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

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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I'm not sure Facebook Elite is really worth £10 a month. The extra features are pretty good though.
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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

that is totally great

all the little jokes!

just shared it on fb, naturally

A irl friend (a young lady who clerks in a record/head shop) just added me to her just founded and hella disorganized Leftist fb group.

I have the new timeline on my profile, and it is hella creepy. I used to moan that Twitter/FB didn't let you see right into your past, but now I have it? brr.

What do you find creepy about it?

it takes "in this profile researchin ur life" to wikipedia levels of obsession, all in one screenful.

in fact, it's a bit reminiscent of those accounts of east Germans who get to read their Stasi files and are horrified at the obsessive catalogue of mundanity gathered on them.

Right I gather a lot of people are stunned at the realization of just how much of their info has been given over to FB over time.

I think it's the first time that a lot of people are being exposed to what a seriously big database can be like, when somebody puts their mind to it. I mean, if you weren't nerding it up, the trend in personal computing has almost been the opposite: your data is really fragile, and will be gone if you're not careful to preserve it.

Think of the stuff people use tech for most, and it's all seemingly short-lived: For the longest time email was limited, so you had to delete your old stuff, and it still is for just about everything apart from GMail and recently Yahoo mail. Shared drives at work are always being cleared out. Links on the web are forever breaking, blogs just vanish. Flickr will hide your old photos if you stop paying. etc etc.

I think people might have had an abstract awareness that Facebook was different, but for them suddenly to present you with every fact they've ever gleaned about you (or at least the ones they'll tell you about) in one page when it wasn't stuff you made any attempt to keep permanent is jarring, in this context.

I mean, I have known for a while that they were going to the limits of database tech in their quest to store *everything*, right down to keeping tally of each time you look at someone's profile, and it's still a bit disquieting for me. I wonder how people who had no idea about this will take it.

An interesting post, thanks.

I have a rather scared respect for facebook because of quite how huge and powerful it has managed to become.

right down to keeping tally of each time you look at someone's profile, and it's still a bit disquieting for me.

yeah I remember hearing from a fb engineer [hearsay] that they keep track of every click you make on that site. jeez

no wonder my crushes keep on appearing in my stream

That click tally stuff won't appear in the timeline, right?

Individual click/view tallies on every photo, complete with time & date stamps!

It doesn't yet, but I can totally see a "best friends" tab or something that inadvertently reveals it. XP yeah or on photos.

It's getting really hard to work out what will leak info and what won't. Can people tell you unsubscribed from them?

shit, delete the internet

lol, if facebook decides to be evil and just starts to reveal all this info that would be extremely damaging to relationships (who unsubscribed from who, PM's, that time you clicked 50 times on that one chick's photo) just to be sociopathic and destroy the world