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no idea !

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 (6 years ago) Permalink

BMOC

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:54 (6 years ago) Permalink

Big Man On Campus! (I hope)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:57 (6 years ago) Permalink

Facebook is pretty useful. It makes keeping in touch with uni friends nice and easy. I'm young and went to a 'posh' uni though.

― jng (jng), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:59 (6 years ago) Permalink

No-one has yet addressed the fact that the titular quote is incredible cute!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:07 (6 years ago) Permalink

jng, how long can you keep your uni account open in the States? Over here, perhaps a few months... i mean, you cannot really use Facebook (if I got the rules right now) to keep in touch with uni friends once you graduated

― olenska (olenska), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:09 (6 years ago) Permalink

most universities offer alumni accounts.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:10 (6 years ago) Permalink

surely it stops people who aren't at uni going on it? what happens when you graduate?

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:11 (6 years ago) Permalink

xpost, sorry.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:11 (6 years ago) Permalink

Over here, perhaps a few months

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

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:12 (6 years ago) Permalink

Aww yeah - I just signed up as an alumni! It makes me feels old and lecherous though. Like going to a student party would, I guess.

― Baaderonixx immer wieder (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:13 (6 years ago) Permalink

But Alumni can only perv on other Alumni? I might be wrong.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:15 (6 years ago) Permalink

Clearly I am, if I'm capitalising alumni.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:15 (6 years ago) Permalink

Haha, I started doing some work and clicked away from the register window, I guess I am not that bothered after all!

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 (6 years ago) Permalink

I'm in the UK, so no idea about the US. I signed up with my uni email account a couple of years ago, and then just switched the profile over to my alumni email account when I graduated.

xpost

― jng (jng), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:17 (6 years ago) Permalink

maybe we could have an ILX SOCIAL GROUP????

― Baaderonixx immer wieder (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:19 (6 years ago) Permalink

Its a really good way to stay in touch w people after you graduate.

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:23 (6 years ago) Permalink

Big Man On Campus! (I hope)

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 (6 years ago) Permalink

Its a really good way to stay in touch w people after you graduate.
-- deej.. (clublonel...), June 27th, 2006.

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

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:31 (6 years ago) Permalink

As a current college student, I can vouch for how omnipresent it is. In the official UC Berkeley student questionnaire (rate the counselors from 1-10 etc.) the university had an entire section in the survey asking students about facebook. I can think of two people I know who *aren't* on it.

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 (6 years ago) Permalink

Yeah its real easy to do that with my friends in San Francisco xp

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:35 (6 years ago) Permalink

A few more things:

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 (6 years ago) Permalink

High school students can join it now too. Which is weird.

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:44 (6 years ago) Permalink

See, that's not weird to me because as far as I'm concerned, EVERYONE under 25 is on it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:57 (6 years ago) Permalink

Yeah, trading facebooks was the first thing the staff did when we got to camp. I think the basic reason it's so much more universal than eg friendster is the total lack of crepey hookup connotations?

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:59 (6 years ago) Permalink

he always checks out his students' Facebook profiles
Not always, just for the cute ones ;)

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 15:06 (6 years ago) Permalink

facebook is even creepier than myspace/friendster cuz then you can anonymously crepe on cute girls in your classes.

― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 15:09 (6 years ago) Permalink

It's strange--I do feel like there is a generational divide with facebook. I joined just this year, as a 24 year old grad student. But, the first year grad students, who are right out of college, already had facebook accounts from undergrad days. they just had to switch over the designation to their new university affiliation. But the point is they already had them and were totally accustomed to using them, whereas they had convinced me to join, and then were disappointed when facebook did not function the same way they were used to (nobody checked it frequently enough, thereby making announcing parties useless).

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 15:09 (6 years ago) Permalink

Did you read the Lewis Flyer article yet, M.?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 15:12 (6 years ago) Permalink

Regarding the quote in topic, yeah, the relationship status on Facebook does lead to a lot of awkward situations. A friend of mine had that she was married to her boyfriend on Facebook. After they broke up for a while, he eventually changed the setting to say single which automatically did it for her profile too. It was like a whole 'nother stage of breaking up.

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 (6 years ago) Permalink

why is this any better than myspace? i don't get it.
-- dog latin (doglati...) (webmail), June 27th, 2006. (dog latin)

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 (6 years ago) Permalink

But what is this thing that US students say is now more important than sex and texting?

