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

why regret?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article7127721.ece

Movie depicts seamy life of Facebook boss

Sorkin’s screenplay suggests Parker knew Zuckerberg was driven not just by money or fame but also sexual insecurity. While he is depicted as receiving sex in bars, Parker runs the business...

Critics who have seen the draft script for the film, which is being produced by Kevin Spacey, artistic director of the Old Vic theatre in London, and directed by David Fincher, say it portrays Zuckerberg as a “borderline-autistic conniver”.

Stoked!

that film is gonna own so hard imo

the long-suppressed story behind the facebook poke button finally revealed

why regret?

― ksh

sometimes people post funny links. or informative updates, cool pictures, whatever. basically i'm going to miss out on some cool stuff but it's worth it because i'll avoid wading through all the dross and wasting so much time.

yeah, i hear you. the only reason i'm still on there is because, sadly enough, i'd literally lose contact w/ a bunch of ppl, probably permanently, if i were to delete my account. anyone else feel the same way?

sometimes people post funny links. or informative updates, cool pictures, whatever.

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/NewAnswersControllerServlet?boardid=40

yeah, i hear you. the only reason i'm still on there is because, sadly enough, i'd literally lose contact w/ a bunch of ppl, probably permanently,

The social networking site that that improves on FB but also has a way for you to easily keep or transfer a lot of your friends/contacts to their site will make a lot of money imo.

The social networking site that that improves on FB but also has a way for you to easily keep or transfer a lot of your friends/contacts to their site will make a lot of money imo.

any opinions on these guys diaspora? a winningly simple concept, I think: basically, a social network where your personal content (updates, photos, etc etc) lives on your machine instead of their server, so you keep control and ownership. scheduled to launch in the autumn. from the video featured on that site, the guys involved seem driven and nerdy enough to make it work imo altho I guess aesthetics and usability issues are always going to be a concern.

biggest problem w/ Diaspora is gonna be complexity & user adoption. no one's gonna set this shit up, imo, and it will have barely any real impact

facebook delex0red. Fucken thing. Never used it anyway.

From youropenbook.com:

T!na Pe@rce Pissssss! Yes u shhhhhhhh!! Dont tell anyone u seen this coz if u do in 3 days u will have the worse time of your life dont anser the phone dont go to sleep and never never sing coz if u sing someone or somthink will sing back and u will then know it is your time DONT SAY I DID NOT WORM U !!!!!
1 hour ago

new ILTMI board description???

i was amazed when i googled myself last week (after an interview, just to be sure) and all these old messages i had made on (public, i guess) groups years ago popped up. they were never googleable before. so i had to delete a ton of shit in a hurry. not cool.

a social network where your personal content (updates, photos, etc etc) lives on your machine instead of their server

Gah, my computer's full enough as it is.

i was amazed when i googled myself last week (after an interview, just to be sure) and all these old messages i had made on (public, i guess) groups years ago popped up. they were never googleable before. so i had to delete a ton of shit in a hurry. not cool.

same here! getting really sick of this shit

I have a very googleable name so it's esp worrying

luckily it seems a lot of people with my name are more famous than I am

I just get loads of shit about a town planner in Springfield, Illinois.

gah this shit gets deindexed eventually if it's deleted, right?

as far as i could tell my stuff got deindexed pretty much right away

whether or not it's actually deleted from facebook's internal servers is another question

I hope zuckerberg gets a horrible disease soon

The Facebook fallout just keeps accelerating. At this pace we'll be chasing Zuckerberg out of town with pitchforks and fire by August am i rite.

http://www.reclaimprivacy.org/facebook

Pretty much a javascript that scans your privacy settings.

Here's what's on the website:

This website provides an independent and open tool for scanning your Facebook privacy settings. The source code and its development will always remain open and transparent.

1. Drag this link to your web browser bookmarks bar: Scan for Privacy
2. Log in to facebook.com and then click that bookmark
3. You will see a series of privacy scans that inspect your privacy settings and warn you about settings that might be unexpectedly public.
4. Follow us on Facebook to hear about the latest updates.

I hope zuckerberg gets a horrible disease soon

He'll get his.

http://www.scene-stealers.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/08_tradingplaces_bd.jpg

http://www.scene-stealers.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/08_tradingplaces_bd.jpg

"Myself and my associates here have a little bet going as to whether you'll tell us everything about yourself, no matter how embarrassing or damaging, in exchange for playing Farmville. Rupert says they'll never go for it. I say they will."

