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

someone tell me what's the difference btw live feed and news feed?

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.

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.

See, that's a GOOD place to apply this filter.

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.

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lol im thinking if u gave someone crabs they prob already know

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lol im thinking if u gave someone crabs they prob already know

― 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

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.

lol im thinking if u gave someone crabs they prob already know

― 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, 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 :(

lol my "news feed" is all ilxors except for my brother & irl best friend

unsurprisingly ilxors are quite prolific on facebook - its like being sent down to the minors

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.

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.

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!!!

Weirdly, Ned Trifle keeps popping up as someone I may know. No other ILXors though.

Me too, unless there's another Ned Trifle. Even more weirdly, Otis Redding from the Facebook lookalikes thread.

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

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.

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So apparently this is really old in some circles, has been a fad on 4Chan etc. New to me.

OH HAI FUCK YOU, ALL YOUR FACEBOOK IS etc etc

http://consumerist.com/5400720/mafia-wars-ceo-brags-about-scamming-users-from-day-one

what is this 2200 message thread about i have never clicked it before

LOL no suprise re mafiawars etc there.

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Not sure coffee is really necessary, there.

Via Maura, a true win for Lamebook.

hahaha its like my roommate with a split personality disorder

http://www.collegehumor.com/article:1794889

haha the last one's pretty good

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jordan otm

is there an emoticon for laughing and feeling horrible at the same time?

X\

for some reason that's making me think of the skull & crossbones poison icon.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

That's hilarious actually.

kenan - that's a great idea - i should bust that album out!

btw uncle jim died

It's a great album. I will carry it in my heart always. Uncle Jim, too. I guess.

I take it he was cremated?

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 >:|

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something very tuomas-esque about this one ^^^^^^^

what does nfi mean

How is this revive not for THIS Lamebook entry?

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