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

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...

or somebody congratulates a couple on their engagement by reminding them of a past infidelity.

that one is still my fav

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.

― ┌∩┐(◕_◕)┌∩┐ (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, December 22, 2009 6:34 PM (1 month ago)

ok this is happening again, i had two posts in my feed today from dudes in my cycling club (that i'm not FB friends with).

Did somebody you are friends with "like" those posts?

anybody else seeing this wholly redesigned home page?

http://www.facebook.com/sitetour/homepage.php

Did somebody you are friends with "like" those posts?

― the clones of tldr funkenstein (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, February 4, 2010 5:51 PM (15 minutes ago)

no, i get how that works, this is wholly different... just creepy that FB knows your gmail contacts and is teasing you with peeks at their private profile.

anybody else seeing this wholly redesigned home page?

― stet, Thursday, February 4, 2010 6:04 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yes! much better imo!

not gettin it yet

Coming through in fits and starts here.

hav it now - much better - more info in the left nav - notification top left where they should be - news feed/live feed renamed top news / most recent

btw techcrunch saying facebook is working on a full fledged webmail client http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/02/05/facebooks-project-titan-a-full-featured-webmail-product

I still don't have the new design. Weird.

fb is wicked fd up - my feed is having an aneurysm - not sure if thats related to the new design or what

I dont like this new design: I filtered my news page by "status update" and they've now hidden that buried in the "friends" menu and you cant force it to the top anymore.

And using "latest updates" new feed is flaky as shit. If i re-click on it a couple times, posts disappear and reappear, it randomly says "no more posts to display!" and stuff.

So no it isnt much better, because in simplifying it they've removed the ability to do filtering ppl like me knew how to do grrrr.

I think it's got past that age where everyone is supposed to decide it's shit and no-one's twigged so they've made it actually shit.

Anyone remember their Friendster login?

I never even looked at friendster or orkut.

People are also whining that livejournal's become a graveyard but it suits many purposes for me FB never can, so...

OK Ive just read through a dozen questions on the FB help centre and *everyone* is saying the new news feed forced upon them isnt working properly, which is what I'm seeing. I'll see a bunch of posts from 5-20 mins ago, hit reload, and theyre gone, as are half the rest of the feed, as if it's "skimming" my feed. DO NOT WANT.

Online social networking had delivered the mother and daughter the worst possible news.

fb is wicked fd up - my feed is having an aneurysm - not sure if thats related to the new design or what

yeah this--i can't get any posts newer than an hour ago. they appeared on one refresh but as soon as i refreshed again they were gone. i like the new design but god damn

Yeah, it doesn't work for shit. Mine has been showing the same five "new" updates all afternoon. Refresh just makes those go away.

I just went into the Status Updates thing in Friends and made *that* my FB setting in Bookmarks.

Desperate for reassurance there was a mistake, she tried over and over to ring her brother.

"I kept ringing and messaging but couldn't get on to him. So I rang Mum and said: 'Chris Naylor must have died - I just read it on Facebook. But where's Bobby? People are writing 'RIP Bobby' too.'

"Mum said 'Bobby was with Chris Naylor last night'."

How nice of mum to, I dunno, let her own daughters know their brother had died.

The mother didn't know either. She knew he was with the other lad, but not about the accident. The police hadn't contacted the family.

http://lite.facebook.com

krakow: the way it reads to me was yeah she didnt know either but by the time the girls called her she obviously did, so why hadnt she called them as soon as she found out? Eh who knows.

OMG that link is perfect stet! nothings missing. Ta!

got the new fb design yesterday - I like it, much cleaner

I still wish they'd fix the chat function.

I think what people are missing here is not that the design itself is disliked - its neat, tidy and I like it fine - its that the news feed is BROKEN ON PURPOSE.

i think the news feed is broken by accident actually?

some sort of combination of the two is my guess

one thing (and i don't know if this has been discussed because i never really follow this thread) is that news feed will limit the number of yr total friends that show up unless you tell it not to--this is in the options at the bottom of the feed.

Yeah CAD that options bit is what I regard as "broken on purpose", to wit:

Live Feed automatically determines which friends to include based on who Facebook thinks you want to hear from most. You can manually adjust this list below.

OK, fair enough... maybe... except it doesnt work. I've added a large list of friends, and it promptly "forgets" the list. I go back into edit and it isnt there anymore. It retains my "hide" ones fine but not the "show more" list.

Its the "based on who Facebook thinks you want to hear from" that annoys me.

it defaulted to 250 and i have like 330 friends so i just bumped it to 500--no idea if it's working because of the other issues they're having. but the point of live feed i thought was just to give you the newest information--what would facebook be without weird updates from people you don't really care about??

Yeah, I don't think its working right at all. I mean mine is set to a max of 250 friends and I have way less than that in total anyway. But I'm only seeing updates from the same 4 or 5 people. My wife, who shares many of my friends, is seeing different updates from the people that I should normally be seeing.

Yeah same here.

The lite.facebook link stet posted shows what I think is everything, fwiw.

Grrr there are things showing up in "top news" that aren't in "most recent". This is bullshit!! /superhans

Someone posted a link to a 'Will you stay on when Facebook starts charging in July?'. Huh?

Uh, ok, its not true, its a virus:

http://www.snopes.com/computer/internet/fbcharge.asp

Good thing i didn't click on the link!