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

I think it may be just comments on status updates - I commented on a friend's bifurcated cock status the other night and it appeared on my wife's news feed despite him not being on her friends list.

I get this in the 'top news' feed but not the 'most recent'. Lots of telling me that friend X likes the link of non-friend Y and such.

oh hey, i think youre right! I never look at top news cos it is so cut down and pointless, but I just did then, and wow, I'm seeing few things I wouldnt usually - yes, wall comments to people I dont know. Hrm. Curious.

seeing A few things, sorry.

Yeah, that's what happens in top news. I don't really think there's anyway to change that on your end Abbott.

But if he switches to "most recent" view he shouldn't see that anymore.

It's really weird being Facebook friends with two people who had a fight in high school and never spoke to each other again. Then again that is what it was like in high school.

It's really weird having 20+ mutual friends with someone who has decided never to speak to me again, and having her avoid me on friends' comment threads. She's really sticking to her guns. I pissed her off right and proper, apparently. About 12 years ago. At what point does this become petty on her part, I wonder?

I guess I will just have to stop saying things that I wouldn't want 100% of my friends to read.

They're not even cock-related things, fwiw.

I just added anyone who I don't expect to understand my jokes (i.e. family, people I knew in elementary school who added me) to a list and changed the privacy settings for that list so they can't see anything I post or comment on, nor any of my other friends that aren't on the list's comments.

I guess I will just have to stop saying things that I wouldn't want 100% of my friends to read.

― full of country goodness and green pea-ness (Abbbottt), Friday, August 20, 2010 12:18 PM

this is what i do. stopped using friends lists a while back

u s steel, yeah, that is weird. also weird to have someone unfriend you and then three years later friend you again, tho you've barely talked since the unfriending occurred.

New feature I hate: when you're going through photo albums there will sometimes be, to the right, a sort of "since you're always snooping on this person's page, here's a photo album they're in that you might want to try looking at when you're done with this one!" suggestion.

That's the next evolution in Facebook, the site will suggest clever ways of stalking and snooping that users haven't already figured out.

this is related to the newish "friends online" sidebar - that shows a handful of "key" friends' online status

Hasn't that been around for ages? I use that a lot for chatting to mates.

it's been around a while - but it used to just list everyone in alphabetical order - now you have the option of the full list at the bottom right or this side bar with the select few

I wouldn't be surprised if someday we might see features like:

"Susan just checked into Sam's Coffee, half a mile from your current location. Get yourself down there within 15-25 minutes and mention Joni Mitchell, her sister's upcoming birthday party and her new haircut. Wear a polo shirt and jeans." - Facebook Suggestions.

"You will have a 37% change of getting laid."

I can't wait!

Facebook Questions

Ask Any Question
Anyone can answer your question, which means you can tap into the collective knowledge of the millions of people on Facebook. And because your question appears right in your friends' News Feed, you'll also get answers personalized just for you.

Kinda nifty. Although judging by one of the first questions I see being asked: "Why is public opinion so out of step with the scientific consensus that anthropogenic climate change is something to be taken seriously?" we can now all look forward to seeing our close friends and family engaging in heated debate on divisive and hatred-inspiring issues. Can't wait!

I only ever see completely random (no one I know) questions/answers pop up. I dont know if anyone I know has used it. Oh except that one time JBR asked "how is babby formed", heh.

this is killing me with lols

R**** T****: The baby will be named Logan. Dont let Steffy or Stephanie babysit u know how they feel @ Logans. Jackie is crazy that man is going 2 leave u for his first born you moran
12 minutes ago · Like ·

One of my FB friends has just announced in a status updates that a "cull of his friends is coming". Should I be worried? Should I perhaps, like, report his posting to the nearest police station? He may have joined the Trenchcoat Mafia after all, and do you think I could live with the pang of guilt, like a millstone, if it turns out that he really is the next Michael Ryan, or Derrick Bird, or Raoul Moat? "The triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing", as Edmund Burke reminded us. Advice pls.

have had friends announce this before

screen grab for news of the world exclusive

facebook is so fucked of late...nothing is updating properly and it keeps losing huge chunks of statuses/photos

I hate ALL passive-aggressive Facebook updates and try never to write them myself.

Like when people write they are LEAVING Facebook FOREVER as of RIGHT NOW.

You shouldn't try and STOP THEM or anything.

yeah it seems really quite rude and attention seeking. cull away but there's no need to make a song and dance about it.

"top news" is so completely random these days. i can't work out why the bulk of it is on there.

I think if anyone I knew on facebook cared enough to announce a 'cull' they would get the culling first.

How's THAT for passive aggressive!

I would like to thank ILX for counseling me away from making a courtesy culling announcement. Nobody seems to have noticed that they are no longer my friend, or if they noticed, they didn't seem to care. Except for one dude who keeps trying to add me again, but he'll eventually get the hint.

I've done several culls, kept completely quiet about it, and suffered no repercussions. Definitely the way to do it.

I thought you could only send out one friend request to a person?

I don't have enough friends on FB to do a cull. One or two people have left FB for good, I think, and one person quits and rejoins on a regular basis.

Since I added him and then unadded him, it let him re-request me, and I ignored him. So by "keeps trying" I really meant "tried one time."

I've had someone friend request me twice, even though I ignored/cancelled/whatever the first time.

This one guy I barely remember from school kept going off FB, re-opening his account and requesting me again. After the third time I ignored him.

How long does it take for the system to delete your account after you cancel, BTW?

Until the internet breaks. From what I understand, it doesn't delete your account at all and keeps in on constant stand-by for reactivation.

And the guy you're talking about had to rerequest you?

Apparently so - maybe you have re-request everyone when you reactivate.

walk of shame

I add everyone and just put them in a list where they can't see anything I post at all.

sometimes I think the greatest act of 'terrorism' available to humanity would be to bomb the Facebook servers

greatest act of terrorism, greatest gift to humanity

tyler durden watch out

it would of course be an action by definition the opposite of terrorism

if facebook did not exist it would be necessary to create a fan page for it

Apparently so - maybe you have re-request everyone when you reactivate.

Strange--the person I'm talking about always has his friends list intact when he reopens his account.