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

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.

http://www.lamebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/HarryPotterAndTheCold-BloodedBitch1.png

weak comeback imo

What's a "fat dip"?

http://i.ehow.com/images/GlobalPhoto/Articles/2270259/zzz-main_Full.jpg

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.

"brag about what you just bought online to your friends" concept

there's now another social network that lets you do that called Blippy. (here's the thread is started recently on it Blippy)

Linking to that Rumpus interview gets me google warnings about "hundreds" of malware etc.

Oops! Something went wrong. We're working on getting this fixed as soon as we can. You may be able to try again.

UGHHHHH

i swear this happens 100x as much as it used to - i don't log on regularly these days but it seems to happen almost every time i do, whether for posting a link or looking at photos or RSVPing to events. what the fuck is wrong with this stupid site that it can't handle any activity any more???

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.

^This

Create a friend list. Add a single fan page that doesn't update often to that list. (I chose Dinosaur Jr.) On the main page where the NewsFeed is, put that friend list in place of NewsFeed. Hide NewsFeed under the fold. When you log in, you will be confronted with a screen devoid of status updates. Now you can message your "friends" without having to read the dumb stuff their activity propagated into the Feed. Awesome.

that won't stop those annoying notifications, although it will somewhat decrease the frequency of one's headaches

but then how will I know that my friend dropped a big pile of chips onto the floor of the casino while playing no limit

"this will haunt us" = perpetual mindset of Vikings fan, whatever the occasion.

― berwick obama (suzy), Monday, January 25, 2010 12:22 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

hah this is how it used to feel to be a red sox fan - dont worry itll go away - just got to win it all is all

Lex OTM by the way, it has been pretty much unusable for a good week now

So not a good time to re-join ey? Have some done that? I mean, rejoin? What exactly happens? I don't want everyone to get a "NATHALIE REJOINED LETS ALL HUGGELZ HER INTO INFINITY"

some meathead swim team dude I went to school with used an application to set some poll asking whether people thought I'd ever used steroids, and it appeared on my wall even though I'd never authorised the app

nath, nothing happened when I rejoined, just took a day or so before my friends list and photos were restored.

i haven't had any problems posting things but people keep posting these dumb gift apps to my wall - like "Just sent you a heart", "I got you a teddy bear!" kind of rubbish - stuff seems like it's guilt-tripping you into sending one back, but you have to install an app to do so. fuck that noise, basically.

ehhhh i ignore ALL that stuff - it's definitely a certain subset of my friends who send that shit. and some stupid poll thing showed up on my wall so i just deleted it (i barely know the girl who was responsible for it, so didn't really care about offending her).

how does facebook pick people to suggest you befriend when you first join?

i just joined, and i immediately got a suggestion to befriend a former member of the emusic editorial staff. i've spoken with him before in comments on emusic's blog, and i'd be happy to befriend him, but i wonder how facebook made the connection.

I think it polls for potential friends from your email contacts?

If you emailed him and he ran that email thing it will suggest him to you.

Also it seems like if you google somebody and hit and maybe click on their Facebook link it will suggest that person to you (this had me scratching my head a while but I believe it does this)

WTF. This creeps me out. It's watching us surf.

They know everything.

I think it counts 'friends in common' that you might have with the proposed FB friend, and those who have the most FIC wind up in Suggestions.

Not related to this immediate discussion, but I'm assuming that facebook store full chat logs indefinitely as well (cf. article linked to above in rumpus). Would be interesting if they use any filtering and analysis on the frequency, length and even content of chats to manage your account 'better'...?

FB apparently decides who your best friends are by how many times you interact with them on facebook, click on their profile etc. But I mainly use FB as a really passive way of keeping in touch - emailing or chatting to my best friends outside of FB. I don't ever really click on someone's profile - usually it's if I've suddenly remembered they exist or if I heard they got married and want to see what their other half looks like. So it's kind of the wrong way round for me.

In any case this shouldn't affect whose status/news/etc comes up in my live feed, should it?

http://virulentwordofmouse.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/hal-400.jpg

A friend of mine posted this on FB:

"If your facebook been running slow lately, go to 'application settings' and change the dropdown box to 'added to profile'. If you see one in there called 'unnamed app', delete it. Its an internal spybot. Pass this on." Worked for me. BUT: doing this also deleted the "boxes" tab on my profile (don't matter for me).

I found the application and deleted it, and this seems to have made things work better. But I wonder what the removed application was all about? Some sort of internal data-gathering thing? If it was, why would FB allow you to remove it so easily?

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100126190431AAJkPoW

The above link is mostly speculation, but may be of some use.

I dont have such an app - I'm someone who never allow apps to add themselves to anything of mine, but that said I havent used an app in a long time and have deleted/blocked most others. If people randomly click apps such as quizzes without thinking theyre bound to end up with a virus.

http://www.lamebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/lick-it-up.png

Can we just go ahead and rename this the "the lamebook c+p thread"?

there are only about 5 lamebook variations anyway: parent or other middle aged relative makes inappropriate comment, someone tells someone else they have a small penis, someone has a hilariously misspelled profile, someone posts a picture with people groping each other in the background...