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

"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?

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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

Imagine a time when what you pay for on your premium facebook account is to stop them from releasing the information they have built up on you over the last 5+ years to all your 'friends'.

wait, photos have stats?

I can see the opposite - pay $50 to find out who's clicked on your profile the most!

They actually used to have a line in a FAQ somewhere that said "we will never reveal which profiles you have looked at".

"Hi krakow! Remember that PM you sent in 2007 about how you were thinking about leaving your girlfriend? For the cheap cheap price of $5 per month you can keep us from posting it directly to her wall. We hope you're enjoying facebook. We are constantly committed to making it better and better.

Sincerely,
Mark"

Maybe they're building to holding us all to ransom once they have a billion peoples' worth of browsing/clicking/friending/commenting/liking etc etc habits all nicely catalogued and us tightly psychologically profiled through sheer weight of beautifully databased information overload.

You gave me a shiver Mordy!

IIRC, the old "photo memories" feature was based on profile views. So--if you were like me--most of what you got was crushes, and--also if you were like me--if you clicked on one of those photos, it lead to another, and before you knew it you've wasted 5-10 minutes creating fb blackmail.

They would know that one was wanting to leave one's partner by mapping subtle changes in profile browsing, photo viewing & status commenting (etc) habits anyway; there would be no need for anything so direct as an actual sent message to be involved.

I'm looking forward to the timeline telling me exactly when I got over crushes as my profile viewings dropped.

Can people tell you unsubscribed from them?

It doesn't pop up in any feed, no. Though I saw instructions for how to do this using Timeline - I think you view the new friends you made each year and see who has "Add Friend" next to them.

of course, that means almost nothing if you're the one who has done tons of unfriending. there were plenty of ppl that had add friend next to them that either a) i unfriended b) i couldn't remember and every time c) i didn't care. if you haven't noticed you're no longer friends w/ a particular someone before checking the list, it shouldn't matter to you

stet way otm

its always bothered me how insanely difficult it was to access your posts from months and years back-- "if that still exists, why is it so impossible for me to access it?" or "if its so impossible for me to access it, why bother hanging on to it?"

but now that you can get to it so easily, its terrifying.