (eleven years ago) link
m1ke h4rper is mh, iirc
― mh, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 15:42 (eleven years ago) link
So I mute Facebook friends who post overtly racist and homophobic stuff. This includes most, but by no means all, of the really noisy Republican crowd -- Facebook seems to have decided that I just don't want to hear any right wing US politics at all. All sorts of friends ranted about the health care decision as the end of liberty, and none of it showed up unless I went to the profiles. I don't like this, and wonder if Tea Party types are similarly being put by Facebook into endless feedback loops.
― Three Word Username, Friday, 29 June 2012 06:53 (eleven years ago) link
i rtecently went on vaca with someone, they took some pics including some of me which they tagged
none of this shows up in my feed, i have to go to their profile to see it
― coal, Friday, 29 June 2012 06:59 (eleven years ago) link
Just got the aborted fetus chain pic in ye olde newsfeed.
― Electro-Shock Rory (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 22:22 (eleven years ago) link
"the"
― of family bonds and individual triumph. Narrated by Tim Allen, (zachlyon), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 03:06 (eleven years ago) link
Getting mighty fed up with friends & even worse friends of friends tagging themselves and all their friends in pictures of their kids, that don't even have these people in the picture. My news feed is full of pictures of random children of people I don't even know. People are going to get suspicious about me.
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 17 August 2012 08:06 (eleven years ago) link
lol mid 30s I guess
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 17 August 2012 08:08 (eleven years ago) link
Ive never understood why people do that. They can see your feed! They will see the photo anyway!
― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Friday, 17 August 2012 08:39 (eleven years ago) link
I don't get that either. I guess people and relatives get tagged in those baby pictures so that they're alerted to see it? It's still annoying.
I also really don't get people who have nothing but pictures of their children in their profile and none of themselves. Seems a bit
http://www.conelrad.com/conelrad100/images/deadzone_101804.jpg
to me.
― pplains, Friday, 17 August 2012 15:11 (eleven years ago) link
Sometimes I tag my Grandma and Aunt in pictures of my dog, but that's because they're not on FB daily/not great with computers. Grandma pretty much only comments on dog photos, she loves that guy.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 17 August 2012 15:12 (eleven years ago) link
PART OF THE PROBLEM
― your native bacon (mh), Friday, 17 August 2012 15:18 (eleven years ago) link
what's the big deal? ilxers in inconsequential complaining shocker
― Mordy, Friday, 17 August 2012 15:20 (eleven years ago) link
gonna tag MH in everythingwhy you wanna deny my Grandma cute dog pictures?
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 17 August 2012 15:21 (eleven years ago) link
worst behavior imaginable
― your native bacon (mh), Friday, 17 August 2012 15:23 (eleven years ago) link
mwahaha
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 17 August 2012 15:26 (eleven years ago) link
if you want to insult your grandmother you could do something other than claim a dog is her on facebook
― your native bacon (mh), Friday, 17 August 2012 15:31 (eleven years ago) link
Mine is more in the comments: Hey @Ruth etc. I just checked her photos to see if I have claimed she is a dog and it seems I've done it twice over the last two years. But I STILL give her less grief than the rest of our family, so I still win.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 17 August 2012 15:33 (eleven years ago) link
oh, Finefinemusic, now I just know that not only will you keep responding to ridiculous trolling, you can be pushed to action by it
*makes note in trollable.xls*
― your native bacon (mh), Friday, 17 August 2012 15:41 (eleven years ago) link
Eh, I post a lot of pet photos & added you to tagging.xls ;)
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 17 August 2012 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
I posted some pics from my DC visit and one of my smartass friends tagged himself on Thomas Jefferson's face
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 17 August 2012 17:06 (eleven years ago) link
how can you either a) prevent certain people from sending you facebook event invitations or b) stop getting notifications every time someone updates one of their stupid events?
fucking promoters are the worst
― lex pretend, Saturday, 25 August 2012 10:58 (eleven years ago) link
I have been wondering this too.
― Alba, Saturday, 25 August 2012 11:17 (eleven years ago) link
Block them, I guess?
― frances boredom coconut (Trayce), Saturday, 25 August 2012 11:27 (eleven years ago) link
go to their page, click on the friends button, untick things
― Crackle Box, Saturday, 25 August 2012 13:13 (eleven years ago) link
a) prevent certain people from sending you facebook event invitations
When you decline an invitation it gives you the option to block all event invites from the person.
b) stop getting notifications every time someone updates one of their stupid events?
If you respond to the invite - whether it's to accept, say maybe, or decline - you get an option to turn off notifications. It is annoying that you can't leave the invitation hanging before turning them off, but I guess if you're undecided you can always say maybe.
― emil.y, Saturday, 25 August 2012 13:37 (eleven years ago) link
anyone else notice a sudden spike in the amount of posts from fan pages showing up in your feed?
i guess i need to start manicuring my feed :-\
― ○ (gr8080), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 23:48 (eleven years ago) link
I'm also getting a hell of a lot of sponsored page recommends showing up in my feed now, like "you should like this page!" shit about stuff I have no interest in, effectively like advertising smack in the middle of my feed. AND, now FB has started informing me of all the game apps my friends play, in a big wodge. That I cant hide. Despite having blocked and hidden every damn game app the site ever came out with.
― frances boredom coconut (Trayce), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 23:55 (eleven years ago) link
big wodge?
― ○ (gr8080), Thursday, 30 August 2012 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
wodge, lump, blob. like a chunk of macaroni cheese.
― frances boredom coconut (Trayce), Thursday, 30 August 2012 00:06 (eleven years ago) link
wooooodge
― carl agatha, Thursday, 30 August 2012 00:16 (eleven years ago) link
Sorry. I like that word. Wodge.
http://i.imgur.com/2o9gp.png
DAY TO DRINK, TO CELEBRATE, 25 YEARS WITHOUT MARVIN, AS A STRANGER TO WHITE HAIR. (Translated by Bing)
― ○ (gr8080), Thursday, 30 August 2012 00:18 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/qPkpO.png
― ○ (gr8080), Thursday, 30 August 2012 00:21 (eleven years ago) link
6 thumbs up
― Mordy, Thursday, 30 August 2012 00:56 (eleven years ago) link
all the lol liking of stupid pages that went on a bit a while ago is now backfiring as those damn pages are appearing in the iPhone app all the time as sponsored links. "Your friends like this bank! Want to like it?"
― stet, Thursday, 30 August 2012 08:34 (eleven years ago) link
otm.
i know the whole deal is that facebook gets to change their shit up once or twice a year whether ppl like it or not, but this is p jarring.
OTOH photo albums look great now, despite being a little glitchy while i was uploading last nite (a few photos ended up in the wrong order when i first uploaded)
― ○ (gr8080), Thursday, 30 August 2012 21:28 (eleven years ago) link
yeah photo albums is def improved
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 30 August 2012 21:31 (eleven years ago) link
iPhone facebook camera app is getting there, too
― your native bacon (mh), Thursday, 30 August 2012 21:31 (eleven years ago) link
anyone else slowly wasting their lives playing songpop?
― dsb, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 00:09 (eleven years ago) link
It certainly looks like it.
― Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 00:17 (eleven years ago) link
Yup.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 00:32 (eleven years ago) link
there's a thread
― zachylon (zachlyon), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 00:36 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/oct/08/april-jones-teenager-jailed-facebook
― stet, Monday, 8 October 2012 16:51 (eleven years ago) link
It doesn't say whether his page/the comments were public... quite an important distinction in cases like this I would've thought?
― kinder, Monday, 8 October 2012 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
Facebook, the "MySpace" for posh students only...
was said in 2006 and yet now seems so far, far away
― Aimless, Monday, 8 October 2012 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
Why is facebook showing me Suggested Post to like in my feed, things that have nothing to do with anything I like or anyone I know? Are ads making there way into the feed?
― JacobSanders, Monday, 8 October 2012 22:22 (eleven years ago) link
yes.
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Monday, 8 October 2012 23:51 (eleven years ago) link
Hasn't he found a way to make facebook profitable?
― JacobSanders, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 00:19 (eleven years ago) link
they've monetized complaining about facebook
― iatee, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 00:20 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/personal/2012/10/03/facebook-promoted-posts/1611443/
― www.toilet-guru.com (silby), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 00:22 (eleven years ago) link
new fb chat interface
― Mordy, Thursday, 25 October 2012 13:20 (eleven years ago) link
also: fb has gone so shit now.
― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Thursday, 25 October 2012 13:21 (eleven years ago) link
another privacy issue thingy: I tagged a couple of friends in a photo recently, and a random person liked it, but this random person isn't on my friends list, and isn't connected to either of the people I tagged. My photos have been set to "friends only". What am I missing?
― Roz, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 02:38 (eleven years ago) link
Friend could have shared it to public
― stet, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 02:39 (eleven years ago) link
Nope, neither of them did. :/
― Roz, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 02:40 (eleven years ago) link
Do they even have to share it for it to show up?
I had one asshole tag one of my friends on a Mitt Romney pic and it showed up on the feed of everyone who knew my friend.
― pplains, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 02:58 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, thing is, I wouldn't be surprised if it was someone either of my friends knew. But this was just some random dude.
― Roz, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 03:29 (eleven years ago) link
This happened to me. Friends' friend can see what they're tagged in. I think tagging overrides 'friends only' setting.
― kinder, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 08:08 (eleven years ago) link
Oh wait, they're not even friends with them? I dunno in that case
― kinder, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 08:09 (eleven years ago) link
fb has gone so shit now.
qft
― *rad hug eomticon* (Control Z), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 09:25 (eleven years ago) link
does anyone else have a new inbox layout ? is this something new or something i'm getting long after everyone else has had it ?
― Jibe, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 11:21 (eleven years ago) link
also while i'm at it, these past few weeks, when i click on a message that's been sent to a group of people, sometimes it says in tiny at the bottom "message was seen by S, X and E at 11:45pm" and sometimes it dooesn't, anyone know why this only shows sometimes ?
― Jibe, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 11:22 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, i got that new inbox layout last week.
― sarahell, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 18:54 (eleven years ago) link
p.s. Just rejoined FB after two years away. Friend-requested ilxors en masse. I am the bat-kitten. :B
― *rad hug eomticon* (Control Z), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 19:57 (eleven years ago) link
someday FB's sloppiness with privacy settings will probably get someone killed by a jealous ex or a stalker and the public backlash will be so great that FB knocks all this off.
― Cunga, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 20:04 (eleven years ago) link
how do you see which people you've hidden from timeline?
― alt-jjj (cozen), Wednesday, 7 November 2012 20:36 (eleven years ago) link
photo I'm tagged in >> make profile picture >> crop photo >> WHY CAN I ONLY CROP IN THE SHAPE OF A SQUARE????
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Thursday, 8 November 2012 03:42 (eleven years ago) link
b/c your profile photo is always in the shape of a square, per the layout of your homepage
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Thursday, 8 November 2012 05:46 (eleven years ago) link
that is redic
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Thursday, 8 November 2012 05:49 (eleven years ago) link
what is this company and why are they are a sponsored link on my fb page???
http://i49.tinypic.com/fa4o6d.png
― Mordy, Friday, 9 November 2012 04:57 (eleven years ago) link
your facebook friends have been complaining on each others' walls about you lubing too slow
― all-mod scone (sic), Friday, 9 November 2012 05:06 (eleven years ago) link
I keep getting some dating site called Zoosk or something. And fucking Michelle Bridges 12 week Body Transformation Program. IM FAT AND DATELESS I GET IT FACEBOOK >:|
I only see the sponsored sites on my iphone tho, nothnig at all shows up on the PCs than u AdBlock
― Una Stubbs' Tears (Trayce), Friday, 9 November 2012 05:29 (eleven years ago) link
what is this company
you really don't know what an oil change place is?
― d-_-b (mh), Friday, 9 November 2012 14:32 (eleven years ago) link
oil change place?
― Mark G, Friday, 9 November 2012 14:33 (eleven years ago) link
All they do all day is change yr oil on request?
― Mark G, Friday, 9 November 2012 14:34 (eleven years ago) link
Well, they expect payment in return.
― pplains, Friday, 9 November 2012 14:35 (eleven years ago) link
lol plains
― d-_-b (mh), Friday, 9 November 2012 14:35 (eleven years ago) link
lol, i understand the company's basic business model. i just don't understand how that business model is helped by advertising a TN-based oil change company on my Philly FB page! also why they're called Express Lube.
― Mordy, Friday, 9 November 2012 15:13 (eleven years ago) link
because... they are quick?
― d-_-b (mh), Friday, 9 November 2012 15:14 (eleven years ago) link
because the lube train only stops at one station?
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 9 November 2012 16:58 (eleven years ago) link
What would you expect a company called "Express Lube" to be? It's almost the exact same name as its genericized-trademark-named cousin "Jiffy Lube."
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Saturday, 17 November 2012 06:36 (eleven years ago) link
See also:Kwik Lube www.kwiklubeva.com/Speedee Lube www.speedeelube.netZippy Lube-A-Truck www.zippylube.com
However:
"zing Lube" oil change1 result (0.18 seconds) Search Results JackinChat: Free Masturbation Community for Adults! Boards, Chat ...
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Saturday, 17 November 2012 06:40 (eleven years ago) link
roxy's link on fb made me srsly (albeit drunkenly) consider starting a twitter fite with Nick Tramontana
wtf @ me
― mookieproof, Saturday, 17 November 2012 06:41 (eleven years ago) link
an acquaintance posted this:
https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/182592_407625129308674_1150949305_n.jpg
with an "omg thanks for the heads up"
am i missing something here?? why would a carjacker wait for you to get in your car and then trick you into getting back out? why not just jump out from behind the car as you're walking towards it?
― just1n3, Sunday, 18 November 2012 07:22 (eleven years ago) link
- not a yoke!!
― 炒面kampf (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 18 November 2012 07:25 (eleven years ago) link
i presume it's because your keys are in the ignition or something btw
still seems overly complicated
― just1n3, Sunday, 18 November 2012 07:28 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/carjack.asp
― kinder, Sunday, 18 November 2012 10:03 (eleven years ago) link
this is like toothing, rite
― 炒面kampf (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 18 November 2012 10:12 (eleven years ago) link
Whenever any message of thik kind says "especially to women", it's a myth, and a very old one.
― Mark G, Monday, 19 November 2012 09:45 (eleven years ago) link
People who are obv ilxors with names I don't recognize keep friending me and I keep not accepting their requests because I can't ID them.
― thraeds of life (The Reverend), Wednesday, 21 November 2012 23:56 (eleven years ago) link
My facebook name is Ned Raggett
― mh, Wednesday, 21 November 2012 23:57 (eleven years ago) link
Thank you, thank you. Request denied.
― thraeds of life (The Reverend), Thursday, 22 November 2012 00:00 (eleven years ago) link
Rev: the North Korea of Facebook
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 22 November 2012 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
There appears to be some confusion.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 22 November 2012 00:22 (eleven years ago) link
We are all Ned Raggett
― Una Stubbs' Tears (Trayce), Thursday, 22 November 2012 00:23 (eleven years ago) link
no joke the morning Facebook announced that you could get a custom URL, I tried to get facebook.com/nedraggett but dude had already beaten me to it
: )
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Thursday, 22 November 2012 01:27 (eleven years ago) link
ned wins the internet... again!
― Aimless, Thursday, 22 November 2012 01:28 (eleven years ago) link
haha, I think you did ok gr8080
― mh, Thursday, 22 November 2012 01:35 (eleven years ago) link
oh i have no regrets
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Thursday, 22 November 2012 02:11 (eleven years ago) link
you and roxy are all time
― 乒乓, Thursday, 22 November 2012 02:13 (eleven years ago) link
lol, never noticed hers
― mh, Thursday, 22 November 2012 02:22 (eleven years ago) link
I will accept all Facebook friend requests. Look me up, my name is Jeff.
― Jeff, Thursday, 22 November 2012 03:44 (eleven years ago) link
top result for 'facebook jeff'
― Fieri-brand sausages into my and your ready holes (silby), Thursday, 22 November 2012 03:49 (eleven years ago) link
lol i had never noticed this before either
― THAT IS ONE BIG PIZZA (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 22 November 2012 03:50 (eleven years ago) link
were you in a 'beer run'?
― mh, Thursday, 22 November 2012 03:51 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.upi.com/blog/2012/11/28/Facebook-restores-elbow-photo-mistaken-for-breast/2111354112660/
According to the Daily Mail, workers in Morocco and other countries are paid $1 an hour to moderate Facebook pages and remove any content that might violate its policies. When Facebook realized they had censored an elbow, they promptly reinstated the photo.
― pplains, Thursday, 29 November 2012 02:41 (eleven years ago) link
oh and I almost forgot
http://cdn.ph.upi.com/sv/i/UPI-2111354112660/2012/1/13541186002980/Facebook-restores-elbow-photo-mistaken-for-breast.jpg
― wongo hulkington's jade palace late night buffet (silby), Thursday, 29 November 2012 02:56 (eleven years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 29 November 2012 02:57 (eleven years ago) link
I just got WARNED BY FB for friend-requesting ppl -- or A person, not sure -- that I don't actually know. I have friend-req'd many ilxors (a few multiple times, by mistake), so if it was you, dear reader, I apologize, and have cio as of now.
― *rad hug eomticon* (Control Z), Thursday, 6 December 2012 20:39 (eleven years ago) link
lol aww. I think it's maybe because you didn't send messages with the requests so maybe people were confused? I had four separate people ask me who you were a couple weeks ago.
― go to party leather (ENBB), Thursday, 6 December 2012 20:41 (eleven years ago) link
That might be it -- I sent msgs with some req's but not all. In future I will be sure to do so every time.
― *rad hug eomticon* (Control Z), Thursday, 6 December 2012 20:52 (eleven years ago) link
Also sorry for the inconvenience, ENBB! :(
and ftr:
I AM OW-UHL MAN NEH NEH NEH NEH NEH NEH NEH NEH NEH
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― *rad hug eomticon* (Control Z), Wednesday, October 31, 2012 2:39 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― *rad hug eomticon* (Control Z), Thursday, 6 December 2012 20:54 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, I didn't mind! I'm just saying. :)
― go to party leather (ENBB), Thursday, 6 December 2012 20:56 (eleven years ago) link
Well after all that fuss I made ... due to ~life events~ and such, I'm taking a break from that particular of the net for a while (though I haven't deactivated and intend to return in the nearish future). Mein Gott, the infernal allure of the Book of Face.
― *rad hug eomticon* (Control Z), Saturday, 8 December 2012 05:27 (eleven years ago) link
that particular realm
Alfred became my friend earlier this week. I win the internet!
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 8 December 2012 05:32 (eleven years ago) link
oh! now I know who you are, ctrl z. ;)
― Roz, Saturday, 8 December 2012 05:46 (eleven years ago) link
Hi, Roz! I'm sorry I didn't send you a message with my friend request. I really enjoyed your FB posts, too!
Again: *Terminator voice* I'LL BE BACK
― *rad hug eomticon* (Control Z), Saturday, 8 December 2012 05:50 (eleven years ago) link
ha it's ok, I figured you were prob an ilxor.
― Roz, Saturday, 8 December 2012 05:54 (eleven years ago) link
making my cover photo a picture of a castle -- figure people should see something aesthetically pleasing before coming to my wall to post funny videos, music, or to put the feelers out there for still being friends with me/no hard feelings about what happened.
― Cunga, Thursday, 20 December 2012 05:41 (eleven years ago) link
That's nice.
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 20 December 2012 11:05 (eleven years ago) link
friend of a friend's status update made me want to kick the screen in
"we are now in Sainsbury's, having failed to obtain a parking space at Waitrose"
(note for non-UK ilxor's, Sainsbury's is a middle-class supermarket, Waitrose is an upper-middle-class supermarket")
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Thursday, 20 December 2012 14:03 (eleven years ago) link
Note for non-UK ilxors: Waitrose doesn't have staff, but rather partners, who part-own the business and receive (often hefty) bonuses each year based on a share of the profits. Sainsbury's biggest shareholder is the Qatari royal family.
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 20 December 2012 14:10 (eleven years ago) link
Waitrose staff are genuinely helpful. Once, after buying some prosecco to take to Carnival, I couldn't find plastic cups so one of the cashiers sloped off to their break room, returned with a dozen plastic cups from their water dispenser and just gave them to me with a 'have fun, wish I was going'.
― rihanna, will you ever win? (suzy), Thursday, 20 December 2012 14:15 (eleven years ago) link
idk what is so offensive about that post beyond the inanity of updating re parking space availability
― things that are jokes pretty much (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Thursday, 20 December 2012 14:19 (eleven years ago) link
I wouldn't say it was offensive, just annoying. The implication that they were only in Sainsbury's because they couldn't find a parking space in Waitrose. As if they would never ordinarily go there
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Thursday, 20 December 2012 14:30 (eleven years ago) link
but waitrose >>>>>> sainsbos
― stet, Thursday, 20 December 2012 14:44 (eleven years ago) link
Some comic defined Sainsbury's as 'the supermarket that keeps the riff-raff out of Waitrose'.
