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

facebookquestions.tumblr.com already taken :(

kinda hate how FB knows which friend I'm looking up the second I type the first letter or two of their name. Also hate how well it recommends photo albums/pictures to me.

Am I that obvious, FB?

I'm telling you, this thing is clever.

why does facebook show me when my friends comment on people's pages that aren't my friends

Because Facebook thinks you might be interested and the people whose pages your friends are commenting on have rather lax privacy settings.

thats crap

Sorry.

god - the photo album suggestions - uh, yeah ...

Yeah I dont see too many comments to other ppl I dont know's walls, most people I know must be fairly locked down. Or maybe its that I never look at Top News, morelikely.

The photo memories are doing my head in. For 2 weeks now it's been pitching photos at me of a cute friend of my housemate's that I met a couple of times and had told I didnt wanna date. It made me lol, so I told him about it and now we're talkign to each other heaps hahaa. Uh. Thanks, FB? :/

photo memories gives me a steady stream of former crushes

Oh yeah I get mr cheaty ex in mine all the time :( But, cest la.

you're fb friends with mr cheaty ex? you are one strong woman, trayce!

Geez, the photo memories. I was showing an old friend from out of town some pix of people I'd been telling her about and one of those came up of someone I said I'd liked. I commented that since they launched the function, most of the pix that came up had been of her. Not knowing better, I'd click on it and suddenly I'd be on a "Choose Your Own Adventure" tour of my romantic failures.

photo memories gives me a steady stream of former crushes

this.

you're fb friends with mr cheaty ex? you are one strong woman, trayce!

We still get on fine actually! I dont see him much, but its all good. I dont like to harbour ill will to people, it makes me ill.

hmm - i get on fine with my mr cheaty ex - but that is largely due to me not being fb friends with him and keeping contact to a minimum

Yeah I can totally understand that's good to do. I mean sure my thing means I see the occasional photo I dont care for but its all good. I'm practising metta.

I've been actively not visiting the profiles of my crushes and former crushes to let facebook know that I don't want to see their stories in my top news feed anymore, goddamimt

Coming soon to FB: "People You May Be Crushing On"

yes -- my photo memories 10% comprise photos taken on the vacations of a couple i know. the couple is my ex (and former best friend of many years) and the girl he dumped me for in a very very horrible style

wait not 10% -- that was a typo. ONE HUNDRED PERCENT

did he dump you via text message?

^^ dumb joke. But yeah - this photo memories thing - it makes me feel like a subject of a scientific experiment on small-brained organisms' ability to avoid pain

worse!

haha, i just signed in and there were THREE photo memories from that couple

I'm not complaining too much, most of the pics it is sending me at the mo are of a hot guy I have a bit of a crush on, who I'm gonna hang with this w/e so that suits me fine lol.

photo memories gives me a steady stream of former crushes

really weird i just told my ex-gf (on and off since high school) this morning that she shows up in my photo stream more than anyone else. something going on here...

trayce shows up in mine all the time, and we never dated. fishy!

IT KNOWS WHAT HAPPENED

j/k

http://waxidermy.com/bbs/images/smilies/spy.gif

wondering if it works the other way too. like if I visit your profile a bunch of times will my shit start showing up in your news feed? (even if you never visit my profile)

I actually assumed/wondered if thats why the little lefthand panel in yr profile that shows Friends and has pics of 6 random ones, wasnt random but was 6 thatve recently looked. Who knows tho.

It's not random but it's people that have the most mutual friends with you, I believe. Same thing when you're on someone else's profile and their "random six" are usually people you also know or have friends in common with.

Ah, that makes some sense. I just find it odd that for some weeks, the same ppl wil always crop up, then for no reason, someone else will start to constantly appear who never did before.

I don't have the friends sidebar in my facebook

oh, you mean when you're looking at your own profile?

Yeah on yr own profile.

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man, "photo memories" totally keeps rubbing former flings in my face

like, quit it, for real - that shit is way distracting

"Photo memories" has never given me anything but pics of my siblings being goofballs.

thankfully photo memories is super ignorable

Has anyone else noticed that friend requests pending have accept/not now instead of accept/ignore - and you can't get rid of the rejects now, they're just 'hidden'.

Yeah, and apparently hitting "not now" lets pending people look at your stuff until you make The Big Decision about them.

But on mine, it's like I'm not allowed to make that decision at all.

Not now doesn't let them see private stuff, but they will see anything that's public (this can be more than you think)

If you go into the requests page you can delete all hidden requests.

i got my first parental friend request a week or so ago. it's in limbo but so not gonna happen. they haven't mentioned it since.

It's not random but it's people that have the most mutual friends with you, I believe. Same thing when you're on someone else's profile and their "random six" are usually people you also know or have friends in common with.

I'm looking at the sidebar now, and it has shows one person with whom I have 57 mutual friends, and another one with whom I have 3. So this doesn't seem to be true.

three or four of the six will be people you have mad friends in common, and then two are randoms. That's almost always the case.

I have alternate facebook accounts that I use to check what can be seen on my main one, just to make sure I'm not leaking

Not now doesn't let them see private stuff, but they will see anything that's public (this can be more than you think)

I've said this before somewhere but this confuses me - if the stuff is public, anyone can see it anyway, regardless of wether they friendreq you or not, right?

I dont think ive ever made a "public" FB status update. Mine are all locked to "friends only", with a subset filter applied so that certain family memmbers/ppl I dont know are locked out totally and never see anything I say.