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

nope

he's right.

Yeah I would do it but I really have no clue how. I can barely join groups.

:-( I made it a closed group. So if you change your mind, I will reject you anyway. Actually if you (no matter who) prefers it is an open group, I'll switch.

waht

*note to self* insert appropriate emoticons showing you are joking.

I couldn't find it. . .

(Open group: can we deal with open relationships?)

Urgh. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2382779449

Would that work?

anyone else with a myspace who has resisted facebook feel like they may have backed the wrong horse...

I have too much Facebook crossover with work to join an ILE group I think...
When worlds collide!

they probably have a red face right now

there seem to be some odd features on facebook which I can envisage as being ILE threads, like the foodfight option. AFAIK, there has never been an ILE thread called "this is the thread where we have a food fight" but it's being realised by ilxors on facebook as I type (and w/ pics of the food handily provided so you don't have to faff around searching for 'em on google images).

an ex cow-orker has invited me to become a zombie and go round chomping ppl, bizarrely....

how wonderful life is on a perennial rag week

some weird dude just friended me

Hooray, have joined ILE!

I am a zombie! I have no minions as yet though.

I joined ILX group :)

I thought the Louis "Jigger" Jagger Appreciation Society was ILE's unofficial group

I think it was but is now full of LJ's IRL friends or something.

haha

I thought it was other way round!

I've just sent a request to join the ILE group!

One of us (collectively).

Me too! I'm still not sure of the point of this, but CJ hit me with a haggis, which seems suitably bizarre enough to count as fun.

Ooh I have ILX friend now!

I am going to sulk until you start having fun on ILX where you all belong.

Henry joined the group Flipmode Squad. 4:03pm lol

If I had my druthers, I would say I'd hooked up with all of friends, just for shits and giggles, but my coworkers, on FB, might think that's weird.

i was gonna do that, don't really know why i didn't.

i have sent in mah request.

it can be vaguely creepy if it's not obviously a joke. :/

Yeah, exactly. My coworkers, who are "ready to embrace social networking" because their big librarian conference told them to do so, probably wouldn't be hip to the fact that's it's an obvious joke.

that's the main reason why i didn't

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But, the major bonus of having coworkers on FB, is that I can be wasting excessive amounts of time on it, but if someone walks by and sees my screen, they'll think, "oh! it's work-related! she's networking like all the kids do!"

(NB: there is a major age gap between me and my officemates)

This morning my big boss came up while I was friending Nath. haha! whatever.

He knows I'm cool. ;-)

Yeah your big question mark screams productive networking. As did the Victoria Secret's ad that was up next to it.

:-) I uploaded a pic now!

ach, what the hell. i'll chuck my request in too ;)

kenan, you are now in my myspazzy hall of fame. i sent you an initiation message.

hall of fame shame

er. i don't, really. there are subtleties and niceties, but it's all one big swirling vortex round grimly's social sphere.
Aye, and you're probably the only person I know like this, tbh. Still, there are subjects you'll only talk about with certain people, surely? But there's no way to reflect that with FB.

Flickr does this quite well with its per-picture friends/family/public thing, whereas with FB it's either on or off - your friend can see your wall or they can't. You can't have everyone but your boss see "killing my boss" as a status, for a stupid example.

if a subject is only for the ears/eyes of certain people, why would you even consider putting it on facebook?

gareth, myspazz comments are hardly any less inane!

http://www.myglitterz.com/comments/weekend/6-22_02.gif

stet: yes, you're dead on -- i'd like a degree more subtlety with my FB privacy. unless i'm getting it wrong, all i can do is set up one limited profile and then say, right, these people can see that.

which isn't ideal: what i'd like is to be able to set up, say, three different limited profiles for three different people. it is a bit all-or-nothing right now.

like i say, though: ultimately, it's a public forum. so yes, there are going to be some things that even i wouldn't say, no matter what privacy options i might be offered. i mean, you and me, we know to our cost how damaging it can be when the wrong information gets into the wrong hands, perhaps because you someone decides, in a move of unprecedented madness, to paste a private e-mail onto the pasteboard next to page two of a newsp ... ah, never mind :) :) :)

GF what you can do is make sure that when you're searched as an individual or they send an email they can't see your status or any other info, not even your friends. Also please to give more info re. pasteboard screw up!

I've got mine seriously limited but as TH pointed out, I'll still be in stats searches etc. I'm liking this at the moment, it's a lot better than Myspace anyway.

Apparently it's bad form to delete messages on your own wall but I think I might make an exception in the case of a uni mate who's scrawled YES TO GET THE NEW RADIOHEAD STUFF JUST GO TO BIT TORR....etc etc.

Yes pls more info on pasteboard.

yes, i can imagine radiohead's lawyers have been poised over your profile for weeks now, just waiting to ... umm ... sorry, why would you be remotely worried?

:)

unless radiohead's lawyers have never heard of bittorrent. or the new album.

(as for the pasteboard thing: no fucking WAY.)