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

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

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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.

number one shoplifting day too

Zuckerberg and George W. Bush are talking on my Facebook.

W. keeps needling Zuck for not having a college degree.

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/facebook.com

nevermind ^__^

(Horrible Young Woman)
:if i can get ____ _______ and _____ ________ to pay me back the $515 they each owe me it will be a god damn miracle! I am so fed up with people. All I want is my money and i can move on with my life!!!!
38 minutes ago · LikeUnlike · Comment

and sorry to put this on fb guys but when you dont answer my thousands of phone calls and texts i dont know what else to do
39 minutes ago · Like

____ ______: anyone else out there thinking that it's almost 2011 and we still don't have personal jetpacks? I mean c'mon scientists!

This could possibly be the most unoriginal post I've read on Facebook in six years.

The girl who did that is far from poor, too.

is anyone else on the new messaging system? so far, i think its a huge improvement over the other system

i rejoined but only for this new team i'm on and i already got friend requests from old acquaintances who i haven't talked to in 4-5 years.

ive had a lot of people venting about friends not paying back money lent show up in my feed recently too

nagl

solution: don't borrow or lend money from friends
I think some darling old sexpot said this in a pithier way.

Alternative solution: don't put your business out on the street.

But that wd make FB kind of useless to many ppl so Abb's solution is prob better.

I think it would be best to implement both.

Naming the names of people who owe you money, and making their name a linkable @ to their profile = nagl indeed

And the immediate "I'm sorry but when you don't get back to me, well, I just didn't know what else to do" defense is even more classic.

hey everyone ben jones just ran over my dog w/his car ON PURPOSE lol no j/k but he does owe me $15, dick

this cartoon shit is so tedious

But it prevents children from being abused. It has real world results!

At first, like 2 weeks back, it was just "hey change yr avatar to your fave 80s/kids cartoon for the weekend". That seemed like fun.

Then all of a sudden it turned into "CHANGE YR ICON TO AN IMPORTANT CHILDHOOD MEMORY TO RAISE AWARENESS FOR CHILD ABUSE" ... I beg yr pardon wut.

One of my bffs has changed hers to Homer strangling Bart, haw.