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

are the "teabaggers" really that annoying?! how friggin many of them are there?!

I'm from a rural area so a lot of my family and people I grew up with have embraced the tea party ethos. Vocally.

As for anti-vax ppl, I ran around with a bunch of hippies for most of the 90s and many of them chose professions in the field of alternative healing/medicine or are really into natural remedies. I am (or in some cases, was) FB friends with a chiropractor, a naturopath, three doulas, two yoga instructors, and an herbalist. And a psychic. And two reverends of the woo woo spiritual persuasion. And like ten billion massage therapists.

Apparently there's no such thing as a reserved tea party enthusiast. Being outspoken is a part of the ideology.

Wasn't there some copyright thing with Lexulous? I use proper Scrabble app but I think it's only available in the US. Also it completely breaks my internet connection when I use it on my own computer which I can't get my head around (I do my Scrabbling on a laptop instead). Anyone else have this?

Oh and one organic papaya farmer, I'm not even kidding. He's pretty harmless, though. Just living in HI, running a papaya farm.

I thought the Lexulous/Scrabble thing was resolved well over a year ago. It was an active (and still superior) app... until today, when it completely disappeared.

Because refusal can offend, there are currently 65 people in what I call my Limbo List: parents of friends/my mother's friends (no fucking way), sceney people who use FB like MySpace who think they should know me (presumptuous), really cretinous/embarrassing people from HS that I can't just ignore - and a few others who are OK but because I haven't actually interacted with 'em IRL, they haven't been added.

Privacy issues: no online venue is completely non-porous so I don't post things I wouldn't be comfortable with (say) an editor or family friend reading. This is just basic common sense. I'm pretty careful about who I add in the first place - the only God-botherers are an otherwise cool HS friend who stans for homeschooling and another one who lost her son in Iraq and is very involved in being a Gold Star Mom (neither of whom would vote Republican) and the only friends that admit to being conservative are my sister's best friend in HS and an ex-cheerleader married to her HS sweetheart who is now a hairdresser/bodybuilder. Both of those are non-teabag; I really only see UH OH SOSHULISM posts on my BiL's wall and those dropped off after a few months of the usual whitefolksbitching. I have pointed out to them that the only intelligent people I see embracing that politics are cynically mining it for personal profit.

Not for the reasons folks here would want I figure but:

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/05/21/world/21pstanspan-cnd/21pstanspan-cnd-articleLarge.jpg

resisting the urge to post this to my fb and tag my friends in it.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-social-networking-site-changing-the-way-oh-chr,17465/

http://mashable.com/2010/05/20/facebook-caught-sending-user-data-to-advertisers/

Large advertising companies including Google’s DoubleClick and Yahoo’s Right Media were identified as having received information including usernames or ID numbers that could be traced back to individual profiles as users clicked on ads. The data could potentially be used to look up personal information about the user, including real name, age, occupation, location, and anything else made public on the profile. Both of the aforementioned companies denied being aware of the “extra” data they were receiving and claim they have not made use of it.

...

The Journal found that Facebook went farther than most in sharing identifiable data, by sending the username of the person clicking the ad as well as the username of the profile they were viewing at the time. This news could hardly come at a worse time for Facebook, a company that currently faces a privacy backlash potent enough to make the cover of Time Magazine this month.

lol

http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/imgad?id=COvTwbm75trOvgEQygcYQjIIDUgxXKQmefk

missing LiveJournal rite now tbh

Both of the aforementioned companies denied being aware of the “extra” data they were receiving and claim they have not made use of it.

Neither Yahoo nor Doubleclick knows its arse from its elbow so I'm prepared to believe this tbh.

In other news a friend (and colleague) logged into facebook from my laptop and failed to click "never" when asked if he wanted his U &P to be remembered. I am now in a position to log into his account whenever I want, until he changes his password. Should I take advantage of this power and if so, how?

join every furry group on Facebook that you can find

these people might have some ideas for you

they're just going to say "join every furry group on Facebook you can find, oh and also be super racist"

"We only support white-furred creatures."

OH man.

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are you still facebook friends with them

are they really that awesome

i think many of us are facebook friends with "them" ; )

Yeah I may be in danger of a straight red for "helping his spirit live on"

hahahaha, gotcha. RIP

Fuck TWO people I know have added that fucking "im awesome im awesome" shit, so it spewed all over my news feed twice. Anymore and I'm going on a hide spree.

link to that thing?

is it a rickroll type thing? I ran my cursor over it and it didn't link to a Facebook page

I think they just implemented something where if a liked thing is too many characters it gets shortened and they throw an ellipsis on the end

looooooool

Facebook Questions!!!: http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/23/facebook-questions/

Oh christ, that'll be annoying as shit.

you are 100% correct

Oh man this might finally chase me away. Unless you can just completely 'hide' the whole app.

they're going to keep doing a lot more to make this even less fun to use, right?

they gunnin for ilx now.

I think we should fight back with ILX status updates, "like" buttons and a FAP App.

i think we should fight back by making the boards even more simpler than they are now

whole site should really just be a blank white page imo

w/ maybe jiggle panda

http://www.businessinsider.com/10-reasons-youll-never-quit-facebook-even-if-you-think-you-want-to-2010-5#youre-not-going-to-go-back-to-waiting-an-hour-to-send-an-email-to-30-people-with-40-photos-attached-1

Hmmmm...

This guy:

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/05/27/business/27facebookspan-cnd/27facebookspan-cnd-articleLarge-v2.jpg

People leaving Facebook for whatever reason is fine, but there's nothing worse than the hot air of self-important explanations for leaving (with one or two exceptions). Also, if you're whore enough to have 2000 friends because you add every random person, you should've stuck with MySpace.

y'all should add me, btw -- i'm the top post in the ILM group, just let me know who you are if you add me: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2200160366

i probably came too late to the party for the initial omg add all ilxors rush, if there was one

I tried to add you once but you never responded, thereby confirming your sock puppet status

lol

ksh i would add you if you posted a real profile picture

http://suicidemachine.org/

^^^ help for people who want out of this crazy on-line world.

http://www.enjoyfrance.com/images/stories/world/entertainment/Bruce-springsteen.jpg

He's here to help you leave facebook.

hahaha that song has been in my head since I read the article about the service.