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

yeah when youve made people afraid to click links on yr website you have a problem

and i mean apps apps forget abt that

an app is likely to kill yr whole family

hahah what sort of power do the engineers at fb have

"why does this guy keep appearing in my fb feed?"

each feed is hand curated by an angry nerd

my new social networking platform pitch^

my favourite thing is ppl like my mother-in-law who refused to use paypal bc they're convinced someone is gonna steal all their money, but will happily click really dodgy links on facebook, despite repeated advice to the contrary.

somehow i "liked" or became a fan of three musicians i've never heard of. how is that possible? feel like someone's inside my facebook, liking bands.

this guy i'm friends with but have only met once just "liked" my chemical romance and it was so completely out-of-character that it made him rise hugely in my esteem, and this thread suggests that it wasn't him.

which is a relief because i like people to stay RIGHT WHERE THEY ARE in my esteem

ha. it is just a bit worrying, though. i feel somehow compromised. i haven't clicked on any weird links...i dunno.

facebook is really not very good at saying "so this other website is going to write on yr wall now, is this cool?", i have noticed - so it might be that kind of thing?

like, i voted for someone's remix in some competition, and that automatically went and wrote on my wall about it (as i was logged in to FB, tho didn't have it open), and obv i didn't notice for about a week because seriously who looks at their own wall?

so maybe some website somewhere took your click on a link to be a vote of confidence in some anono-dude and told FB about it and FB was like, awesome, let's log it, because after all we all want fully-joined-up 360-degree-deal online identities. Or alternately it was an angry nerd, trying to increase the number of dudes liking his mate's band.

There are some settings somewhere that have to do with linkage to outside sites that share w/FB I think, that you can turn off? I forget now, but I locked down/disabled everything I could think of ages back, have hidden/blocked every app that ever appeared and so on. OH also adblock plus on firefox is yr friend. No annoying ads in sidebars for me.

yeah i'm gonna have to go back and see that my previous locking-down hasn't been pried back open a bit...

because after all we all want fully-joined-up 360-degree-deal online identities

this terrifies me. i know it's an ever-encroaching reality but i mean you can end up seeing some pretty weird things in that online 360. i'm pretty sure i haven't enabled whatever thing sends likes directly to your profile, but i still keep a wide berth from those little "like" icons wherever they pop up.

I was on the FB last night, trying to track down people (didn't work, I have their addresses tho), with Amber on my right looking over.

She would inist on calling out "ooh, "Link up with single ladies in your area!" "

"Will you stop reading out the adverts?"

(wife is not a fb user, fill in the rest yerself)

I always assumed you only got those ads if you said you were single in yr profile?

Well, yr rong.

new messaging system is bobbins

...new messaging system?

yeah, they put messages on the funny round things you get when you've used up the thread on sewing machines.

I always assumed you only got those ads if you said you were single in yr profile?

― I only use this style of type when I choose it (DJ Mencap), Monday, March 21, 2011 2:59 AM (6 hours ago)

you get more of them if you're single

I'm listed as married, and I get them.

My daughter, clearly, doesn't get them.

I uploaded some pics and facebook was able to group all the pics that contained the same person

wauw

Wait woah what do you mean group them?

for tagging, like it found all the pics with person A and I could just tell fb it was that person and it tagged all of them

http://f.cl.ly/items/382j2C1A1X2Z0m1K1w0T/fbscifi.png

"those sci fi girls" ?

"man, I love me a Minbari chick"

God.
http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/9434/442011103758am.jpg

ah! wth?

the child clearly needs a worker.. !

has everyone else's friends started posting to Facebook less and less and Twitter more and more? for the people i know at least, this seems to be a really recent thing, but it's definitely happening

#no

people are firmly dug in to facebook as far as i can see

i should specify that the people i'm talking about are mostly, like, in the 22-24ish range

Yeah, Facebook getting a lot quieter ime.

except among 50+ people who still taken with notion of posting pix and saying lol

among people i know, there's actually been a lot of going back to facebook as twitter starts to get too...full (though nowhere near an abandonment of twitter)

facebook use def way down in my social world, mostly use it like email now. I don't think my close friends use twitter at all.

id like people to escape facebook but getting a bunch of people of varying it skillz to sign up for half a dozen websites that replicate what they already have going on facebook is kinda difficult

Twitter is good for the real time where is everyone whats happening right now type stuff - esp when you are out and different groups of people are at different things

id like people to escape facebook but getting a bunch of people of varying it skillz to sign up for half a dozen websites that replicate what they already have going on facebook is kinda difficult

even if i had the it skills for this (and maybe I do) I can't figure out what the benefit would be of visiting 6 different websites to replicate what one particular one does

the facebook killer is gonna have to do everything facebook does + something it can't easily add

wtf would that be, I dunno, that's why I'm not rich

i can see my FB dwindling to p. much invites to events and keeping in touch with family members and other people who never really got email. No need for a killer, just different services will do different parts well. There wasn't a single AOL killer that brought it down, and FB is closest to Aol.

Ugh. My mom joined facebook and friended me.

i pretty much told my mother "so not gonna happen" when she tried.

two of my muslim friends have halal facebook pages for their families (and they had to make up a bunch of fake "friends" to make them seem plausible too) and hidden real ones

I set up my mom's facebook account on the very condition that she not ever try to friend me and to relay that message to the extended family as well. I love em, but a few days a year socializing with them is plenty for me.