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

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.

ad culture

You only have to be a marketing victim if you choose to. If/when the day comes that I'm so bombarded with advertising being worked into every function of facebook (from status hotlinks or watermarked images), I'll head for the door.

Yeah I use adblock and Noscript and hide/dont play all the apps and games. Except WWF. I like that one.

Okay, can you guys give me a simple list of what they're doing now?

Obviously there's this, but it's a little vague: The goal is to take everything we normally do on the rest of the Internet and bring it inside of Facebook. It's also one of the reasons I haven't yet taken to Google+ - this is exactly what I *don't want*. I want my different types of internet usage to be separate. I don't want my friends and my family and my work and my education and my email and my searching and my networking and my going to places in real life and my posting on message boards and my listening to music and my bookmarking of pages to be anywhere near each other unless I so choose, and no, circles and lists just won't cut it.

yah its funny the # of internet services people use has def increased since facebook has been trying to put everything inside facebook, i mean like good luck zuckerbergs

Yeah I use lastfm - I dont need a music tracking app in FB.

I use LJ - I dont need a blog elsewhere (not in fb anyway)

I've never felt the need to advertise where I am at any given moment, where I went to school, where I work, who my family is. WTF internet? Why do people happily list all that info?

I just got the facebook inside my facebook and I think eventually everything in my facebook should be a facebook

http://th409.photobucket.com/albums/pp176/khimmysaber12/gifs/th_matrix.gif

otm

I've never felt the need to advertise where I am at any given moment

I did the foursquare thing for a while until I realised there was literally no benefit to me at all in telling the whole internet that I was buying groceries.

Same goes from stuff like miso where you tell t w i what you're watching on telly.

No, the benefit is to the companies! And fuck that shit.

(mind you I spose I do that with lastfm, but thats different, dammit)

all those location services are just laying the foundation of the internet of things so they can sell themselves for like all the money

No, the benefit is to the companies! And fuck that shit.

― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Friday, 23 September 2011 10:26 (6 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

That's where Facebook and Google+ are now I think, trying to maintain the appeal of data gathering for users. There has to be a benefit and it has to be real and sustained, otherwise you don't get your data (and fb doesn't buy your start-up for US$18m)

oops xp to cr?m

It's the whole we-are-their-product-not-their-customers thing

well u know they say 'if u dont pay 4 the product u prob r the product' lol xp

ha

I started to type a post but I have no interest in a "career" as a social media pundit!

its true if u post something strategic looking itt mashable will lock u in their 'blogger room' look what happened to me

just avoid the term 'reach out' and you should be fine

its rly sad he wasn't a blogger before

scrabble updates in real time now!

So it seems part of this new rollout is ppl will be able to display updates of stuff theyre watching/using in Netflix, Spotify, Hulu and Rhapsody.

Not one of those things is available in Australia. LOL.

Yeah I was wondering how that was going to go internationally. One thing it will do is put pressure on the idiot copyright holders to join the 20th century.

Don't worry, I've heard they have a kangaroo-spotting app

http://plus.google.com/112063946124358686266/posts/HpG4ZDQz2dd

Can we get over Tom Anderson being some kind of pundit?

i'll never get over it