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

well, Public Enemy lyric but yeah

(that was supposed to be the crux of my malformed joek tbh, sorry for forks)

1. Punctuation would have lent clarity to the phrase
2. Dude's comment was "???" perhaps he was indicating he DOES hive a damn about you and wanted you to say what was wrong, sometime other than never?

"Yes, you very much can!"

Whenever I've even had the urge to post a song lyric or TV quote or whatever as a status update, I've refrained because I know some people might not get the reference and we'll have to go through the whole inevitable "??" / "oh sorry it's a lyric" / "lol nm" exchange. Not their fault, of course -- there's plenty of stuff I don't know, either.

i've never had any trouble using 30 Rock quotes!

Yes, a Public Enemy lyric. Not Tricky.

It bears mentioning that I had posted a video of Martina and Tricky performing this song, plus the lyrics, on my wall three inches below the ???? line. Had dude scrolled down three inches, it was all visible right there.

Dude was not giving a damn about me. Dude had no clue.

As I noted above, I am now a bit embarrassed. It was a stressful day (two words: dying mom) and I was letting off steam.

seems like you really gave a damn

ooh burn!!! :(

lol

Oh man why the fuck did I look at the group for people who went to my high school that have died? Also, is it not kind of fucked up that such a thing exists? (It's a nice tribute but should so many ppl my age & younger be so...dead?)

(tho a lot are older than me, too)

(and you did kill them, right?)

(I gave birth to a lot of them first)

http://www.msdlists.com/images/full%20size/Goya%20Saturn%20Devouring%20His%20Children.jpg

yearbook photo?

Taken in the cafeteria.

wtf @ this stupid thing where now you can't have anything listed in your activities/interests/etc. unless you link to a page for each and every one?!?

fb is def overreaching w/ the privacy stuff lately. I'm so ready for some other site to become the coolnewthing. (and they're basically creating a need for that to happen)

yeah i agree - i've been totally ok with most of the other stuff bc it's either been easy to ignore or turn off but this seems really invasive.

Yeah, I've shrugged off most of the recent changes, but this one is awful.

Yeah, me, too. I basically deleted everything in my profile except for some info in the "about me section," and "unliked" all the things that Facebook decided must now be part of my profile because gross. I do not want to be part of a "community page" for my (very large) employer, because I don't want most of my coworkers to know I know what Facebook is, much less discover I have a profile. I mean, gross.

I said gross twice because it is SO GROSS.

yeah i deleted everything too.

If you don't link to any Pages, the following sections on your profile will be empty:
Work and Education
Current City
Hometown
Likes and Interests

seriously, wtf facebook

if i wouldn't lose contact w/ a bunch of people if i deleted my profile, there's a good chance i wouldn't be on FB right now

it sure didn't take these guys long to turn shamelessly evil. nothing I've ever read on zuckerberg suggests that he's a good person on any level. I've never really cared about the design changes or minifeed or whatever - but the recent trend of disabling previously existing privacy settings is a pretty big slap in the face.

otoh I can stalk all kindsa people who I couldn't before because nobody realizes that their profile is completely open now.

I know, right? A bunch of law school related groups that I would like to stay in touch w/ because of job leads use FB as their main communications method, as do the non-profit orgs that I am involved in, so it's not just friends but actual professional connections that I would lose if I deleted the page. Not to mention the discussion page for our book club. I also hate how when you "like" pages, those pages are visible to EVERYBODY and there's no way to hide them. So as much as I want to "like" some groups, I just can't have my mother-in-law seeing that I "like" "punching Creationists in the face" or something.

xp

Also, there appears to be no way to any longer edit things that you've "liked". WTF?

what do you mean by "edit"?

Oh, wait, you actually have to go to that page and click "Unlike".

I just wanted to "unlike" some stuff, but you can't do that through your profile.

so you used to be able to do that via your profile before? if so, then they probably made it more difficult b/c they obviously don't want people leaving anything

yeah it's pretty clear to me that zuckerberg is the new bill gates - harvard asshole who stumbled upon something good in the days of its infancy and has managed to parlay it into some kind of fake empire, fortunately it looks like he's at the top of the hill already and now we get to watch him slowly grind the gears into mush and end up as two stumps in the shifting sands of the online desert

Tbh, I'm not sure if you could before or not. I just assumed it would be the same as deleting any of your "interests", but apparently not.

yeah, i thought you always had to go to the thing itself, but . . . *shrugs*

Timely

How to delete Facebook applications and why you should.

some dude from 2nd grade added me on facebook which is pretty cool

i mentioned the time we dug up a skull in a creek in my backyard and brought it to school

he told me he kept the skull and now it's on his desk at work! AWESOMEST FRIEND EVER

wait what kinda skull?

deer I think. we gave away the teeth to classmates that day and I think we were supposed to trade the skull back and forth every week but I don't think my mom cared much for that idea. I told my friend to take a picture of the skull and tag it on facebook so maybe I'll find out what animal it is once and for all

Dude. That's awesome!

This connections stuff is total bullshit. The help page answers are creepy as fuck too. They just keep repeating that you will now 'express yourself' by being forced to link to public groups.

Facebook got huge with non-net-savvy people because the privacy was dead simple: nobody could see fuck-all except the people you said were your friends. They uploaded loads of private information and pictures.

Now all that stuff is being exposed because you need to understand set theory and advanced logic just to say who can see your holiday snaps. It's bewilderingly complicated; so complicated that I don't think people have realised. I keep waiting for the outcry when they finally do.

Why isn't anybody launching a decent competitor?

loooool, stet is a hero. A++

I'm mostly disappointed that I can't express my unique and outsized personality through my 'interests, favorite movies and music' categories anymore

i wish i could put "never signed up for Facebook" as a resume line item

the fact that it is becoming the de facto communications medium for a lot of people -- including a lot of the people i know, ensuring that i basically have to use the site -- makes me sigh deeply

basically: email forever

They must be rolling out the iterests change in stages cos mine are still the old-style list of words.

But tbh Ive never had workmates or places of employ listed on fb. I think the "privacy" of it was always a bit of a red herring.

yeah, it seems like it's getting rolled out slowly over here -- some people have it, others don't

I'm mostly disappointed that I can't express my unique and outsized personality through my 'interests, favorite movies and music' categories anymore

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lol yes