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

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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holy shit that's horrible AND hilarious, it can't be yet has to be real too wtf.

okay i posted this on noize but wanted to run this by a bigger group to see if this is happening to anyone else....

this is weird:

this chick i was dating a couple years ago just showed up in my feed. back story: we dated a few months, i broke it off, she got pissed, she deleted me from her friends list a while back (i noticed sometime ~1-2 years ago). neither she nor i have ever requested to be FB friends again after this.

and now out of the blue, she's on the top of my feed. i click on her profile to see if she's tried to add me as a friend or if i'd inadvertently clicked hers when looking at our mutual friends' profile (the couple who set us up just had a baby) but no, no pending friendship request.

is this a new feature or something? "People You Used To Be Friends With!"

addendum: she's still FB friends with jaxon even though they met *once*, when we all went to see Herc+Love Affair & Danny Wang. also, still FB friends with my friend in London who we went out to dinner with once.

I think it's probably because she's connected to two of your friends but that's just a guess.

Had a conversation the other day with a friend about deletion v. hiding ppl. I just hide someone if I don't want to see their feed but he deletes. I don't really see the point of deleting if you can hide - it sort of seems unecessarily mean.

something similar happened to me: i noticed an old highschool friend i never talk to was no longer on my friends list, and then months later she reappeared, but she didn't re-request friendship or anything.

I think it's probably because she's connected to two of your friends but that's just a guess.

it's got to be more than that because there are 100s-1000s of people that are connected to two of my friends that never show up in my feed. it's just weird. she deleted me, and no word for 1-2 years until one day she shows up in my feed (XG is a fan of So You Think You Can Dance!) despite her profile being set to private and no direct connection between us. strange!

what just1n3 is describing is some people deactivate their account and then when you reactivate it all your connections are restored to when you left. my guess.

but her profile was active this whole time (she showed up on my "People You May Know" at least 5-6 times in the past 1-2 years).

OK yeah, that is a little weird. I don't know!

My favorite take on social networking is still Christine Rosen's article on the subject:

http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/virtual-friendship-and-the-new-narcissism

Humorous take on hiding v. deleting people here:

The structure of social networking sites also encourages the bureaucratization of friendship. Each site has its own terminology, but among the words that users employ most often is “managing.” The Pew survey mentioned earlier found that “teens say social networking sites help them manage their friendships.” There is something Orwellian about the management-speak on social networking sites: “Change My Top Friends,” “View All of My Friends” and, for those times when our inner Stalins sense the need for a virtual purge, “Edit Friends.” With a few mouse clicks one can elevate or downgrade (or entirely eliminate) a relationship.

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hate articles like that

Yeah that article is about 7000 times more Orwellian than Facebook.

I'd much rather read an Orwell essay on what the word "Orwellian" has come to mean than what this narcissist has to say about narcissism.

you'd be waiting a long time for that essay

Who the fuck cares

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wow. What?

wheres the blackface halloween thread?

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again I say... wow. What?

ok, and with this i stop looking at lb

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNoLHZauCZs

oops.

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I want to friend tim.

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doh
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How I hate people

that is one of the situations where GBH is at least partially excusable. whichever 'friend' did that has kinda crossed the line at which humans do not deserve physical violence [/j0rdan s4rgent]

ok not GBH but a haymaker to the jaw is definitely req'd

But if she had the opposite reaction...a few pints, maybe?

okay this site has got me treating every entry on my fb feed as a potential entry

omg that Steven/Mrs. B thing is PRICELESS!

dem sleek black spandex

hookup list is amazing

wait, can someone point me to the thread that caused j0rdan's ban? i missed that whole thing.

So I was just wondering what an old friend of mine from college is up to these days, so I looked her up on Facebook, where I was surprised to find that we're not currently listed as friends. I could've sworn that we were, which would mean that she defriended me. Except I can't imagine why, and now I'm wondering if we were ever FB friends in the first place. (I've looked through her entire profile, and there's no "S.W. and J.C. are now friends." Does that get erased if you drop someone?) I guess I'm just wondering whether I should bother (re?)adding her or just forget about it.

Did you double-check facebook.xls to make sure you had really been fb friends?

jaymc's xlstential crisis

yeah if you friend someone with a public profile you will see their status updates in your feed, even if they don't add you.

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one of my "friends" who posts a lot just changed her profile picture to a closeup of a baby's face on an ultrasound. i have no problem with actual baby pictures but this is actually makes me feel a little distressed to see all over the place, it kind of looks like a tentacle monster at this point! and i barely know this woman, we went to elementary school together!

Oh is it one of those 3D ones? Those things look downright creepy sometimes. :/

it isn't, i don't think. it is just unbaby-like enough that i had to zoom in to verify that it was what i thought it was.

Is it true that you can only deactivate your account, delete your photos and your comments, but if you log back in, you page is still there? That you can't delete your facebook page?

you can delete it permanently but the link for it is deliberately hard to find - i found it once and i have no idea where it is now. :/ the deletion process takes two weeks.