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

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!

Haha, old Facebook used to suggest I "reconnect" with people. Now it has someone's picture and curtly tells me to "say hello."

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.

trayce - i think the mum heard about the accident from the girls and then realised in that moment that her son was out with the kid who got killed (and was therefore likely dead as well)

I quite like the new design, but the messed up feed(s) is utterly frustrating.

stevie: oh god I didnt even read it that way. Thats worse.

Every redesign has live feed glitches.. In a day or two it'll be sorted.. In the meantime if it's important.. Call people?

my notifications says that someone sent me a message but i have no message in my inbox and when i click the 'message' link in the notification i get a white screen and 'loading...' from my browser that never goes anywhere.

mine seems to be better today

hmm now it is showing this:

Allow Access?
Allowing Messages access will let it pull your profile information, photos, your friends' info, and other content that it requires to work.

Messages
Unread (2)
Allow
or Leave Application

^^^hacking scheme?

Hm a 3rd party messages app? Why need? FB has an inbox. I wouldnt install it.

obviously i didn't.

I'm too scared to install any apps any more! heh :/

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I ve been told I’m too head strong I'd like to think of it as persistent. I have little patience for excuses and weak minded individuals. Would have could have should have are words that never enter my vocabulary. I will never rest on my laurels and cannot respect people who do. i can always improve and will got to my grave never satisfied but content that I never stop trying to do it better. I’m highly competitive. I have respect for those who win and hope for those who lose. I always root for the underdog if I believe they are giving everything they have in their pursuit to victory. i believe in karma but still take my chances with it when the moment is opportune. I despise vindictiveness, I believe its a cowards way of vengeance. I have no tolerance for petty people I equate them to pork barrel legislators. I’m highly conservative on most issues I strongly believe in small Government. I figure we were all already exposed to communism in elementary school , where we were controlled and decisions were made for us by under achieving overzealous teachers!!! I believe what ever you do in life and what ever life throws at you, maintaining your composure and class are if the utmost importance. If you have to have your friends set you up with someone you might as well hand them your bank account, title to your house and car keys because your incapable of making life decisions.

one thing i like about facebook is that it is not a crypto-dating site with pretensions as all the other "social networking" sites seemed to have been.

Yes, but...

I quite like the new design, but the messed up feed(s) is utterly frustrating.

― krakow, Wednesday, February 10, 2010 9:07 AM (6 days ago) Bookmark

see, i quite like the new design, but it's just made it a little bit worse than it was before as it's been broke intermittently since the last redesign for me! :(

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what am I supposed to do with my time now? My job?

does anyone else have this? Cuz it's been like this for me for about six hours now. I just devoted almost four entire hours to work ffs, this isn't good for me.

lol i just called some dude a racist based on a comment he made on my friend's wall, and....shitstorm.

http://www.lamebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/jesus1.png

in my recommended friends they have just suggested a dude i half new off a message board i haven't posted on in about 7 years and have no current friends from... on a different old computer? how the fuck...?

creepy

Is his email still in your address book? That's how some of my suggestions came about.

nope. even have a different email address ...aaand my facebook account works off a defunct university email that should just be recommending old lecturers

They just know.

Yeah. Never been all BIG BROTHER WATCHING ME before this but

Is his email still in your address book? That's how some of my suggestions came about.

― nickn

Did you give FB your email password? (Through the functionality they have that will check if the people in your address book are already on FB?)

If you have friends in common with people, they'll come up as friend suggestions.

have not done that and don't have any friends in common. my guess is they have figured out my old defunct email address by themselves and that is is me and not any other person on facebook with my name that was once on that message board...? i never even really spoke to the guy, he just had a distinctive enough name that i instantly recognised it.

Maybe if he'd looked at your profile he'd then come up as a suggestion? Esp. if he'd viewed your profile multiple times...ulp

mine suggested some canadian lady i have never heard of and have no friends in common with. i dunno.

ive been told to make friends with Rig0bert Lalo. but i don't know Rig0bert Lalo. who is rig0bert Lalo??

Mine seems to prefer to suggest a) a lot of rock critics b) fashion people c) high school/college alums d) ILXors.

The whole relationship status thing on facebook sucks. Unless you (wisely) remove it from your screen, along with your ladyfriend, it impacts everything.

For instance, if like in my last relationship, your significant other is "not ready" to commit to you, her "single" status attracts all sorts of undesirables while you sit there wanting to wave your hand and go "UH, SHE'S WITH ME, SORTA, K THX".

Likewise, you truly have to have the completely silly conversation hinted at in the title, because if you change your status to In a Relationship with someone specific, and they decline, your status still says "In a Relationship" and theirs doesn't, and you look stupid like you're dating yourself.

Not to mention with some people, it ruins the relationship. No sooner than my last girl and I changed our statuses online, a month later we broke up! All of a sudden the slow pace we were going at, she suddenly wanted us to be at this level that we couldn't possibly have been at (largely due to her inhibitions, but I gave up on the idea that anything she ever did was wrong, everything was always my fault).

Then, two days later, we get back together, but we never updated our statuses on fb again, so our friends were all confused and thought we weren't dating when we were, and then when they finally figured it out, we were broken up, some of my friends didn't find out for a while cuz me and her still hung out for a while (and had sex, which was really stupid of me).

She was dating you but wasn't willing to commit on facebook to a relationship status? What?

And finally the thread title is completely apt!

looooooong story. basically, she had just been dumped by a guy she thought she was gonna get married to two weeks earlier, and had an eye for me, as I did for her, so we hooked up and she wasn't ready to make it 'official'. yet it was kind of dumb - she didn't see anybody else (that I know of,at least).

It was 3 months before she finally changed her status. we dated 8 months but according to facebook, we dated 1. it was ridiculous.

that said, no animosity against her, but just pointing out how facebook messed with us bigtime.

ayo i don't think it's facebook's fault dude

IT HAS A GRIP ON HUMANITY THAT PENETRATES FREE WILL. FREEMASONS ILLUMINATI OH OH OH

The real solution to this "problem" is to not set your relationship status to anything, because the majority of your FB "friends" are probably people you barely care about, and thus they don't really need to know about the vicissitudes of your life life, while your actual friends will presumably be updated on whatever you want them to be updated on about your life when you actually talk to them.