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

That's nice.

friend of a friend's status update made me want to kick the screen in

"we are now in Sainsbury's, having failed to obtain a parking space at Waitrose"

(note for non-UK ilxor's, Sainsbury's is a middle-class supermarket, Waitrose is an upper-middle-class supermarket")

Note for non-UK ilxors: Waitrose doesn't have staff, but rather partners, who part-own the business and receive (often hefty) bonuses each year based on a share of the profits. Sainsbury's biggest shareholder is the Qatari royal family.

Waitrose staff are genuinely helpful. Once, after buying some prosecco to take to Carnival, I couldn't find plastic cups so one of the cashiers sloped off to their break room, returned with a dozen plastic cups from their water dispenser and just gave them to me with a 'have fun, wish I was going'.

idk what is so offensive about that post beyond the inanity of updating re parking space availability

I wouldn't say it was offensive, just annoying. The implication that they were only in Sainsbury's because they couldn't find a parking space in Waitrose. As if they would never ordinarily go there

but waitrose >>>>>> sainsbos

Some comic defined Sainsbury's as 'the supermarket that keeps the riff-raff out of Waitrose'.

Sounds like initial Facebook poster was navigating the shoppers' paradise known as Finchley Road, where the supermarkets under discussion are roughly two blocks apart.

quiddities and agonizing of navigating (the carparks of) British groceries

Waitrose didn't have orzo but one of the staff told me where he buys it from

facebook, I really cannot begin to tell you how I feel today.

http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2012/12/22/in-less-than-a-day-facebooks-poke-displaces-google-maps-as-the-app-stores-most-popular-free-app/?fromcat=all

this is how a top developer at FB privately described it:

facebook's new "Poke" iPhone is just sexting.app

you can send photos to a friend on fb, and put an expiration on it so that they can only see the photo for 1, 3, 5, or 10 seconds. then after that it disappears. if you take a screenshot of it the screenshot goes through still, but it *tells the other person* that it was screenshotted. literally the only purpose of this is sexting.

also they stole this idea from that other app that did this but of course it never took off because it wasn't facebook.

expect this to be huge in the coming weeks.

This was other interesting thing gleaned from the topic:

"closing" your account doesn't exist; you can either deactivate or delete your account. if you deactivate your account your data will stay there forever, but you completely disappear from the site until you reactivate. that's the whole point, that you can come back.. a lot of people just want to be off the grid for a while. deleting your account will delete it forever. there's a waiting period of a couple weeks or so, to ensure that someone didn't hack your account and is deleting it for you. after that though it's wiped beyond any useful recognition. a lot of paranoid nuts are like "no way facebook keeps your information forever no matter what" because of some fine print. it's true, but not really. if you understand how systems as big as facebook work, you know it's pretty much impossible to scrub everything clean as if you were never there. some fragments of your information might stick around in, say, old apache access logs, or mysql binlogs, or aggregated info. but the data is "deleted" enough to where if mark zuckerberg himself said "give me all the information we have on this guy" no one would be able to help him.

Think my mate's girlfriend may have just won the award for most banal status update of the year... drumroll... Ladies and gentlemen I give you "Waiting for bus".

Have mercy!

Fun game: if you keep refreshing Facebook it makes it seem like your status bar is interrogating you. "Hows it going? "What's going on?" "Whats happening?" I don't know! Stop asking my questions! I have no information!

The worst of those is "How are you feeling?". As empty as you, blank space. ;_;

Wonder what they're up to today http://live.theverge.com/facebook-see-what-were-building-event/

#pr0tip: if you ever want to make an IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT via status update, DO NOT change your profile photo two minutes before doing so-- everyone will get the photo in their feed and that status update will get buried.

aloha chicago

Lucky I've never seen an important status update ever

Wonder what they're up to today http://live.theverge.com/facebook-see-what-were-building-event/

― stet, Tuesday, January 15, 2013 10:04 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

looks like some cool tech that still depends on people using their shitty product

graph search or search graph or some shit

Don't know if this is the right thread to air my suspicions, but... I don't think my friend Neil really does 'Like Wonga.com' at all.

http://live.theverge.com/facebook-see-what-were-building-event/

9:44:10 AM PST
If you're looking for motivational posters, Facebook has you covered.

http://d35lb3dl296zwu.cloudfront.net/uploads/photo/image/9720/facebook-verge-1377.jpg

http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/01/on-facebook-users-can-no-longer-hide-from-search-results/

In the wake of its “graph search” announcement, Facebook removed the ability for users to opt out of appearing in search results on the site <...> Facebook retired the ability to hide profiles from search results in December 2012

people who are concerned about privacy but still use facebook in 2013 deserve everything they get

What does "Do you want other search engines to link to your Timeline" do then?

nfi

apart from allowing other search engines to link to your timeline

I think I've done pretty good keeping my birthday, my home address, my government name off of there.

But then I wonder if Facebook's algorithms are advanced enough to catch that on a certain day last fall, everyone wished me a happy birthday. That my IP always comes back to this neighborhood. That once, an old buddy of mine used my government name in a reply. Could it tie all that information together?

most definitely

when netflix released its 'anonymous' rental data, people were able to track 'anonymous' account numbers back to specific people

really, there's no hiding for you, new god.

Could it tie all that information together?

there is not a 'yes' big enough to sufficiently answer this question

i've not had a fb account in ~3 years, but 'er indoors uses it and references me as her husband, so i just assume i'm being scraped at bone marrow level

Meh I'm more worried about the shit I blathered on Usenet years ago that can never be deleted even if I wanted to, and didnt think to hide who I was, than nowdays.

'that black crowes song is futureproof'

All this shit I've written on ilx. Do we even have a privacy policy?

http://www.ilxor.com/privacy.html

Hah, mostly sarcastic, but thanks, stet.

totes stalking you now mh

o_O

i have mh's postal address, if anyone wants me to post it, just let me know

I'm almost sure he once posted a google street view of his house.

I have gr80's... ah shit he's moving

Here's my house, btw: http://goo.gl/maps/LKQOY

*bows* very good, sir

Not related to FB, but w/r/t phones with check-in features or "allow location services" for apps:

When Mrs. Broccoli and I were on a long drive, we had a guess about how we thought google maps traffic function worked.

All I can say is that we both felt very, very naive after we learned the truth.

aliens?

russians?

Number of people using Google Maps in an area, compensate for the number of people who typically are using Maps out of average traffic, tada... traffic!