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

Could Geocities have succeeded? I never really looked at it back then so I don't know how "social" it was, but it seems like it was a similar idea. And I think they were the largest of that type. Did getting bought by Yahoo kill it?

geocities did succeed, if you mesure success like i do by number of night sky background images rendered

number of webrings belonged to

The popup ad killed geocities iirc

Lex, Internet culture was mostly people who had been "authenticated," in a way. It was BBS culture and commercial on-line systems culture that brought anonymity and handles to the Internet world, for the most part.

I think I just found out my aunt died...c/o Facebook. I can't get a confirmation on this, though. :/

IMO you should call your loved ones to inform them of such things, and then once they've all heard it IRL, then post it on facebook. Bcz it just feels fake and weird finding it out that way.

My boss is very proud that Ari Up's husband heard about her death via his (my bosses) facebook post on it.

The worst one I ever got was a gmail, where the subject about a friend of mine and the first sentence was visible:

M--- E--------?: You probably already know this but M--- was killed in an accident today.

And no, I didn't already know about it.

There's no good way of finding out stuff, sometimes.

A friend's Facebook account disappeared. That's how I found out he had died. Better than getting a group email though.

1891: The Year Steampunk Broke

― Cunga, Monday, January 3, 2011 3:15 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

LOL I'm quoting you.

Last night I found out my cousin's character-actor grandfather died via an RSS feed. (sandwiched between, like, news about the pilot season and box office speculation)

Let's hear it for technology!

Bill Irwin?

Yeah. I always enjoyed watching him pop up on shows or, now that i think about it, John Hughes movies, and he seemed like he was playing "the old man" on sitcoms for about thirty years. Like an IRL Grandpa Simpson he seemed to have been a certain kind of old forever.

bill irwin died??

"The Regard of Flight" was a family favorite taped-off-PBS VHS tape.

RIP dude, you taught me the word "proscenium."

Dry your eyes.

Bill Erwin, Abbott. As in old man who snores next to John Candy in Planes, Trains and Automobiles; and lets Catherine O'Hara have their plane ticket in Home Alone.

OK.

First GIS result for him:

http://www.daxgraphs.co.uk/star%20trek%20tng/bill%20erwin.jpg

I helped my mom set-up her FB account over the holidays, and today, while she was giving me the list of people she "doesn't want looking at her FB" she ran into some trouble using the site and asked if I had a phone number for FB -- presumably so we could take the issue to Zuckerbro himself.

A lot of Facebook's problems could have been solved long ago if that phone number were available imo (esp: available to mothers)

Although I imagine some variation of "My son -- my own teenage son -- is refusing to accept my friend requests. Do you want to talk to him on the phone about what it means to respect your own mother?" would make up 70% of the calls from moms.

I set up my mom's account on the sole condition that neither she nor any of the rest of the extended family would try to friend me.

The other 30% would be:
"I'm trying to send a letter to my dear friend June from Palo Alto, she's sick you know...I type out my letter but every time I hit send there's no send button it says 'search'. How can I make it send? This thing is just so stupid I don't know who designed it."

My mum is passively aggressively resisiting Facebook, she's mad that my brother, sister and I all talk to each other behind her back.

http://images.icanhascheezburger.com/completestore/2009/1/1/128753557474209744.jpg

my parents have no idea how to use it. they both have like 10 friends, but they are befuddled by how to upload pictures, or fill in their information, or do pretty much anything.

in other words, they don't know how to use the internet.

It is not a small blessing that my mom hates social media.

Although at this point I'd be hard pressed to identify anything beyond Fox as liked-by-my mom.

i love when i see one of my aunts post a status update that's obviously intended as a comment/post to a specific person:

"Oh Sweetie! look how cute that is-- can't wait to see you next month!!"

My favorite pic of him seen today:

http://tommcmahon.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/martian2.jpg

xpost, my sister-in-law sends messages to reply to comments left on photos/wall, so I keep getting message which are just "yep, me too :-)xx" and similar.

My mum is passively aggressively resisiting Facebook, she's mad that my brother, sister and I all talk to each other behind her back.

― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 12:02 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

OH OH THIS

'er indoors put photos of us on fb, my aunt sees them and emails my father, who prints them and gives it to my mother, who goes APE SHIT because she didn't see them first. This has been going on for months.

My mother's particularly jealous of this (paternal) aunt so her whining is always cranked up to 11.

Of course all this would be solved if she just got a fb account but she refuses to use computers or the internet (as recounted in other threads under my aa acct, probably).

put = puts

Hoax That Facebook Is Closing Goes Viral
Rumors That Site Is Shutting Down on March 15 Have Spread Across the Web

Rumors that Facebook will be shutting down on March 15 have gone viral across the web, causing users to question what will happen to their photos and other content that they have shared on the world's largest social networking site.

The flurry of online chatter that the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company would shut down its servers comes just days after it had been valued at $50 billion after a $500 million infusion of cash by investment bank Goldman-Sachs.

The story seems to have been perpetuated by supermarket tabloid the Weekly World News, which Saturday published an article headlined "Facebook Will End March 15th!"

"Facebook has gotten out of control and the stress of managing this company has ruined my life," the tabloid said Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said in a press conference outside his office, "I need to put an end to all the madness."

The Weekly World News, which is known for stories on alien abductions and the infamous "bat boy," also reported that Facebook indicated that users should remove all of their personal information and content from the site by March 15. According to the article, after that all photos, notes, links, and videos would be removed.

Looking at trends across the web, including Google Trends and on Twitter, it appears that many are falling prey to the rumor mill.

A "Top Tweet" -- popular Tweets that have caught the attention of other Twitter users -- from a user named DaddySteak today reads: "Woww...they are shutting down Facebook on March 15,2011."

Hundreds of other similar speculations and rumors can be found across the micro-blogging site, with many users linking to articles perpetuating the rumor.

Facebook has yet to officially respond to the article.

lolololololololol

Waiting for the day FOX or someone run w/an Onion article.

from what i saw on twitter this is more joke than rumor

doesnt change the fact a lotta people are taking it seriously

are they tho are they really

call my mom and ask her. call her right now

i should call yr mom i should

my mom heard the post office is losing so much money that they're gonna charge u five cents each time u look at facebook

lol gullible facebook users

I'd say seeing as Snopes ran on this just y'day then yeah people are taking it seriously.

it was time for another "facebook wants to be your one true login" disaster

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=facebook+down ?