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

Zuckerberg: "It's been really fun to experience sharing this content with you."

this is what google+ could have been

anybody else livestreaming the f8 keynote?

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

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, September 22, 2011 12:54 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

hoos i must admit to being a lil worried abt the effect washington dc is having on yr psyche

http://i.imgur.com/kjYo3.png

Some important news properties just ticked into Zuck's ticker.

like are you still 'keeping hoos weird'

The goal is to take everything we normally do on the rest of the Internet and bring it inside of Facebook.

The longtime goal of Facebook, and of founder Mark Zuckerberg—who was memorably profiled here by Jose Antonio Vargas as “an over-sharer in the age of over-sharing”—has been to build a separate Internet. (Also see Ken Auletta’s Profile of Sheryl Sandberg, the company’s C.O.O.) In the minds of people who work at Facebook, there’s the cold, confusing, open Internet that is managed by Google and its algorithms. You go there and you never quite know what you’re going to get. And then there’s the Facebook sub-Internet, where everything is kinder and organized by your friends.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/09/what-facebook-really-wants.html?mbid=social_retweet

hoos i must admit to being a lil worried abt the effect washington dc is having on yr psyche

― ice cr?m, Thursday, September 22, 2011 6:19 PM (46 seconds ago) Bookmark

ha i'm just at work and need something to half listen to

facebook wants to to be...aol?

aol with friends

I think that new timeline looks totally cool

James is posting on the "Can I say you're my girlfriend on Facebook?" thread on ilxor +1

Also cooking some rainbow shard.

facebook wants to to be...aol?

This has been their m.o. for years!

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1665049/a-visit-with-facebooks-vp-of-product-and-the-social-networks-redesign-team

Jxxx Rxxx · Riverside, California
give us old facbook back!

Kxxxxx Dxxxxx · Northwood
what is old facebook?? from 2004 with the weird wall and no photos? or when they added status updates? or tagging in posts????

Sxxx Gxxxx
the one from 2 days ago!!

I'm not the only one who finds this timeline thing overtly creepy, right?

Like Facebook has taken its whole skynet ethos and is now rubbing it in people's faces

Sxxx Gxxxx OTM

Totally creepy - saying things in public is one thing, having everything you've ever said obsessively graphed, mapped and made public is another.

havent you heard we live in the post privacy era where everyone sits at home alone silently judging each other

As someone who hasn't had a fb account in ~18 months, that video plays out like the opening scene to the darkest dystopian Hollywood flick ever.

the timeline of the timeline is kinda unsettling

http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?timeline

2011
July
Facebook reaches over 750 million active users

'reaches' is probably a safer term than 'catalogues'

'devours the souls of'

I totally agree Hoos, it makes me feel very uneasy.

i keep waiting for a status update to appear at the top that says "facebook becomes self-aware"

They have to be playing with the Terminator/Skynet similarity from the way they've done it, so I wouldn't be surprised. Just wait for the hilarious April 1st joke along those lines...

http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/22/how-to-enable-facebook-timeline/

just did this

pics or it didn't happen

i actually really kinda like it

http://i52.tinypic.com/152bxbo.jpg

def still buggy but in terms of function i am kinda digging it tbh

you have hidden a story

yah just a diff cover photo, looked cleaner without it sitting there

i tend to hide "has changed his profile photo" too

stealth mode

def strikes me as nagl that they just stretch photos to fit page at certain points

Wait so this new thing will be like a... blog?

(or a personal website to be more accurate? How 1998!)

technology is cyclical

lmbo @ "Enable developer mode"

i want timeline but would rather not go into dev mode tbh

Srsly is this just meant to be like a scrapbooking style personal webpage, like they did with Blogger and Geocities? Thats... fucking weird. Who wants that anymore?

In the context of the world's biggest phone book it'll be quite a bit more than just a wall of blogs imo.

wallobloggas

i.e. Blogger, Geocities etc. never had ~the social network~ underpinning their pages xp

Tru that. Livejournal did tho. Which is why this amuses the shit out of me.

(LJ has had a blog front-page and a friends news-feed since the early 2000s)

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Y-DLsZ5spak/Tca3y7vWW8I/AAAAAAAAAiQ/5E5eir_vzGA/s1600/2001.apes.jpg

LJ never had (a) 750 million users or (b) the corporate will to catalogue the shit out of 750 million people (correct me if I'm wrong)

Thats true, it hovers around the 50-60 million user mark, I think, and is not driven by ad culture at all.

You're not wrong.

Also, LJ (for all its sense of community) had no real functionality besides just being a blog.