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

i got used to the new last.fm so i shouldn't slag it off yet, but smooshing up news feed and wall is deeply baffling, and the extreme left-alignment is weird.

Having said all of that, it still owns My$pace amirite?

Fuck new facebook. Having everything nicely formatted on one page was perfect. I know they probably had their reasons for making the change, whatever they may have been, but the reaction has been uniformly negative as far as I can see.

Okay, I'll bite. I'm not a big fan of the new design, either.

it's total bollox.

It's 20 times better than the old one. I don't have to wade through pages and pages of SHIT anymore. Win.

i didn't have to wade through pages of shit anyway?

No, nor did I. I do now, it seems.

there are definitely things about that are good (clicking on "view photos of so-and-so" and getting to see all their albums at the bottom is nice), but they all seem like minor improvements compared to wtf usability-destroying wall/mini-feed mashup.

While I think the new design lacks elegance, the extent to which some people are up in arms about this is ludicrous. It's as if Facebook were somehow contravening their human rights by having a layout change. Relax, you'll get used to it.

Having said that, I am a habitual 'back to the old Facebook' clicker.

ah, the lex and the pinefox, england's greatest tech pundits.

Finding old wall posts is a hell of a lot more hassle now.

Having said that, I am a habitual 'back to the old Facebook' clicker.

Not an option at this point, unfortunately.

I dig the design.

I'm still on the old FB, it let me click back. But it has started petulantly telling me that "soon the NEW facebook will be the ONLY facebook", the little shit.

new facebook has provided me with keen insight into what the internet must look like to grandmas.

kenan, how in the hell do you not have adblock installed?

unless I misunderstood your rant there...

Finding old wall posts is a hell of a lot more hassle now.

― chap, Tuesday, September 16, 2008 10:21 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

not really, just click on a button to see what u need to

this shit is better than the old one bcuz i dont have to see all your stupid fucking vampire bullshit in order to post on your wall

basically, all those annoying apps are now kept on one easily ignorable screen

After living with it for a few days, new Facebook >>>> old Facebook. The wall/status updates thing is so much more conversational now. I like having little discussions pop up between my friends on random topics.

what is 'adblock' and where is it?

It's somewhere outside Stockholm, I believe.

I like NoScript.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/-/40778818468?ref=nf

^^ who's this guy?

that would be dude who threw them shoes.

oh!

in the ongoing chronicles of "things you shouldn't learn through facebook," i learned that an acquaintance from high school has a baby. and is totally in love and obsessed with the baby. that's awesome! it's just strange because he was a slacker musician type in high school and i'm surprised to see him so excited about parenthood at age 23.

i still never know any of the "people you may know"

I do, but I suspect some of 'em wouldn't want a friendreq from me, heh.

one thing i've noticed is that people i know's parents are popping up more and more in the "people you may know" bullshit O_o

At least friending people via that People You May Know bar lets them, and everyone who sees the feed, know you found them via that way. I hated adding people and then thinking "I hope they know I just stumbled upon them and thought this would be convenient, and I didn't go FB hunting for an immoral amount of time after our last encounter just to friend them"

Fucking weird but I was browsing through my friends' pages and LO AND FUCKING BEHOND one of my friends (who's living abroad) is friends with an old classmate of mine (also living there). I mean what the fuck right? Facebook is showing me six degrees of seperation here.

Also I felt kinda creepy searching for a person I play tennis with but apparently she did the same so hey we're friends on there as well now. Felt like a frigging stalker but then discovered she had tried to find me which is hard cause my name is popular.

Dumb question but you know 'photos of you' ie ones that other ppl have uploaded and tagged... well can you rearrange these so that the most recent drunken shiny pics can be hidden at the back? Or are you stuck with them in 'most recent first' order unless you de-tag them?

The parents thing is hilarious. Even my mom has a Facebook, which I couldn't imagine happening ten years ago....

the parents thing kind of weirds me, but thankfully, my parents are...uh, dumb when it comes to the internet. my mom asked me at christmas what the difference between a web browser and search engine was.

ahem.

also, been reading lots of housing Craigslist posts, and lots of people now ask for myspace or facebook links when you reply, in the roomie-type situations. this makes sense, but for some reason, i don't remember this happening as much when i was younger and looking for an apt.

also, been reading lots of housing Craigslist posts, and lots of people now ask for myspace or facebook links when you reply, in the roomie-type situations. this makes sense, but for some reason, i don't remember this happening as much when i was younger and looking for an apt.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.53d2fb293d708cf32571d6ab8f4b3208.211&show_article=1

British man killed wife over 'single' Facebook status

notable excerpt:

The couple had been living apart since the previous month, said Fiona Cortese, a spokeswoman for the Crown Prosecution Service, which is responsible for prosecuting cases in England and Wales.

"Richardson became enraged when Sarah changed her marital status on Facebook to single and decided to go and see her as she was not responding to his (text) messages," Cortese said.

to say this is fucked beyond in an understatement :(

is an understatement

(yes the murder in any case is horrible. But the increased rage over Facebook status vs. reality just adds more creepiness to something already awfuo=l.)

I have yet to join the facebook cult. I don't want to enable strangers to measure my degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon. :(

Wife murdered for Facebook status
A man murdered his estranged wife after becoming "enraged" when she changed her marital status on Facebook to "single".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/staffordshire/7845946.stm

Edward Richardson, 41, of Mayfield Road, Biddulph, was found guilty of stabbing Sarah Richardson to death.
He killed the 26-year-old hairdresser at her parents' home in Brown Lees, Staffordshire, on 12 May, 2008, Stafford Crown Court heard.
Richardson tried to kill himself after the attack and was sentenced to life with a minimum of 17 years in prison.
Fiona Cortese, of the Crown Prosecution Service, said: "Richardson became enraged when Sarah changed her marital status on Facebook to single and decided to go and see her as she was not responding to his messages.
"He gained entry by breaking the front door window and made his way into the property.
"Once inside he found Sarah in her bedroom and subjected her to a frenzied and brutal attack with a knife and then attempted to take his own life.
"We hope that today's guilty verdict will go some way to easing the pain of Sarah's family and friends after losing her in such a violent and abrupt way."
In a statement, Mrs Richardson's parents, Beryl and Alan Boote, said: "There simply aren't the words to describe how Sarah's death, and the awful way in which she died, has affected us. We all miss her so much.
"Sarah was the loveliest daughter anyone could wish for. She was honest, loyal and sweet, and everyone loved her."

http://www.switched.com/2009/01/23/man-kills-wife-for-changing-facebook-status-to-single/

jeff @ Jan 26th 2009 2:59PM
she got wooped good...next time (well there won't be a next time) but if she was smart she would have asked his permission before putting single on her facebook profile....

http://www.mopo.ca/uploaded_images/repost-781096.jpg

my bad

"can i say you're not my girlfriend on facebook?"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/7874273.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/jan/31/facebook-sex-divorce

blog.facebook.com

There's a lot of content my friends have shared on Facebook that's pretty awesome. For instance, in the last few days I've seen photos from a friend's wedding, an article about U.S. President Obama's ongoing transition and status updates from a friend traveling in India.

We've just introduced an easy way to tell friends that you like what they're sharing on Facebook with one easy click. Wherever you can add a comment on your friends' content, you'll also have the option to click "Like" to tell your friends exactly that: "I like this."

Fuck's sake.

What facebook needs is a FUCK OFF option.

It's called "defriending".