Sounds like initial Facebook poster was navigating the shoppers' paradise known as Finchley Road, where the supermarkets under discussion are roughly two blocks apart.
― rihanna, will you ever win? (suzy), Thursday, 20 December 2012 14:49 (eleven years ago) link
quiddities and agonizing of navigating (the carparks of) British groceries
― mh, Thursday, 20 December 2012 15:50 (eleven years ago) link
Waitrose didn't have orzo but one of the staff told me where he buys it from
― kinder, Thursday, 20 December 2012 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
facebook, I really cannot begin to tell you how I feel today.
― 乒乓, Saturday, 22 December 2012 15:13 (eleven years ago) link
http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2012/12/22/in-less-than-a-day-facebooks-poke-displaces-google-maps-as-the-app-stores-most-popular-free-app/?fromcat=all
this is how a top developer at FB privately described it:
facebook's new "Poke" iPhone is just sexting.app
you can send photos to a friend on fb, and put an expiration on it so that they can only see the photo for 1, 3, 5, or 10 seconds. then after that it disappears. if you take a screenshot of it the screenshot goes through still, but it *tells the other person* that it was screenshotted. literally the only purpose of this is sexting.
also they stole this idea from that other app that did this but of course it never took off because it wasn't facebook.
expect this to be huge in the coming weeks.
This was other interesting thing gleaned from the topic:
"closing" your account doesn't exist; you can either deactivate or delete your account. if you deactivate your account your data will stay there forever, but you completely disappear from the site until you reactivate. that's the whole point, that you can come back.. a lot of people just want to be off the grid for a while. deleting your account will delete it forever. there's a waiting period of a couple weeks or so, to ensure that someone didn't hack your account and is deleting it for you. after that though it's wiped beyond any useful recognition. a lot of paranoid nuts are like "no way facebook keeps your information forever no matter what" because of some fine print. it's true, but not really. if you understand how systems as big as facebook work, you know it's pretty much impossible to scrub everything clean as if you were never there. some fragments of your information might stick around in, say, old apache access logs, or mysql binlogs, or aggregated info. but the data is "deleted" enough to where if mark zuckerberg himself said "give me all the information we have on this guy" no one would be able to help him.
― Cunga, Saturday, 22 December 2012 22:34 (eleven years ago) link
Think my mate's girlfriend may have just won the award for most banal status update of the year... drumroll... Ladies and gentlemen I give you "Waiting for bus".
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 24 December 2012 02:51 (eleven years ago) link
Have mercy!
― pplains, Monday, 24 December 2012 03:00 (eleven years ago) link
Fun game: if you keep refreshing Facebook it makes it seem like your status bar is interrogating you. "Hows it going? "What's going on?" "Whats happening?" I don't know! Stop asking my questions! I have no information!
― contrarian, zing thyself (cajunsunday), Sunday, 6 January 2013 18:24 (eleven years ago) link
The worst of those is "How are you feeling?". As empty as you, blank space. ;_;
― Roz, Sunday, 6 January 2013 18:26 (eleven years ago) link
Wonder what they're up to today http://live.theverge.com/facebook-see-what-were-building-event/
― stet, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 18:04 (eleven years ago) link
#pr0tip: if you ever want to make an IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT via status update, DO NOT change your profile photo two minutes before doing so-- everyone will get the photo in their feed and that status update will get buried.
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 20:08 (eleven years ago) link
aloha chicago
― mh, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 20:12 (eleven years ago) link
Lucky I've never seen an important status update ever
― badg, Wednesday, 16 January 2013 02:00 (eleven years ago) link
― stet, Tuesday, January 15, 2013 10:04 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
looks like some cool tech that still depends on people using their shitty product
― (panda) (gun) (wrapped gift) (silby), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 02:34 (eleven years ago) link
graph search or search graph or some shit
― zero dark thirty 2: zero dark forty five (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 02:41 (eleven years ago) link
Don't know if this is the right thread to air my suspicions, but... I don't think my friend Neil really does 'Like Wonga.com' at all.
― I turned away to leave these few in thought and contemplation (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 10:47 (eleven years ago) link
http://live.theverge.com/facebook-see-what-were-building-event/
9:44:10 AM PSTIf you're looking for motivational posters, Facebook has you covered.
http://d35lb3dl296zwu.cloudfront.net/uploads/photo/image/9720/facebook-verge-1377.jpg
― Stop Gerrying Me! (onimo), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 13:13 (eleven years ago) link
http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/01/on-facebook-users-can-no-longer-hide-from-search-results/
In the wake of its “graph search” announcement, Facebook removed the ability for users to opt out of appearing in search results on the site <...> Facebook retired the ability to hide profiles from search results in December 2012
people who are concerned about privacy but still use facebook in 2013 deserve everything they get
― resultant curry paste (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 18 January 2013 23:39 (eleven years ago) link
What does "Do you want other search engines to link to your Timeline" do then?
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Friday, 18 January 2013 23:44 (eleven years ago) link
nfi
― resultant curry paste (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 19 January 2013 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
apart from allowing other search engines to link to your timeline
― resultant curry paste (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 19 January 2013 00:04 (eleven years ago) link
I think I've done pretty good keeping my birthday, my home address, my government name off of there.
But then I wonder if Facebook's algorithms are advanced enough to catch that on a certain day last fall, everyone wished me a happy birthday. That my IP always comes back to this neighborhood. That once, an old buddy of mine used my government name in a reply. Could it tie all that information together?
― pplains, Saturday, 19 January 2013 00:06 (eleven years ago) link
most definitely
― 乒乓, Saturday, 19 January 2013 00:07 (eleven years ago) link
when netflix released its 'anonymous' rental data, people were able to track 'anonymous' account numbers back to specific people
really, there's no hiding for you, new god.
― 乒乓, Saturday, 19 January 2013 00:08 (eleven years ago) link
Could it tie all that information together?
there is not a 'yes' big enough to sufficiently answer this question
― resultant curry paste (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 19 January 2013 00:09 (eleven years ago) link
i've not had a fb account in ~3 years, but 'er indoors uses it and references me as her husband, so i just assume i'm being scraped at bone marrow level
― resultant curry paste (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 19 January 2013 00:10 (eleven years ago) link
Meh I'm more worried about the shit I blathered on Usenet years ago that can never be deleted even if I wanted to, and didnt think to hide who I was, than nowdays.
― Manti and the Catfish (Trayce), Saturday, 19 January 2013 07:39 (eleven years ago) link
'that black crowes song is futureproof'
― resultant curry paste (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 19 January 2013 10:42 (eleven years ago) link
All this shit I've written on ilx. Do we even have a privacy policy?
― mh, Saturday, 19 January 2013 14:43 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.ilxor.com/privacy.html
― stet, Saturday, 19 January 2013 14:59 (eleven years ago) link
Hah, mostly sarcastic, but thanks, stet.
― mh, Saturday, 19 January 2013 15:01 (eleven years ago) link
totes stalking you now mh
― Manti and the Catfish (Trayce), Saturday, 19 January 2013 15:41 (eleven years ago) link
o_O
― mh, Saturday, 19 January 2013 17:36 (eleven years ago) link
i have mh's postal address, if anyone wants me to post it, just let me know
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Saturday, 19 January 2013 22:20 (eleven years ago) link
I'm almost sure he once posted a google street view of his house.
― pplains, Saturday, 19 January 2013 22:23 (eleven years ago) link
I have gr80's... ah shit he's moving
― mh, Saturday, 19 January 2013 22:24 (eleven years ago) link
Here's my house, btw: http://goo.gl/maps/LKQOY
― pplains, Saturday, 19 January 2013 22:29 (eleven years ago) link
*bows* very good, sir
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 19 January 2013 22:42 (eleven years ago) link
Not related to FB, but w/r/t phones with check-in features or "allow location services" for apps:
When Mrs. Broccoli and I were on a long drive, we had a guess about how we thought google maps traffic function worked.
All I can say is that we both felt very, very naive after we learned the truth.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 20 January 2013 00:30 (eleven years ago) link
aliens?
― resultant curry paste (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 20 January 2013 02:35 (eleven years ago) link
russians?
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 20 January 2013 02:36 (eleven years ago) link
Number of people using Google Maps in an area, compensate for the number of people who typically are using Maps out of average traffic, tada... traffic!
― mh, Sunday, 20 January 2013 02:56 (eleven years ago) link
NFI what I was on about with that last post hahaha holy shit I was drunk.
― Manti and the Catfish (Trayce), Sunday, 20 January 2013 10:34 (eleven years ago) link
hi trayce
― mh, Sunday, 20 January 2013 15:22 (eleven years ago) link
This is everywhere today http://actualfacebookgraphsearches.tumblr.com/
― stet, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 11:11 (eleven years ago) link
Anybody else get notice about this class action? http://www.fraleyfacebooksettlement.com/
― Je55e, Saturday, 2 February 2013 04:43 (eleven years ago) link
yes I got a spammy email abt it
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Saturday, 2 February 2013 09:06 (eleven years ago) link
It's real but doesn't pay out if too many people opt in.
― Jeff, Saturday, 2 February 2013 12:34 (eleven years ago) link
I deactivated and reactivated my account three times last friday and now most people can see my site but a lot of close friends cant. I sent Facebook an email but they're not great at getting back. Any tips on how get it back running properly again? I dont want to have to delete my account.
― Old Boy In Network (Michael B), Thursday, 7 February 2013 11:14 (eleven years ago) link
O my God socialfixer is one cool add-on. Just the hiding of posts is worth the price of admission (0.0¢)
― pplains, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 21:07 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/PVCIjV4.png
― 乒乓, Friday, 15 February 2013 15:10 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/KP3EmuA.png
http://i.imgur.com/vTZEatt.png
― 乒乓, Friday, 15 February 2013 15:11 (eleven years ago) link
No "Send it a Starbucks birthday present"? FOR SHAME, STARBUCKS.
― bizarro gazzara, Friday, 15 February 2013 16:32 (eleven years ago) link
it puts the lotion in the starbucks birthday present
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 15 February 2013 16:39 (eleven years ago) link
^ thank uuu
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 03:58 (eleven years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 04:01 (eleven years ago) link
this sounds really cool - http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/03/07/facebook_redesign_new_newsfeed_is_morning_newspaper_to_twitter_s_cnn.html
i'd love to get all my news thru fb - esp would be cool if you could do super detailed 'google alert' type feeds; but i'm probably hoping for an rss killer when i'm just going to get another lousy fb design update
― Mordy, Friday, 8 March 2013 02:05 (eleven years ago) link
does nobody else think it's weird that Facebook totally changes their whole strategy and redesigns everything about twice a year?
― my god i only have 2 useless beyblade (silby), Friday, 8 March 2013 02:07 (eleven years ago) link
it makes sense to me. they should keep trying to redesign it until they design something enjoyable to use
― Mordy, Friday, 8 March 2013 02:09 (eleven years ago) link
am totally cool with the option to only see updates from friends, i really do not care that much about what's going on in the life of meat loaf
― This is called money bags. (zachlyon), Friday, 8 March 2013 03:23 (eleven years ago) link
i realised some years ago that it's just someone's job to redesign things. that's all they do, just change stuff. whether the changes are for the best nobody seems to mind (or, at best, can't tell how good they are until after the work's all done by which time there are lots of costs already incurred). see kde4, gnome3, windows ribbon etc etc.
― koogs, Friday, 8 March 2013 10:22 (eleven years ago) link
I love the Windows ribbon (now that I know where everything is).
― am a big fan ay Nani (onimo), Friday, 8 March 2013 11:31 (eleven years ago) link
idk, it's been two years since facebook did a major redesign and social networking use patterns and trends have changed significantly since then
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Friday, 8 March 2013 14:57 (eleven years ago) link
still miss "becoming a fan"
― sarahell, Saturday, 9 March 2013 01:03 (eleven years ago) link
I miss "how do you know this person""We hooked up"
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Saturday, 9 March 2013 01:04 (eleven years ago) link
i definitely do not miss that
― sarahell, Saturday, 9 March 2013 01:04 (eleven years ago) link
Remember when the news feed was just a small box at the middle of your profile and everybody flipped their shit over how creepy that was? Circa like 2007? A more innocent time.
― my god i only have 2 useless beyblade (silby), Saturday, 9 March 2013 20:11 (eleven years ago) link
i don't
gonna search for an evolution of facebook YT now, need the nostalgia
― This is called money bags. (zachlyon), Saturday, 9 March 2013 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
i've had graph search for a while but never actually thought to use it... and now that i've tried it a bit holy shit is it creepy. i'm sure stalkers all over the world must have rejoiced when they started using it. even though i know facebook's privacy settings have always been shit and def badly set up by most people, it's still shocking what you can find and how easy it is to do so.
― Jibe, Monday, 18 March 2013 11:21 (eleven years ago) link
not too many people are going to use it for what facebook wants us to use it for i think
― markers, Monday, 18 March 2013 17:02 (eleven years ago) link
what does facebook want ppl to use it for? cos i'm pretty sure it'll become the world's most used stalking tool. also if they're planning on becoming a dating site it could work, just look for singles in your area, specify age bracket & some interests and off you go.
― Jibe, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 03:39 (eleven years ago) link
Facebook Graph is just the return and expansion of the "browse" feature that I remember being on the site when I got on in 2007. They got rid of it around 2009 I believe.
Facebook advantage as a dating site is the authentication process with people. The interests you have marked on your FB are going to be more legit than ones you quickly put down on another site to impress people, you have a built in history on the site with friends and employer. People, especially women, would be less afraid that they're dealing with an known unknown -- to quote eHarmony's D. Rumsfeld -- when they talk to strangers.
The lack of anonymity on FB also means people will be less sleazy and more cautious -- you can goof around on a dating site and never look back, but people don't want their FB account to be stained with their sleazy pick-up attempts being out there (not when their employer information is on the same web page).
― Cunga, Friday, 29 March 2013 17:28 (ten years ago) link
plus you can see what is likely their government name so you can look up their criminal record
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Friday, 29 March 2013 18:27 (ten years ago) link
Getting mighty sick of "<person/page you don't know or like> is talking about <something you like>" all over my newsfeed.
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 4 April 2013 09:34 (ten years ago) link
all the promoted advertisements on my iphone feed are all weight loss and it's making me INSANE
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 4 April 2013 14:58 (ten years ago) link
Women! Why don't they lose some weight!
― Jeff, Thursday, 4 April 2013 15:21 (ten years ago) link
Archaeology in the digital age: http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/04/tech/social-media/zuckerberg-first-website/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
"Hi, my name is...Slim Shady," the site's creator wrote on its "About Me" page, referencing an Eminem song released that same year. "No, really, my name is Slim Shady. Just kidding, my name is Mark.
― sleepingbag, Thursday, 4 April 2013 16:34 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/om74WDTl.jpg
In case you missed it. (I cut this out of The Onion and made it into a fridge magnet.)
― Je55e, Thursday, 4 April 2013 17:22 (ten years ago) link
Wow, this group is something...https://www.facebook.com/IMissThoseCloseToMeWhoAreInHeavenAsBeautifulAngels?ref=stream
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 20:10 (ten years ago) link
oh god.
You laugh at it first, but then you click on just one of those accounts... people with lost children and everything.
― pplains, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 20:40 (ten years ago) link
if anything happens to me, I request you join that group, pplains
― mh, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 20:40 (ten years ago) link
coworker who lost her dad a few months back shares tons of stuff from that group
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 20:41 (ten years ago) link
353k Likes
― The Great Natterer (dandydonweiner), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 20:42 (ten years ago) link
"At night I bite my pillow out of guilt, wondering if there was something I could've done for my casual online acquaintance who lives two states above mine."
― pplains, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 20:42 (ten years ago) link
It's the idea of possibly finding all that garishness and handwringing in the least bit comforting.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 20:42 (ten years ago) link
People express grief in many different ways. I used to think it was all funny until I've saw people close to me go through some of the same feelings.
My dog died on the Friday of Memorial Day last year ( I know, dogs < children,) so I had to take her body to the 24-hour vet to avoid letting it sit on our backporch under a tarp for three days.
After signing the slip for $180, the vet on-call gave me this paper with, among other things, the Rainbow Bridge poem. I just wanted to go "Really?"
― pplains, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 20:47 (ten years ago) link
Normally I would make fun of these people and this entire site.
― The Great Natterer (dandydonweiner), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 20:49 (ten years ago) link
Except that I know all too much the suffering that comes with grief and loss. And this kind of a website would be very healing to some people.
― The Great Natterer (dandydonweiner), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 20:51 (ten years ago) link
yeah until I saw my coworker obsessively sharing this stuff I would have rmde but she was so upset, and is clearly still grieving and idk, it's not my bag at all but i guess some people just grieve in really, really corny/creepy ways
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 20:51 (ten years ago) link
I guess all it takes to silence my snark is a grieving mother from Melling. Who knew.
― pplains, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 20:54 (ten years ago) link
Funny how real world experience can color our empathy.
― The Great Natterer (dandydonweiner), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 21:00 (ten years ago) link
my real life instructions to friends have been to throw my corpse in a dumpster in a neighboring community to create a csi-type mystery for someone to solve
― mh, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 21:02 (ten years ago) link
mr veg has been entrusted with arranging my viking funeral; we're already clear that none of our friends can be trusted with flaming-arrow-duties. it'll be down to him, my brother in law and my niece to do the heavylifting, archery wise.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 21:04 (ten years ago) link
$180 to dispose of your dog's body? Why not bury it in the back yard (or other area)?
― nickn, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 21:06 (ten years ago) link
She was a big dog.
― pplains, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 21:07 (ten years ago) link
It might not have been that much. I could be mixing that price up with one of the cats that got euthanized.
― pplains, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 21:08 (ten years ago) link
When my parents lived out of town on an acreage one of their neighbors started a pet cemetery and had a facility for cremations. I believe he had a large enough furnace to cremate a horse. Yup, lucrative business, that.
― mh, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 21:24 (ten years ago) link
Pillows are cheaper xp
― Mordy, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 21:24 (ten years ago) link
Pillows or pillowcases.
― pplains, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 21:35 (ten years ago) link
― pplains, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 21:07 (31 minutes ago)
Veruca?!?
― karl lagerlout (suzy), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 21:40 (ten years ago) link
Sadly.
― pplains, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 21:50 (ten years ago) link
my cousin posts this kind of stuff on a daily basis, lots of heaven/angel/dead-loved-ones corny sayings/quotations/flowery pics. she lost both her brothers to a hereditary disease, one about 23 years ago, the other about 18 years ago.
― just1n3, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 22:05 (ten years ago) link
Sorry to hear that, PP. My dad's Dane survived him, but was already 7, so I think they're both gone now (I did NOT stay in touch with The Widow).
I've got a handful of FB friends who post mawkish loss-related items on their walls. While I don't have a problem with people wanting to express their bereavement, I will never stop having a problem with bad writing, horrible fonts, lame images and the Hallmark-ization of magical thinking.
― karl lagerlout (suzy), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 22:19 (ten years ago) link
suzy otm
― mh, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 22:21 (ten years ago) link
this is only tangentially related, but when someone's facebook page post-death is co-opted by family with messages thanking people for their support, it's sort of ghoulishly like they're saying 'okay show's over thanks everyone'
― we're up all night to eat biscuits (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 22:58 (ten years ago) link
in my mind it's like that video of the dead cat that was turned into a radio controlled helicopter
― we're up all night to eat biscuits (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 22:59 (ten years ago) link
the whole post-death legacy on the internets thing will always be disturbing to me
― The Great Natterer (dandydonweiner), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 23:42 (ten years ago) link
http://cdn.inquisitr.com/wp-content/2011/05/zombie-uncle-scott.jpg
― pplains, Thursday, 25 April 2013 00:29 (ten years ago) link
i love the two hour gap between 'rawrr' and 'lol not really'
― we're up all night to eat biscuits (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 25 April 2013 00:30 (ten years ago) link
that one is worth so many guilty laughs
― mh, Thursday, 25 April 2013 01:37 (ten years ago) link
In the event of one of my cats dying, I would like to bury him or her. It's probably illegal to bury a pet in a nature preserve or park, but that's what I think I'd like to do. I'm not very comfortable with cremation, and I'd like him or her to have a nice spot to rest and feed the plants.
― Je55e, Monday, 29 April 2013 05:09 (ten years ago) link
My Dad figured out a way to manipulate cremated remains so they take on a pearl-like appearance, it's very pretty. He makes jewelry out of it.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Monday, 29 April 2013 05:13 (ten years ago) link
wait...pet cremains? i came here to complain about other people's friends spamming me on facebook, but while we're at it, my animal hospital was so kind as to give us a little plaster paw print when my dog died. i cherish it! would wear earrings, too.
