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

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

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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

Ugh I hate those. Even worse when they dont elaborate. "Three days omg!"

It's largely the ubiquity of the term 'sleeps' that riles me.

just read this status update:

food (words) for thought: y'all ever notice that "lol" looks like a dude who's drowning? I don't think he's laughing out loud. lol

http://i55.tinypic.com/2pz9nr6.gif

http://holycrapthatsfunny.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/drowning.jpg

Gmail RIP?

http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-email-2010-11

just came here to post about that

Given Facebook's miserable record with privacy issues and their tendency to force "features" on users, there is no way I will use Facebook email. I get creeped out enough when Google starts serving ads based on the content of my emails.

Is Facebook going to offer Docs, Maps and a Voice service? No? And even if they did, would I want my semi-private stuff anywhere near Facebook's security record? No.

I don't think Google needs to worry (yet).

i havent used it yet, but doesnt their new groups functionality offer rudimentary group editing of some sort?

"Lifeguard Sleeping, Girl loling"

and a major problem with facebook e-mail will be that most of the people we give our e-mail addresses to are not people we want to necessarily know on Facebook.

I hadn't even thought about that but so so OTM. Here, potential employer, have my resume and a link to my FB page so you can find out the color of my soul, my favorite TV shows, and which of Henry VIII's wives I am most like.

"A fellow fan of 'Columbo'? Oh, I can't let this applicant slip away."

Given that Facebook has already replaced email for many younger Internet users--and become the "start-page" and communications hub for many of the rest--it makes great sense for Facebook to offer a full-fledged email product to become the very thing it made irrevevant.

*irrelevant,

although irrevevant, too