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

Kid died videotaping Notre Dame's football practice. His last words are in the pic.

Extremely windy on campus today. Apparently the tower he was up on blew over into the road and he was killed. Check out his last two facebook statuses. Terrible.

http://i52.tinypic.com/jjsnlv.jpg

O_O

the two comments at the bottom of that jpg are like the final immutable epitaph of social networking

Was leaving a "Happy Birthday" comment on a friend's wall today when I discovered what I guess is a new slightly creepy feature called "see friendship". This button (which appears w/your post on some walls) takes you to a page containing indexes of every wall post you've made w/that friend (and vice versa), every mutual friend, every mutual "like", every relevant photo you've appeared in or commented on, every event you attended together, and links for similar pages for both you and other friends, and other couplings of your friends.

I should also note this is not limited to your own friends, as you can also pull up pages for friends of friends.

i don't see it. the only thing i get is "see wall-to-wall". maybe it hasn't reached me yet.

dear fb, please stop putting my crushes in my top news feed

I haven't clicked on their profiles in forever and am ignoring them

thanks

hide them dayo!!!!!!!!!!

i don't see it. the only thing i get is "see wall-to-wall". maybe it hasn't reached me yet.

It might be the new version of w2w.

dear fb, please stop putting my crushes in my top news feed

I haven't clicked on their profiles in forever and am ignoring them

thanks

― dayo, Saturday, October 30, 2010 10:57 AM (2 hours ago)

and the photo memories thing made me realize - "Wow this guy sure takes a lot of pictures."

stop having crushes and your problem will disappear

there are worse problems tbh

So yesterday I see my good friend's girlfriend/fiance on the newsfeed and think "I haven't seen or heard from her in ages, I wonder how she's doing!"

And sure enough she's now in a relationship with another dude, and I do the whole whatisthis Idonteven thing. What's strange was that my friend lives in the mid-west now, but I talked to him a few weeks ago and he made it sound like they were still together, and now, well, she's out of our lives.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DQJPL9Yuq0

OK I'm now seeing this see friendship link too. If you go to someone tou knows profile there's a "view you and X!" link. And it gathers together every wall post, comment, tag, and anything else you had wit that person.

All on one tidy page.

OK, am I the only one that thinks this is just a bit beyond the pale?

Sorry my h key is busted so forgive my odd post.

yeah i have it now too

omg it says "browse friendships" and you can look at other people's

Yeah. Sure are a lot of Happy Birthdays Facebook has archived.

I don't really see the problem with looking at your own - they already had wall-to-wall histories available, and in 'photos' you could look at 'you and x'. But yeah, not sure about being able to browse other people's.

You can only see other people's who you could see anyway, it seems. If someone's locked to friends only views, no FOAFs are gonna see anything thru those links, nor are complete unknowns. I mean in a way it's kind of a neat archive.

What's with this Not Now thing for friend requests? Why is there no Not Ever? I've had to reject the same person 3 times now.

Not Now is the compromise for those of us who've been clamoring for an "I'm Not Entirely Sure" option

Why don't you just add them? Who cares?

Uh. Not wanting complete strangers to see your profile/posts/shit perhaps?

Oh yeah, true. Dunno why people'd post things they're worried abt people seeing, tho.

Well sure, but still.

Same reason you email people and don't just post it all on a blog?

While I'm moaning about FB - how long has it been possible to just add someone else to a group? Instead of inviting them? Cos that's really pissed me off today as well. Now I'm getting spammed by people I don't know in a group I didn't join. Obv I can just leave the group, but wtf?

people have been able to add you to groups w/o your consent since they recently relaunched groups

Not Now is the compromise for those of us who've been clamoring for an "I'm Not Entirely Sure" option

― guess I'll just sing dream on again (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, November 1, 2010 3:24 AM (6 hours ago)

But there is an "I'm Not Entirely Sure" option - it's called not doing anything about it. Or are there people that feel compelled to respond to everything?

Niles, at least 75% of the people who add me are complete strangers.

^^ same.

I've got two people on my list who seem to have seen (or searched for) my last name and figured that I was a New Age type, which I'm not. (Why did I add them? I add everyone.)

Niles, at least 75% of the people who add me are complete strangers.

― guess I'll just sing dream on again (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, November 1, 2010 6:51 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

says the GUY IN A MODERATELY WELL KNOWN BAND

so that's a reason that he SHOULD add all the strangers?

yeah i mean duh

xpost

Same here, but enough of them're cute girls that I don't much mind

god the only people who add me these days are family i've hardly talked to in years

"Like a Rhinstone Cowboy, getting e-mails and friend-requests from people I don't even know."

i dunno - there are a lot of updates I miss from people I care about because my friends list is kinda big - having a bunch of random people i've never met and probably never will meet, but who are friends of friends, would just add to the clutter.

Thats why I was adding ppl and just hiding their posts... then I decided that was daft, and I defriended a whole bunch of ppl (old ex workmates, people from an IRC channel I havent been on in 10 years, friends of friends Ive never met etc) and now I've basically stopped accepting requests unless I really know someone.

Way to have sex

yeah, i don't hide or defriend anyone really, unless they're someone that i have a major falling out with and seeing their name/pic makes me want to punch things, namely them.

Wow, today I got friend requests from a coworker at Taco Bell (worked there at age 16) and a coworker at Burger King (worked there for 3 weeks at age 19). And both people are at those respective places of employ. I love my home town.

http://gawker.com/5678843/facebook-ceos-halloween-treat

pretty otm

http://gizmodo.com/5679129/facebook-helps-predict-when-youre-likely-to-get-dumped

Facebook status updates can be creepy and revealing, but they can also help predict when you're likely to find yourself dumped. Naturally, there's good news and bad news to be found in the data.

...

Apparently David and his team looked at about 10,000 Facebook status updates and searched for patterns related to break ups. Their discoveries? You're very likely to get dumped on Mondays, right before Spring Break, two weeks before Christmas, and at some point before the summer holidays.

discovered what I guess is a new slightly creepy feature called "see friendship".

seeing this now too, also annoyed that i can't hide "elections" posts

Gap will give away 10,000 pairs of free blue jeans for the first 10K people to check in to Gap on Facebook Places.

'x number of sleeps till I do something fun' SHUT UP