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

"Can I delete an individual message from a conversation?

At this time, you cannot delete an individual message from a conversation. You can, however, archive or permanently delete an entire conversation."

Wow

there goes my job in UK data entry.

"At this time you cannot delete individual files from your computer. You can, however, choose to set your laptop on fire and then throw it in the pool."

my pool is dead my clouds are free.

#howthefutureshouldbe

Wait, there's more!

Will applications be able to message me through the new Facebook Messages?

When you use an application, that application must request permission to message you through Facebook.

The new Facebook Messages also gives you a variety ways to control which messages actually reach you.

It goes against Facebook policy for developers to access Facebook information without permission, including usernames or user IDs. That said, we know that we can’t prevent this in every case. Some things to keep in mind:

* Facebook aggressively prosecutes spammers.
* Facebook employs sophisticated spam-prevention systems.
* New Messages gives you ways to control which messages reach you.
* Setting up a Facebook email address is optional.

so the short answer is "of course they can."

I hope there is an app so spammers can send this junk straight to my phone.

i want facebook to be able to text me with all my friends' daily horoscopes and tarot readings

feel like 'apps' is where facebook has fucked up the worst and they should just start over

we should build this into ILXAPI so that all your friends get "Your friend posted an answer on ILX! Post your answer now!" or "Your friend SBd l0u1s jagg3r! Why not SB someone now?" messages 24/7

^^8080^^

Wonder if they're relying on the computer-illiterate texting their friends via some FB shortcode phone service instead of via IM as a means to make this thing profitable?

Would happily give out a FB number that ppl could text to get me. SMS being linked to exactly one handset is shit

like my google voice number, except with more farmville.

wendy wants you to water her crops

is this a booty call or

*throws phone in the ocean*

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meNKYnYmn8E

dudes watch this one all the way through ok^

A guy I used to work with has this as his profile picture.

http://i51.tinypic.com/2i0rprt.jpg

Ive seen a few ppl post/say that on FB before, like they were being hilariously clever.

rmde

At least it doesn't involve flowers and bees.

Darragh Mc**** to Mike Mc****: ayo what does ur birth month say about u

Darragh Mc**** lol he replies 2 these by text lol n00b

Mike Mc**** jeez.... fine. that the withdrawal method doesn't work.

Darragh Mc**** aw man ffs

Mike McH*** you should know better

Hello pastor! Im from South Africa and I hope that you can help me. I am really scared. I have just learned that someone is using witchcraft on me and that my first name isnt really mine. The name was passed down to me after birth coz she had passed and she was a witch and wants her name back,but its not that easy . Th...e problem is that these people are tryna ruin my life. I was once happy,but now my life is a burden-even to me. I know that suicide is not an option,but I cant help thinking that it is probably best. I know that God loves me-He really is all I have-but with all thats taken place,sometimes I wonder. I dont know what it is that I want you to say,bt thanx 4 taking the time to read

...

Miss Lonelyhearts to thread?

http://gawker.com/5691841/when-facebook-ceos-was-publicly-obsessed-with-asian-girls

loool

really <3ing Sean Parker's self-description

# About Me:

The pic at left is from my Charlie Rose appearance. At risk of being immodest, I'll leave the descibing to others:

Rolling Stone called me 'animated and cerebral.' The RIAA told the 9th Circuit that I was 'a fox guarding the hen-house.' Eminem called me, and this is a direct quote, 'a little bitch.' The ever-whiny Scott Stapp from Creed claimed I was 'stealing bread from his children's mouths.'

And last but not least, Jonathan Abrams, the founder of Friendster, said I look like Kevin Bacon. How ironic.

and it's amusing to me just how much the movies and music sections are of their era (mid-2004).

Favorite Music:

the smiths, joy division, old U2, the notwist, sigur ros, the shinns, atmosphere, the cure, franz ferdinand, muse, postal service, the faint, jeff buckley, belle & sebastian, dave matthews, radiohead, bjork, thievery corporation, lamb, hotel costes, air, zero 7, emiliana torrini

Goodnight, sweet indie rock consensus monoculture...those were your last days. "Funeral" got a 9.7 and then gone done died.

