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

I'll bet that if you cross-posted this with a suitable "Facebook takes crypto-racist ads!" to Reddit and Gawker you might get some traction.

'it's just my opinion' is a real world get-out clause too (as per the innumerable people i've heard spouting utterly offensive shit followed by 'hey don't get angry it's just what i think') xp

i.e. clearly it's particular to facebook but i don't think facebook nurtures that behaviour specifically

If my wife posts some innocuous little gesture of affection on my wall like "I love you so much" and I comment back "I love you too, honey", odds are that somewhere between 12 hours to 2 days later, my father-in-law will pop up and comment "I also love my wife" or "...AND you're such a good father to my grandchildren!" or something like that. BLLLLLLLECH.

http://i.imgur.com/wyxgbL4.png

"It's Complicated"

Am I the only one who finds it annoying that FB has shifted from the alphabetical order listing of friends on the event invite window to some sort of other weird order?

Also there's no longer an option to send a group message to invitees who haven't responded.

its amyspacing... u cn tel frm d music / vid prompts. cluttering w/ ads

http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG

We're removing an old Facebook setting called "Who can look up your Timeline by name." We'd like to give you more info about this change.
What's changing: We're removing an old search setting called "Who can look up your Timeline by name"—but this won't change who can see what you've shared on Facebook.
What did this setting do?
"Who can look up your Timeline by name" controlled who could find your Timeline by typing your name in search.
What will happen when the setting is removed?
Anyone will be able to look up your Timeline by your name — but if they go to your Timeline, they'll only see what they already have permission to see. Removing this setting doesn't change who can see your photos, status updates or other things you've shared.
Why is Facebook removing this setting?
When we created this setting, the only way to find you on Facebook was to search for your specific name. Now, people can come across your Timeline in other ways: for example if a friend tags you in a photo, which links to your Timeline, or if people search for phrases like "People who like The Beatles," or "People who live in Seattle," in Graph Search.
Today, the best way to manage who sees your stuff is to use your Privacy Shortcuts (just click the lock icon at the top of every page of the Facebook website), and to choose who to share with when you post new photos and updates.
What's next?
Here are some things you can do to review your privacy choices:
If you want to quickly limit the audience of things you've shared in the past to Friends, visit your privacy settings.
Each time you share a photo, link or status update, you can set the privacy for that specific post.
Check out what you've shared in the past—and who can see that info—by going to your activity log. To get to your activity log, click the lock icon at the top of any page to open your privacy shortcuts.
If you don't want any more reminders and you're ready for Facebook to remove the setting now, you can click Okay, I Understand and we'll stop showing this info.
Thanks for taking the time to read this message and for being part of Facebook.

I had to read that three times before I realized it's making your profile more accessible rather than the opposite.

i really like how ppl cant look me up by name

I had that setting checked too.

Not that I didn't think it made it impossible for people to find me, but just so in that initial search, perhaps they'd think "well, guess he's not on Facebook."

otm.

facebook is being all "quit whining, they'll find you anyway"

I have said this before, so it shows you how serious I am about it, but Facebook is going downhill.

Between the bitstrips and the e-notes and the political shit, and the weird order and non-order that FB algorithms arrange everything for me, it's getting to be more and more a waste of time.

Here's what I look for in Facebook:
• pictures of my friends doing cool shit.
• funny twitter like posts that come across as in-jokes.
• maybe one out of 11 stories someone posts is really interesting. More than likely, it's from an ILXor and I've already seen it here.

And I'd say those three type of posts make up 8 percent of my feed right now.

But I still go there and I still post to my profile and it's one of the four or five sites I cycle through all day long. Which goes back to my original statement, gosh this Facebook thing sucks so much, I'm liable to just sit down and pretend like I'm going to quit one of these days.

i've sort of been noticing the same thing but i haven't been sure if it's facebook getting worse or all my facebook friends getting older and more spread out and lonely or me just becoming more of a curmudgeon because i spend all day on ilx

ugggh bitstrips

Uggggggh otm

it's like facebook herpes

i don't think i've ever noticed them

so lucky

so far there are only a handful of ppl on my friends list who have them

I have four or five friends who went crazy with them and it was all they posted for like a month...then it went away, but then other unrelated friends somehow find them and then that's all THEY post for a month

;_;

i think if they were smaller they would be less annoying

it's the reason email was invented. just email your dumb injoke to your dumb friend and leave me out of it

these are the big cartoon things, right? like the e-card equivalent but with cartoon images of the poster and another person?

yep! 'put a mundane moment of your life into a comic strip and watch the lols roll in'

i don't think i've ever noticed them

― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Monday, November 4, 2013 8:24 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I said this too and within two hours, they were all over my news feed.

i think my main objection to them is that they are large. If they were the same size or smaller as the image in an "attending this event" post, it would be easier to just scroll past and thoroughly ignore

agreed

If they were funny in the slightest, it would be one thing. Having my friends represent themselves in the comic stylings of the Lockhorns or some Seth MacFarlane show is an interesting concept.

But instead, they are the epitome of banal.

https://scontent-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/1453366_415505258571825_718862032_n.jpg

730 x 631, good lord.

haha where do i make these

Nooooooooooooo

is it just that the ppl making them are not funny ppl, or are they inherently unfunny?

We go from b/w noir clips of el trains to "G____ shops at the fedora store!"

i was making fake e-card/inspirational graphic memes for a while

i was making fake e-card/inspirational graphic memes for a while

I get you, I pull the same kind of shit - or at least try to.

But I'm sure the guy who first parodied a motivation poster was praised by his peers for a week as well. Then you see what happened.

I have a feeling they are inherently unfunny?

but maybe gr8080 will be able to prove that theory once and for all

or disprove

lol, sorry gr8080 didn't meant to imply that u r not funny :)

http://www.buzzfeed.com/ailbhemalone/16-bitstrips-that-will-restore-your-faith-in-bitstrips

(Spoiler Alert: Your faith in bitstrips will not be restored.)

i dont think ive seen one of these but ive seen a lot of complaining abt them

i see more buzzfeed links in my fb feed than bitstrips

everything itt and what i see on my wife's FB make me 10000 times more grateful i axed this shit from my lyfe

jesus mary and joseph

A friend made several bitstrips not of him but of me, posted them on my wall, they were fucked up and wierd, eyes going in different directions, etc.

That was about a month and a half ago: now, there are sincere bit-strippers popping up everywhere in my feed

Was just thinking of the ethical ramifications of making bit strips out of ilxors.

yes that's where i was headed

my faith in bitstrips was not restored by that buzzfeed thing, no. but i did first come across it via some friends who actually made good, funny use of it, so when it picked up in ever-increasingly banal ways it was tough to take.