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

BTW there is something neat about the spokesman from the antivirus mob Sophos being called Graham Cluely!

This guy (old school acquaintance) is fucking me off at the moment:

Hates the January fitness industry's use of the word 'toning'! Guess what, unless your body fat is pretty low 'toning' is going to make fuck all difference to your body! Forget your 'legs, bums and tums' or '40 minute abs classes' and start doing some proper structured exercise and eat better!

This kind of shit all the time, and every day he posts some kind of insanely detailed nutrition chart of what he's eaten.

This is the worst though:
I love how modern society seems to think activity is optional. You know what? Type 2 diabetes is optional. Heart Disease is optional. Obesity is optional. Osteoporosis is optional. I know which option I'll be taking!!!

Fuck. Off.

I could forgive one of those every once in a while but that sounds insane

btw having ocd about tracking your food intake and fitness regimen are optional, too.

I had to block a high school classmate who has gotten crazy into bodybuilding since she finished college and now all she posts is really disturbing pictures of herself in a bikini and she looks like an angular orange with almost no recognizable human features.

Yeah I blocked a friend who joined a Crossfit program, all he ever posted was rundowns of his workout & weightlifting photos. zzz

omg jon did we go to the same high school!?? i have one of those too, down to every detail.

holy shit @ this new feature where facebook shows you thumbnails of pictures you posted years ago and guesses where they were taken and asks you to tag them by location

it keeps showing a picture from my cousin's wedding and nailing the suburb of san diego it was taken in exactly (kind of sucks because that same cousin just filed for divorce)

then it shows a picture of my friend's wedding in arizona and guessing that i took it at some place ive never heard of in hawaii.

i cant figure out if its guessing by Geotag information on the file you uploaded or if its using some algorithm putting together everyone else tagged in the album?

also i shoot mostly on film so my negatives are often getting scanned in a different location than where the photos were taken.

omg jon did we go to the same high school!?? i have one of those too, down to every detail.

hahaha, pretty sure no, I'd remember you somewhere amidst the other 164 people that went to my entire high school

i know i was just marveling at the angular orange ppl
one of my friends who is a therapist referred to facebook as a neurosis display case and she's just about right (for some people -- other people are aware of the display case and choose what they display more carefully)

Grady, were you ever the type to add a location to your images? i.e. I once labelled a set as taken in 'Kingston,' and it guessed they were taken in Kingston, Jamaica (never been, know no one there) instead of Kingston, ON (been many times, many friends there).

Neurosis display case. Ha!

btw having ocd about tracking your food intake and fitness regimen are optional, too.

― mh, Tuesday, January 10, 2012 2:40 PM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Should steal this and post it on his status, but too chickenshit.

YOU CAN HIDE THE TICKER NOW

later

i like the new photo viewer

Ok, I'm mildly creeped out by this: I commented on a someone's status and subsequently got not one but two updates reading along the lines of "Some Guy (friends with Woman I Like Who Isn't The Person Whose Status Line This Is) also commented on...".

Yeah if the status is public, any comments oyu make on that persons FB shows ujp on alllll his friends feed too.

I try not to comment on public posts, as a result (its easy to forget to check tho)

Yeah if the status is public, any comments oyu make on that persons FB shows ujp on alllll his friends feed too.

I get that, but I didn't finish the statement like I should have in my o.g. post. The updates I got read in toto (parentheses and all) like this: "Some Guy (friends with a Woman I Like Who Isn't The Person Whose Status This Is) also commented on The Person Whose Status This Is' Status."

Now I'm used to updates about comments. What throws me is the parentheses. I actually have multiple shared friends w/both these dudes, but--because facebook keeps tabs on these things--they single out this lady whose timeline I'll admit I click on a tad more than other, better friends, and we three guys--who just so happened to post in a row in another mutual friend's comments--apparently share as friends. It shouldn't bug me, but it does.

Adding to the ridiculousness of this thing is that I subsequently got another update for this same comments thread that went like this: "Some Guy (friends with The Person Whose Status This Is) also commented..."

NO...FUCKING...SHIT

I'm also slightly drunk & high now (the status that started this all was about a party we all were going to.)

i suggest that you take mushrooms before the party and interrogate everyone about changes to facebook comment notification while on mushrooms

'like'

Ah, maybe next time...

Yeah I spotted the brackets, its just pointing out someone who isnt on your friends list has commented on a post you commented on of someone you are friends with. An unnessecary addition imo but I can see why they did it.

Probably good for the grandparents who would be all 'How did Jane Doe hack my account and become my friend???' 'Oh.. she's John Doe's friend'

Hahah yeah that sounds plausible!

when did George Takei embark on his new career as official image-lulz-disseminator on fb?

"Old man discovers internet"

when did George Takei embark on his new career as official image-lulz-disseminator on fb?

I know, right? Seems like so much more like a Shatner or at least Nimoy thing to do.

its annoying to me how people think he is amazing at the internet and theyre always sharing that shit on facebook

I accidentally posted this to the ILM Facebook thread, where it will shrivel and die, so reposting here.

I get no real pleasure out of Facebook until I see a thread like this and then praise be to Zuckerberg.

http://i.imgur.com/Zuoxg.jpg

― Suede - the fabric, not the band (DL), Wednesday, February 22, 2012 10:14 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I saw that a day or two ago and it seems so incredibly insane I'm having a hard time believing it happened. Or that people can be that nuts, more to the point.

http://vancouver.openfile.ca/blog/news/2012/uvic-facebook-prank-goes-viral

xp: a winged tortuous?

rmde "chicks be crazy"

ok lol @

Their names were anagrams: Maria Giny = Imaginary, Carol Tifiling = Fictional girl.

Yeah I figured it might be shenans. The giveaway was all the girl's friends going "you're so lucky to have such a devoted gf" bla bla there is no way somethign this OTT would happen around most sane ppl.

rmde "chicks be crazy"

ikr

phrasing this delicately bc rl but -- a certain student who went pretty self-evidently insane at an east coast university recently turns out to be friends w/ a number of ppl i know, and at least a handful of them have defended her vehemently even tho she is clearly off the rails. i don't think it's totally unbelievable that close friendship can blur craziness.

i don't think it's totally unbelievable that close friendship can blur craziness.

Truth bomb.

No, it's not. It's just the portrayal of the craziness for pure lols is kind of on the nose to me.

Plenty of crazy fish in the sea, don't know why dudes insist on inventing them.

the girl's posts just read really fake

god, i know :/

xp

:/

Oh balls. After seeing the kind of stuff that ends up on Lamebook, Failbook, etc, this was easy to believe. Agree with VegemiteGrrl - it's unnecessary to invent craziness on Facebook but I guess they didn't know that someone else would post it with the names blacked out (hiding the obvious anagrams) and make it go viral. I quite like this quote: "In retrospect, midterm season probably wasn't the best time to pull this off because since the story's gone viral, I haven't had much peace. I guess in the end I trolled myself most of all.”

Actually im p sure a lot of whats on failbook is made up these days too.

saw this on twitter, don't know if it's real (similar but much more depressing): http://imgur.com/a/r5kEb

Depressing if it's real, depressing if it's faked.