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

xpost Whenever I've been overseas and tried to log in it has made me do that too.

xps to jon: it was doing that to me for a while too - just keep manually logging out and eventually it will stay that way (i think it dicked me around for a couple of days and now it just stays logged out).

I had it log me into chat with that sidebar for days on end, had to click every time I was on my FB tab to get rid of it. Finally it just stayed logged out but I nearly quit FB over that.

Seems to be that using the phone app resets your "unavailable to chat" chat setting to "available" the next time you use a computer.

so now since they've done the pages for liking bands and stuff my feed is full of crap about bands i like but maybe don't want nonsense updates about 10 times a day. is there a way to turn off all of those fan updates from showing up in your feed? all of them.

like big lebowski is a great movie but do i need the "movie quote of the day" from it everyday? def not.

those sorts of pages shoot themselves in the foot with that stuff - like, you just ending unliking the page, or hiding them from your feed. if they were a little more judicious about what they post, they'd probably reach a wider audience.

i am the admin for "sad stuff" and am happy to report i rarely make my 85 followers suffer an update

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sad-Stuff-/121540086682

ha, always thought that was ice cr?m doing that page!

lol

I've been getting posts from some of the bands I'd listed as "interests" way back when thats how it was done, for a long time. Some are obvious record label PR bullshit, so I just hid them from my feed (say YOUR prayers, Duran Duran), some of them are so pompous I cant help but leave them there for lols (Peter Murphy for eg) and some bands actually know how to use social media properly, for the power of awesome, such as TMBG who are GREAT.

The Prids use FB well too, they use it like a tour diary! Its so cute.

And TMBG are great lefty advocates, which pisses their right wing fans off hardcore, which is always great to read.

I ended up unliking a band (EITS maybe?) the other week because my entire feed was full of "EITS has created a new event" notifications meaning every single date of a mammoth tour spammed my feed all at once.

A friend has informed me that paragraphs have returned to the status box.

I didnt think they went away? You just had to hit shift-enter.

^ strange key combo

um

I though they made a good point

thought even

for some reason it creeps me out to see my friends' comments on the posts of people i don't know.

is there a chrome extension or something that will make them go away?

Is this the place to post about the facebook ILX group

ok wtf?? when i click the x next to a post there's no more "hide this person" just "hide this post" and "report post/spam"... uhhh???

oh nm you hide the post and then it gives you the option to hide all by them... ugh facebook blerg stop fiddling with my interface

Just uploaded some photos and had to rotate them, that was an absolute nightmare thanks to the new interface #firstworldproblems

A friend of friends (but not my friend) just invited me to something. How does that happen?

Hi Grady,
We're trying out a new feature to reduce the amount of email you receive from Facebook. Starting today, we are turning off most individual email notifications and instead, we'll send you a summary only if there are popular stories you may have missed.
You can turn individual emails back on and restore all your original settings at any time.
Thanks,
The Facebook Team

WOW, THANKS BIGGEST FUCKIN WEBSITE IN THE WORLD-- YOU FINALLY FIGURED OUT EMAIL

Starting Wednesday, users will begin seeing a Subscribe button alongside the “Message” and “Poke” button on Facebook profiles. The button gives you a way to follow the content others are posting without actually becoming Facebook friends with them. In a lot of ways, it’s like following somebody on Twitter.

This button works a bit differently based on whether you’re looking at a friend’s profile. If you subscribe to the profile of somebody who is not your friend, you will get access to his or her public status updates in your News Feed. You can fine tune what type of updates you see. For example, you could subscribe to my Facebook Page and choose only to see my status updates and ignore my game or photo updates.

If the user is your friend, subscribing gives you the ability to granularly control how much of his or her content enters your stream. If you want to see every post your significant other is posting to Facebook, you can set the Subscribe button to show “All Updates” in your News Feed. On the other hand, if you want to ignore one of your acquaintances unless he gets engaged, then you can select the “Only Important” option under the Subscribe button.

http://mashable.com/2011/09/14/facebook-subscribe-button/

"Starting today we realize how awful our website is and are finally relinquishing some power back to you, the users..."

I had it set to no email ever already so the email telling me they wouldn't be emailing me so much anymore? Ironically the first email I had gotten from fb in months.

Yeah, same.

i get emails from fb, because there've been so many times it's been buggy and not shown notifications when i'm logged in. it can prove "interesting" when i get emails for comments that have been deleted due to drama

^ the only reason i keep emails on

How much drama do you guys see on FB?! I feel like I rarely, if ever, see any.

probably not enough to really justify getting everyone's comments emailed to me tbh

Yeah, I think that would drive me nuts. What does it email you? The comments of everyone on your posts or on posts you comment on? Both?

g+ is the best thing that ever happened to fb

ha

xp - both

Yeah I liked getting the emails for dramalama reasons too - never bothered me too much either way cos I had a gmail filter to send all facebook email to its own folder, auto-archived, so I never saw it unless I needed to look it up.

Good for searching for old updates as well, which isn't possible to do on facebook.

Yeah thats the one thing I've always found strange about FB. On livejournal you can look up yr archive by year, month and day, same with most blog platforms, but FB it is impossible, and that's annoyed me in the past. Still, I guess status updates were never meant to be used that way.

it drives me crazy.

like, why is it THERE if its so fucking impossible to GET TO IT?

it should auto-delete after 4 or 5 months imo

Totally.

I would enjoy the internet a lot more generally if it had the ephemeral nature of a face to face convo - you are never left with any proof.

the case for 4chan

i would buy and read "the case 4chan"

today i've been getting in my "people you may know" about a half dozen different girls who i have no mutual friends with, all have "hawt/sexxy" profile pics and according to the "works at" part of their info, are cocktail waitresses at different ritzy las vegas night clubs....

is this some kind of marketing campaign that gets around the fact that i block all ads on facebook?

maybe facebook is giving you suggestions purely based on your facebook photos