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

You don't want me seeing comments on your friends' posts? Then why are you my friend?

So you think you should be privy to what your friends say to their friends who aren't your friends? Why?
Why should e.g. my workmates see me congratulating a cousin on a pregnancy?

I didn't see all this FoaF shit a week ago - it's a change in Facebook, not in people's interactions with it, that has made all this visible on my feeds. That it was all viewable before if I'd made the effort to go look for it isn't the point.

I think showing people how much of what they post is visible to a LOT of people they don't know is a huge deal.

how many people have *finally* looked at their privacy settings and considered who should see what because of the ticker?

So you think you should be privy to what your friends say to their friends who aren't your friends? Why?

Because they said it in public? If you don't want it seen, don't post it in public! This "mouse over" horseshit is no solution at all, because if I do that I don't see comments to *mutual* friends either, which then destroys the point of Facebook.

The real problem here is like Kerm says -- people have absolutely no idea what they're posting in public vs privately on Facebook. They also don't realise that "Friends of friends" means thousands of strangers seeing posts or pictures you thought would just be to some friends.

Hopefully the result of this extra exposure of who is posting what will make people lock their profiles down properly -- eg, the exact opposite of what Facebook wants.

Well, I always assume 'everyone can see' when making FB posts.

e.g. I was going to say something about Judee Sill's "Jesus was a crossmaker" but I thought it might annoy some of my religious friends (they are, I'm not) or end up raising dialogue I don't have with them in real life (live and let live, we don't go there basically)...

FACEBOOK JUST RELEASED THEIR PRICE GRID FOR MEMBERSHIP. $9.99 PER MONTH FOR GOLD MEMBER SERVICES, $6.99 PER MONTH FOR SILVER MEMBER SERVICES, $3.99 PER MONTH FOR BRONZE MEMBER SERVICES, FREE IF YOU COPY AND PASTE THIS MESSAGE BEFORE MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. WHEN YOU SIGN ON TOMORROW MORNING YOU WILL BE… PROMPTED FOR PAYMENT INFO...IT IS OFFICIAL IT WAS EVEN ON THE NEWS. FACEBOOK WILL START CHARGING DUE TO THE NEW PROFILE CHANGES. IF YOU COPY THIS ON YOUR WALL YOUR ICON WILL TURN BLUE AND FACEBOOK WILL BE FREE FOR YOU. PLEASE PASS THIS MESSAGE ON IF NOT YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE DELETED IF YOU DO NOT PAY

YOU MUST DO THIS NAKED WITH YOUR WEBCAM TURNED "ON"

Can you sign up for Spotify without Facebook?

I did?

Yuk. Boo Spotify.

You can't anymore.

Because they said it in public? If you don't want it seen, don't post it in public!

That it's not explicitly private doesn't and shouldn't mean it's intended to be "public" - that it is is mostly down to the ignorance of users. Their ignorance doesn't make it ok for Facebook to decide to blast their shit all over the internet.

I lock down my profile and posts to friends only. I wish other people would too but I can't control friends never mind friends of friends so I'm stuck seeing all this shite that I was completely oblivious to before. That if Facebook's fault, not some half cousin twice removed's former coworker.

You know that "I couldn't help overhearing what you said there" guy in the office? Facebook wants us all to be that guy. Fuck that guy.

people having mundane-as-shit boring conversation loud enough so everybody can hear. facebook wants everyone else to know how boring and loud your conversation is. Please stfu.

i don't really mind and i'll be shocked SHOCKED if they don't add an option to turn off the ticker within a month but people need to pay attention to who can see what they're posting...

I must admit, I didnt give a rats this stuff was in the ticker but does it have to be in the *feed* as well? Thats where I dont want to see shit by ppl I dont know. It was able to filter that out before, why not now?

Oh man I sure can't imagine facebook changing or tuning this at all!

The irony of the fact we're ranting on about this on a completely public board that is Google-indexed hasn't escaped anyone, yes? Or the fact that it's a lot of random chatter with all people basically saying that the general public doesn't get this, and the openness doesn't appear to have changed that, and we all know facebook is a business, so...

It also does not escape my irony detector that I just posted this.

~we are the same as the facebook live feed but there is no muting on ilx~

at least none of us had sex with a piñata

i thought about the ticker being sort-of the equivalent to Site New Answers..

except with SNA you could remove entire boards from your view of it.

But you can't screen people! There are only so many months certain ilxors can leave the site or contain themselves to certain boards before they jump back into my line of sight

(batsignal)

sorry about that, mh

you can unsubscribe from whole lists in the ticker so..

I would double down on your posts, sarahel. I may give you crap but I definitely enjoy them.

on ilx, I mean. I only look shifty-eyed at people on facebook and put on airs while hovering over the "add friend" button

or maybe you can't... a pain in the ass either way

~we are the same as the facebook live feed but there is no muting on ilx~

― so i had sex with a piñata (mh), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 02:59 (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

~we are the same as facebook except that we currently have 22 active users.~

I must admit, I didnt give a rats this stuff was in the ticker but does it have to be in the *feed* as well? Thats where I dont want to see shit by ppl I dont know. It was able to filter that out before, why not now?

If you have people set to 'most updates' instead of 'all updates' it fixes this (or if you were lucky enough to get this as a default for all, like I did for reasons still unknown!). There's still no way to change it except on a person by person basis though, which sucks.

Ah, maybe thats it then. I've set friends I know well all to "all updates" (it did default to "most" for all of mine), and that might be where i'm seeing the extras.

Reading this thread makes me so glad FB isn't a part of my life

a friend of mine deleted his profile the other day and then less than five minutes later typed 'facebook' into the browser bar

"a friend of mine", uh-huh

Reading this thread makes me so glad FB isn't a part of my life

from another site..

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v134/tracerhand/FBGoldOnly.jpg

if you were really evil you could paste this a few times on your FB wall, all with different titles

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^this is p lol, he's already reeled someone in

If you have people set to 'most updates' instead of 'all updates' it fixes this (or if you were lucky enough to get this as a default for all, like I did for reasons still unknown!). There's still no way to change it except on a person by person basis though, which sucks.

This bugged me! Like, how does FB then decide what is worthy of my view? I don't like that. Didn't like that, I guess I should say.

As far as I can tell from comparison to the ticker my feed still gets everything they post themselves or on the wall/photos etc of mutual friends, just not the stuff posted to people I'm not friends with and have lax privacy settings.

https://nikcub-static02.appspot.com/logging-out-of-facebook-is-not-enough

^^ scary link, didn't know that.

Is "November 5th: Anonymous destroys Facebook" still a thing btw?

now more than ever

Is "November 5th: Anonymous destroys Facebook" still a thing btw?

― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, September 27, 2011 1:07 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

nah they've said this was "all a big misunderstanding" iirc?

its all 'a big misunderstanding'

isn't it all!!!

All of those Facebook-embedded things on news sites and elsewhere are creepy to me. I look at the weather on my daily newspaper's website--I don't want to see little avatars of my friends who are fans of the weatherman.

kind of cloudy mostly sad

Then you find out they're all sexually interested in the weatherman too, and you worry further.

you flurry worther

u fluffy burgher? (i don't really know what we're doing)

lol

http://www.viddler.com/eleist/videos/1/

^ "don draper introduces facebook timeline" is p great imo