"Can I say you're my girlfriend on Facebook?"

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.

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.

i would expect most streetwise students would probably lock out snooping staff via the privacy settings

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Says you. I've had mine for nearly 10 years after graduation by now.

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.

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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.

a bit like MEETING THEM, HOLDING CONVERSATIONS, THAT KIND OF SHIT.

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.

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.

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.

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.

MORE IMPORTANT THAN TEXTING?!?!?!?!??!

That is pretty harsh.

Au contraire. I think a lot of people use it for exactly that reason. That's the impression I've gotten, anyway.

hi, do you know the internet?

Red Dwarf's Better Than Life sessions were no picnic either.

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

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.

Ricky Schroeder?

Kevin Sorbo

Alas, banned from Facebook.

Paul Rudd

struggling to think of any professional actor who would be less likable than the zuck tbh

They could have gone all the way with Meta and used Jessie Eisenberg.

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.

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

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

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 ways

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs

that's some straight up PKD nightmare right there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUsWBCH8Ch8

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/

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.

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

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

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)

"You have a new friend suggestion: Suzanne Moore"

Oh FFS.

I also had that and nuked it on sight.

Whozzat?

Terf journo.

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

Does this link work for you?

https://m.facebook.com/help/203305893040179

No - Facebook will only send a recovery code to the new email that’s been added to my account

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

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

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.

If you view FB in a browser rather then app you can install Facebook Purity which gets rid of all that shit.

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

This @highlight thing got annoying really quick.

Please, if you’re sending a fellow ilxor a friend request and their profile is set to private, introduce yourself unless you already use your full govt name here. Not gonna accept just because we have ilx friends in common if I don’t know who you are on this forum. Like, my profile is private for a reason.

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