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

idk, it's been two years since facebook did a major redesign and social networking use patterns and trends have changed significantly since then

still miss "becoming a fan"

I miss "how do you know this person"
"We hooked up"

i definitely do not miss that

Remember when the news feed was just a small box at the middle of your profile and everybody flipped their shit over how creepy that was? Circa like 2007? A more innocent time.

i don't

gonna search for an evolution of facebook YT now, need the nostalgia

i've had graph search for a while but never actually thought to use it... and now that i've tried it a bit holy shit is it creepy. i'm sure stalkers all over the world must have rejoiced when they started using it. even though i know facebook's privacy settings have always been shit and def badly set up by most people, it's still shocking what you can find and how easy it is to do so.

not too many people are going to use it for what facebook wants us to use it for i think

what does facebook want ppl to use it for? cos i'm pretty sure it'll become the world's most used stalking tool. also if they're planning on becoming a dating site it could work, just look for singles in your area, specify age bracket & some interests and off you go.

Facebook Graph is just the return and expansion of the "browse" feature that I remember being on the site when I got on in 2007. They got rid of it around 2009 I believe.

Facebook advantage as a dating site is the authentication process with people. The interests you have marked on your FB are going to be more legit than ones you quickly put down on another site to impress people, you have a built in history on the site with friends and employer. People, especially women, would be less afraid that they're dealing with an known unknown -- to quote eHarmony's D. Rumsfeld -- when they talk to strangers.

The lack of anonymity on FB also means people will be less sleazy and more cautious -- you can goof around on a dating site and never look back, but people don't want their FB account to be stained with their sleazy pick-up attempts being out there (not when their employer information is on the same web page).

plus you can see what is likely their government name so you can look up their criminal record

Getting mighty sick of "<person/page you don't know or like> is talking about <something you like>" all over my newsfeed.

all the promoted advertisements on my iphone feed are all weight loss and it's making me INSANE

Women! Why don't they lose some weight!

Archaeology in the digital age: http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/04/tech/social-media/zuckerberg-first-website/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

"Hi, my name is...Slim Shady," the site's creator wrote on its "About Me" page, referencing an Eminem song released that same year. "No, really, my name is Slim Shady. Just kidding, my name is Mark.

http://i.imgur.com/om74WDTl.jpg

In case you missed it. (I cut this out of The Onion and made it into a fridge magnet.)

Wow, this group is something...
https://www.facebook.com/IMissThoseCloseToMeWhoAreInHeavenAsBeautifulAngels?ref=stream

oh god.

You laugh at it first, but then you click on just one of those accounts... people with lost children and everything.

if anything happens to me, I request you join that group, pplains

coworker who lost her dad a few months back shares tons of stuff from that group

:/

353k Likes

"At night I bite my pillow out of guilt, wondering if there was something I could've done for my casual online acquaintance who lives two states above mine."

xp

It's the idea of possibly finding all that garishness and handwringing in the least bit comforting.

People express grief in many different ways. I used to think it was all funny until I've saw people close to me go through some of the same feelings.

My dog died on the Friday of Memorial Day last year ( I know, dogs < children,) so I had to take her body to the 24-hour vet to avoid letting it sit on our backporch under a tarp for three days.

After signing the slip for $180, the vet on-call gave me this paper with, among other things, the Rainbow Bridge poem. I just wanted to go "Really?"

Normally I would make fun of these people and this entire site.

Except that I know all too much the suffering that comes with grief and loss. And this kind of a website would be very healing to some people.

yeah until I saw my coworker obsessively sharing this stuff I would have rmde but she was so upset, and is clearly still grieving and idk, it's not my bag at all but i guess some people just grieve in really, really corny/creepy ways

I guess all it takes to silence my snark is a grieving mother from Melling. Who knew.

Funny how real world experience can color our empathy.

my real life instructions to friends have been to throw my corpse in a dumpster in a neighboring community to create a csi-type mystery for someone to solve

mr veg has been entrusted with arranging my viking funeral; we're already clear that none of our friends can be trusted with flaming-arrow-duties. it'll be down to him, my brother in law and my niece to do the heavylifting, archery wise.

$180 to dispose of your dog's body? Why not bury it in the back yard (or other area)?

She was a big dog.

It might not have been that much. I could be mixing that price up with one of the cats that got euthanized.

When my parents lived out of town on an acreage one of their neighbors started a pet cemetery and had a facility for cremations. I believe he had a large enough furnace to cremate a horse. Yup, lucrative business, that.

Pillows are cheaper xp

Pillows or pillowcases.

She was a big dog.

― pplains, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 21:07 (31 minutes ago)

Veruca?!?

Sadly.

my cousin posts this kind of stuff on a daily basis, lots of heaven/angel/dead-loved-ones corny sayings/quotations/flowery pics. she lost both her brothers to a hereditary disease, one about 23 years ago, the other about 18 years ago.

Sorry to hear that, PP. My dad's Dane survived him, but was already 7, so I think they're both gone now (I did NOT stay in touch with The Widow).

I've got a handful of FB friends who post mawkish loss-related items on their walls. While I don't have a problem with people wanting to express their bereavement, I will never stop having a problem with bad writing, horrible fonts, lame images and the Hallmark-ization of magical thinking.

suzy otm

this is only tangentially related, but when someone's facebook page post-death is co-opted by family with messages thanking people for their support, it's sort of ghoulishly like they're saying 'okay show's over thanks everyone'

in my mind it's like that video of the dead cat that was turned into a radio controlled helicopter

the whole post-death legacy on the internets thing will always be disturbing to me

http://cdn.inquisitr.com/wp-content/2011/05/zombie-uncle-scott.jpg

i love the two hour gap between 'rawrr' and 'lol not really'

that one is worth so many guilty laughs

In the event of one of my cats dying, I would like to bury him or her. It's probably illegal to bury a pet in a nature preserve or park, but that's what I think I'd like to do. I'm not very comfortable with cremation, and I'd like him or her to have a nice spot to rest and feed the plants.

My Dad figured out a way to manipulate cremated remains so they take on a pearl-like appearance, it's very pretty. He makes jewelry out of it.