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

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.

Annoyed at that damned e-mail; why the dumb-down to call it 'info' rather than 'information'?

https://scontent-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/q71/s720x720/1391968_416242978498053_1417226875_n.jpg

If I'm getting the context of these bitstrips correct, I think my facebook friend is getting a divorce.

Or is into glory holes

bitstrips, christ.

I use Facebook for pics of my kid 80% of the time, which probably annoys everyone I know that doesn't have kids. I also just assume that eventually Facebook is just going to be people posting into a void because everyone will have hidden everyone else's news feed.

i dont have kids and i enjoy pictures of kids and stories abt kids, especailly when its abt kids saying hilarious weird shit, i think this is prob a p commonly held opinion, its when it gets into mommy wars parenting culture type stuff thats super tedious

for instance a friend of mines post yesterday

I feel like I'm homeless because you won't let me watch any TV ~[childs name redacted]

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

as in, I only got annoyed with ppl moaning about them - filling my feed with shit about what they can see in THEIR feed.
Now I've seen the bitstrips for myself. I am not impressed.

These are a bit too Comic Sans User for my liking.

xposts to al leong: if Facebook was ONLY pictures of yr babby, that would be a fine thing :)

So some kind of new look this morning.

oh hang on, it's this graph search thing.

90% of my facebook posts are kid pix, its just the most convenient place to put them where relatives will see

graph is lol but ~useful~

who hacked your account?

Check out what you've shared in the past—and who can see that info—by going to your activity log.

This was helpful information in that it made me go back and realize that all sorts of things were set to "public" that I had repeatedly set to "friends" but had obviously been changed during one or another update that I ignored.

The whole weird cat-and-mouse privacy game with Facebook seems like a new experience on the consumer landscape, but I guess is just a natural evolutionary step along the chain toward eventually encoding advertising in your DNA.

i just assume its all public, much easier

Ive never had my privacy settings changed by a FB update.

i just assume its all public, much easier

Sure, and also it's not like it even matters because who's going to bother to look? It's more the unease of finding a window unlocked that you're sure you locked than the fear that anything's actually been stolen.

Ive never had my privacy settings changed by a FB update.

I didn't think I had either. I think a lot of this is just an inexorable push toward making everything public all the time -- which I don't mind so much as the persistent sense of duplicity around the whole enterprise.