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Monday, 29 April 2013 12:49 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, he uses pets, to be honest he discovered it accidentally and picked up some cremains from the humane society (the pound) to practice with. I think it's lovely because in addition to jewelry you can scatter with some permanence.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Monday, 29 April 2013 12:57 (ten years ago) link
I buried the cat, and it took me a whole afternoon to dig a big enough hole. After that, I sat down with the Great Dane and we both came to the conclusion that cremation would be best when it came her time.
― pplains, Monday, 29 April 2013 13:20 (ten years ago) link
I've buried four or five cats since I was 8 and you must have gone way deeper than I ever did
― charli.xlsx (sic), Monday, 29 April 2013 16:00 (ten years ago) link
Lot of rocks + big cat + I'm pushing 40.
― pplains, Monday, 29 April 2013 16:08 (ten years ago) link
Maybe I'll just bury them at sea (Lake Michigan).
― Je55e, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 18:16 (ten years ago) link
Recently, Facebook wanted some answers to questions, such as "Which University did you go to" and "Where do you work?"
So, if anyone else out there went to "No I did not" university, or currently works at "Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band" then that's where you will find me also..
― Mark G, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 00:11 (ten years ago) link
Mine kept asking me if I worked at Gawker.
― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 00:23 (ten years ago) link
don't all ilxors work unpaid by proxy for gawker
― there is no special cathexis with mini fried donuts (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 00:27 (ten years ago) link
their wit and wisdom ripe for reappropriation by our resident gawker writer
― there is no special cathexis with mini fried donuts (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 00:28 (ten years ago) link
i thought facebook was just taunting me for being unemployed. glad to see everyone's getting similar messages
― Treeship, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 00:34 (ten years ago) link
Trrrrreeeeeershiiiiiiip my duuuuuude
― ְ֮֠֓֟֬֩ (gr8080), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 01:05 (ten years ago) link
I just noticed that in the messages Inbox there's an 'Other' link which has messages from non-friends, some groups, etc. I have messages from a year and a half ago that I've never seen!
― Fanois och Alexander (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 11 June 2013 06:22 (ten years ago) link
...you know you dont gotta answer these, right?
― It is like ganging up on Enya (Trayce), Tuesday, 11 June 2013 07:14 (ten years ago) link
just write 'springfield elementary' and 'nuclear paner plant'
― post-op1 (electricsound), Tuesday, 11 June 2013 07:46 (ten years ago) link
nuclear paneer plant
― Operation Gypsy Dildo (silby), Tuesday, 11 June 2013 15:45 (ten years ago) link
I answered "No, I did not" and often get asked "Who else went to No I did not University? "
(I also put my workplace as Captain Beefheart & his magic band)
― Mark G, Tuesday, 11 June 2013 15:56 (ten years ago) link
http://qz.com/94574/fellas-facebook-is-allowing-your-profiles-to-be-used-for-this-new-hot-or-not-app/
― iatee, Friday, 14 June 2013 19:58 (ten years ago) link
wt serious f
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 14 June 2013 20:49 (ten years ago) link
i remember getting reviewed on ex-so.com
― eris bueller (lukas), Friday, 14 June 2013 21:03 (ten years ago) link
facebook started out as a hot or not site and so it would be poetic if one day it eventually just returned to its roots and became a hot or not site w/ 7 billion people
― iatee, Friday, 14 June 2013 21:08 (ten years ago) link
i have just noticed a "promote" button next to "share" and has this been mentioned yet? apparently i can pay $6.99 USD to shove my status updates in everyone else's faces.
― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Monday, 17 June 2013 05:10 (ten years ago) link
I've seen that on mine too, but thought it was just because my account is affiliated as an admin on some of my work's pages.
― pplains, Monday, 17 June 2013 05:12 (ten years ago) link
Instead of "thought", make that "assume". I mean, it was an assumption that someone out there really wouldn't pay seven bucks to have their posts jump the line, but I shouldn't be that surprised, I guess.
― pplains, Monday, 17 June 2013 05:13 (ten years ago) link
Nah that promote button's been there ages now.
― It is like ganging up on Enya (Trayce), Monday, 17 June 2013 05:14 (ten years ago) link
and yes, you pay to make sure the comment shows up in more peoples feeds, which WTF.
I'm convinced my fb statii appear in nobody's feeds...
― Mark G, Monday, 17 June 2013 06:31 (ten years ago) link
I see yours by proxy in other peoples comments! I guess that dont count tho.
― It is like ganging up on Enya (Trayce), Monday, 17 June 2013 07:24 (ten years ago) link
Good to know, but, yeah.
― Mark G, Monday, 17 June 2013 08:02 (ten years ago) link
i would pay to keep my updates/pics of some people's feeds (people that i cannot delete entirely from my FB for social harmony reasons)
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 17 June 2013 15:52 (ten years ago) link
of=off
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 17 June 2013 15:59 (ten years ago) link
you can do that using the little nut icon next to the date on your statuses and setting up custom privacy groups
― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Monday, 17 June 2013 16:33 (ten years ago) link
i changed my birthday to avoid 300 happy birthday wall posts from a bunch of bozos and now i can't change it back
wish i realized i could have just hid it
― http://threeframes.net (gr8080), Monday, 17 June 2013 16:43 (ten years ago) link
I've merrily cruised through life FB-free up until a couple of weeks ago, when I got had to get access to the company's FB account. It is thee worst. What a hideous monstrosity. Why people actively go to FB for "fun" or "pleasure"... http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Itisamystery.gif
Logged in as a business the search bar is ~gone~. FB becomes unsearchable. Whyyy, FB, whyyy? Do you actually think "a company" is an abstract entity and wouldn't want to search? You don't realize there's a human being using it for a company? Mind = blown.
I have to check on it on the go, on my ipad. Turns out you have to use this spiffy creation called PAGES. O RLY? The FB app points you to PAGES, the PAGES app points you to the FB app. And for what? Nations have started wars about less iirc.
Whatever floats yer boat, live and let live etc, not here to diss FB users. It is just literally such an unusable beast, and so so fucking ugly.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 17 June 2013 16:54 (ten years ago) link
I just make it where no one can post on my wall
― Jeff, Monday, 17 June 2013 16:55 (ten years ago) link
Xpost
uh just got in my timeline a "sponsored post" from "american conservatives of color" with a very graphic photograph of two dead men in a car. just popping up in the middle of my feed with pics of my friends' kids.
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 26 July 2013 17:19 (ten years ago) link
that's disgustingthose sponsored posts are the worst because you can't mark them "offensive" -- it's only "i don't want to see this" or sthg like that
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Friday, 26 July 2013 18:18 (ten years ago) link
u cld just quit facebook
― neil degrasse (m bison), Friday, 26 July 2013 19:17 (ten years ago) link
do u know who doesnt have sponsored posts? MOTHER nature.
― neil degrasse (m bison), Friday, 26 July 2013 19:18 (ten years ago) link
*likes mother nature*
u can RT me on that
― neil degrasse (m bison), Friday, 26 July 2013 19:19 (ten years ago) link
My sponsored posts are always some freemium game.
― Jeff, Friday, 26 July 2013 19:20 (ten years ago) link
i reported it to facebook for "graphic violence." just got a note back basically saying "sorry, it doesn't violate our standards, we're not taking it down." so i reported it again for "hate speech" because the subtext of the post is racist (it's some bs about the media not reporting black-on-black violence, only white-on-black violence), don't think it will help.
i don't know if this link will work and you should probably not click on it, but if you really want to see the offensive post here it is. WARNING VERY GRAPHIC PHOTOGRAPH https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=401795433274061&set=a.332228270230778.77575.332179256902346&type=1
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 26 July 2013 19:21 (ten years ago) link
― fervently nice (Treeship), Friday, 26 July 2013 19:22 (ten years ago) link
how does that not violate their policies but nudity or whatever does?
― fervently nice (Treeship), Friday, 26 July 2013 19:23 (ten years ago) link
UGH, why did i click on that....
― *tera, Friday, 26 July 2013 21:09 (ten years ago) link
I hate to be that guy who runs on to every thread proclaiming how he hasn't seen a pop-up in ten years because he's got some sort of fancy software running, but...
I downloaded Social Fixer to use with Facebook, and aside from all the neat tricks like hiding posts that you've already read, separating YouTube and Instragram links, and goofy shit like anonymizing the page for lol screencaps, it also blocks all promotional content like that. Check it out.
― pplains, Friday, 26 July 2013 21:25 (ten years ago) link
they've made it clear in the past that they don't take reports seriously, i've flagged multiple pages with very racist sentiments that claim to oppose "islamisation" of norway but they're "resolved" within an hour
― chilli, Friday, 26 July 2013 21:44 (ten years ago) link
Facebook.com/r/islamisation
― pplains, Friday, 26 July 2013 21:49 (ten years ago) link
Facebook is pernicious for stuff like this because a) ppl can click to join groups and share photos from group bcoz they happen to like one photo and sometimes these groups are actual neo-nazis and b) discussions of controversial matters always have a get-out clause provided by the social/self-expression nature of the site, i.e. 'it's just my opinion'
― cardamon, Friday, 26 July 2013 23:24 (ten years ago) link
I'll bet that if you cross-posted this with a suitable "Facebook takes crypto-racist ads!" to Reddit and Gawker you might get some traction.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 26 July 2013 23:36 (ten years ago) link
'it's just my opinion' is a real world get-out clause too (as per the innumerable people i've heard spouting utterly offensive shit followed by 'hey don't get angry it's just what i think') xp
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 26 July 2013 23:38 (ten years ago) link
i.e. clearly it's particular to facebook but i don't think facebook nurtures that behaviour specifically
If my wife posts some innocuous little gesture of affection on my wall like "I love you so much" and I comment back "I love you too, honey", odds are that somewhere between 12 hours to 2 days later, my father-in-law will pop up and comment "I also love my wife" or "...AND you're such a good father to my grandchildren!" or something like that. BLLLLLLLECH.
― how's life, Monday, 12 August 2013 13:47 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/wyxgbL4.png
― 乒乓, Thursday, 12 September 2013 02:01 (ten years ago) link
"It's Complicated"
― Mark G, Thursday, 12 September 2013 11:32 (ten years ago) link
Am I the only one who finds it annoying that FB has shifted from the alphabetical order listing of friends on the event invite window to some sort of other weird order?
― sarahell, Monday, 4 November 2013 03:10 (ten years ago) link
Also there's no longer an option to send a group message to invitees who haven't responded.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 4 November 2013 04:08 (ten years ago) link
its amyspacing... u cn tel frm d music / vid prompts. cluttering w/ ads
― color definition point of "beyond "color, eg a transient that, Monday, 4 November 2013 04:15 (ten years ago) link
http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG
― buzza, Monday, 4 November 2013 04:16 (ten years ago) link
We're removing an old Facebook setting called "Who can look up your Timeline by name." We'd like to give you more info about this change.What's changing: We're removing an old search setting called "Who can look up your Timeline by name"—but this won't change who can see what you've shared on Facebook.What did this setting do?"Who can look up your Timeline by name" controlled who could find your Timeline by typing your name in search.What will happen when the setting is removed?Anyone will be able to look up your Timeline by your name — but if they go to your Timeline, they'll only see what they already have permission to see. Removing this setting doesn't change who can see your photos, status updates or other things you've shared.Why is Facebook removing this setting?When we created this setting, the only way to find you on Facebook was to search for your specific name. Now, people can come across your Timeline in other ways: for example if a friend tags you in a photo, which links to your Timeline, or if people search for phrases like "People who like The Beatles," or "People who live in Seattle," in Graph Search.Today, the best way to manage who sees your stuff is to use your Privacy Shortcuts (just click the lock icon at the top of every page of the Facebook website), and to choose who to share with when you post new photos and updates.What's next?Here are some things you can do to review your privacy choices:If you want to quickly limit the audience of things you've shared in the past to Friends, visit your privacy settings.Each time you share a photo, link or status update, you can set the privacy for that specific post.Check out what you've shared in the past—and who can see that info—by going to your activity log. To get to your activity log, click the lock icon at the top of any page to open your privacy shortcuts.If you don't want any more reminders and you're ready for Facebook to remove the setting now, you can click Okay, I Understand and we'll stop showing this info.Thanks for taking the time to read this message and for being part of Facebook.
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Monday, 4 November 2013 21:51 (ten years ago) link
I had to read that three times before I realized it's making your profile more accessible rather than the opposite.
― pplains, Monday, 4 November 2013 21:55 (ten years ago) link
i really like how ppl cant look me up by name
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Monday, 4 November 2013 22:01 (ten years ago) link
I had that setting checked too.
Not that I didn't think it made it impossible for people to find me, but just so in that initial search, perhaps they'd think "well, guess he's not on Facebook."
― pplains, Monday, 4 November 2013 22:13 (ten years ago) link
facebook is being all "quit whining, they'll find you anyway"
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Monday, 4 November 2013 23:17 (ten years ago) link
I have said this before, so it shows you how serious I am about it, but Facebook is going downhill.
Between the bitstrips and the e-notes and the political shit, and the weird order and non-order that FB algorithms arrange everything for me, it's getting to be more and more a waste of time.
Here's what I look for in Facebook:• pictures of my friends doing cool shit.• funny twitter like posts that come across as in-jokes.• maybe one out of 11 stories someone posts is really interesting. More than likely, it's from an ILXor and I've already seen it here.
And I'd say those three type of posts make up 8 percent of my feed right now.
But I still go there and I still post to my profile and it's one of the four or five sites I cycle through all day long. Which goes back to my original statement, gosh this Facebook thing sucks so much, I'm liable to just sit down and pretend like I'm going to quit one of these days.
― pplains, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 01:08 (ten years ago) link
i've sort of been noticing the same thing but i haven't been sure if it's facebook getting worse or all my facebook friends getting older and more spread out and lonely or me just becoming more of a curmudgeon because i spend all day on ilx
― ^^ post obviously honoring and supporting Qualcomm (zachlyon), Tuesday, 5 November 2013 01:11 (ten years ago) link
ugggh bitstrips
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 November 2013 02:10 (ten years ago) link
Uggggggh otm
― stet, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 02:11 (ten years ago) link
it's like facebook herpes
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 November 2013 02:13 (ten years ago) link
i don't think i've ever noticed them
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Tuesday, 5 November 2013 02:24 (ten years ago) link
so lucky
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 November 2013 02:26 (ten years ago) link
so far there are only a handful of ppl on my friends list who have them
― sarahell, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 02:29 (ten years ago) link
I have four or five friends who went crazy with them and it was all they posted for like a month...then it went away, but then other unrelated friends somehow find them and then that's all THEY post for a month
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 November 2013 02:30 (ten years ago) link
i think if they were smaller they would be less annoying
― sarahell, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 02:32 (ten years ago) link
it's the reason email was invented. just email your dumb injoke to your dumb friend and leave me out of it
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 November 2013 02:33 (ten years ago) link
these are the big cartoon things, right? like the e-card equivalent but with cartoon images of the poster and another person?
― sarahell, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 02:34 (ten years ago) link
yep! 'put a mundane moment of your life into a comic strip and watch the lols roll in'
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 November 2013 02:35 (ten years ago) link
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Monday, November 4, 2013 8:24 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I said this too and within two hours, they were all over my news feed.
― pplains, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 02:35 (ten years ago) link
i think my main objection to them is that they are large. If they were the same size or smaller as the image in an "attending this event" post, it would be easier to just scroll past and thoroughly ignore
― sarahell, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 02:37 (ten years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 November 2013 02:37 (ten years ago) link
If they were funny in the slightest, it would be one thing. Having my friends represent themselves in the comic stylings of the Lockhorns or some Seth MacFarlane show is an interesting concept.
But instead, they are the epitome of banal.
https://scontent-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/1453366_415505258571825_718862032_n.jpg
― pplains, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 02:38 (ten years ago) link
730 x 631, good lord.
― pplains, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 02:39 (ten years ago) link
haha where do i make these
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Tuesday, 5 November 2013 02:39 (ten years ago) link
Nooooooooooooo
is it just that the ppl making them are not funny ppl, or are they inherently unfunny?
― sarahell, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 02:40 (ten years ago) link
We go from b/w noir clips of el trains to "G____ shops at the fedora store!"
― pplains, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 02:40 (ten years ago) link
i was making fake e-card/inspirational graphic memes for a while
― sarahell, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 02:41 (ten years ago) link
I get you, I pull the same kind of shit - or at least try to.
But I'm sure the guy who first parodied a motivation poster was praised by his peers for a week as well. Then you see what happened.
― pplains, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 02:42 (ten years ago) link
I have a feeling they are inherently unfunny?
but maybe gr8080 will be able to prove that theory once and for all
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 November 2013 02:43 (ten years ago) link
or disprove
lol, sorry gr8080 didn't meant to imply that u r not funny :)
http://www.buzzfeed.com/ailbhemalone/16-bitstrips-that-will-restore-your-faith-in-bitstrips
(Spoiler Alert: Your faith in bitstrips will not be restored.)
― pplains, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 02:45 (ten years ago) link
i dont think ive seen one of these but ive seen a lot of complaining abt them
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 02:48 (ten years ago) link
i see more buzzfeed links in my fb feed than bitstrips
― sarahell, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 02:52 (ten years ago) link
everything itt and what i see on my wife's FB make me 10000 times more grateful i axed this shit from my lyfe
― shiny trippy people holding bandz (m bison), Tuesday, 5 November 2013 03:00 (ten years ago) link
jesus mary and joseph
― snoop dogey doge (seandalai), Tuesday, 5 November 2013 03:03 (ten years ago) link
A friend made several bitstrips not of him but of me, posted them on my wall, they were fucked up and wierd, eyes going in different directions, etc.
That was about a month and a half ago: now, there are sincere bit-strippers popping up everywhere in my feed
― cardamon, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 03:35 (ten years ago) link
Was just thinking of the ethical ramifications of making bit strips out of ilxors.
― pplains, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 03:57 (ten years ago) link
yes that's where i was headed
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Tuesday, 5 November 2013 11:41 (ten years ago) link
my faith in bitstrips was not restored by that buzzfeed thing, no. but i did first come across it via some friends who actually made good, funny use of it, so when it picked up in ever-increasingly banal ways it was tough to take.
― Merdeyeux, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 11:55 (ten years ago) link
Annoyed at that damned e-mail; why the dumb-down to call it 'info' rather than 'information'?
― hatcat marnell (suzy), Tuesday, 5 November 2013 12:52 (ten years ago) link
https://scontent-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/q71/s720x720/1391968_416242978498053_1417226875_n.jpg
― pplains, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 14:22 (ten years ago) link
If I'm getting the context of these bitstrips correct, I think my facebook friend is getting a divorce.
Or is into glory holes
― cardamon, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 14:45 (ten years ago) link
bitstrips, christ.
I use Facebook for pics of my kid 80% of the time, which probably annoys everyone I know that doesn't have kids. I also just assume that eventually Facebook is just going to be people posting into a void because everyone will have hidden everyone else's news feed.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, 5 November 2013 14:51 (ten years ago) link
i dont have kids and i enjoy pictures of kids and stories abt kids, especailly when its abt kids saying hilarious weird shit, i think this is prob a p commonly held opinion, its when it gets into mommy wars parenting culture type stuff thats super tedious
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 16:53 (ten years ago) link
for instance a friend of mines post yesterday
I feel like I'm homeless because you won't let me watch any TV ~[childs name redacted]
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 16:54 (ten years ago) link
― kinder, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 19:04 (ten years ago) link
as in, I only got annoyed with ppl moaning about them - filling my feed with shit about what they can see in THEIR feed.Now I've seen the bitstrips for myself. I am not impressed.
― kinder, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 19:05 (ten years ago) link
These are a bit too Comic Sans User for my liking.
― hatcat marnell (suzy), Tuesday, 5 November 2013 19:17 (ten years ago) link
xposts to al leong: if Facebook was ONLY pictures of yr babby, that would be a fine thing :)
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 6 November 2013 03:34 (ten years ago) link
So some kind of new look this morning.
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Thursday, 7 November 2013 05:26 (ten years ago) link
oh hang on, it's this graph search thing.
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Thursday, 7 November 2013 05:42 (ten years ago) link
90% of my facebook posts are kid pix, its just the most convenient place to put them where relatives will see
graph is lol but ~useful~
― buzza, Thursday, 7 November 2013 05:46 (ten years ago) link
who hacked your account?
― markers, Thursday, 7 November 2013 08:42 (ten years ago) link
Check out what you've shared in the past—and who can see that info—by going to your activity log.
This was helpful information in that it made me go back and realize that all sorts of things were set to "public" that I had repeatedly set to "friends" but had obviously been changed during one or another update that I ignored.
The whole weird cat-and-mouse privacy game with Facebook seems like a new experience on the consumer landscape, but I guess is just a natural evolutionary step along the chain toward eventually encoding advertising in your DNA.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Friday, 8 November 2013 03:46 (ten years ago) link
i just assume its all public, much easier
― lag∞n, Friday, 8 November 2013 04:13 (ten years ago) link
Ive never had my privacy settings changed by a FB update.
