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

Ben Parr is a technology journalist, web entrepreneur and aspiring world changer. He is best-known as the Editor-at-Large of Mashable, the world’s largest independent news source dedicated to covering digital culture, social media and technology. Ben focuses on technology trends, the companies behind them, and the intersection of technology, media and society. Ben's 3+ year career with Mashable began when he joined as a writer in August 2008.
http://7.mshcdn.com/wp-content/authors/Ben%20Parr-611.jpg

Facebook Music is launching tomorrow. This, everyone knows. But not everyone knows exactly how it will work, since Facebook been tweaking things right up until launch. But tonight one Facebook employee accidentally revealed one killer feature of the service.

Ji Lee, the creative director that Facebook stole away from Google in April, sent out the following tweet earlier:

The “Listen with your friend” feature in ticker is blowing my mind. Listen to what your friends are listening. LIVE.

Within minutes, Lee deleted the tweet, but not before Mitchell Holder grabbed a screenshot.

I've still not received a download archive of my identity.

Wow its been hours now, right? Blimey. I dont think my data allowance can cop that.

That's overnight. I requested it late last night, now late the following morning here...

Yeah ok thats too much hassle for me, especially if thats a steady flow of data :/ I get free internet from work, I dont wanna take the piss :(

Turns out the download was ready, but there wasn't a notification. I assumed that I'd get an email or message or such to tell me.

I just returned to the 'Account Settings' and there was a download link - 59MB of gubbins.

I did it a while back and it took a couple of hours. that was mainly b/c it downloaded copies of every photo I had ever uploaded, plus a video or two. I've deleted the archive now but IIRC it came through as a zip file which when unzipped had a single long text file of all my updates, plus the photos and videos as separate files. I seem to recall though that it only had the status updates, not the shares, links and whatnot.

It comes as a series of .html files and .jpg photos by the way, so you simply navigate the static, mainly bare text, pages in a browser. The full message history and the entirety of your own wall in an easily searchable format may be interesting/useful/depressing to some.

there's also a third party app called "get old status" which does more or less the same thing

Oh ok 59mb is nothing! I might play round with it on the weekend.

My first ever status update, on April 2, 2007 at 22:35 was 'surviving'.

I was shamelessly miserable at that point it seems, given the follow ups over the next couple of months.

Well, I've not got much on Facebook to download.

I've put that many anecdotes on here (ILX), having that as a download would be cool.

I have seen what Facebook is launching on Thursday, and it’s going to change the world of social media. And while I won’t talk about the mind-boggling things Facebook will be launching, I will say this: if i tell you what it is it'll make my hyperbole sound even more ridiculous than it already does.

Does the archive have photos you were tagged in, uploaded by others? I would *LOVE* to get my hands on that without doing it manually (got tagged in a couple hundred wedding photos!)

I just found my youngest daughter's facebook page.

Apparently, she used to work for The Beatles, and now works for NASA.

Not bad for an eleven year old..

haha

My 12 year-old son is currently employed as "Cleaner: gas station toilets - January 1955 to present" - his previous job was "selling cheap perfume in Burger King parking lot"

http://i.imgur.com/jLu9h.gif

Whoa, ILX children being all cool

I have seen what Facebook is launching on Thursday, and it’s going to change the world of social media. And while I won’t talk about the mind-boggling things Facebook will be launching, I will say this: if i tell you what it is it'll make my hyperbole sound even more ridiculous than it already does.

lol cr?me

Guys obviously this facebook export thing will work perfectly with Diaspora and we'll all be able to migrate our accounts to it in a month or two!

huh, yeah, would like that

oh thats weird, didn't see those last half dozen posts

facebookaphasia

I wouldn't like that because I think diaspora is a huge clusterfuck and I don't need them to hold on to a bunch of data facebook previously had :)

I still don't have this new fb feed that everyone hates, I feel left out

Total Heaven's Gate vibe from the hosts and their crazy waistcoats: https://www.facebook.com/f8?sk=app_283743208319386

anybody else livestreaming the f8 keynote?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/8781424/Facebook-F8-live-stream-from-conference.html

the "hosts" of the stream literally just fangirlishly debated whether or not zuckerberg would wear a hoodie while delivering the keynote

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/science/assets_c/2011/09/facebookpenetration-thumb-615x466-64075.jpg

That's what your girlfriend said

boom

http://i.imgur.com/Cj9nU.png

BREAKING... FACEBOOK TO INSTIGATE 'UNIFORMS' POLICY FOR ALL USERS. ENTER YOUR HOME ADDRESS TO RECEIVE YOUR FREE T-SHIRT

seriously how much money yall have and you wearin fuckin vests

you can afford a shirt

Clearly the way to your first billion dollars is by forcing women who should be on maternity leave to co-host webcasts.

here we go!

timeline!!!

it's the story of my life!

who am i, petey pay

pab

"a lot more visual" aka "a mess"

it looks like myspace

what the hell

hope we can disable the timeline :-)

wow

this sucks

what a way to stalk ppl

I don't understand I'm on facebook and nothing is streaming how do I watch this stream what is happening why how

I can't feel my facebook

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/8781424/Facebook-F8-live-stream-from-conference.html