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

I really love how the new Facebook now shows every status update a person makes in a day, thereby shaming those who change their status every 5 min (though you can probably still delete an old status to avoid this, no one on my friends list seems to be doing so.)

I find that the new FB is still pretty glitchy though - I surf in Opera, so they may not have really checked that browser. The CSS messes up a lot if you have images turned off.

i bet leon wieseltier would join facebook if he knew dr. morbius was on it.

The new one fucks up in Firefox under Ubuntu.

a conversation with my best friend, wherein he explains his plan to buy his girlfriend of apparently nearly a year really pricey fancy-seat tickets to Cirque du Soleil (me = SS, him = AJ)

AJ: haha, i think she's going to have to accept it as part of her early anniversary present
SS: christ, anniversary?
AJ: late october
SS: christ
AJ: it's kind of important to her.
SS: hmm
SS: is that the anniversary of... what exactly?
SS: when you kissed? fucked?
AJ: when (she) considers us officially together
AJ: i don't have the timeline down
AJ: i think the official anniversary might be when we could officially mutually update our relationship status on facebook
SS: ....
AJ: i know that's retarded

damn.. whatever happened to the anniversary of the day I had to go get a morning after pill, or was that just me? I'm an old fashioned kind of girl.

My 16 year old cousin just added his photo to some random Hot or Not rating community so I surfed a few images back and found this bad-ass mofo posing in his parents' room in the suburbs, he is my hero:

http://photos-e.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v308/187/86/557421561/n557421561_1169292_6421.jpg
http://photos-f.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v308/187/86/557421561/n557421561_1169301_9260.jpg
http://photos-f.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v308/187/86/557421561/n557421561_1169285_4659.jpg

Ooops, the second one is in a different (also pink) room.

Ooh! It's the new like-it-or-not Facebook design!

Man, don't javascript pop-up menus just give you a raging clit-on? Don't you LOVE it when you can't even see your navigation options without clicking on something as a preliminary step? Well, you clearly didn't design this website, then.

I don't even know how to interpret your complaints. I think it's fine and not altogether different from the previous design -- and in fact, it's less aesthetically busy, which is a good thing.

What's hilarious is all the people who are only up in arms about this now, the ones who have clearly been reverting to the Old Facebook for the last few weeks until it was no longer an option. Live with the new design for a while, like the rest of us have, and then get back to me.

i got used to the new last.fm so i shouldn't slag it off yet, but smooshing up news feed and wall is deeply baffling, and the extreme left-alignment is weird.

Having said all of that, it still owns My$pace amirite?

Fuck new facebook. Having everything nicely formatted on one page was perfect. I know they probably had their reasons for making the change, whatever they may have been, but the reaction has been uniformly negative as far as I can see.

Okay, I'll bite. I'm not a big fan of the new design, either.

it's total bollox.

It's 20 times better than the old one. I don't have to wade through pages and pages of SHIT anymore. Win.

i didn't have to wade through pages of shit anyway?

No, nor did I. I do now, it seems.

there are definitely things about that are good (clicking on "view photos of so-and-so" and getting to see all their albums at the bottom is nice), but they all seem like minor improvements compared to wtf usability-destroying wall/mini-feed mashup.

While I think the new design lacks elegance, the extent to which some people are up in arms about this is ludicrous. It's as if Facebook were somehow contravening their human rights by having a layout change. Relax, you'll get used to it.

Having said that, I am a habitual 'back to the old Facebook' clicker.

ah, the lex and the pinefox, england's greatest tech pundits.

Finding old wall posts is a hell of a lot more hassle now.

Having said that, I am a habitual 'back to the old Facebook' clicker.

Not an option at this point, unfortunately.

I dig the design.

I'm still on the old FB, it let me click back. But it has started petulantly telling me that "soon the NEW facebook will be the ONLY facebook", the little shit.

new facebook has provided me with keen insight into what the internet must look like to grandmas.

kenan, how in the hell do you not have adblock installed?

unless I misunderstood your rant there...

Finding old wall posts is a hell of a lot more hassle now.

― chap, Tuesday, September 16, 2008 10:21 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

not really, just click on a button to see what u need to

this shit is better than the old one bcuz i dont have to see all your stupid fucking vampire bullshit in order to post on your wall

basically, all those annoying apps are now kept on one easily ignorable screen

After living with it for a few days, new Facebook >>>> old Facebook. The wall/status updates thing is so much more conversational now. I like having little discussions pop up between my friends on random topics.

what is 'adblock' and where is it?

It's somewhere outside Stockholm, I believe.

I like NoScript.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/-/40778818468?ref=nf

^^ who's this guy?

that would be dude who threw them shoes.

oh!

in the ongoing chronicles of "things you shouldn't learn through facebook," i learned that an acquaintance from high school has a baby. and is totally in love and obsessed with the baby. that's awesome! it's just strange because he was a slacker musician type in high school and i'm surprised to see him so excited about parenthood at age 23.

i still never know any of the "people you may know"

I do, but I suspect some of 'em wouldn't want a friendreq from me, heh.

one thing i've noticed is that people i know's parents are popping up more and more in the "people you may know" bullshit O_o

At least friending people via that People You May Know bar lets them, and everyone who sees the feed, know you found them via that way. I hated adding people and then thinking "I hope they know I just stumbled upon them and thought this would be convenient, and I didn't go FB hunting for an immoral amount of time after our last encounter just to friend them"

Fucking weird but I was browsing through my friends' pages and LO AND FUCKING BEHOND one of my friends (who's living abroad) is friends with an old classmate of mine (also living there). I mean what the fuck right? Facebook is showing me six degrees of seperation here.

Also I felt kinda creepy searching for a person I play tennis with but apparently she did the same so hey we're friends on there as well now. Felt like a frigging stalker but then discovered she had tried to find me which is hard cause my name is popular.

Dumb question but you know 'photos of you' ie ones that other ppl have uploaded and tagged... well can you rearrange these so that the most recent drunken shiny pics can be hidden at the back? Or are you stuck with them in 'most recent first' order unless you de-tag them?

The parents thing is hilarious. Even my mom has a Facebook, which I couldn't imagine happening ten years ago....

the parents thing kind of weirds me, but thankfully, my parents are...uh, dumb when it comes to the internet. my mom asked me at christmas what the difference between a web browser and search engine was.

ahem.

also, been reading lots of housing Craigslist posts, and lots of people now ask for myspace or facebook links when you reply, in the roomie-type situations. this makes sense, but for some reason, i don't remember this happening as much when i was younger and looking for an apt.

also, been reading lots of housing Craigslist posts, and lots of people now ask for myspace or facebook links when you reply, in the roomie-type situations. this makes sense, but for some reason, i don't remember this happening as much when i was younger and looking for an apt.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.53d2fb293d708cf32571d6ab8f4b3208.211&show_article=1

British man killed wife over 'single' Facebook status

notable excerpt:

The couple had been living apart since the previous month, said Fiona Cortese, a spokeswoman for the Crown Prosecution Service, which is responsible for prosecuting cases in England and Wales.

"Richardson became enraged when Sarah changed her marital status on Facebook to single and decided to go and see her as she was not responding to his (text) messages," Cortese said.

to say this is fucked beyond in an understatement :(

is an understatement

(yes the murder in any case is horrible. But the increased rage over Facebook status vs. reality just adds more creepiness to something already awfuo=l.)