― taxi tomato or bag tomato (Trayce), Friday, 8 November 2013 04:18 (ten years ago) link
Sure, and also it's not like it even matters because who's going to bother to look? It's more the unease of finding a window unlocked that you're sure you locked than the fear that anything's actually been stolen.
I didn't think I had either. I think a lot of this is just an inexorable push toward making everything public all the time -- which I don't mind so much as the persistent sense of duplicity around the whole enterprise.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Friday, 8 November 2013 04:27 (ten years ago) link
fb is def horrible and shady dont get me wrong
― lag∞n, Friday, 8 November 2013 04:37 (ten years ago) link
I want to promote a study (for teens with autism) to the parents of potential participants. I asked a work study student to look for appropriate local/national listservs, websites, etc. She just emailed me to ask about Facebook and kijiji and craigslist. I'm down with kijiji and craigslist, but... this is embarrassing... how would this be done on Facebook? Just post stuff to the timelines of relevant local orgs? That feels like spamming. Am I just old?
― ljubljana, Friday, 29 November 2013 02:45 (ten years ago) link
I think it would be okay to post a relevant study to autism orgs on fb.
― Mordy , Friday, 29 November 2013 03:16 (ten years ago) link
I guess orgs that don't want us to do that would have their timelines locked down so that only their friends can post?
― ljubljana, Friday, 29 November 2013 03:30 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, and if they don't like the link they can always remove it later.
― Mordy , Friday, 29 November 2013 03:38 (ten years ago) link
*prepares the annoyingly chirpy-voiced study announcement*
― ljubljana, Friday, 29 November 2013 03:39 (ten years ago) link
I've always had a policy of not adding colleagues on FB. Can you still add people on a 'limited profile' or similar now? Settings have changed 89089 times since I last thought about it. I guess you have to just specify for everything you post if you want it viewable by all friends or specific groups? (Don't care much about existing stuff, just don't want to have to second-guess anything I post or comments from friends etc)
― kinder, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 18:54 (ten years ago) link
you can do all sorts of grouping iirc but since facebook is just gonna change it a million times its best imo to assume that everyone will see everything
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 18:55 (ten years ago) link
yeah that's kind of my thinking
― kinder, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 18:57 (ten years ago) link
When I add someone I don't know so well, I stick them straight into "Acquaintances". This means they don't see any of the more personal posts, that are published to "Friends except acquaintances."
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 19:57 (ten years ago) link
i just let everyone see my incredible posts
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 20:01 (ten years ago) link
even friends of friends
I just stopped posting to Facebook because I don't know who I'm talking to any more.
― cristalnacht (lukas), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 20:13 (ten years ago) link
I post my dumb babble and assume that whoever sees it and is tired of me will just block/unfriend me so w/e
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 21:03 (ten years ago) link
thanks mike, that's an optionmy reasoning for no colleages: most ppl don't have the same sense of humour as me and I never want to have to work out whether any work-related stuff could be down to something I've said on FB. Plus my mates can be obscene on my posts. TBH the main reason is once you add one colleague they all pile on and I don't like having ppl I don't really like on FB. So far everyone who's actually requested is a good work friend anyway.
― kinder, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 21:28 (ten years ago) link
thread cd do with more Kristie tbh
― UK Cop Humour (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 9 January 2014 10:48 (ten years ago) link
i'm with Serena SInclair.
― ronnie jotten (color definition point of "beyond "color, eg a transient that), Thursday, 9 January 2014 11:23 (ten years ago) link
Does anyone else have the "trending" feature?
― ^ enlightening post (sarahell), Wednesday, 22 January 2014 00:06 (ten years ago) link
― markers, Wednesday, 22 January 2014 00:07 (ten years ago) link
is the point to just get users to spend more time on facebook and use it as a resource for "all internet things"?
― ^ enlightening post (sarahell), Wednesday, 22 January 2014 00:09 (ten years ago) link
for the past couple of days or so, every time i want to open a new message or send one it does it in a crappy little chat window which sucks if you write a message longer than two sentences. my chat is turned off for a reason fb, it's because it sucks. anyone have this and/or knows how to deactivate that so that it works like before?
― Jibe, Thursday, 23 January 2014 16:16 (ten years ago) link
that is the standard on facebook now, chat and messages were merged
don't use the chat widget thing in the bottom right. instead go to "messages" in your favourites menu (in news feed) and compose message from there
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Thursday, 23 January 2014 16:30 (ten years ago) link
oh shit now i'm going to have to untrain myself and stop clicking on the message icon in the top banner. fucking facebook.and thx anagram
― Jibe, Thursday, 23 January 2014 17:10 (ten years ago) link
yeah i hate that
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 January 2014 17:15 (ten years ago) link
iirc you can click on the message icon and then "Show All Messages" or something like that?
― a man with legs made of sausages - that's not real! (seandalai), Thursday, 23 January 2014 17:52 (ten years ago) link
yup, that works too. but what i really miss is being able to click on the message and go to the message+inbox rather than this stupid chat window.
― Jibe, Thursday, 23 January 2014 18:01 (ten years ago) link
i guess this thread is where i come to complain about the utter BS that is facebook.nowadays, when accessing facebook using the ios app when i receive a new message, it asks me to download a new app (facebook messenger) to read them. this makes me so fucking mad, what the hell is wrong with them that they think i need 2 different apps to do the same shitty things as before. i can't read my messages on the fb app, srsly how is this any good fucking facebook dickheads. i refuse to download their POS messenger thing
― Jibe, Saturday, 26 April 2014 13:42 (nine years ago) link
my guess is they are trying to compete w/ iOS iMessage?
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, 28 April 2014 16:53 (nine years ago) link
well this is something they announced a week or two ago
― markers, Monday, 28 April 2014 16:55 (nine years ago) link
not necessarily imessage, although sort of.
i just figured it would make the chat feature work better on your phone?
― sarahell, Monday, 28 April 2014 16:56 (nine years ago) link
i think their basic point is that mobile doesn't like kitchen sink apps, and their existing app is an example of that, so they're going to break out that functionality
― markers, Monday, 28 April 2014 16:56 (nine years ago) link
zuck or someone might've said something like that somewhere. google it
"mobile" in terms of the phone technology or in terms of users? Such an odd construction ...
― sarahell, Monday, 28 April 2014 17:01 (nine years ago) link
odd out of the context of the tech industry, but within it no one would bat an eye at my saying that
― markers, Monday, 28 April 2014 17:03 (nine years ago) link
― markers, Monday, April 28, 2014 12:56 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― lag∞n, Monday, 28 April 2014 17:04 (nine years ago) link
people including those at facebook seem to think that "focused" apps like snapchat and instagram are more native to smartphones and that people prefer those types of experiences to more complicated ones like the traditional facebook app, which attempts to mimic the functionality of their desktop website
― markers, Monday, 28 April 2014 17:05 (nine years ago) link
i actually sometimes get annoyed that the fb phone app doesn't work the exact same way as the one for my computer -- i know people that will just use the "internet" version of it on their phones (rather than the mobile apps) because they have "download new app" fatigue & resentment
― sarahell, Monday, 28 April 2014 17:07 (nine years ago) link
i would prefer one app too for fb but that's not the strategy they're taking
― markers, Monday, 28 April 2014 17:08 (nine years ago) link
It's interesting that Google can get away with separate apps for Voice, Drive, Gmail and G+ (ok, whatever on that last one), but Facebook is so branded as a one-stop shop that splitting features into different applications does seem counter-intuitive.
Kinda like how Microsoft sites still insist on using Searchlight. Download a whole other thing just to look at your website? Nah, thanks anyway.
― pplains, Monday, 28 April 2014 17:14 (nine years ago) link
facebook has always been seen as one thing: messages, events, photos, whatever were all parts of one thing called facebook.
google has been seen as separate things forever, and only over the past few years have they tried to change that.
― markers, Monday, 28 April 2014 17:26 (nine years ago) link
google was google search and google drive and google reader, none of which had much to do with the other, and facebook was FACEBOOK.
so, in both cases it has to do with design decisions from years ago that impact how users think of their products today.
― markers, Monday, 28 April 2014 17:27 (nine years ago) link
i should really go look for that zuckerberg quote, but somewhere he says something like, on the desktop it made sense for us to be a website, but on mobile things are different. which isn't a bad way to think about things.
― markers, Monday, 28 April 2014 17:29 (nine years ago) link
Those reasons possibly why Facebook has this Evil Empire dark side rep like Microsoft back in the 90s while Google, which is bigger and much more loosey-goosey with private info and stats, still gets a pass.
― pplains, Monday, 28 April 2014 17:35 (nine years ago) link
its also a huge misunderstanding of your user base xp
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, 28 April 2014 17:41 (nine years ago) link
facebook also working on decoupling from the other end in that they left their big acquisitions instagram and whatsapp as separate products, its a really smart big move away from their previous just keep adding all possible functionality of every app to facebook eg location data like foursquare asynchronous follow relationships like twitter, like it mightve taken the constraints of mobile to make them realize how bad that approach was for facebooks usability but it was also bad for the desktop vers imo
― lag∞n, Monday, 28 April 2014 17:42 (nine years ago) link
― pplains, Monday, April 28, 2014 1:35 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
feel like this has mostly to do w the fact that facebook is social and really wants to show pics of your titty bar field trip to your aunt
― lag∞n, Monday, 28 April 2014 17:46 (nine years ago) link
its also a huge misunderstanding of your user base xp― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, April 28, 2014 1:41 PM
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, April 28, 2014 1:41 PM
fuck the "user base"
― markers, Monday, 28 April 2014 18:00 (nine years ago) link
Everybody be cool, download WeChat
― 龜, Monday, 28 April 2014 23:13 (nine years ago) link
i always thought you were james franco
― markers, Monday, 28 April 2014 23:19 (nine years ago) link
http://www.bu.edu/today/2014/could-facebook-use-end-a-marriage/
― Mordy, Sunday, 6 July 2014 00:16 (nine years ago) link
Did we talk about the "Facebook makes you feel happy/sad" story anywhere?
― dem bow dem bow need calcium (seandalai), Sunday, 6 July 2014 00:24 (nine years ago) link
"Share this on Facebook"
― ∞, Monday, 7 July 2014 22:31 (nine years ago) link
In my tl just now, a post that reads:
Can anyone who plays the ukulele teach me how to pluck a couple of hipster chords?
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Wednesday, 9 July 2014 02:55 (nine years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/mentions
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 17 July 2014 19:07 (nine years ago) link
Sorry, something went wrong.
We're working on getting this fixed as soon as we can.
Go Back
― nostormo, Friday, 1 August 2014 16:13 (nine years ago) link
Is Facebook getting owned right now
― 龜, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 19:41 (nine years ago) link
crushed
― nostormo, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 19:46 (nine years ago) link
crashed
― nostormo, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 19:47 (nine years ago) link
i've completely stopped using facebook except for messaging because i can't stand things i like or comment on being seen on my, like, cousins' walls and stuff. or old coworkers. people i'm just generally not close with, who i don't really want potentially seeing my interactions with my friends. every time i almost comment on someone else's post i think "ugh what if [x] sees this, that's weird" or "they really don't need to be a spectator in this conversation" etc. and you can't change this! you can restrict your own shit but any interactions with your friends are open to the world.
and i don't post my own shit either. i generally don't really understand what facebook is for anymore aside from broadcasting wedding/baby news/photos. it made sense when i was younger but now it's like i'm curating everything for a bunch of people who aren't on that level w/me. i basically just want to unfriend all my cousins but that makes thanksgiving weird. and i don't need my girlfriends' dad seeing my humorous TEN GIGS OF WOMEN'S BUTTS detective stabler cover photo but i forgot it was there when i friended him (bc i had to!) everything is awkward! i need a pr person
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Friday, 14 November 2014 01:34 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I get uncomfortable when I see some fb-generated update like
"[my old babysitter] replied to a comment on [her sister who I'm not even friends with]'s post!"
because that means I know that my father-in-law is getting updates like
"how's life is making jokes about cops with the commies from his high school ska band!"
― how's life, Friday, 14 November 2014 01:41 (nine years ago) link
join the rest of us internet hermits and cut the fb chord guys. been fb free for three ish years now and haven't ever looked back. brb storing my urine in a mason jar
― this things i believe (art), Friday, 14 November 2014 02:01 (nine years ago) link
i am blessed by having told family members that i only use fb for academic stuff. they will never bear witness to my stream of dumb likes and narcissistic selfies
― Merdeyeux, Friday, 14 November 2014 02:16 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/YXsbRGg.png
― ✓ out this insane nakh yall (gr8080), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 21:29 (nine years ago) link
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Thursday, November 13, 2014 7:34 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
a big spate of unsubcribing ppl works wonders
― i did it all for the 'nuki (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 22:38 (nine years ago) link
or just muting them
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 22:44 (nine years ago) link
but then you risk getting into that situation where you run into someone and they expect you to know they got married or are pregnant or w/e and you're like "hey, I didn't know!" and they're like "but I posted it on fb!" and you're like "sorry but I unfollowed you"
― rising tones cross (anagram), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 22:49 (nine years ago) link
You can just say "oh I must have missed that!" and then it's over.
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 22:51 (nine years ago) link
i've completely stopped using facebook except for messaging because i can't stand things i like or comment on being seen on my, like, cousins' walls and stuff. or old coworkers. people i'm just generally not close with, who i don't really want potentially seeing my interactions with my friends...and i don't post my own shit either. i generally don't really understand what facebook is for anymore aside from broadcasting wedding/baby news/photos.
Wow, I'm completely the opposite -- I think the messaging system is a disaster, to the point that I sort of seethe when someone sends me a message on it. But I find the newsfeed works well as a sort of less public twitter; good for sharing links, good for asking questions ("does anybody know a good ____", "does anybody know how to ____," etc.)
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 22:57 (nine years ago) link
can't stand the messenger thing, or any of FB at all really, but my mother has decided this is the only way she will even bother communicating family events with me and my siblings. even though I've told her over and over that i rarely look at FB and that it is never the best way to communicate with me, she still does it.
― ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 23:09 (nine years ago) link
― i did it all for the 'nuki (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, November 18, 2014 5:38 PM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― polyphonic, Tuesday, November 18, 2014 5:44 PM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i don't mind seeing their shit i just want them to not see mine
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 23:21 (nine years ago) link
You can add people to lists and then chose which list you send messages to. You'll still see them, they won't see you, unless you choose to show them.
― koogs, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 23:52 (nine years ago) link
I don't think it's as flexible as Google's circles, but I think it'll work.
― koogs, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 23:53 (nine years ago) link
ya but i don't want them seeing the stuff i like/comment on which fbook broadcasts to everyone whether you like it or not
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 00:25 (nine years ago) link
Having been back on Facebook in the last 3 months purely for my own self promotional reasons work-wise, it's been useful in that respect.
But fuck damn there is still so much bumf and crap and pointless chatter on there from people I know, and it's embarrassing.
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 00:50 (nine years ago) link
Only if the post youre liking/commenting on is public or "friends of friends", afaik.
And why anyone makes global posts I have no freaking idea.
― Gumbercules? I love that guy! (Trayce), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 05:19 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I get uncomfortable when I see some fb-generated update like "[my old babysitter] replied to a comment on [her sister who I'm not even friends with]'s post!"because that means I know that my father-in-law is getting updates like "how's life is making jokes about cops with the commies from his high school ska band!"― how's life, Thursday, November 13, 2014 8:41 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― how's life, Thursday, November 13, 2014 8:41 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Ha! This is definitely happening now. Obstreperous old coot has been commenting on posts by friends and friends-of-friends alike. This morning he was lecturing a Finnish friend of my father's about proper wood chopping techniques. Why am I still on this nightmare network?
― put your money where the maracas are (how's life), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 17:01 (nine years ago) link
what is the point of forcing users to crop all profile pics in a square?
― ✓ out this insane nakh yall (gr8080), Monday, 1 December 2014 17:12 (nine years ago) link
To make everything standardized?
― pplains, Monday, 1 December 2014 18:28 (nine years ago) link
its so strange and unnecessary tho
― ✓ out this insane nakh yall (gr8080), Monday, 1 December 2014 18:30 (nine years ago) link
bumf and crap and pointless chatter are the Very Stuff of Life to a great many people and without it they would become sad, ghostly apparitions.
― oh no! must be the season of the rich (Aimless), Monday, 1 December 2014 18:41 (nine years ago) link
Xpost so it will fit on next years calendar.
― Mark G, Monday, 1 December 2014 18:52 (nine years ago) link
I mean, every site with an avatar has a standard size, right?
Now why square? Because it's the easiest shape to make for photos?
― pplains, Monday, 1 December 2014 19:34 (nine years ago) link
but... facebook has "photo albums" as a key feature, and always has. your "profile photos" are in a photo album, it has worked this way forever
― ✓ out this insane nakh yall (gr8080), Monday, 1 December 2014 19:38 (nine years ago) link
But those photos in your photo albums are going to be used as an avatar on your front page or used whenever you post a comment on someone's page.
― pplains, Monday, 1 December 2014 19:39 (nine years ago) link
aren't going to be used.
and for years fb has had a function where you select what square-shaped area of the photo does get used, which worked just fine
― ✓ out this insane nakh yall (gr8080), Monday, 1 December 2014 19:41 (nine years ago) link
I used to fuck with the profile pic by making ones that were like 200 px wide and 30000 px long
― 龜, Monday, 1 December 2014 19:45 (nine years ago) link
Well, ok, that's a new one on me. I thought they still let you crop it.
― pplains, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 05:03 (nine years ago) link
http://time.com/facebook-world-plan/
― Nhex, Saturday, 6 December 2014 19:05 (nine years ago) link
So, these new chimes tied to basic functions in the mobile app...
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 6 December 2014 23:14 (nine years ago) link
Albert Brooks saw it all coming.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kQBFNn4nx4
― clemenza, Monday, 29 December 2014 03:05 (nine years ago) link
Tim Robbins to Vincent D'Onofrio in The Player.
― Vic Perry, Monday, 29 December 2014 05:52 (nine years ago) link
cool that facebook now displays (visible to me only, but not the point) my date of birth which i've never entered into it.
― wat if lermontov hero of are time modern day (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 29 December 2014 10:47 (nine years ago) link
thank your "friends"
― Nhex, Monday, 29 December 2014 14:48 (nine years ago) link
I daresay. But you think it's just picked up on things they've commented, and deduced, or did face-control start asking my friends having got no joy out of me, and some pillock obligingly filled it in for them?
― wat if lermontov hero of are time modern day (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 29 December 2014 15:42 (nine years ago) link
I cant remember but I thought you had to provide a dob when you signed up in first place (to acknowledge being older than the minimum age?)
― saer, Monday, 29 December 2014 15:52 (nine years ago) link
saer is right. I did do a double take when I saw that, because it makes me think other ppl can see that, even though it wouldn't be too hard for my friends to put two and two together.
― Mistah FAAB (sarahell), Monday, 29 December 2014 19:32 (nine years ago) link
Those times when you're sitting on your hands, trying to resist commenting on those people who USED TO BE liberal and who have become scarily conservative.
You added them because they were your dear friend in high school. Now you've got a bunch of liberal and left pages in your collection, and they're praying for Darrell Wilson.
― Whitney Di-Ennial (I M Losted), Monday, 29 December 2014 20:14 (nine years ago) link
half the reason I never signed up for Facebook tbh
― Nhex, Monday, 29 December 2014 20:18 (nine years ago) link
As Trayce has pointed out numerous times, you can unfollow these people without de-friending them. You have the power!
― Mistah FAAB (sarahell), Monday, 29 December 2014 20:33 (nine years ago) link
Before I quit, Facebook taught me a valuable lesson in terms of showing me more than I wanted to know about various friends who used to be liberals when Bush was president and then became "liberals" during the Obama administration (i.e. silent on every new rightward lurch from their imaginary friends in DC; super-attentive to the latest dumb remark out of the mouths of the super-powerful Michelle Bachmann and Sarah Palin). Everyone their own partisan hack and not even getting paid for it.
― Vic Perry, Monday, 29 December 2014 20:48 (nine years ago) link
That was their greatest failing as friends?
― dumpster® fire (Aimless), Monday, 29 December 2014 21:25 (nine years ago) link
They're still friends. I quit Facebook because it is long term depressing.
― Vic Perry, Monday, 29 December 2014 21:30 (nine years ago) link
I try not to "follow" them, but with h.s., grammar school etc. we're ALL friends with each other on FB.
It's just funny and probably awkward for them because there they are on FB with their conservative or religious friends, and then there is you, their best pal from tenth grade who smoked pot with them or who went to a punk concert or shoplifted or some other thing, and you wonder if their new friends know about how they used to be. Because some of these people on Facebook are unbelievably conservative, with stuff I never heard when growing up.
