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

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.

At least when you do it also deletes comments you made elsewhere (at least on photos) ,unlike bloody livejournal which leaves the skeletons ofdeleted accounts scattered all over thread comments.

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I remember getting that same story, with a few minor variations, e-mailed to me back in 1997.

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next on lamebook: woman's surprise birthday party ruined by her peanut butter + dog secret

If one million people join my dad wont commit suicide

37 members

oh dear

oh dear on what level? there are so many.

Getting a Friend Request from a parent is pretty lame.

Way to ruin everything Dad.

I thought that would be the case, too, but I enjoyed reading my dad's scathing review of It's Complicated the other day.

http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/WORLD/europe/12/23/uk.fugitive.facebook.prison/story.escape.prison.jpg

British police have appealed for information about the whereabouts of an escaped prisoner who has been telling the world via Facebook about his life as a fugitive.

Craig Lynch, 28, escaped Hollesley Bay open prison near Suffolk, eastern England, back in September, but has continued to update his Facebook status regularly -- describing everything from his meals to who his next girlfriend will be.

"mmm i just had a 12lb venison steak. Roasted veg and chips, bangin meal. I feel stuffed but still got room for the j.d's . Hope you enjoyed the meal babe's. We'll have to eat here again" Lynch wrote on his wall.

In another posting from earlier this week Lynch wrote "Is thinkin, which lucky girl will be my first of 2010!!."

Police are trying to use clues left by Lynch on his Facebook to track down where the convicted burglar may be hiding.

Lynch was sentenced to a seven-year prison term for aggravated burglary and was serving his sentence in an open prison before his escape, according to a police spokeswoman.

"We have spoken to Facebook and we are trying to trace him from the information we have, but it's one of those things that we're also asking for help from members of the public," Suffolk police spokesperson Anne-Marie Breach told CNN.

"Obviously we're taking what he's saying on Facebook with a pinch of salt because he's now aware that people may be reading what he's writing."

News that Lynch's Facebook was being updated broke yesterday and since then, he has written several times of his life on-the-run.

"The hotel staff haven't even clocked which was the only thing I've been paranoid about all day!" he wrote.

Lynch's most recent posting read "well what can i say fellow friends. The run is nearly over. Sorry some of you had to find out like this. I know some of you might take offence that i never told you personally. But you know me. I Trust No One. Its the only way to be."

- http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/12/23/uk.fugitive.facebook.prison/index.html

it's somewhere that sells steak. get on it people!

Keen to hear what NNs have to say about taking a 12lb venison steak with a pinch of salt

yeah but take into account the dude does a lot of running apparently

and has a life

in fairness it says 12lb but counting fat/gristle/cooked weight it's probably been vastly overstated and as such we shouldn't really speculate.

lol at first gis result for '12lb steak'
http://www.mizozo.com/images/item_images/4000/3211_gallery.jpg

Ql

http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/sci-tech/07-facebook-fugitive-recaptured-by-police-ha-08

This "friend q&a" app is obnoxious; I get all these notifications that people are writing stuff about me but I have to install the app to see it? fuck that noise.

The 'fine' thing. Oh dear.

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weak comeback imo

What's a "fat dip"?

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Ah.

lamebook gets pretty samebook after a while

my roommate only mentioned that yesterday, i'd never heard of it.

"**** ********: over 72,000 deaths in Haiti. Absolutely tragic. Off to the gym..."

Off to the gym...

B-)

I removed one of my best friends' father from my friends after he (an elected government official in California!) reposted the following:

XXXXX:WELCOME TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Press 1 for English. Press 2 to disconnect until you learn to speak English. And remember only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you, JESUS CHRIST, and the AMERICAN SOLDIER. One died for your soul, the other for your freedom. If you agree, copy and paste in your status....

don't even know where to start with that one tbh

illuminating interview from a facebook employee:

http://therumpus.net/2010/01/conversations-about-the-internet-5-anonymous-facebook-employee/?full=yes

I would like to know who's been looking at my profile tbh

Rumpus: You’ve previously mentioned a master password, which you no longer use.

Employee: I’m not sure when exactly it was deprecated, but we did have a master password at one point where you could type in any user’s user ID, and then the password. I’m not going to give you the exact password, but with upper and lower case, symbols, numbers, all of the above, it spelled out ‘Chuck Norris,’ more or less. It was pretty fantastic.

Rumpus: This was accessible by any Facebook employee?

Employee: Technically, yes. But it was pretty much limited to the original engineers, who were basically the only people who knew about it. It wasn’t as if random people in Human Resources were using this password to log into profiles. It was made and designed for engineering reasons. But it was there, and any employee could find it if they knew where to look.

i wonder how long that employee's going to remain anonymous :/

Let's hope this turns into the PR disaster it deserves to be: http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/23/facebook-vanity-url-harman

I kind of know this guy who works for FB and that's just the kind of bean-spilling thing he'd say

his also came up with FB's short-lived "brag about what you just bought online to your friends" concept, which I'm not sure even got finalized.

beacon: auto-brag abt waht u just bought whether u like it or not

When the dude would write about what was going on with his life he sounded like Ryan in the Office, when he starts ascending the corporate ranks and doing loads of cocaine.