The scanner is a little too rigorous on privacy imo. I currently have everything set to friends only, except that anyone can friend add me, and anyone can message me. The scanner sends a caution message because of this. Like -- I definitely think some privacy and vigilance are good, and I realize the scanner isn't enforcing anything just suggesting, but what's with people not letting anyone friend them? Just click *no* if you don't know the person.

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u120/kingkonggodzilla/hippocrates.jpg

Hmmm. That was smaller than expected. Anyway, "hippocrates or wat" - I can't decide if this is unintentional or not.

it didn't alert me to turn off fr's, but that would be a bit much if it did.

kinda wanna poll hippocrates vs wat tyler

I'm guessing "hippocrates" was an auto spell-correct of whatever hideous non-word he typed? Just guessing.

'apparantley' wasn't dealt with though

The Apparantleys go back hundreds of generations in Britain.

ban FB

If you were going to embark on a serious Facebook "friends" purge, would you announce your intent with some sort of cover story or just delete a bunch of people whose politics you find abhorrent or whose lives you realize you have zero interest in and let them figure it out for themselves, if they even noticed?

the second

They won't notice. Odds are they've also been ignoring you for forever, too.

I just deleted like 20 friends yesterday. No warning. No regrets. Zap.

still hoping to eventually just quit

Thinking about it, giving warning or posting some kind of "Reasons why I can't stand any of your asses" screed would be really passive-aggressive. Do karate yes, or do karate no.

Even posting status updates of type #3, which I have done, is so nagl imo

I wouldn't post reasons why I can't stand people I'm connected to on FB. Sheesh. I would have made something up about how I reevaluated how I use FB and decided to use it for limited professional communications purposes and people can email me if they have something specific to get in touch with me about. Maybe not that exactly (I just made that up off the top of my head so I would have put more thought into it), but definitely not some misspelled, flouncing screed about getting tired of people whining, etc.

I was leaning towards just deleting people (I've done it on a small scale in the past) and mostly wondering if there's an established etiquette or prevailing posture for a massive FB connection delete before I, uh, did karate.

This is probably a precursor to eventual account deletion, but I'm trying to find a way to make FB fun/usable first before I just give up.

Deleted well over 100 friends recently. Felt fantastic.

I posted something last week about FB's awful privacy policy and how it'd drive me to delete my profile. Gives me a free pass for erratic friend deletions and disappearing sections of my profile, IMO.

I think it depends on why you're deleting them. When I clean friendlist just to weed out old people I don't recognize I don't bother posting about it. But when I'm fuming over something and want to teach people a lesson (whatever whatever) I post something. Like when Obama was elected and like 20 people on my friends list became SUPER RACIST, I made sure to let them know why they were being deleted. A few years later at a party I ran into one of them -- I had forgotten why I had deleted him but he remembered and was still butthurt I called him out on his racism.

yesterday a friend of mine popped up in my suggestions box as someone i should 'reconnect with', 'say hello to', etc. this particular friend passed away exactly two years ago but her profile's still intact. i mentioned this on FB and apparently everyone else i know who was friends with her had the same thing happen to them. so now i'm wondering how exactly does FB aggregate personal info about a user's death?

I would guess that a lot of people wrote on her wall today and that had something to do w/ the fb code suggesting other people to 'reconnect'?

this happened yesterday (the anniversary of her death), i started seeing her pop up in the suggestions box shortly past midnight

Okay, I just deleted about 60 connections. My criteria were to delete:

1. anybody to whom I am not related and who has been hidden from my "news feed" for more than three months.
2. anybody I added out of curiosity/fear of offending them by not adding them.
3. anybody who never posts anything.
4. anybody who has made me crazy w/ tea bagger politics or anti-vaccination stance (to whom I am not related).
5. anybody I went to high school with that I never liked anyway.

I kept the following:

1. People I regularly interact w/ on FB.
2. People I genuinely like even if they meet one or more of the above criteria.
3. People that I regularly interact w/ in real life even if they meet one or more of the above criteria.
4. People that I know professionally or through school and want to maintain some kind of connection w/ for my own personal gain.

Now I'm going to go hide all of my family members. This is wonderful, like cleaning out a really cluttered closet.