― Whitney Di-Ennial (I M Losted), Monday, 29 December 2014 21:34 (nine years ago) link
However, I will say this: that if Facebook is the only thing holding this friendship together, it's kind of like if we pledged to only get together on the condition that we meet in the food court at a crappy mall, that we then have loud conversations for the benefit of all the other tables, show one another our photo albums, reference some internet thing to each other, and never talk in the way that made us friends in the first place. If those are the conditions, it's ok if we drift apart, really.
― Vic Perry, Monday, 29 December 2014 21:49 (nine years ago) link
I quit facebook because i was wasting time on it (amongst other things) at work
Then i realized the facebook timesink was a symptom not a cause so i quit my job instead
I havent gone back on facebook, but i might
― anvil, Monday, 29 December 2014 22:02 (nine years ago) link
― Nhex, Monday, 29 December 2014 22:46 (nine years ago) link
Definitely not when I joined, as for years it would ask me now and then to add my year of birth. Interested to know if they've been directly tapping up lamers among my friends for info.
― wat if lermontov hero of are time modern day (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 29 December 2014 23:47 (nine years ago) link
is it connected to your gmail in any way? what happens if you forget or request new password?
― saer, Monday, 29 December 2014 23:52 (nine years ago) link
Do you use WhatsApp? FB extracts the data from your WA contact list. And if it's not from your WA, it can even be from someone of your contacts usinbg WA, that has you as a contact in WA and has added your date of birth to their 'info about BananamanBegins'. For your contacts it's simply a reminder of what you birthday is (could be synched with the calendar), for FB it's enough for to put two and two together.
― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Tuesday, 30 December 2014 00:18 (nine years ago) link
How are you supposed to feel when old friends post photos of themselves whooping it up on New Year's Eve in the city where you now live, and they know you do, but they haven't gotten in touch with you to tell you they're visiting?
― you've got no fans you've got no ground (anagram), Saturday, 3 January 2015 22:52 (nine years ago) link
forgeit it anagram, it's chinatown
― Nhex, Saturday, 3 January 2015 23:01 (nine years ago) link
Whenever I see my friends whooping it up at a party I wasn't invited to I figure it's someone else's party, and I shouldn't expect my friend to wangle an invite for me (especially if it's at someone's house). As for not getting in touch at all, maybe they have so little time where you are that they couldn't fit anything in.
― nickn, Sunday, 4 January 2015 04:12 (nine years ago) link
Are "friends" electric?
― Vic Perry, Sunday, 4 January 2015 04:17 (nine years ago) link
Have they invited you to try Allo yet?
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 4 January 2015 04:23 (nine years ago) link
FB friend got engaged 2 years ago -- announced engagement with a video
She got pregnant at the end of last year -- announced her pregnancy with a video
Had their 20 week scan today -- announced the sex of the baby with a video
Relationship is becoming about as interesting as the NFL Draft #zzzzzzzzzzzzz
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 7 February 2015 02:58 (nine years ago) link
just wait for the divorce!!!
― markers, Saturday, 7 February 2015 06:00 (nine years ago) link
The birth announcement is going to be awkward
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Saturday, 7 February 2015 06:48 (nine years ago) link
hahahahahahahahahahaha
i love you
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Saturday, 7 February 2015 13:41 (nine years ago) link
: *
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Saturday, 7 February 2015 14:11 (nine years ago) link
I have a real thing for checking a posts edit history
― prole, you'll be a yeoman soon (wins), Sunday, 15 March 2015 13:59 (nine years ago) link
OMG how did I never know you could do this!?!?
― I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Monday, 16 March 2015 10:23 (nine years ago) link
wait you can do that?
― Mistah FAAB (sarahell), Monday, 16 March 2015 18:24 (nine years ago) link
if a post says 'edited' under the person's name, you click on it and it shows the editing history.
― just1n3, Monday, 16 March 2015 18:30 (nine years ago) link
It's been a feature for as long as there's been an edit function!
― sexpost TMIing! (wins), Monday, 16 March 2015 18:31 (nine years ago) link
I had never known about that. I've totally posted, for example, a red-faced political rant that I've gone back a minute later and edited into something less likely to upset my aunts and uncles or whatever. Did not realize that they have the opportunity to view that anyway. I mean, they probably don't realize it either, but this is good info to know.
― toucan orca ink (how's life), Monday, 16 March 2015 18:37 (nine years ago) link
its usually just fixing typos but occasionally you spot someone editing a joke to a funnier joke they thought of after they first posted
― gr8080, Thursday, 19 March 2015 13:46 (nine years ago) link
do you get any juicy redacted bigotries and what is the etiquette for using these to discredit someone in a beef?
― A MOOC, what's a MOOC? (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 19 March 2015 13:53 (nine years ago) link
Think you can hide post edit history but most people don't bother.
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 19 March 2015 14:05 (nine years ago) link
I often hide jokes in the edit history for people like me who check it
― sexpost TMIing! (wins), Thursday, 19 March 2015 17:42 (nine years ago) link
http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u120/kingkonggodzilla/Facebook%20edit%20history_zpsrhzjx0us.png
― louie louie whoa baby imago (how's life), Friday, 10 April 2015 10:53 (eight years ago) link
https://medium.com/@arankhanna/stalking-your-friends-with-facebook-messenger-9da8820bd27d
Go ahead and see how many messages in your chats have locations attached. I’m guessing it’s a lot of them. And if this isn't already starting to get a bit weird, the first thing I noticed when I started to write my code was that the latitude and longitude coordinates of the message locations have more than 5 decimal places of precision, making it possible to pinpoint the sender’s location to less than a meter.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 28 May 2015 00:14 (eight years ago) link
Status updates have locations too if you dont disable it.
― I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Thursday, 28 May 2015 01:26 (eight years ago) link
Fucking feed has reset to "top stories" EVERY SINGLE DAY for about a week now and I keep having to switch it back. FUCK. ING. STOP.
― I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Thursday, 11 June 2015 03:05 (eight years ago) link
there is a simple fix for this, bookmark
https://www.facebook.com/?sk=h_chr
― anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Thursday, 11 June 2015 08:10 (eight years ago) link
the tree view for replies is driving me nuts, especially as it folds every single branch up and replaces it with '1 more reply to this'
― koogs, Thursday, 11 June 2015 08:35 (eight years ago) link
https://www.mysocialbook.com/?utm_term=c8um000001zyvk&utm_campaign=6022356327513&utm_medium=6027396218113&utm_source=facebook&cd=pk
Just a bit of fun so let's be cool.
― how's life, Friday, 12 June 2015 14:52 (eight years ago) link
what the hell happened to animated gif support? it was there for like a month but i cant get anything to animate now.
― gr8080, Thursday, 25 June 2015 13:55 (eight years ago) link
I looked at my "other" messages section for the first time ever today...o_O
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 17:26 (eight years ago) link
other messages are so weird
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 17:27 (eight years ago) link
Hundreds of messages from someone I haven't seen (and thankfully am thousands of miles from) in 6 years. Also free tickets to a show last November.
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 17:30 (eight years ago) link
ok wait - that is a lot weirder than mine which are all creepy dudes commenting on my pictures of guys in africa telling me about my unclaimed money
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 17:31 (eight years ago) link
That actually sounds pretty weird unless you meant "or" instead of "of", but yeah, i had hoped that this person would have lost their fixation on me but apparently I have some sort of totemic significance for this person. I guess if my unresponsive continuing existence is helpful I don't mind too much.
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 17:37 (eight years ago) link
hahahaha yes that should have been an "or"
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 17:42 (eight years ago) link
http://elitedaily.com/life/culture/talk-passive-aggressive-facebook-like/1104835/
turns out you can passive-aggressively like a facebook post
― Possibly Fingers (onimo), Friday, 17 July 2015 11:29 (eight years ago) link
son, you got no idea of the levels of this shit
― Nhex, Friday, 17 July 2015 17:02 (eight years ago) link
'specially for the ladies
stuff like this is part of the "fun" of facebook
― sarahell, Friday, 17 July 2015 22:40 (eight years ago) link
fucking facebook has started being 'coy' about what it's showing me. You go to 'newsfeed' and neither 'top stories' nor 'most recent' are ticked. I still have to change it to 'most recent'.
― kinder, Saturday, 1 August 2015 13:09 (eight years ago) link
Trending The Jimi Hendrix Experience: November 16 Marks 47th Anniversary of 'Electric Ladyland' Hitting No. 1.
― how's life, Monday, 16 November 2015 14:18 (eight years ago) link
TrendingMegyn KellyFox News Host Celebrates 45th Birthday on Nov. 18.
― how's life, Wednesday, 18 November 2015 12:51 (eight years ago) link
http://fusion.net/story/235901/facebook-relationship-tool-breakups/
― sarahell, Friday, 20 November 2015 21:08 (eight years ago) link
TrendingCharles M. SchulzNov. 26 Marks 93rd Anniversary of Late 'Peanuts' Cartoonist's Birth
― chimiraquai (how's life), Thursday, 26 November 2015 15:11 (eight years ago) link
dayumhttp://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/02/technology/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-charity.html
― Mordy, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 21:49 (eight years ago) link
let's hope he doesn't continue to give a lot of money to corporate "school reform" efforts that do more damage than they fix.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 21:50 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/a9amLor.jpg
― Evan Rando (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 13:42 (eight years ago) link
maxima is by far the most o_O celebrity baby name ever, i cannot fully process it
― Evan Rando (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 13:43 (eight years ago) link
Trending Cliff BurtonMetallica Bass Guitarist Remembered on Feb. 10, What Would Have Been His 54th Birthday
― how's life, Wednesday, 10 February 2016 20:31 (eight years ago) link
For me, "like" button broken down into specific emojis = SB changed to FP. I'm less inclined to use it.
― WilliamC, Wednesday, 24 February 2016 15:31 (eight years ago) link
guess now i have to go back thru every post i ever Liked and update it with the correct emoji to avoid potential embarrassment
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 24 February 2016 15:42 (eight years ago) link
they also look ugly
― sarahell, Wednesday, 24 February 2016 17:15 (eight years ago) link
bad idea. sign of a degenerate society.
― Treeship, Wednesday, 24 February 2016 17:24 (eight years ago) link
time was you could emotionlesly like a post in the streets
― Ad h (onimo), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 18:06 (eight years ago) link
Wow.
― Creames Fartpoop, Wednesday, 24 February 2016 19:21 (eight years ago) link
They look like a buzzfeed article, its horrible.
― Interesting. No, wait, the other thing: tedious. (Trayce), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 22:59 (eight years ago) link
really love the bet-hedging house style Facebook has originated for its "trending" "news items", e.g.
Frank Kaminsky: Video Appears to Show Former Wisconsin Basketball Player Celebrate Team's WinKaminsky appears to jump up from his couch cheering, run into his kitchen and slide onto the floor after former Badgers teammate Bronson Koenig defeated Xavier on Sunday with a buzzer-beater.
― bernard snowy, Monday, 21 March 2016 19:13 (seven years ago) link
Trending Return of Saturn: April 11 Marks 16th Anniversary of No Doubt Album
― how's life, Monday, 11 April 2016 19:59 (seven years ago) link
TrendingClarence 'Gatemouth' Brown: April 18 Marks What Would Have Been Late Musician's 92nd Birthday
― how's life, Monday, 18 April 2016 14:39 (seven years ago) link
Hermit Park, Queensland: Man Dies Due to Stab Wounds, Police Say
― Interesting. No, wait, the other thing: tedious. (Trayce), Tuesday, 19 April 2016 00:16 (seven years ago) link
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/brothers-jailed-facebook-message-judge-11388028
is it wrong to feel kinda sorry for these two unfortunates? (especially the one who didn't actually write the "suck my cock" post but just commented on it?)
― soref, Saturday, 28 May 2016 19:29 (seven years ago) link
Woke up, hung over. Piecing together what happened last night, a had a few too many, but I don't think it was that bad. Getting my phone, checking facebook. The first message is from myself, from today, saying 'whooooaaaah-ooooh!!! Lost my phone last night. Goodbye everyone, keep safe!!!' and then I posted California by Phantom Planet. And I'm like, wtf, how drunk was I??? Turns out there's a small text in the corner 'remember this day six years ago?' and it's from my going away party when I moved to San Diego.
Fuck you facebook, for confusing me and reminding me how much of a loser I used to be.
― Frederik B, Sunday, 4 September 2016 10:36 (seven years ago) link
― meh 😐 (wins), Sunday, 4 September 2016 12:13 (seven years ago) link
Because people on my and my husband's facebook have at some point 'liked' Habitat and Amazon, we are seeing on our own feeds 'recommendations' of things the other has been browsing. A Habitat photo frame I was looking at as part of his Christmas present came up on his feed and bike locks on Amazon came up on mine.
This is some bullshit. Now we know it does this we'll know what each other has been looking at! Way to ruin relationships Christmas, facebook.I have the FB purity blocker thing but this isn't even categorised as an ad.
― kinder, Monday, 2 January 2017 12:19 (seven years ago) link
Man, trying to create a page and tack on some events used to be easy. Now it's like the hardest thing in the world to do. Thanks Facebook, nobbers.
― brand new universal harvester (dog latin), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 09:21 (five years ago) link
However, I think what she likes about Facebook is that it is relatively closed off to the outside world, whereas I don't generally care what yahoos have a gander at my drunken photos.
Lol irony reading this now.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 11:46 (five years ago) link
"The previously unreported actions by Myanmar’s military on Facebook are among the first examples of an authoritarian government using the social network against its own people."
All of this reads like a more extreme, but familiar, version of what's happening in the U.S.:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebook-genocide.html
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 15 October 2018 15:33 (five years ago) link
RIP
― crüt, Monday, 12 November 2018 18:12 (five years ago) link
it had a bad run
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Monday, 12 November 2018 18:14 (five years ago) link
hold me
― j., Monday, 12 November 2018 18:15 (five years ago) link
It really says something when you go to a site out of habit and then breathe a sigh of relief when it's down.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 12 November 2018 18:16 (five years ago) link
Don’t think of it as goodbye, think of it as... ello
― coetzee.cx (wins), Monday, 12 November 2018 18:16 (five years ago) link
fb'd u for that
― unproven (darraghmac), Monday, 12 November 2018 18:17 (five years ago) link
Not down for me at all btw, you guys are all gone cause they’ve finally done the purge
― coetzee.cx (wins), Monday, 12 November 2018 18:36 (five years ago) link
already back for me :/
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Monday, 12 November 2018 18:36 (five years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/technology/facebook-emails-privacy-data.html
In January 2013, one of Mr. Zuckerberg’s lieutenants emailed him with news about Twitter, one of Facebook’s biggest competitors. The company had introduced a video-sharing service called Vine, which allowed users to create and post six-second video clips.When new users signed up for Vine, they were given the option of following their Facebook friends — a feature enabled through Facebook’s application program interface, or API. This feature was widely used, and had become a valuable tool for new apps to accelerate user growth. But in Vine’s case, Facebook played hardball.“Unless anyone raises objections, we will shut down their friends API access today,” wrote the lieutenant, Justin Osofsky, now a Facebook vice president.Mr. Zuckerberg, the chief executive, replied: “Yup, go for it.”
When new users signed up for Vine, they were given the option of following their Facebook friends — a feature enabled through Facebook’s application program interface, or API. This feature was widely used, and had become a valuable tool for new apps to accelerate user growth. But in Vine’s case, Facebook played hardball.
“Unless anyone raises objections, we will shut down their friends API access today,” wrote the lieutenant, Justin Osofsky, now a Facebook vice president.
Mr. Zuckerberg, the chief executive, replied: “Yup, go for it.”
― resident hack (Simon H.), Thursday, 6 December 2018 13:53 (five years ago) link
hmm u don't say
These emails reveal that in the formative years of Facebook’s growth, the company’s executives were ruthless and unsparing in their ambition to collect more data from users, extract concessions from developers and stamp out possible competitors.
― We're in 2009—it's time to take risks, (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 6 December 2018 13:59 (five years ago) link
obviously nothing is shocking here but the gory details.....sure are gory and detailed
― resident hack (Simon H.), Thursday, 6 December 2018 14:19 (five years ago) link
fun fact: no-one ever became a billionaire through scrupulously even-handed business practices
― We're in 2009—it's time to take risks, (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 6 December 2018 14:28 (five years ago) link
it's almost like amassing ungodly sums of money might be.. evil?
― Nhex, Thursday, 6 December 2018 16:39 (five years ago) link
hmm, makes u think
― We're in 2009—it's time to take risks, (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 6 December 2018 16:39 (five years ago) link
> fun fact: no-one ever became a billionaire through scrupulously even-handed business practices
the minecraft guy?
― koogs, Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:54 (five years ago) link
they need to cut it out with the "your facebook memories" shit
― Trϵϵship, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:07 (five years ago) link
every time i click the box that says "show me less things like this" and i still get these updates multiple times a week. sometimes it's nice to reflect on the past but it has to be on my own initiative. the past is full of traps--photos of exes, reminders that life is fleeting, whatever. who do they think they are?
― Trϵϵship, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:11 (five years ago) link
facebook memories is actually my favourite bit (because facebook is worse than it used to be so past = better)
― koogs, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:12 (five years ago) link
it's a form of torture
― Trϵϵship, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:13 (five years ago) link
If I were that terrified of being reminded of my life I wouldn’t record it for posterity tbh
― gray say nah to me (wins), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:50 (five years ago) link
― Trϵϵship
this also applies to facebook as a whole, fyi
― The Elvis of Nationalism and Amoral Patriotism (rushomancy), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 15:06 (five years ago) link
I was having a bad day a while back and Facebook was nice enough to show a post and pic of me and our dog the day before we put little Dottie to sleep : (
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 15:10 (five years ago) link
That's horrible. I live in fear of the day my RIP post for my cat shows up in FB memories - it got tons of engagements at the time so I think they'll definitley go for it.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 4 February 2019 10:45 (five years ago) link
So happy I'm off fb. It's been 2 weeks now? Haven't missed it at all.
― nathom, Monday, 4 February 2019 12:58 (five years ago) link
i don't think it filters 'memories' in any way, based on the four bits of absolute tosh it just gave me, none of which has a single like.
"is imagining he's playing tennis"
oh look, 6 years ago i was in kensington waiting for the comedy to start. i know this because i checked in from the pub next door. fascinating.
― koogs, Monday, 4 February 2019 13:17 (five years ago) link
congrats nathom!
i don't miss facebook but i do miss talking to most of my internet friends. they're good people but the opportunities for quality socialization on facebook just aren't there, i find it to be an addiction that ultimately does more harm than good. i need to find more friends i can hang out with in person, but the social anxiety makes it challenging...
― The Elvis of Nationalism and Amoral Patriotism (rushomancy), Monday, 4 February 2019 13:48 (five years ago) link
ilx is the only good place on the internet
― Calgary customer Elvis Cavalic (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 4 February 2019 13:52 (five years ago) link
(in b4 inevitable 'and even ilx sucks' posts)
They don't show YouTube links in memories anymore, but I think that's the extent of the filtering (aside possibly from game/app posts).
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 4 February 2019 15:47 (five years ago) link
Have deactivated FB and IG for a little more than a month now and it's been brilliant. Don't miss either.
Wish I could take myself off Twitter too but it's a job requirement, unfortunately.
― Roz, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 04:41 (five years ago) link
I have been off fb for a couple of weeks. It's liberating. I do miss some people but the downsides being on it are outweighing the former. Back on ilx which feels grebt. Just can't access my stevienixed account. Nathom will do. Lol
― nathom, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 12:58 (five years ago) link
Well, you get the FB ilxors here too, so there’s that!
― suzy, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 13:12 (five years ago) link
Yes! Missed you guys
― nathom, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 13:33 (five years ago) link
yay!
― Mark G, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 13:33 (five years ago) link
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/02/facebooks-legacy-anger-depression-and-fake-news/
― The Elvis of Nationalism and Amoral Patriotism (rushomancy), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 18:25 (five years ago) link
"You have two memories..."
but before that, here's a crappy video of pictures you've posted floating around that we put together because it is Friends' Day
and here's a 3 word post from 9 years ago (that one's probably on me)
and here's a crappy video of pictures you've posted that we've cobbled together for no other reason than it used to be January and now it isn't. Your January Highlights.
and here's a memory from two years ago yesterday that you might have missed (but didn't)
meanwhile those group posts you made to that group with 26 people in it, we're only going to show that to two of them, despite the fact that they all subscribed specifically.
― koogs, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 11:06 (five years ago) link
anyone got tips for getting rid of the phantom notifications? my total keeps creeping upwards, now it's at seven, none of which are real.
― Book Doula (sleeve), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 18:41 (four years ago) link
can you describe these in more detail?
― sarahell, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 18:44 (four years ago) link
you know, the little red dot with the number in it. When I'm logged out, it (incorrectly) says seven, when I log in there are zero. Totally nitpicky but it drives me crazy.
― Book Doula (sleeve), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 18:53 (four years ago) link
do you use fb on both a phone and computer?