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

― matlewis (matlewis), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 15:54 (6 years ago) Permalink

he eventually changed the setting to say single which automatically did it for her profile too. It was like a whole 'nother stage of breaking up.

That is pretty harsh.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 15:54 (6 years ago) Permalink

I think the basic reason it's so much more universal than eg friendster is the total lack of crepey hookup connotations?

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 (6 years ago) Permalink

Facebook is fucking annoying. I'm an elderly undergrad, surrounded by people who use it as a substitute for actual communication. So I decided to get kicked off of Facebook but it's not working yet--I've replaced my entire profile with excerpts from Pilgrim's Progress and some Duran Duran slash fiction, I've started reporting every person whose profile says "Libertarian," etc. No luck.

― adam (adam), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 16:41 (6 years ago) Permalink

surrounded by people who use it as a substitute for actual communication.

hi, do you know the internet?

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 16:51 (6 years ago) Permalink

hah yeah wtf how is it different than anything else on the internet?

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 16:56 (6 years ago) Permalink

that facebook thing would have been so useful for my social life in '96. and myspace too. and p2p files exchange softwares (I was so informationally poor). also, ah, if only I had pentium3 +highspeed+100gig storage+ free video editing software back then, when
i was more interested in cinema , because most of the canonic cinematographic trips were new to me etc good grief I should have been born in '81

― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:03 (6 years ago) Permalink

― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:12 (6 years ago) Permalink

believe it or not, there are things better for your social life than exponentially raising the amount of time you spend sitting in front of a computer.

― like murderinging (modestmickey), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:28 (6 years ago) Permalink

i don't.

― jeffrey (johnson), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:30 (6 years ago) Permalink

Hating facebook doesn't make much more sense than hating cellphones, the yellow pages, AIM and email. It's a social lubricant. If people were really replacing their social lives with it, facebook wouldn't be filled with ten trillion pictures of people getting drunk at parties.

― starke (starke), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:42 (6 years ago) Permalink

(which would be a better thing to complain about)

― starke (starke), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:43 (6 years ago) Permalink

mickey, the way I see it it's all about saving time rather than wasting it,of course; it would have been useful in my early 20's to help me find out fun places to go out , with with people I have affinities with, rather than rely mostly on luck. anyhoo, now these apps are less "urgent" to me at this time in my life.

― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:46 (6 years ago) Permalink

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― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:47 (6 years ago) Permalink

If people were really replacing their social lives with it, facebook wouldn't be filled with ten trillion pictures of people getting drunk at parties.

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 (6 years ago) Permalink

That's an interesting way of putting it.

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 (6 years ago) Permalink

man, facebook was so much better back when there were only like 8 schools on it

― lemin (lemin), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 19:21 (6 years ago) Permalink

snob

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 19:30 (6 years ago) Permalink

Facebook's early history is pretty snobby and reflects the fact that it was started by a Harvard kid. The schools were added pretty much in order of prestige. No doubt the public school kids just weren't mature enough to deal with such technology until much later.

― starke (starke), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 19:45 (6 years ago) Permalink

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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 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

Pillows are cheaper xp

― Mordy, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 21:24 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

Pillows or pillowcases.

― pplains, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 21:35 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

She was a big dog.

― pplains, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 21:07 (31 minutes ago)

Veruca?!?

― karl lagerlout (suzy), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 21:40 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

Sadly.

― pplains, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 21:50 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

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 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

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 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

suzy otm

― mh, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 22:21 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

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 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

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 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

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 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

― pplains, Thursday, 25 April 2013 00:29 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

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 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

that one is worth so many guilty laughs

― mh, Thursday, 25 April 2013 01:37 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

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 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

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 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

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 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

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 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

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 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

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 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

Lot of rocks + big cat + I'm pushing 40.

― pplains, Monday, 29 April 2013 16:08 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

Maybe I'll just bury them at sea (Lake Michigan).

― Je55e, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 18:16 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

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 (1 week ago) Permalink

Mine kept asking me if I worked at Gawker.

― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 00:23 (1 week ago) Permalink

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 (1 week ago) Permalink

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 (1 week ago) Permalink

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 (1 week ago) Permalink

Trrrrreeeeeershiiiiiiip my duuuuuude

― ְ֮֠֓֟֬֩ (gr8080), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 01:05 (1 week ago) Permalink

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