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

its also a huge misunderstanding of your user base xp

― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, April 28, 2014 1:41 PM

fuck the "user base"

Everybody be cool, download WeChat

i always thought you were james franco

http://www.bu.edu/today/2014/could-facebook-use-end-a-marriage/

Did we talk about the "Facebook makes you feel happy/sad" story anywhere?

"Share this on Facebook"

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?

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Is Facebook getting owned right now

crushed

crashed

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

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!"

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

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

http://i.imgur.com/YXsbRGg.png

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), Thursday, November 13, 2014 7:34 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

a big spate of unsubcribing ppl works wonders

or just muting them

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"

You can just say "oh I must have missed that!" and then it's over.

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.)

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.

a big spate of unsubcribing ppl works wonders

― 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

or just muting them

― 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

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.

I don't think it's as flexible as Google's circles, but I think it'll work.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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?

what is the point of forcing users to crop all profile pics in a square?

To make everything standardized?

its so strange and unnecessary tho

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.

Xpost so it will fit on next years calendar.

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?

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

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.

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

I used to fuck with the profile pic by making ones that were like 200 px wide and 30000 px long

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

Well, ok, that's a new one on me. I thought they still let you crop it.

http://time.com/facebook-world-plan/

So, these new chimes tied to basic functions in the mobile app...

Albert Brooks saw it all coming.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kQBFNn4nx4

Tim Robbins to Vincent D'Onofrio in The Player.

cool that facebook now displays (visible to me only, but not the point) my date of birth which i've never entered into it.

thank your "friends"

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?

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?)