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

I have bitter experience of the "memorable status updates" feature that appeared about 6 months ago. It's one of the reasons that I'm so particularly morbidly fascinated with all this.

The thing I liked about "memorable status updates" is it kept pulling stuff my irl best friend posted when he was really, really baked.

Not that I mean to keep bringing it up, I know I know, but Livejournal's always had a neat, easily accessed archive page, in a kind of calendar format. Ive had once since 2000, and I can go back to any time (and there wa s a time when me and everyone I knew heavily used LJ the way ppl now use FB) and read dozens of old posts, stuff I'd long forgotten. The point being, I'm used to the concept of old stuff still being thre and frankly I like the idea I'll be able to easily see it on FB again.

If nothing else dont forget it makes it easier to review and delete old shit :)

Anyone watching 'Person of Interest'? It's p much based on what Facebook will soon become...

so wait i missed the last week-- is this timeline thing:

A) still not fully operational
B) going to end up being the default profile view eventually?

A) It's slowly rolling out over the next three weeks.
B) Yes.

gross, think i'm gonna quit

I'm gonna at least see what it looks like, and as long as I can do a bunch of deleting, I dont know if I'll mind but if I cant, fuck that noise.

quitting ilx too, l8r

I am cool with the timeline but was freaked because the first click I made was to jump back a couple years and the first post was "hey guys I'm proud to say I'm engaged" which really shows how far my life has come

It's awesome, instead of scrolling through the tedium of updates, new friends can skim over years and catch the highlights, prioritized by activity and comments. For better or worse.

surely there's no see-who-looked-at-your-profile/pics lark as part of this? wouldn't that mean that peeople would almost entirely stop looking at other people's profiles, lest they thought you were stalking them or whatever. that can't be right; people would barely look at each others' pics if that were the case.

Friendster used to have that feature, with the caveat of "If you turn this off where people can't see what pics you've been looking at, then you won't be able to see who has been looking at your pics!" which I think every sane person then said "FINE OKAY THEN."

LinkedIn is crummy this way too. No, you don't know who exactly has been looking at your profile, but you can still figure it out by looking at the "Persons Who Recently Looked At This Profile Also Looked At These" feature.

I mean, c'mon. All those Okies showing up and I know only one person in Tulsa.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apKX4_WU9Ak

so not THAT big a deal. basically shows you all your activity that anyone else could have seen already anyway, but in a mental new order. one obvious side effect is a whole new era of mega-solipsism kicking in for a new generation.

ok but it makes finding what moronic stuff i was posting 4 years ago as easy as a single search instead of clicking "show older posts" 10,000 times, right?

Yeah, pretty much.

mm seems so. people will find having all their old stuff from years ago thrown back at them a bit alarming, but i don't quite see where all the privacy issue stuff is coming from. seems like just a re-jigging of the format as far as i can tell from reading around and videos like that one.

is there a way to get the new timeline w/o telling them you're a developer or whatever yet?

just tell them you're a developer. it'll take you a minute and a half.

i don't want to write a facebook app!!!

just tell then you are the table

these ten stories

just tell them you miss them

you don't have to write an app

i am going to tell them i want root access to their servers

Hmm. I never filled in any of the stuff the timeline wants. No work or school info, I dont display my bday or family connections. Whats the timeline going to base anything ON, exactly?

time

don't waste yours on me

today i've been getting in my "people you may know" about a half dozen different girls who i have no mutual friends with, all have "hawt/sexxy" profile pics and according to the "works at" part of their info, are cocktail waitresses at different ritzy las vegas night clubs....

is this some kind of marketing campaign that gets around the fact that i block all ads on facebook?

―  (gr8080), Wednesday, September 14, 2011 6:29 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark

this happening again, with different girls tho

Is it possible you were tagged in a photo they're all checking out?

hmmmm

i was tagged in a few photos taken in a vegas club and uploaded by a friend.

that friend has a friend who was probably tagged at least once in the same album and is the GM of a restaurant/bar inside a vegas casino.

is that all it takes?

They probably looked at the photos, maybe more than once.

hmmmm

oh geez all the people I'm stalking keep getting recommended me, don't they?

"hey ladies, shouldn't you befriend this guy? he's already looking at your profile three times a week"

keep getting recommended this dude with a cat from the midwest on mine

shit

I didn't know you had a dude w/cat fetish

I don't, that's what's so surprising...

are you sure that the profiles aren't fake?

why would facebook be recommending me fake profiles

not saying you're wrong, just...

Just received a warning when trying to click on a link to a blog by a respected company (it's legit), and now I have to download MacAffee's SiteAdvisor plug-in if I want to follow the link from Facebook. Otherwise, no go.

first they get you to friend fake profiles. pretty soon more and more of your friends are fake profiles. then you notice you haven't talked to your real friends in awhile. then you're a fake profile. then they start recommending you to new ppl.

when you click on guardian articles from facebook, it forces you to sign up for the guardian's facebook app

sometimes I get captcha's when trying to post youtube stuff. :/

my application for getting a puppy was denied

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gr80 - not entirely sure, but then i'm not entirely sure why the fake sexxy girl profiles exist.

Hmm, and now this MacAffee program tried to make Yahoo my home page, etc., etc.