I DONT MIND STEALING BREAD

Sean Parker, the guy who revolutionized music piracy on the internet, reppin for the corny indie rock in 2004.

http://i56.tinypic.com/2me4mqs.jpg

SMH, "we blew it" indeed

http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-and-myspace-schedule-joint-announcement-for-thursday-2010-11

This younger Zuckerberg listed "Asian girls" amid other interests like programming, playing guitar, quoting Top Gun and "defeating nemeses." It's unlikely Zuckerberg's present girlfriend, medical school student and fellow Harvard alum Pricilla Chan, would have found that bit of naked fetishization particularly charming,

LOL I love how this assumes his gf wont have seen this profile, wtf. If they can find it she'd know it exists.

it's taken the entire world seven years to notice; since she got together with him later in 2003, she may have managed to do this over several months of IRL meeting without feeling the need to see if he had profiles on every single dating site out there at the time

Facebook doesn't seem to want me to create new photo albums. Swear there used to be a little button to do this above your existing albums.

_____ ________ wants to know who came up with Black Friday? Isn't it kind of racist in 2010? Maybe we should call it "Precious" Friday instead.......:)~13 hours ago

'O' the people who'll friend you! The status update you'll read!

Wait, I assume black friday is something else in the US? It refers to bushfire deaths here.

i think it is like boxing day sales except after thanksgiving instead of xmas

o yeah thats right it is too.

Yeah, Thanksgiving falls on a Thursday, which is a national holiday, and people traditionally have Friday off, too, and then go and ruin a perfectly good day off by going to the mall to do all of their Christmas shopping.

but why "black"?

Because of the 4 am trampling deaths at Wal-Marts.

Okay, not really, but I don't have a serious answer for that question.

Amazon have just introduced Black Friday in UK. On a Monday.

When profit charts are made, going into the "red" means you're losing money and black numbers mean you're showing a profit.

Since the Friday after Thanksgiving is traditionally the most profitable of the day for retailers, it's called Black Friday.

pleasant plains OTM

Wikipedia isn't so sure

Origins of the name

Black Friday as a term has been used in multiple contexts, going back to the seventeenth century, where it was associated with a financial crisis in 1769. The earliest known reference to "Black Friday" in this sense was made by Trevor Mcwanda of the American Dialect Society, in a 1966 publication on the day's significance in Philadelphia.[13]
The term Black Friday began to get wider exposure around 1975, in two newspaper articles from November 29, 1975, both datelined Philadelphia.[14][15]

Accounting practice
Look up in the red or in the black in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
By the early 1980s, an alternative theory began to be circulated: that retailers traditionally operated at a financial loss for most of the year (January through November) and made their profit during the holiday season, beginning on the day after Thanksgiving. When this would be recorded in the financial records, once-common accounting practices would use red ink to show negative amounts and black ink to show positive amounts. Black Friday, under this theory, is the beginning of the period where retailers would no longer have losses (the red) and instead take in the year's profits (the black).[16]

No explanation of why it's sometimes called Green Friday.

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0804D&L=ADS-L&P=R5955&I=-3

*Philadelphia's "Black Friday"*

JANUARY 1966 -- "Black Friday" is the name which the Philadelphia Police
Department has given to the Friday following Thanksgiving Day. It is not a
term of endearment to them. "Black Friday" officially opens the Christmas
shopping season in center city, and it usually brings massive traffic jams
and over-crowded sidewalks as the downtown stores are mobbed from opening to
closing.

I'm sure there are a thousand other disambiguations of the term that include stock market crashes, bush fires and Donald Fagan, but as far as the answer to "Why do journalists and retailers call the biggest shopping day of the year 'Black Friday'?", it's because of the so-called profits.

I thought it was because Christmas shopping is such a miserable, bleak, dreadful experience but maybe I am projecting my shopping hate. Profits make more sense.

its def a lil ironic play on the connotations of 'black' tho - lol silly we were talking abt profits of course!

yeah, it's really totally racist

I thought it was because it was a black, horrible day for shop staff, haha.