― sarahell, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 18:54 (four years ago) link
yeah, and I think that's at the root of it. I don't see them on the phone, but I do on the computer.
― Book Doula (sleeve), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 19:01 (four years ago) link
The Android app is rubbish tbh. Sometimes when these things appear on the Web page there are new likes or comments way down your list from days ago that it wants you to acknowledge. I've had maybe the odd genuinely phantom notification but it lasted for a day or so and I've never had them mount up
― Xia Nu del Vague (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 19:03 (four years ago) link
i often get notifications based on the last time i used facebook on the particular device. ... esp. message notifications ... as opposed to the last time i used facebook and looked at the notifications
― sarahell, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 19:22 (four years ago) link
Logged in to FB after months away, immediately regretted it: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2164890463806836&id=100008577106113
― Roz, Thursday, 5 December 2019 00:32 (four years ago) link
God, when I see this ol thread, I think how long ago. Then I see it's only 13 years!
― Mark G, Thursday, 5 December 2019 00:38 (four years ago) link
Yeah I prob should have posted that to the “why do I hate that...” other FB thread but somehow always remember this one instead.
― Roz, Thursday, 5 December 2019 00:45 (four years ago) link
what's the regrettable thing at that link?
― insecurity bear (sic), Thursday, 5 December 2019 01:21 (four years ago) link
not sure if you're asking about the content of the link or what's regrettable about it: it's a shitty conservative meme about "snowflakes".
if it's the latter, the reason i got off FB in the first place was so that I spend less mental space looking at terrible content, like shitty conservative memes about "snowflakes".
― Roz, Thursday, 5 December 2019 02:08 (four years ago) link
if that's the one I'm thinking of, yeah it's pretty bad
― sleeve, Thursday, 5 December 2019 02:56 (four years ago) link
the former, as a non-facebooker I couldn’t see it
― insecurity bear (sic), Thursday, 5 December 2019 03:01 (four years ago) link
If you click on his profile all his other posts are about Catholicism and bacon. Not sure what I make of that.
― koogs, Thursday, 5 December 2019 04:11 (four years ago) link
all I want for Christmas is for the Facebook 'hide post' option to work.
ex-colleague uses it like Twitter and is forever posting crap memes and pictures of beer, things I don't mind seeing once, but given that the hide post option seems to do nothing, I have to scroll past them again and again.
― koogs, Saturday, 4 January 2020 04:02 (four years ago) link
Unfollow ex-colleague?
― nickn, Saturday, 4 January 2020 04:58 (four years ago) link
The local news feature in the iOS app is awful, just highlighting every petty crime so old people can panic some more.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Saturday, 4 January 2020 05:49 (four years ago) link
un-following seems a bit drastic - some of it is interesting. it's just the drunken (?) chains of cat memes, the half-dozen pictures that he posts individually, or the French language stuff that annoys me. hide posts would be fine, if it worked.
(with the reposts you can hide all from the original poster and that seems to work. social fixer plugin has an alternative that works on desktop)
― koogs, Saturday, 4 January 2020 10:22 (four years ago) link
I use the Snooze for 30 Days option for a couple of my friends.
― ☮️ (peace, man), Saturday, 4 January 2020 10:39 (four years ago) link
i have a number of people i snooze for 30 days because they post too much it's the best option imo bc at most i have to snooze them again, that's 1 click for 30 days of relief with no hurt feelings
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Saturday, 4 January 2020 15:07 (four years ago) link
I'd like a "hide stuff I don't wanna see" feature, but I guess AI isn't that far along yet.
― nickn, Saturday, 4 January 2020 21:28 (four years ago) link
Run back Facebook did today.They bought a story in a publication, pretended it wasn’t sponsored, their COO posted it, then when they got caught, they denied knowing anything about it.And what was that ad/story about?Their commitment to stopping disinformation.Incredible.— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) January 9, 2020
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 9 January 2020 02:54 (four years ago) link
every last detail of that is tasty
https://image.businessinsider.com/5e16189324fe122e47676b93?width=700&format=jpeg&auto=webp
https://boingboing.net/2020/01/08/teenvogue-facebook-sponsored-c.html?utm_source=moreatbb&utm_medium=nextpost&utm_campaign=nextpostthumbnails
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 9 January 2020 03:21 (four years ago) link
the 'hide for 30 days' i did has obviously worn off. ex-colleague (see above) posted 17 (seventeen!) things on the 3rd, including 4 reposts from "Cinema, mon amour" which is some kind of arthouse movie screenshot farm.
― koogs, Thursday, 6 February 2020 22:02 (four years ago) link
Yeah, I get movie bros posting shit from Cinema, Mon Amour too. Cringiest fucking name. Tru headz know we call it kino now anyway.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 7 February 2020 10:25 (four years ago) link
filter has expired again, 7 posts today. man united have done something, here's a picture of the rain, the daily mash has posted something funny, gammon watch has posted something funny, a news article about millennials...
― koogs, Sunday, 8 March 2020 19:53 (four years ago) link
Blocked by Facebook. Not following community standards. this is bogus.
it's asking for my phone number for 2fa. it's asking for a picture of me so it can check it's me (check against what though? - i've not uploaded any other photos of me)
― koogs, Friday, 22 May 2020 17:30 (three years ago) link
"We have fewer people available to review information due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
This means we may be unable to review your account."
― koogs, Friday, 22 May 2020 17:37 (three years ago) link
Australians are having fun today
https://www.theshovel.com.au/2020/05/28/mark-zuckerberg-dead-at-36-says-social-media-fact-check/
https://chaser.com.au/world/social-media-should-not-fact-check-posts-says-child-molester-mark-zuckerberg/
― Shampoo for my real friends (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 28 May 2020 21:50 (three years ago) link
Seem to be a lot of companies that have decided to stop advertising on this site.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 27 June 2020 03:28 (three years ago) link
my company just warned us not to say controversial things if we say we work for them on our FB profile, or we can be disciplined.
this is why my job shows as "Fey Canoes", and why I don't use my Christian name on Twitter or anywhere else.
― I hear that sometimes Satan wants to defund police (Neanderthal), Saturday, 27 June 2020 04:36 (three years ago) link
They've finally forced me into the new layout (on a laptop) and it's so horrible. I thought it couldn't get more ugly BUT IT DID
― kinder, Sunday, 6 September 2020 10:09 (three years ago) link
There was still a switch under options for me on Friday.
― koogs, Sunday, 6 September 2020 11:27 (three years ago) link
Does anyone know if it's possible to turn off the delightful feature of fb automatically popping up a message window whenever visiting a business page?
This has just started happening for me with the new layout.
― brain (krakow), Sunday, 6 September 2020 12:06 (three years ago) link
I just went through and looked at a bunch of businesses that I have liked. Some of them have the message window pop-up and some don't, which makes me think maybe it's something on their end.
While I was going through though, I noticed a bunch of weird stuff that I didn't recognize in my likes. A movie called Scare Dares that seems to have never been released. A Disney Junior page, but not the one sanctioned by Disney. A link to a shady-looking external website titled "I can't believe a GIRL did this because of Justin Bieber - Website". In the case of the first two, clicking on the link brought up an error page that read "This Content Isn't Available Right Now. When this happens, it's usually because the owner only shared it with a small group of people, changed who can see it or it's been deleted." For the Bieber scam site, the message was "You Can't Go to This Link From Facebook. The link you tried to visit goes against our Community Standards." But as far as I can tell, I'm left with no way to unlike these things!
― peace, man, Sunday, 6 September 2020 12:31 (three years ago) link
the new layout is awful.
I actually have taken a one week vacation from FB (using messenger only) and Jesus, why didn't I do this earlier. my mood has been so much better.
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 6 September 2020 15:37 (three years ago) link
Now they're trying to beat Twitch I guess?
Continual failures and embarrassments like trying to turn Marketplace into an Amazon/Ebay alternative (but with useless search capabilities), creating an Instagram platform for TikTok people to port their content over including the TikTok watermarks, the different attempts to be a streaming video platform... and Zuck is still worth $30+ billion?!
― onlyfans.com/hunterb (milo z), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 00:16 (three years ago) link
FB now is kinda like if you built a shelf 15 years ago, and every so often, you kept making useless improvements to it to the point where now it doesn't even serve the original purpose of holding things up, and there are nails poking out, loose screws, and even a syringe or two lying around on it
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 02:20 (three years ago) link
Maybe if Zoomers start watching Among Us on there it will move away from being Boomer Jonestown.
― onlyfans.com/hunterb (milo z), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 02:28 (three years ago) link
> the half-dozen pictures that he posts individually
15 today. it snowed in paris.
― koogs, Saturday, 16 January 2021 22:14 (three years ago) link
I check Marketplace every few days hoping for the world’s cheapest Rhodes piano to fall into my lap.
I’ve started reporting obvious guns and ammo posts (“Freedom Seeds” with a picture of an ammo box) and not a single one has ever been taken down by Facebook.
― Joe Biden Stan Account (milo z), Monday, 22 February 2021 23:08 (three years ago) link
Had someone genuinely ask me this a few months ago, to which I responded "hahaha I'm 30, bro."
― hourspass, Monday, 22 February 2021 23:18 (three years ago) link
xpost the bots are shit and the actual real person moderators are all alt-righters. explains why "men are trash" gets you a ban, but stuff like the above or transphobic posts don't.
I think even "shut up" triggers the bots
― if you meh them, shut up (Neanderthal), Monday, 22 February 2021 23:33 (three years ago) link
The only time Ive ever seen a FB post I reported get removed was one with a necrophila image in it.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 00:56 (three years ago) link
But my bf and his friends podcast? It has a FB group and the members LOVE to swear at each other a lot, its sort of the aussie schtick (loads of "gimme a cake you cunt" and so on), and apparently lately loads of posts have been going into the censor bitbucket.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 00:57 (three years ago) link
Friend of mine got a post from years ago removed which was just an Islamic State map with their projected territory - he'd posted it because it included Portugal and Spain, with the comment "I think those two were included for better football results?".
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 11:57 (three years ago) link
https://nextshark.com/girlfriend-hand-robot-japan-lonely/
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 17:22 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgfObekV6JQ
Not what I was expecting based on the url.
― nickn, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 19:38 (three years ago) link
Facebook: this other page has followed your page! would you like to follow it back?Me: uh, can I look at it first?Facebook:Me: ok, fine, I'll search for it(a hundred partial matches come up, none are the page I am looking for, I give up)
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 17:35 (two years ago) link
Just got a notification that Warner Bros. has released their claim on a live video I took in 2018 at the last local monthly Soul Night of people dancing to "Land of 1000 Dances".
I forgot I even shot it.
― “Heroin” (ft. Bobby Gillespie) (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 6 August 2021 02:58 (two years ago) link
So the morning after a whistleblower releases a trove of documents that reaffirm that Facebook is evil, the site and its other sites all go down?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 4 October 2021 17:01 (two years ago) link
mmmmmm say that again
― lukas, Monday, 4 October 2021 17:19 (two years ago) link
It’s actually been nice to not able to access it.
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 4 October 2021 18:02 (two years ago) link
hard agree
― sleeve, Monday, 4 October 2021 18:18 (two years ago) link
I have definitely had the thought today "would I really miss these sites if they just never came back online?" And the answer is no for the most part. It would be nice to keep instagram just because I've been using it as a kind of musical diary of my playing, and messenger is sort of helpful for keeping track of people I don't otherwise have in my contacts, but I could remedy that by just getting their phone numbers or emails.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 4 October 2021 18:39 (two years ago) link
Would need a substitute for the family WhatsApp
― siffleur’s mom (wins), Monday, 4 October 2021 18:47 (two years ago) link
how much? https://t.co/fH0zXw7rV9— jack⚡️ (@jack) October 4, 2021
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Monday, 4 October 2021 18:48 (two years ago) link
incredible
this is a great day for America
― sleeve, Monday, 4 October 2021 19:00 (two years ago) link
what a horrible day for purveyors of aspirational bougie content!
I might go an entire day without thinking about whether I need washable rugs or $100 linen sheets!
― sarahell, Monday, 4 October 2021 19:29 (two years ago) link
I was on the verge of buying a bath stone to replace my stinky bathmat, tbh
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 4 October 2021 19:31 (two years ago) link
Looks like Twitter is having problems now too. I have been unable to see responses to any tweets and lots of similar complaints on down detector. Maybe all social media will go away today!
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 4 October 2021 19:31 (two years ago) link
why don't you just wash the bathmat?
― sarahell, Monday, 4 October 2021 19:36 (two years ago) link
Fuck washing a mat
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 4 October 2021 19:38 (two years ago) link
And there we have it!
― sarahell, Monday, 4 October 2021 19:39 (two years ago) link
notgonnahappen
So, someone deleted large sections of the routing....that doesn't mean Facebook is just down, from the looks of it....that means Facebook is GONE. pic.twitter.com/OCZWPD2okw— The Academy (@BenjaminEnfield) October 4, 2021
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 4 October 2021 19:51 (two years ago) link
please please please
― sleeve, Monday, 4 October 2021 19:54 (two years ago) link
lol my mother usually FB messages me when she brings dad home from the adult daycare and i had to tell her "use this old fashioned texting thingy today, FB don't work".
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Monday, 4 October 2021 20:01 (two years ago) link
Wish.com ad makers mourn
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 4 October 2021 20:02 (two years ago) link
can instagram influencers apply for unemployment
― certified juice therapist (harbl), Monday, 4 October 2021 20:04 (two years ago) link
i'd miss facebook tbh. obv society will be better off without it – but it's been a great way to keep in touch with (most) my circle of friends during these covidy times.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 4 October 2021 20:04 (two years ago) link
are we all gonna have to join gab?
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Monday, 4 October 2021 20:08 (two years ago) link
I’m texting with some friends who jokes “does this mean we have to join Parler now?”
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 4 October 2021 20:09 (two years ago) link
Mobile messenger app on Android is working
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 4 October 2021 20:09 (two years ago) link
Google already having emergency meetings to relaunch Google+
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Monday, 4 October 2021 20:10 (two years ago) link
if they weren't on facebook, my friends from around the world would presumably be on something less evil, so I welcome its death, even though I am a regular user.
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 4 October 2021 20:10 (two years ago) link
xpost mine works but I noticed if I send a message it doesn't actually get delivered
i've had a test message in 'sending' for over an hour
it's very funny to me that facebook disabled my account about a week before this total collapse
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 4 October 2021 20:11 (two years ago) link
wow rip facebook, surely this is it for them
― Clay, Monday, 4 October 2021 20:11 (two years ago) link
Fortunately Myspace is poised to fill this void
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 4 October 2021 20:12 (two years ago) link
brad turns out you were the key user holding it all together
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Monday, 4 October 2021 20:12 (two years ago) link
was the disabling for breaking some rules (which is astonishing to me that someone could have accomplished this) – or was it a requested disablement?
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 4 October 2021 20:15 (two years ago) link
Mewe, baby!
― nickn, Monday, 4 October 2021 20:16 (two years ago) link
xps Android Messenger still down here. Probably sorting their crap out by service by region. Pretty great.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Monday, 4 October 2021 20:17 (two years ago) link
i wonder if they can find the backup. it's likely somewhere in zuck's closet.
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Monday, 4 October 2021 20:18 (two years ago) link
Nah, Zuck finally finished gathering all the data he needed before uploading to the mothership and flying back to his home system.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 4 October 2021 20:19 (two years ago) link
Was just on phone with someone who works for FB who described employees unable to enter buildings this morning to begin to evaluate extent of outage because their badges weren’t working to access doors.— Sheera Frenkel (@sheeraf) October 4, 2021
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Monday, 4 October 2021 20:20 (two years ago) link
employees locked out of the offices apparently?
anyway Clay otm i'm sure this is the nail in the coffin for them
― gbx, Monday, 4 October 2021 20:20 (two years ago) link
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, October 4, 2021 1:15 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
i barely use facebook as it is, but yes, it was because i supposedly broke a rule (i extremely didn't and have been assuming my account was hacked)
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 4 October 2021 20:21 (two years ago) link
It would be pretty hilarious if Facebook employees security badges operated through login with Facebook.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 4 October 2021 20:27 (two years ago) link
yeah office locks using the going through an external dns service to resolve facebook.com is like… very lol to me
― Clay, Monday, 4 October 2021 20:28 (two years ago) link
Guys mods are telling me ILX membership requests are up 1200%, IPO in the works
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 4 October 2021 20:36 (two years ago) link
Can we start influencing elections, then?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 4 October 2021 20:37 (two years ago) link
start? hahaha
― maf you one two (maffew12), Monday, 4 October 2021 20:39 (two years ago) link
TFW you want to yuk about this somewhere other than ILX, and then remember for you that place <was> Facebook.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 4 October 2021 20:40 (two years ago) link
The next time the hackers do something like this they should give a secret heads up to all the restaurants that use Facebook to host their menus first.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 4 October 2021 20:40 (two years ago) link
seems like I remember a time long long ago when restaurants had printed menus but alas I was just a boy
― Clay, Monday, 4 October 2021 20:50 (two years ago) link
sounds like the outages may have been self-inflicted when Facebook engineers screwed up a BGP config change
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/10/facebook-instagram-whatsapp-and-oculus-are-down-heres-what-we-know/
― Brad C., Monday, 4 October 2021 20:52 (two years ago) link
xpost - COVID killed printed menus dead for good this time.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 4 October 2021 20:53 (two years ago) link
lol, lots of restaurant Facebook pages just feature a snapshot somebody took of the paper menu.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 4 October 2021 20:53 (two years ago) link
According to u/ramenporn — who claims to be a Facebook employee and part of the recovery efforts—this is most likely a case of Facebook network engineers pushing a config change that inadvertently locked them out
Because of course.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 4 October 2021 20:54 (two years ago) link
Facebook right now desperately trying to reach Facebook customer service about being locked out of Facebook.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 4 October 2021 21:22 (two years ago) link
Facebook admin says unfortunately they went against community standards, must wait 30 days to restore service
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Monday, 4 October 2021 21:28 (two years ago) link
Bunch of people clicking thumbs up and thumbs down buttons on posts from yesterday, wondering why the numbers are not changing.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 4 October 2021 21:29 (two years ago) link
Oversight Committee going to take the case
but they can't get into their accounts
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Monday, 4 October 2021 21:29 (two years ago) link
Russians putting plan B into action, dispersing disinformation pamphlets from airplanes.
Yeah same with Google, most restaurant listings include pictures of paper or signboard menus. it's very funny to me that facebook disabled my account about a week before this total collapseI had just been reporting a bunch of trolls for spreading covidiocy on the Resident Advisor Insta page right before it went down and initially assumed they had turned the tables on me, for mocking them relentlessly. I do assume I will get banned eventually if I keep it up. Thinking about starting a campaign to pressure RA etc to just completely block comments on their accounts if they can’t be fucked to block the brigades of political trolls. However I doubt there would be much if any real impact of my efforts at all.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Monday, 4 October 2021 21:30 (two years ago) link
(xpost)
leave a harsh yelp review for facebook
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Monday, 4 October 2021 21:30 (two years ago) link
I thought this was good:https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/04/technology/facebook-files.html
Facebook is in trouble.Not financial trouble, or legal trouble, or even senators-yelling-at-Mark-Zuckerberg trouble. What I’m talking about is a kind of slow, steady decline that anyone who has ever seen a dying company up close can recognize. It’s a cloud of existential dread that hangs over an organization whose best days are behind it, influencing every managerial priority and product decision and leading to increasingly desperate attempts to find a way out. This kind of decline is not necessarily visible from the outside, but insiders see a hundred small, disquieting signs of it every day — user-hostile growth hacks, frenetic pivots, executive paranoia, the gradual attrition of talented colleagues.
Not financial trouble, or legal trouble, or even senators-yelling-at-Mark-Zuckerberg trouble. What I’m talking about is a kind of slow, steady decline that anyone who has ever seen a dying company up close can recognize. It’s a cloud of existential dread that hangs over an organization whose best days are behind it, influencing every managerial priority and product decision and leading to increasingly desperate attempts to find a way out. This kind of decline is not necessarily visible from the outside, but insiders see a hundred small, disquieting signs of it every day — user-hostile growth hacks, frenetic pivots, executive paranoia, the gradual attrition of talented colleagues.
― DJI, Monday, 4 October 2021 21:34 (two years ago) link
Too bad I can't share that on Facebook.
they also said over a decade ago that going public was going to kill FB and no young people would use their system anymore and....well.....it's like Taco Bell, people consume it and don't mind that it makes them shit their brains out.
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Monday, 4 October 2021 21:36 (two years ago) link
How long has Apple been able to sustain their death spiral?@ forklovestofu where to find Resident Advisor’s Yelp page?
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Monday, 4 October 2021 21:36 (two years ago) link
"Torbin U.Denmarkone star
I would say ... delete that."
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 4 October 2021 21:37 (two years ago) link
Apparently the outage is the fault of a single "cretinous" employee who deleted the site while tying to scrub all mentions of himself from the internet in a fit of self-loathing.
