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

Ive never had my privacy settings changed by a FB update.

i just assume its all public, much easier

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.

Ive never had my privacy settings changed by a FB update.

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.

fb is def horrible and shady dont get me wrong

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?

I think it would be okay to post a relevant study to autism orgs on fb.

I guess orgs that don't want us to do that would have their timelines locked down so that only their friends can post?

Yeah, and if they don't like the link they can always remove it later.

*prepares the annoyingly chirpy-voiced study announcement*

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)

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

yeah that's kind of my thinking

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."

i just let everyone see my incredible posts

even friends of friends

I just stopped posting to Facebook because I don't know who I'm talking to any more.

I post my dumb babble and assume that whoever sees it and is tired of me will just block/unfriend me so w/e

thanks mike, that's an option
my 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.

thread cd do with more Kristie tbh

i'm with Serena SInclair.

Does anyone else have the "trending" feature?

yes

is the point to just get users to spend more time on facebook and use it as a resource for "all internet things"?

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?

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

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

yeah i hate that

iirc you can click on the message icon and then "Show All Messages" or something like that?

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.

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

my guess is they are trying to compete w/ iOS iMessage?

well this is something they announced a week or two ago

not necessarily imessage, although sort of.

i just figured it would make the chat feature work better on your phone?

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

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 ...

odd out of the context of the tech industry, but within it no one would bat an eye at my saying that

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, April 28, 2014 12:56 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^

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

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

i would prefer one app too for fb but that's not the strategy they're taking

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

its also a huge misunderstanding of your user base xp

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

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, 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