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

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.

wait...pet cremains? i came here to complain about other people's friends spamming me on facebook, but while we're at it, my animal hospital was so kind as to give us a little plaster paw print when my dog died. i cherish it! would wear earrings, too.

Yeah, he uses pets, to be honest he discovered it accidentally and picked up some cremains from the humane society (the pound) to practice with. I think it's lovely because in addition to jewelry you can scatter with some permanence.

I buried the cat, and it took me a whole afternoon to dig a big enough hole. After that, I sat down with the Great Dane and we both came to the conclusion that cremation would be best when it came her time.

I've buried four or five cats since I was 8 and you must have gone way deeper than I ever did

Lot of rocks + big cat + I'm pushing 40.

Maybe I'll just bury them at sea (Lake Michigan).

Recently, Facebook wanted some answers to questions, such as "Which University did you go to" and "Where do you work?"

So, if anyone else out there went to "No I did not" university, or currently works at "Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band" then that's where you will find me also..

Mine kept asking me if I worked at Gawker.

don't all ilxors work unpaid by proxy for gawker

their wit and wisdom ripe for reappropriation by our resident gawker writer

i thought facebook was just taunting me for being unemployed. glad to see everyone's getting similar messages

Trrrrreeeeeershiiiiiiip my duuuuuude

I just noticed that in the messages Inbox there's an 'Other' link which has messages from non-friends, some groups, etc. I have messages from a year and a half ago that I've never seen!

Recently, Facebook wanted some answers to questions, such as "Which University did you go to" and "Where do you work?"

...you know you dont gotta answer these, right?

just write 'springfield elementary' and 'nuclear paner plant'

nuclear paneer plant

I answered "No, I did not" and often get asked "Who else went to No I did not University? "

(I also put my workplace as Captain Beefheart & his magic band)

http://qz.com/94574/fellas-facebook-is-allowing-your-profiles-to-be-used-for-this-new-hot-or-not-app/

wt serious f

i remember getting reviewed on ex-so.com

facebook started out as a hot or not site and so it would be poetic if one day it eventually just returned to its roots and became a hot or not site w/ 7 billion people

i have just noticed a "promote" button next to "share" and has this been mentioned yet? apparently i can pay $6.99 USD to shove my status updates in everyone else's faces.

I've seen that on mine too, but thought it was just because my account is affiliated as an admin on some of my work's pages.

Instead of "thought", make that "assume". I mean, it was an assumption that someone out there really wouldn't pay seven bucks to have their posts jump the line, but I shouldn't be that surprised, I guess.

Nah that promote button's been there ages now.

and yes, you pay to make sure the comment shows up in more peoples feeds, which WTF.

I'm convinced my fb statii appear in nobody's feeds...

I see yours by proxy in other peoples comments! I guess that dont count tho.

Good to know, but, yeah.

i would pay to keep my updates/pics of some people's feeds (people that i cannot delete entirely from my FB for social harmony reasons)

of=off

you can do that using the little nut icon next to the date on your statuses and setting up custom privacy groups

i changed my birthday to avoid 300 happy birthday wall posts from a bunch of bozos and now i can't change it back

wish i realized i could have just hid it

I've merrily cruised through life FB-free up until a couple of weeks ago, when I got had to get access to the company's FB account. It is thee worst. What a hideous monstrosity. Why people actively go to FB for "fun" or "pleasure"... http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Itisamystery.gif

Logged in as a business the search bar is ~gone~. FB becomes unsearchable. Whyyy, FB, whyyy? Do you actually think "a company" is an abstract entity and wouldn't want to search? You don't realize there's a human being using it for a company? Mind = blown.

I have to check on it on the go, on my ipad. Turns out you have to use this spiffy creation called PAGES. O RLY? The FB app points you to PAGES, the PAGES app points you to the FB app. And for what? Nations have started wars about less iirc.

Whatever floats yer boat, live and let live etc, not here to diss FB users. It is just literally such an unusable beast, and so so fucking ugly.

I just make it where no one can post on my wall

Xpost

uh just got in my timeline a "sponsored post" from "american conservatives of color" with a very graphic photograph of two dead men in a car. just popping up in the middle of my feed with pics of my friends' kids.

that's disgusting
those sponsored posts are the worst because you can't mark them "offensive" -- it's only "i don't want to see this" or sthg like that

u cld just quit facebook

do u know who doesnt have sponsored posts? MOTHER nature.