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

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

i sent them based on your wdyll photos

I never have anyone weird pop up on 'people you may know' but I *did* get someone I knew suggested on Twitter, which was strange because we don't follow any of the same ppl, no longer live in the same country, and neither of us tweet much at all. How did they know?

been getting a lot of geographically estranged strangers too

u fuckin up, algorithm!

mine is just ilxors and people I vaguely knew in hs

My ex and I agreed to not be friends on facebook after she joined (a few years after I had been on it and even longer since our breakup). I think she uses a fake name or has me blocked (she told me she's got it set so I'd never find her, but didn't elaborate, and out of curiosity I've tried) but despite having zero mutual friends she says I pop up in her PYMK constantly.

it's fuckin spooky.

I think they might suggest people who you look at a lot on fb?

mine is just ilxors and people I vaguely knew in hs

― iatee, Wednesday, September 14, 2011 11:48 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^^

mine is just ilxors and people I vaguely knew in hs

― iatee, Thursday, 15 September 2011 05:48 (7 hours ago) Bookmark

as in it pointedly isn't people you know irl atm? or maybe you just only know ilxors & your high school alumni. i would be pro extracurricular ilx fraternity but high-schoolers deter me from using fb

no it's just my college and post-college friends aren't generally part of a shared medium-sized network. (maybe if I went to a smaller college that would be the case.)

right, okay. i think one level it would appeal to me more on the level of being a totally disparate group of people, & then on another it'd be just even more levels of anxiety about who to share with etc.

Have they taken away the option to send emails out to guests of an event? I can't see it anywhere?!

Oh, I certainly hope so! Nothing more annoying than someone inviting me to their stupid event and then spamming me w/ emails for the next 3 weeks about it. I know I could just hit not attending to stop getting them but a) too many events to go through each one every time and hit not attending and b) i really don't want to offend ppl.

it's next to the 'edit event' button at the top, no?

my PMYK is about 70% ilx/ex-ilx, the rest mostly strangers.

no it's not there. how strange.

you sure you're an event admin?

i created the event, so...

you might have been usurped! TRUST NO-ONE

No more "insert a link" to posts?

I guess I could copy and paste it, but there used to be a button.

Also, now they're letting people subscribe to your feed even if they're not your friend? Because Google + is working so well, Facebook has to copy that part?

I miss my geocities page.

maybe it's a workaround to the maximum friends amount feature?

I've seen people using Google+ feeds as ad hoc blogs/activity feeds, so I'd imagine that's what they're trying to emulate.

new shitty email update thing telling me I missed something someone else liked wtf

Hi Gerry,
You haven't been on Facebook for a few days, and a lot happened while you were away.

______, ____________, ______, and 4 other friends have posted statuses, photos and more on Facebook.

You have missed some popular stories:
_______, _______ and __________ like ________'s photo.

___________ likes __________'s status.

Thing is, I was on Facebook yesterday.

facebook now has 'smart lists' which are pretty useful imo

they list all the people who are not on facebook

those people are pretty smart.

o jeesus theyve gone and shitted the whole thing up again

everyone on my minifeed seems to be agreeing w/ that statement but I'm not seeing anything as of now