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

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.

fb is def horrible and shady dont get me wrong

I want to promote a study (for teens with autism) to the parents of potential participants. I asked a work study student to look for appropriate local/national listservs, websites, etc. She just emailed me to ask about Facebook and kijiji and craigslist. I'm down with kijiji and craigslist, but... this is embarrassing... how would this be done on Facebook? Just post stuff to the timelines of relevant local orgs? That feels like spamming. Am I just old?

I think it would be okay to post a relevant study to autism orgs on fb.

I guess orgs that don't want us to do that would have their timelines locked down so that only their friends can post?

Yeah, and if they don't like the link they can always remove it later.

*prepares the annoyingly chirpy-voiced study announcement*

I've always had a policy of not adding colleagues on FB. Can you still add people on a 'limited profile' or similar now? Settings have changed 89089 times since I last thought about it. I guess you have to just specify for everything you post if you want it viewable by all friends or specific groups? (Don't care much about existing stuff, just don't want to have to second-guess anything I post or comments from friends etc)

you can do all sorts of grouping iirc but since facebook is just gonna change it a million times its best imo to assume that everyone will see everything

yeah that's kind of my thinking

When I add someone I don't know so well, I stick them straight into "Acquaintances". This means they don't see any of the more personal posts, that are published to "Friends except acquaintances."

i just let everyone see my incredible posts

even friends of friends

I just stopped posting to Facebook because I don't know who I'm talking to any more.

I post my dumb babble and assume that whoever sees it and is tired of me will just block/unfriend me so w/e

thanks mike, that's an option
my reasoning for no colleages: most ppl don't have the same sense of humour as me and I never want to have to work out whether any work-related stuff could be down to something I've said on FB. Plus my mates can be obscene on my posts.
TBH the main reason is once you add one colleague they all pile on and I don't like having ppl I don't really like on FB. So far everyone who's actually requested is a good work friend anyway.

thread cd do with more Kristie tbh

i'm with Serena SInclair.

Does anyone else have the "trending" feature?

yes

is the point to just get users to spend more time on facebook and use it as a resource for "all internet things"?

for the past couple of days or so, every time i want to open a new message or send one it does it in a crappy little chat window which sucks if you write a message longer than two sentences. my chat is turned off for a reason fb, it's because it sucks. anyone have this and/or knows how to deactivate that so that it works like before?