No name as yet, but there's a photo.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Nick_Clegg_%282011%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/402px-Nick_Clegg_%282011%29_%28cropped%29.jpg
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 4 October 2021 21:37 (two years ago) link
My two teenage kids have not even considered getting fb accounts, and I don't think anyone at their high school wants one. That can't be good for growth.
― DJI, Monday, 4 October 2021 21:38 (two years ago) link
The death spiral dream sounds great, but a huge percentage of the world's population uses FB as the internet, full stop. Like, that's the only site they visit ever.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 4 October 2021 21:39 (two years ago) link
It does seem like the only reason young people use FB is to communicate with older generations. Given the way things are going the next big thing will probably be Telegram 3.0 after it’s been assimilated into the TikTok “multiverse” or whatever.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Monday, 4 October 2021 21:39 (two years ago) link
The kids still like Instagram.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 4 October 2021 21:40 (two years ago) link
literally my best friend couldn't message one of her other best friends as she never got her phone number as they always used Messenger to communicate
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Monday, 4 October 2021 21:40 (two years ago) link
i just got a message from someone but i can't tell if it was old and snuck through
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Monday, 4 October 2021 21:41 (two years ago) link
I just got in, not sure it'll last.
― nickn, Monday, 4 October 2021 21:44 (two years ago) link
I was picking a friend up at the airport today and we only ever communicated over Messenger - thankfully fellow ILXor kate78 had an actual mobile number for her!
― Jaq, Monday, 4 October 2021 21:51 (two years ago) link
The kids still like Instagram. I couldn’t say what actual substantive difference there is between TikTok and Instagram, but it seems like most of the content on Instagram is reposted from either TikTok or Twitter. I know the young people don’t fuck with Twitter, it’s just for memeing. But unless there’s also close to a majority of content on TikTok which is reposted from Instagram, then I get the impression that TikTok is more popular with those on the front edge of the curve.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Monday, 4 October 2021 21:51 (two years ago) link
Instagram appears to be back online
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 4 October 2021 21:57 (two years ago) link
facebook too
it was nice while it lasted
― Brad C., Monday, 4 October 2021 21:59 (two years ago) link
Never forget
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Monday, 4 October 2021 22:01 (two years ago) link
Actually still down here. But I have not forgotten.
the culprit?
http://i.imgur.com/0bED8TD.jpeg
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Monday, 4 October 2021 22:04 (two years ago) link
Francis!
― calstars, Monday, 4 October 2021 22:07 (two years ago) link
Whatsapp still seems hosed
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Monday, 4 October 2021 22:08 (two years ago) link
networking notworking
― StanM, Monday, 4 October 2021 22:08 (two years ago) link
don't go back to facebook, stay on this thread, we can do all the facebook stuff if you like, maybe embed some ads which autoplay at a loud volume and 100 posts from the same woman you met 14 years ago and have no real interest in.
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 4 October 2021 22:40 (two years ago) link
She had babies though
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Monday, 4 October 2021 22:41 (two years ago) link
mine didn't, she just posts everything she eats, not sure why fb thinks I am interested as I scroll past all of them in a hopeless search for the posts from my actual friends, which it refuses to show me.
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 4 October 2021 22:43 (two years ago) link
Idk anything about this fellow but there’s some interesting history if nothing else. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCTlcj5vImk
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Monday, 4 October 2021 22:48 (two years ago) link
The only people I know who use WhatsApp are South and Central American immigrants who talk to their relatives at home that way. They'd be really screwed if it went away.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 4 October 2021 22:49 (two years ago) link
I think we just need to be able to “poke” other ilx’ors here and we might never need Facebook again
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 4 October 2021 22:57 (two years ago) link
How long has Apple been able to sustain their death spiral?
Its death spiral of making very popular things that cost a lot of money and selling them?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 00:17 (two years ago) link
Apple is pretty much an old school traditional business compared to FB, Google etc
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 00:18 (two years ago) link
Apple has much more in common with Nintendo than FB or Google
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 00:22 (two years ago) link
otm, also they have actual stores you can go to if you have issues
― sleeve, Tuesday, 5 October 2021 00:27 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byEFBBN1ueE
― anvil, Tuesday, 5 October 2021 01:20 (two years ago) link
Sammy the Bull with the inside scoop
― anvil, Tuesday, 5 October 2021 01:21 (two years ago) link
the only people I know who DON'T use WhatsApp are North Americans. entire governments in Asia and Africa are run on WhatsApp.
this morning, govt ministries here in Malaysia were scrambling to set up alternative chat groups on Telegram in case there's another outage.
― Roz, Tuesday, 5 October 2021 04:44 (two years ago) link
i used it when I was in the Philippines, it was basically how i kept in contact with the local partner site there and arranged pick-ups.
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 04:56 (two years ago) link
Camaraderie, there's this thing where you click on three dots next to someone's name, and three of the options are literally:
- see fewer posts like this- temporarily stop seeing posts- stop seeing posts but stay friends
― Extinct Namibian shrub genus: Var. (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 07:13 (two years ago) link
but if I actually engage with it then the battle is lost.
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 07:15 (two years ago) link
I wish insta had a fewer posts option. Some people post waaay too much. Only option is to mute them and then they’re kind of lost forever!
― calstars, Tuesday, 5 October 2021 18:25 (two years ago) link
In the last two weeks, I've had three friend requests on my dormant account from girls I knew in junior high school. Keep in mind it was a small school, so we're talking about a pool of only 20-30 people.
I guess one of them friend-requested me first, and that made me pop up on the others? It's weird though. I would've been flattered 35 years ago, but now, no way. Not going to be a part of whatever algorhythm they've got buzzing up there.
Besides, they can find me on Twitter.
― pplains, Wednesday, 13 October 2021 01:00 (two years ago) link
Faced with a similar sitch, I’d probably accept. Junior high was a special time
― calstars, Wednesday, 13 October 2021 01:51 (two years ago) link
a time I'd never like to relive
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 13 October 2021 01:57 (two years ago) link
Sorry brah
― calstars, Wednesday, 13 October 2021 02:28 (two years ago) link
Accepting them would put Sarah Huckabee Sanders into my timeline faster than a heartbeat.
― pplains, Wednesday, 13 October 2021 12:31 (two years ago) link
Thread name change request.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Thursday, 28 October 2021 18:39 (two years ago) link
Don't think the site's name is changing? Kind of like Google brands now being under "Alphabet"?
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 28 October 2021 18:46 (two years ago) link
change the thread title to "Illegal Money Laundering Scheme discussion thread"
― the utility infielder of theatre (Neanderthal), Thursday, 28 October 2021 18:48 (two years ago) link
o i c
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Thursday, 28 October 2021 18:57 (two years ago) link
I vote for YouFace
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 28 October 2021 18:57 (two years ago) link
can i say you launder my money on Facebook?
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 28 October 2021 18:58 (two years ago) link
can I say you're my bookfriend on Facegirl?
― the utility infielder of theatre (Neanderthal), Thursday, 28 October 2021 19:00 (two years ago) link
dude, meta
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 28 October 2021 19:02 (two years ago) link
never meta bookfriend I didn't like
― the utility infielder of theatre (Neanderthal), Thursday, 28 October 2021 19:02 (two years ago) link
i think of it as The Birthday Site
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 28 October 2021 19:03 (two years ago) link
There's no I in Meta
― gin and catatonic (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 28 October 2021 19:04 (two years ago) link
Meta = Eat M
So close
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 28 October 2021 19:15 (two years ago) link
But there is a "me"!
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Thursday, 28 October 2021 19:16 (two years ago) link
".. a lot of us will be creating and inhabiting worlds that are just as detailed and convincing as this one, on a daily basis."
So while you're actually working graveyard on a poultry processing line, your Meta-Me can be soaking in a crowded hot tub in Monaco
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 28 October 2021 19:23 (two years ago) link
How did I miss that Facebook has a tech guru avatar called Boz?
― Alba, Thursday, 28 October 2021 19:40 (two years ago) link
1.) everyone will keep calling the company "Facebook", just like everyone still calls Alphabet "Google"
2.) i take it this is just so if lawmakers try to make them divest Instagram (which really should have triggered antitrust issues when they bought it IMO) they can pretend "oh it's all just another service that Meta provides, it can't really be separated"
― Lee626, Thursday, 28 October 2021 19:40 (two years ago) link
Yeah, he's probably going to announce an exciting new strategic partnership with the Cayman Islands as well
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 28 October 2021 19:51 (two years ago) link
it would only take a tiny bit of effort for zuck to achieve mark davis hair
― mookieproof, Thursday, 28 October 2021 20:33 (two years ago) link
he wants us plugged into vr machines all the time right?
― treeship., Thursday, 28 October 2021 20:47 (two years ago) link
seems very ominous.
This is hell.
WATCH: Sneak Peek at Facebook metaverse pic.twitter.com/rUGGiJeMLr— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) October 28, 2021
― jmm, Thursday, 28 October 2021 20:49 (two years ago) link
who wants this?
― treeship., Thursday, 28 October 2021 20:50 (two years ago) link
Rebooting Second Life after less than 20 years is a bold move.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 28 October 2021 20:52 (two years ago) link
PAY ATTENTION TO YOUR POOR DOG DICKHEADS
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 28 October 2021 20:54 (two years ago) link
That animation looks like a Nickelodeon show from 2003
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 28 October 2021 21:01 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/KOAR7Vq.pngPenis head
― calstars, Thursday, 28 October 2021 21:29 (two years ago) link
People announcing bullshit (also looking at you Apple keynote presenters) need to put their hands down
― calstars, Thursday, 28 October 2021 21:31 (two years ago) link
Oh wait. I remember this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJQVlVHsFF8
― pplains, Thursday, 28 October 2021 21:54 (two years ago) link
There are local TV ads featuring some NY state health official encouraging people to get vaccinated (and get flu shots) and I can't fucking stand to watch them because the guy giving the spiel a) only says about two words at a time before pausing for dramatic effect, and it never follows natural speech rhythms, it's like if Christopher Walken had aphasia and b) has clearly stolen all of his hand gestures from obsessively watching YouTube videos of Obama from 2008.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 28 October 2021 22:29 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQkYBbM9YyM
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 28 October 2021 22:34 (two years ago) link
Why does it seem like every 5 or so years there's this big VR push, when afaict no one gives a fuck about VR, wearing VR goggles, hanging out in VR rooms doing VR stuff, etc.? Leave that shit for astronauts and surgeons to use and stop trying to convince me it has a real purpose or place in our lives.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 28 October 2021 22:46 (two years ago) link
I'm pretty convinced that very few people want a screen on their face, but I’m probably just an old guy.
― DJI, Thursday, 28 October 2021 22:56 (two years ago) link
VR won’t take off for mass adoption until VR porn feels like getting your dick sucked instead of just looking like it.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 28 October 2021 22:59 (two years ago) link
I've seen clips on Pornhub that are designed to be watched while wearing VR goggles and they're fucking bizarre to look at, like footage of conjoined twins shot through the world's most warped fisheye lens.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 28 October 2021 23:01 (two years ago) link
Thank you for your sacrifice
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 28 October 2021 23:24 (two years ago) link
no one gives a fuck about VR
Maybe the bedridden, agoraphobic, the prisoner, etc. But yeah it's pretty clunky at this stage
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 29 October 2021 00:43 (two years ago) link
feels like getting your dick sucked instead of just looking like it
Brainstorm (1983) was a cautionary tale
https://vhistory.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/watching-porn-on-company-equipment.jpg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 29 October 2021 00:48 (two years ago) link
I would be too afraid of the soulless avatar of MarkZuck to ever venture far into the Metaverse.
― hourspass, Friday, 29 October 2021 01:03 (two years ago) link
Mark's VR head is gonna suck our dicks?
― the utility infielder of theatre (Neanderthal), Friday, 29 October 2021 01:24 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj3drvj0CC8
finally set to appropriate music
(probably start the video a few minutes in)
― lukas, Friday, 29 October 2021 03:37 (two years ago) link
Rolling 2021 Meta Thread
― StanM, Friday, 29 October 2021 08:38 (two years ago) link
actually Meta is the name of the company. Facebook is the monster— BR⚢KE (@BabblingBrookeA) October 29, 2021
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 29 October 2021 12:06 (two years ago) link
Ad is creepy. Name is dumb. I kind of feel like deleting FB but more likely I’ll just keep using it the way I use it and never migrate to any of the VR bullshit.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 29 October 2021 12:10 (two years ago) link
I'm no business expert but surely things that need fancy peripherals never really take off?
― mirostones, Friday, 29 October 2021 13:49 (two years ago) link
How many cycles of "VR is just about to take off, massively" have we been through now?
Still only know two people irl who actually have Oculus headsets and, afaict, they are both gathering dust in a corner.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 29 October 2021 14:14 (two years ago) link
I literally know no one. I feel like I've been wrong about technology adoption enough times before that I won't place any bets, not to mention that Facebook has the market power to push this stuff really hard if it wants to. But I find nothing remotely appealing about Zuck's pitches for this. I just sat through a video that involved friends meeting up on some kind of virtual spaceship to play poker only to be constantly interrupted by people messaging them to check out a video of a dog, and also one of them is a robot that doesn't look anything like the real person. During COVID I did about three zoom hangouts and a couple of virtual movie watches with friends and they were all kind of depressing - better than literally nothing but hardly the future I want. Not seeing how strapping on a headset is going to make that better.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 29 October 2021 14:19 (two years ago) link
ah the final frontiers of profit
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 29 October 2021 14:21 (two years ago) link
“We’re getting flack for being cavalier about the psychological damage caused by Instagram... Let’s hook everyone up to VR and see what happens!”
― jmm, Friday, 29 October 2021 14:30 (two years ago) link
body image will hardly be a problem when you don't need your body anymore
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 29 October 2021 14:32 (two years ago) link
Soccer, sport of the future. Kickboxing, sport of the future.
But I find nothing remotely appealing about Zuck's pitches for this.
But I find nothing remotely appealing about Zuck's pitches for this. = fixed
― gin and catatonic (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 29 October 2021 14:33 (two years ago) link
Also, it's kind of hard to see how you would monetize any of this (which I imagine is massively expensive to develop and run) except for MORE ads. So now even your poker night is interrupted by the revolutionary new cotton tee shirt that everyone is talking about.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 29 October 2021 14:33 (two years ago) link
A newsletter I subscribe to had a really good piece about this whole thing:
Facebook's Name Change Is An Act Of Meta-Desperation
The literal only news story from today is about Meta, a company that used to be called Facebook. The most important part of this story is that I correctly predicted the name, proving that I am an incredible, beautiful genius. The second most important is that a trillion-dollar company, a company where one man holds 60% of voting power, has totally changed its mission from “we make social media stuff” to, and I quote, “finally put people at the center of our technology…[and]…can unlock a massively bigger creator economy.”The abrupt, bizarre name-change that includes eradicating the Oculus VR product name apparently has “nothing to do with the leaks” that show TheFacebook/Meta/MakeMyNudesFight.com intentionally engineered their product to cause genuine harm to human beings for profit, which is usually reserved for health insurance companies and arms manufacturers. The reality is that it likely does, but I can also believe that he was considering this beforehand, if only because he’s tried to wheel out the awkward metaverse narrative before with his trademark “look at me, one of your regular human males, talking to you” cadence.While Facebook may now be concerned with the metaversal, the reality is that we need to stop humoring Mark Zuckerberg with sycophantic access journalism and begin evaluating how this may be the beginning of the end for a trillion-dollar company. Members of the media have willingly accepted the narrative that this is Zuckerberg’s attempt to move Facebook away from being known as a social media company from a company that has proven, at best, that it can influence many people at once but not necessarily accommodate them.Facebook has and will continue to be the place where billions of people connect, and I believe its social side will continue to do something, though its user growth is slowing. What should trouble you is that Meta/Oculus has only sold a few million headsets total. This would be fine - hell, it would be positive - if Zuckerberg hadn’t just shifted his entire company to focus on the metaverse, with the primary way of interacting with said metaverse being a headset that even in its best iteration still has to work out how to stop giving people motion sickness.
The abrupt, bizarre name-change that includes eradicating the Oculus VR product name apparently has “nothing to do with the leaks” that show TheFacebook/Meta/MakeMyNudesFight.com intentionally engineered their product to cause genuine harm to human beings for profit, which is usually reserved for health insurance companies and arms manufacturers. The reality is that it likely does, but I can also believe that he was considering this beforehand, if only because he’s tried to wheel out the awkward metaverse narrative before with his trademark “look at me, one of your regular human males, talking to you” cadence.
While Facebook may now be concerned with the metaversal, the reality is that we need to stop humoring Mark Zuckerberg with sycophantic access journalism and begin evaluating how this may be the beginning of the end for a trillion-dollar company. Members of the media have willingly accepted the narrative that this is Zuckerberg’s attempt to move Facebook away from being known as a social media company from a company that has proven, at best, that it can influence many people at once but not necessarily accommodate them.
Facebook has and will continue to be the place where billions of people connect, and I believe its social side will continue to do something, though its user growth is slowing. What should trouble you is that Meta/Oculus has only sold a few million headsets total. This would be fine - hell, it would be positive - if Zuckerberg hadn’t just shifted his entire company to focus on the metaverse, with the primary way of interacting with said metaverse being a headset that even in its best iteration still has to work out how to stop giving people motion sickness.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 29 October 2021 15:27 (two years ago) link
honestly this is all a LOT stupider than i anticipated. vr?????? it's kind of shocking. like is this just some kind of bait-and-switch or something? totally bizarre.
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Friday, 29 October 2021 15:59 (two years ago) link
so much tech 'vision' at this point is about things that no one actually wants to do.
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Friday, 29 October 2021 16:00 (two years ago) link
Read a couple of stories on how people locked out of FBook and desperate for customer support bought Oculus goggles just for access to a help line, then returned the goggles once the problem was fixed.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 29 October 2021 16:07 (two years ago) link
Apparently they admitted in a call that the fully functional metaverse (i.e. virtual environment you can do all kinds of shit in like attend social gatherings and work meetings) is 5-10 years away. Under those circumstances, it seems like a really bizarre move to change the name/brand now.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 29 October 2021 16:09 (two years ago) link
So basically "In 5-10 years we will have Second Live 3-D"
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 29 October 2021 16:10 (two years ago) link
*Second Life
More like "no life," right?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 29 October 2021 16:11 (two years ago) link
Apparently they admitted in a call that the fully functional metaverse (i.e. virtual environment you can do all kinds of shit in like attend social gatherings and work meetings) is 5-10 years away.
Wait but ... why? We know how to do this now. Maybe they meant 5-10 years until normal people wear VR headsets?
― lukas, Friday, 29 October 2021 16:17 (two years ago) link
it's just the best smoke and mirrors that a team of deeply weird rich people completely detached from reality could come up with at short notice
― Fetchboy, Friday, 29 October 2021 16:25 (two years ago) link
It's like 3D movies (and more recently television), a bad idea that refuses to go away and rears its head again every decade or two. It doesn't matter that modern 3D glasses have vastly technologically improved since 1950s red and green cellophane filters.
― Lee626, Friday, 29 October 2021 16:34 (two years ago) link
how this may be the beginning of the end for a trillion-dollar company.
Did this author see their last quarter earnings?
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 29 October 2021 16:45 (two years ago) link
3D movies are great
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Friday, 29 October 2021 16:48 (two years ago) link
No
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 29 October 2021 16:49 (two years ago) link
I saw Fury Road in 2D and it was annoying to see all the 'gotcha!' 3D stuff without the glasses
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 29 October 2021 16:50 (two years ago) link
Ugh, I watched Dune in 3D last night and the 3D was pointless at best, ruined the compositions at worst.
― jmm, Friday, 29 October 2021 16:53 (two years ago) link
I saw Fury Road in 3D and it gave me a massive headache. Ruined an otherwise awesome movie.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 29 October 2021 17:09 (two years ago) link
I saw Fury Road in 5D and was killed
― the utility infielder of theatre (Neanderthal), Friday, 29 October 2021 17:59 (two years ago) link
My 12-year-old son plays something called "Gorilla Tag" on VR 24 hours a day.
― pplains, Friday, 29 October 2021 18:28 (two years ago) link
— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) October 28, 2021
Things that just have to be Tim and Eric skits
I'm...actually speechless right now. I guess this is a pretty epic way to tank your enormous company, if such is your wont. I'm sure it will go over swimmingly with Facebook Meta's increasingly old and tech-baffled audience.
