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

i wonder how many FB users are aware that a link to their profile is indexed in Google unless they go in and change a setting

i mean, i follow tech news & even i have trouble keeping up w/ all the changes they're making

where's the setting to not get indexed ksh?

Privacy Settings --> Search

find "Public Search Results" & uncheck the box next to "Allow"

oh cool i'd already unchecked that. thx for the reminder tho, i'll pass that on.

i gotta say tho it's gotten to the point where i would gladly pay like 5 bux a month for a social networking site that didn't pull this kind of shit

№, you speak the truth

stet totally OTM when he talks about the rules of the game constantly changing, it would be one thing if this was all spelled out when you join but these things are constantly being tweaked with no advance warning. It also bugs me how all of these changes are presented as "this will be great for you!" and I don't think the average Facebook user takes the time to read more about how the changes really aren't so great. I mean, yeah, people should take accountability for understanding their options and making the most of the privacy they want, but I feel like FB is being really disingenuous about how these changes are presented and introduced.

pretty much no way to actually know what's going on w/ FB unless you decide to start reading Techmeme or following tech news closely

I feel like FB is being really disingenuous about how these changes are presented and introduced

Oh, yeh, I don't deny that for a second. But then they're A BIG COMPANY now: what else do we expect?

And because of that, I really do think -- blame-the-victim or not! -- that the only thing people can do is shrug and accept that they've got to be more careful about what they put online.

Also: perfectly reasonable to expect private stuff online. I don't expect Gmail to decide to publish my email archive publicly so that I can better express myself.

Hmm. OK, this is a good point. However, there's still a major paradigmatical difference between e-mail and social networking: the latter by definition has an element of "public" publishing -- even if it's just a few friends -- which the former just doesn't.

(Talking of e-mail -- sorry, everyone -- have you had either of my replies to your Textie thing?)

people are going to keep dumping little bits of information into FB until they do something really, really egregious, like make all of your information completely public & give you no option to make it private

the other issue is that, as FB becomes something more like the telephone or email and less like some extraneous novelty, it becomes increasingly difficult to opt-out. there's an actual social cost--at least for younger people--for choosing not to participate

Also: perfectly reasonable to expect private stuff online. I don't expect Gmail to decide to publish my email archive publicly so that I can better express myself.

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Facebook, go get fucked.

what i'm not clear on here is what it means in practice to be "linked" to those "pages"

and yeah stevie d otm

What does it mean when you <like> something on another page? I don't see it reflected in my profile, or posted on my wall.

i didn't want to be linked to any of the things i said i was interested in so now my profile is gone ˘\(o_º)/˘

i mean it's there it just has nothing on it. oh well!

so I guess the flipside is that you're only allowed to be interested in something if there's a Facebook page about it? what if I want to rep some obscure czech new wave films?

no it will make a page for whatever is there, it just won't have a picture

you guys are kinda sounding like those facebook groups, "OMG new facebook sux join this petition to change it back"

Just be circumspect, vigilant about your privacy settings, and don't post anything racist if you're a public official and you'll be cool.

xp yeah it will have that retarded little triangle

yeah mordy i feel u but this is super-lame, attempting to turn the likes/interests section of profiles (which for years have been a great source or weirdness and lols) into another fuckin marketing tool.

also, can i just:

u can no longer just "like" or "fan" something without it showing up in your interests; like these guys from college made a film and i "became a fan" to support them and see if it was screening and stuff, but it is not one of my "favorite" films--i haven't even seen it!

yeah i'm not too invested in it i just don't wanna play this game

i was a "fan" of like 3 musical artists that i would not consider favorites, and not a "fan" of any book i like, and my "interests" weren't really fan-worthy, and the only movie i was a "fan" of was tommy boy so i guess that's my only favorite movie now

btw can i just lol at what comes up on pages that don't exist yet:

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fuck you facebookpedia

lol mark zuckerberg is playing katamari damacy with the internet

it used to be about the faces, man

I liked how it changed "New York, London, Paris, Munich" in my interests to "New York City, London, Paris, 1972 Summer Olympics"

weird fuckin thing: i had 'zodiac' listed as a favourite movie. there probably is a fan page or whatever. but anyway, when you click on "zodiac" you get this weird auto-generated page:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Zodiac/104275776275725

which has a bit from wikipedia, but also, completely mentally, a random list of -- i think -- tweets that include the word "zodiac"

like "#ZodiacFacts #Cancer will have better chemistry in the bedroom with #Scorpio better than any other zodiac sign."

plus the names of the tweeters

wtfknf?

facebook makin a play to be twitpedia

Facebook quickly becoming more useless, MySpace-like, and bloated by the minute

facebook is far from useless--but what it is becoming is not fun

like i figure eventually i'll use it for events and to msg people and that's about it

w/ the exception of occasional status updates & posts, that's all i use it for now, and i prefer email for messaging people

the only reason Facebook is more convenient than email is because it's a centralized, near-universal directory of people directly hooked up to a central messaging service

of course, everything is stuck in FB's walled garden, and in some ways their messaging system isn't nearly as robust as email

eventually, that'll probably change -- i've seen people guess that FB will eventually make it so that every user has a FB email address connected to their accounts so messages can be sent from FB to email and from email to FB. you can already respond to some activity on FB via email now

Jesus, Madchen just checked hers and it had linkified her entire address, effectively making it public.

This is beyond big-corp shit, GF, it's actively bad.

FFS: http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/04/facebook-timeline

I spent an hour or more reworking my info section and for some reason none of it saved. screw that

it had linkified her entire address, effectively making it public.

i wonder how many people it gave access to that to -- if it were anyone beyond her "friends," then O_O

wait, so if you add something to, say, your "Favorite Music" you automatically "Like" it in the sense that you sign up for a fan page for it?

someone just added their last.fm URL to their "Favorite Music" and it showed up in my News Feed as something they "Liked," and now there's a FB page for their last.fm page

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yeah i was forced to wipe my whole profile cuz i wouldn't link my profile to any pages

i wiped my whole profile a few weeks ago and then today the "suggestions" thing popped up with all the shit i had deleted

also, love how the pop up is totally designed to make it as difficult as possible to NOT link to any pages