― knuckleheaded mornonic bafoon (Old Lunch), Friday, 29 October 2021 18:50 (two years ago) link
Neither Fury Road nor Dune were shot in 3-D.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Friday, 29 October 2021 19:00 (two years ago) link
“I saw a version of a movie that had been deliberately made out-of-focus on a computer and it was hard to focus on”
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Friday, 29 October 2021 19:02 (two years ago) link
headsup @ Zuck: The Sims already exists
― StanM, Friday, 29 October 2021 19:15 (two years ago) link
most movies taht are released as 3-D these days weren't shot for 3D
― the utility infielder of theatre (Neanderthal), Friday, 29 October 2021 19:16 (two years ago) link
Was Zuck in 3D before or just rendered as such for insertion into Meta
― knuckleheaded mornonic bafoon (Old Lunch), Friday, 29 October 2021 19:17 (two years ago) link
I'm really just scratching my head at this tbh, like you build everyone up for this big announcement and name change, but then the announcement is "We're going to have this awesome thing in 5-10 years, and here's an unappealing rendering of it." Like Tesla's supertruck announcement was bad enough, but that was at least a specific product meant to come to market in a semi-specific amount of time.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 29 October 2021 19:20 (two years ago) link
it's very comforting to see how they have no idea what the fuck to do
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 29 October 2021 19:22 (two years ago) link
the only good VR thing I ever did was at Disney Springs, through The Void, they had a Star Wars VR themed thing for 25 bucks where you put on a suit and it actually rendered a real reacting environment in your headset and rendered you and everybody else as rebels dressed as Stormtroopers, you got a gun that shot lasers and got to shoot at Stormtroopers and watch them fall over dead, and hten Darth Vader came and attacked you at the end.
of course the pandemic happened and now it's permanently closed. it'll probably be replaced by some third tier company who isn't as good at it who does something like "VR Jigglypanda" which gets stuck and freezes at uncomfortable places.
― the utility infielder of theatre (Neanderthal), Friday, 29 October 2021 19:27 (two years ago) link
Are they just hoping that the unfolding environmental catastrophe will have people (the ones who have money and survive) crawling to them to live permanently in a VR universe while Zuck lives in low earth orbit fucking robots?
― "Devious" Licks (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 29 October 2021 19:32 (two years ago) link
careful we're getting close to a blue pill red pill allegory
― the utility infielder of theatre (Neanderthal), Friday, 29 October 2021 19:33 (two years ago) link
I did this exact same thing at the Mall of America, was pretty cool even though it wasn't really so much a game as a little guided tour where you got to shoot a bit, but the effect was definitely cool
the fact that you had actual physical space to walk around in was the whole key
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 29 October 2021 19:41 (two years ago) link
But in lieu of having a physical space to walk around in, getting to play poker with FB employees on the Blue's Clues set or whatever the fuck that was is a pretty sweet consolation prize.
― knuckleheaded mornonic bafoon (Old Lunch), Friday, 29 October 2021 19:45 (two years ago) link
yeah, the "it not being a game" part was somewhat of a let down, but it was immersive enough that I enjoyed the hell out of it. and yeah the walking space was great.
they also had one in Times Square for Ghostbusters wehre you actually DID have objectives to fulfill and scores/rankings, but I was paired with two little shits who spent their parents money by running around in circles and making it impossible for me to do anything.
eventually I got so mad I shot at them with my proton pack, but nothing happened in the game when I did that.
― the utility infielder of theatre (Neanderthal), Friday, 29 October 2021 19:49 (two years ago) link
and it was something like $50 for that, rather than the $25 at Disney
Zuck just really got into Ready Player One over the pandemic and this is his Oasis.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 29 October 2021 19:51 (two years ago) link
what if there was a VR game where you got to be in the band Oasis and the entire game was winning arguments with your terrible brother and threatening to quit the band, which gets you extra points
― the utility infielder of theatre (Neanderthal), Friday, 29 October 2021 19:52 (two years ago) link
MaybeYou're gonna be the one that slays meIt's all for funYou're my Player One
― knuckleheaded mornonic bafoon (Old Lunch), Friday, 29 October 2021 20:23 (two years ago) link
My son wanted to re-watch Ready Player One last weekend, so it was fresh in my mind when Zuck walked into the room and there was the big robot guy
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 29 October 2021 20:34 (two years ago) link
I think you might have been watching something else, Zuck is *small* robot guy.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 29 October 2021 22:08 (two years ago) link
We're going to have this awesome thing in 5-10 years
A 10 year rollout? (checks when this thread started) Facebook itself is only about 15 years old.
Desperation? Sure. But only because stock traders hate tech companies that have no whizzy narrative about how they will double in size and triple their revenue in a couple of years. There's a distinct chance that Zuck will only be worth $50 billion two years from now, FB will become a stale product only used by a billion humans, and he's in a panic over it.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 29 October 2021 22:30 (two years ago) link
Facebook's announcement that it is changing its name to Meta has caused quite the stir in Israel where the word sounds like the Hebrew word for "dead".
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-59090067
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 29 October 2021 22:33 (two years ago) link
"A lot of this will be mainstream in the next five to 10 years," he said.
Is this the 5-10 years quote people are talking about? Cuz this certainly sounds like stuff is launching sooner than 5 years.
― lukas, Friday, 29 October 2021 22:41 (two years ago) link
most movies taht are released as 3-D these days weren't shot for 3Dvery, very few movies that were shown in 525 lines, cut to pan & scan, with swears and butts deleted, and advertisements for toilet cleaners inserted every ten minutes, were actually made that waysomebody watching a 2-D movie that has been deliberately made worse in a different format doesn’t mean that a completely unrelated 3-D movie sucks
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Friday, 29 October 2021 23:14 (two years ago) link
I think the point wasn't that 3D movies suck, but that VR is much like 3D movies, in that it keeps getting revived as an idea, then is hyped as The Amazing Unstoppable Future, then it fizzles out and 2D or PR (Plain Reality) reassert their primacy for another decade or two.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 29 October 2021 23:31 (two years ago) link
Could have sworn one of the tech companies (Amazon?) quietly re-introduced cyber glasses again, too.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 29 October 2021 23:38 (two years ago) link
The glasses pair with your Android phone and can read out notifications, make phone calls, and play audio, including music and podcasts. You can also ask Alexa for rundowns of your calendar, the news, weather, and the usual things you’ve come to expect. A “VIP” filter will let wearers choose which notifications they want read aloud and which should remain only on their phone for later.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 29 October 2021 23:42 (two years ago) link
The Oculus VR head gear seems like an extremely clunky attempt to replicate the Star Trek holo-deck. The Metaverse, as envisioned by Zuckerberg, seems like he's trying to figure out how to make the Star Trek holo-deck sound like a place where the Enterprise crew would hold exciting business meetings.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 29 October 2021 23:47 (two years ago) link
I remember the first I'd ever heard of VR was around that guy Jaron Lanier in the early-mid 90's, and the goggles he had then look a lot like the Occulus goggles of today
https://images.immediate.co.uk/production/volatile/sites/4/2018/08/untitled-e542612.jpg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 29 October 2021 23:49 (two years ago) link
The Meta thing keeps making me thing of Rhonda Fleming in Out of the Past.
― Fine, Fine, Superfine Career Opportunities (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 October 2021 05:09 (two years ago) link
think the point wasn't that 3D movies suck, but that VR is much like 3D movies, in that it keeps getting revived as an ideayeah, exactly every single 3D movie I’ve seen projected was good and fun*. I’ve seen a cool demo of a VR thingy with iirc semi-generative music by Herbert? but in both cases (afaict) the good examples of the form made by capable ppl on purpose get choked out of the market by things that aren’t rly examples of the form, made by people who aren’t trying to even make anything good. then the market itself implodes due to this.* unless the Zemeckis/Gaiman/Avary Beowulf was one. that is not good, but is terrific fun
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Saturday, 30 October 2021 06:25 (two years ago) link
i remember when google sent someone out to a festival i was working with Glass and I tried it for ten minutesi imagine i will do this for ten minutes too
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 31 October 2021 20:28 (two years ago) link
How long until we can non self consciously record all of our existence tho
― calstars, Sunday, 31 October 2021 20:44 (two years ago) link
seems needlessly redundant
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, 31 October 2021 21:39 (two years ago) link
Xpost didn't u see that Black Mirror
― the utility infielder of theatre (Neanderthal), Sunday, 31 October 2021 23:56 (two years ago) link
Aimless: no one else who tell you this but no one gives a shit what your opinion is.
― calstars, Monday, 1 November 2021 00:31 (two years ago) link
https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/29/zuckerberg_meta_facebook/
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 1 November 2021 00:39 (two years ago) link
so kind of you to make sure I was aware. I wouldn't want me to go through life not knowing what a jerk you are.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 1 November 2021 01:29 (two years ago) link
if you wanna fight them you will probably find them...at the bar
― the utility infielder of theatre (Neanderthal), Monday, 1 November 2021 01:55 (two years ago) link
I used to study Classics, and the word “meta” comes from the Greek word meaning “beyond”.
Why is this so funny?
― jmm, Monday, 1 November 2021 02:19 (two years ago) link
I'm not interested until they get the Perky Pat layout finished. The Feelies is a better product anyway.
― earlnash, Monday, 1 November 2021 09:45 (two years ago) link
lol, that was the first thought I had when I saw the announcement, as well.
― knuckleheaded mornonic bafoon (Old Lunch), Monday, 1 November 2021 10:25 (two years ago) link
Sorry aimless…I was out of my mind last night…
― calstars, Monday, 1 November 2021 10:54 (two years ago) link
When I was a kid and I'd visit my grandma in Chicago I remember her taking me to some pier mall thingy by the lake, forget what it was called but it was like a souped up entertainment mall that had mini golf. They also had this VR thing called Battletech, which was a mech war. I would always get really hyped up to play, and then it would feel like this huge buildup, but then it was just kind of an awkward and hard to control video game, although I would be convinced that I was into it and want to do it again anyway.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 1 November 2021 18:08 (two years ago) link
Navy Pier
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 1 November 2021 18:09 (two years ago) link
this is interesting because i'm convinced that rich man zuck is literally just doubling down on infantilizing himself and his company as the way forward
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Monday, 1 November 2021 18:23 (two years ago) link
Remember, the video in Infinite Jest that was so fascinating people would stare at it without eating or sleeping until they died was a blurry, infant's-eye view of a woman with big tits leaning down and cooing maternally at the viewer. If someone programs something like that into Meta-vision, or whatever it's called, when it launches, goodbye civilization.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 1 November 2021 18:28 (two years ago) link
the video rendering of the space "meetup" has really been sticking in my mind. It's kind of a fascinating artifact of Zuck's disconnect from most people, even moreso than his "just smoking these MEATS" videos. It reminds me of something from a really bad children's cartoon, and his whole affectless way of engaging in how "FUN" he seems to think other people will think it is. And I can't help but think that this is partly a situation of he has permanent control and no one can tell him "hey, this isn't actually appealing, most people don't want to replace going out with being floating robot at a space poker game that is constantly interrupted by dog videos, and also you shouldn't be in this video, because you are unappealing"
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 1 November 2021 18:30 (two years ago) link
Haha, yeah, he's like Woody Allen playing the love interest in Woody Allen films.
― nickn, Monday, 1 November 2021 18:40 (two years ago) link
He's like a super rich dude without kids showing up to a kid's birthday party with the worst or most mismatched toys and games ever. "I bought him a Segway!""Mark, he's only three.""Yeah, well, I'm sure he'll grow into it. Oh, I also got him half a cow, all organic, from a farm I own. He and his friends are going to eat well this summer, that's for sure! Anyway, gotta go, sorry I landed the helicopter on your garden."
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 1 November 2021 18:44 (two years ago) link
was a blurry, infant's-eye view of a woman with big tits leaning down and cooing maternally at the viewer.
― kinder, Monday, 1 November 2021 19:14 (two years ago) link
knowing DFW, it was probably buried in a twenty paragraph footnote
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 1 November 2021 19:22 (two years ago) link
something from a really bad children's cartoon
I echoed this upthread - his Metaverse resembles some Nickelodeon show that was cancelled in 2003
Maybe all this is just too soothe Mark's inner child - a trustworthy robot buddy, and REAL friends that aren't on the payroll to build a fort with
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 1 November 2021 19:29 (two years ago) link
Reminds me a lot of Sony's failed "PlayStation Home"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_Home
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 1 November 2021 19:47 (two years ago) link
infantilization is one of the primary motivations for people who are basically reactionary ime
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Monday, 1 November 2021 19:53 (two years ago) link
not motivations but .. ways of being i guess
Was gonna say, if there was ever a time to indulge the general public's inner infant, that time is now
― knuckleheaded mornonic bafoon (Old Lunch), Monday, 1 November 2021 19:57 (two years ago) link
obviously i'm just spitballing but i remember the promise of the internet in the 90s was like .. virtual worlds that would replace social reality with a kind of utopia. anyone who believes that into adulthood.. it's like a different version of people who basically believe that disneyland is real life, that fantasy that they need to be real in order to successfully escape everything else, responsibility etc.
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Monday, 1 November 2021 20:00 (two years ago) link
this is in some ways like an impossibly dumb remake of citizen kane
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Monday, 1 November 2021 20:04 (two years ago) link
No one who actually wears glasses all the time wants a bunch of AR shit on their lenses. Sounds like another thing that will make me constantly think I need to clean them.
How sick would it be to wear world-occluding goggles and trip over my cat over and over?!
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 1 November 2021 20:09 (two years ago) link
I'd visit my grandma in Chicago I remember her taking me to some pier mall thingy by the lake, forget what it was called
Lake Michigan, probs.
― pplains, Monday, 1 November 2021 20:46 (two years ago) link
Haw.
Yet another angle on why this may all be really dumb (via Slate Money): it's not clear that we will actually have sufficient internet speed and bandwidth in most places to run this all the time.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 1 November 2021 20:53 (two years ago) link
where? in the world generally? something like a quarter of the world’s population has never used a mobile phone.in the global_north full fibre is available in more and more places and it is essentially a solution without a problem: nobody needs 900Mbs up and down. there is no compelling application for those speeds - yeti agree with ppl who say that things like the metaverse will probably start to exist but they’ll be created by people who are not facebook, it’ll be like, invite-only discord VR chats run by bronies
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 00:45 (two years ago) link
And once again we see William Gibson’s famous quote - “the future’s already here, it’s just not evenly distributed” - come to life.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 03:20 (two years ago) link
"...and also you shouldn't be in this video, because you are unappealing"
They could've paid a few mil and have John Legend or Pete Davidson or whoever we'd actually want to hang out with guide us through the metaverse.
― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 13:10 (two years ago) link
https://vfxblogsite.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/96489-andysnoke.jpg
"Let me tell you about ... the metaverse."
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 13:14 (two years ago) link
Didn't every episode featuring the holo-deck result in it glitching out so horribly that the Enterprise was in danger of being obliterated?
― Chicks and Ducks and Geese better scurry (Ste), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 13:21 (two years ago) link
why they kept that thing plugged in is beyond me
A lot of shit went down in the X-Men holographic danger room, too, iirc.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 13:25 (two years ago) link
Red Dwarf's Better Than Life sessions were no picnic either.
― Chicks and Ducks and Geese better scurry (Ste), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 13:35 (two years ago) link
They could've paid a few mil and have John Legend or Pete Davidson or whoever we'd actually want to hang out with guide us through the metaverse.― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, November 2, 2021 8:10 AM (thirty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, November 2, 2021 8:10 AM (thirty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
This raises a good question about which celebs would actually want to attach themselves to Facebook at this point. John Legend did a Super Bowl ad for Google a few years ago, but he's also politically engaged enough to recognize that shilling for Facebook in 2021 might not be the savviest move.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 13:53 (two years ago) link
Ricky Schroeder?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 14:25 (two years ago) link
Kevin Sorbo
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 14:29 (two years ago) link
Alas, banned from Facebook.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 14:31 (two years ago) link
Paul Rudd
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 16:26 (two years ago) link
struggling to think of any professional actor who would be less likable than the zuck tbh
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 16:28 (two years ago) link
They could have gone all the way with Meta and used Jessie Eisenberg.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 16:42 (two years ago) link
I know it’s being presented as some “you can be or do anything” with unlimited possibilities type of environment, but having avatars not tethered to reality, in any professional or public setting whatsoever seems like an incredibly fraught proposition. I mean, there will have to be rules. And then more rules when those first rules aren’t comprehensive. Protocols. And then of course there probably will be something like in game purchases. So fun.
It may create some new efficiencies for interacting, but I find it hard to believe one bit of any pitch that promises we will somehow have a better time than we do irl.
― Kim, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 17:11 (two years ago) link
cba reading up on what this new thing is about but when I open the app now there is a “dating” tab & when I click on the tab it just gives me the infinite buffering circle, which feels about right tbf
― siffleur’s mom (wins), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 17:15 (two years ago) link
Zuck deep down realizes that facebook was/is just a friendster/myspace ripoff, they bought Instagram as a fully-formed thing - now he wants some visionary thing to call his own. It's an ego thing
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 17:20 (two years ago) link
anyone interested in this subject should watch this, from like five years ago. very difficult to believe that the metaverse wen won’t resemble this in some ways, perhaps most wayshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 17:56 (two years ago) link
that's some straight up PKD nightmare right there
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 18:35 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUsWBCH8Ch8
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 22:32 (two years ago) link
interview with the zuck. i'm not going to pretend i've read/listened to it all.
https://stratechery.com/2021/an-interview-with-mark-zuckerberg-about-the-metaverse/
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 4 November 2021 12:53 (two years ago) link
when I was growing up and my parents kind of told me, “Okay, go do your homework and then you can play with your friends.” I actually think in retrospect, those friendships were probably more important than the homework
careful dude you might strain yourself thinking these deep thoughts.
― namaste darkness my old friend (ledge), Thursday, 4 November 2021 15:50 (two years ago) link
When I was a kid and I'd visit my grandma in Chicago I remember her taking me to some pier mall thingy by the lake, forget what it was called but it was like a souped up entertainment mall that had mini golf. They also had this VR thing called Battletech, which was a mech war. I would always get really hyped up to play, and then it would feel like this huge buildup, but then it was just kind of an awkward and hard to control
I remember the first iteration of this called Virtual World. So. much. money spent on the place...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzbcEYa1U4M
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 4 November 2021 20:29 (two years ago) link
but then...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVybQ2hU0PQ
just in case you needed another reason to delete your facebook...
FB paying one of the largest Republican consulting firms in the U.S. to orchestrate a campaign seeking to turn the public against TikTok, including opposition-research tactics, smear campaigns, sending fake letters to newspapers pretending to be "concerned parents" tying TikTok to dangerous teen trends that actually started on Facebook, targeting of new outlets trying to get headlines like “From dances to danger: how TikTok has become the most harmful social media space for kids", and other similarly ethical tactics you'd expect from a firm that's one of the biggest recipients of GOP campaign spending (over $237m in 2020), the biggest payments coming from national GOP congressional committees and a pro-Trump super-PAC.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/30/facebook-tiktok-targeted-victory
― Lee626, Wednesday, 30 March 2022 13:58 (one year ago) link
is Meta going to have to change their name again when this gets out? (I mean, it IS out but there's not much of a buzz about it)
― StanM, Sunday, 3 April 2022 11:29 (one year ago) link
"You have a new friend suggestion: Suzanne Moore"
― mike t-diva, Monday, 18 April 2022 09:33 (one year ago) link
I also had that and nuked it on sight.
― the thin blue lying (suzy), Monday, 18 April 2022 12:41 (one year ago) link
Whozzat?
― DAMAGED by Black Flat (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 18 April 2022 14:51 (one year ago) link
Terf journo.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 19 April 2022 09:22 (one year ago) link
My account has been hacked and because Facebook sucks, I can’t get back in. My email has been changed and ph number erased - so the only way to get in is to be sent a code, but only through the email it’s been changed to
― just1n3, Saturday, 20 May 2023 16:41 (nine months ago) link
Does this link work for you?
https://m.facebook.com/help/203305893040179
― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Saturday, 20 May 2023 16:46 (nine months ago) link
No - Facebook will only send a recovery code to the new email that’s been added to my account
― just1n3, Saturday, 20 May 2023 17:05 (nine months ago) link
That's really dumb. I had thought they'd give an alternate way to authenticate if you report being hacked.
I had a friend of a friend get locked out by a hackers and get back in, I'll ask what they did
― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Saturday, 20 May 2023 17:15 (nine months ago) link
In the last few days I've noticed my feed seems to be almost entirely suggested posts with the odd meme from groups I follow. Hardly any content from my friends. Not sure exactly when this encroachment truly started but it's lousy
― Stomp Jomperson (dog latin), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 16:36 (six months ago) link
You can curate this somewhat with the show more / show less buttons. Whenever I see a post from a friend I tell it to show me more like this. Whenever I see a suggested post I tell it to show me less like this. It seems to be working, at least for me.
― Pontius Pilates (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 16:51 (six months ago) link
If you view FB in a browser rather then app you can install Facebook Purity which gets rid of all that shit.
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 17:55 (six months ago) link
lol Purity has been amazing. sadly I tend to use it more on my phone these days but it gets all the keywords you wanna avoid out, plus that stuff too
― Make the chats AI (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 18:01 (six months ago) link
This @highlight thing got annoying really quick.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 9 December 2023 18:53 (three months ago) link