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

It's shit because they've made it real-time. It used to store up what it thought what the things you'd be most interested in for your feed -- new friends of other friends, tagged friends and so on. Now it just dumps them all in a mess, as they happen. So if you miss stuff, it's gone.

They've changed it a bit this morning, though: birthdays are back up the top right

Problem with that is that, er, all your friends need to jump ship with you, no?
Yep, but this isn't nearly as big a problem as FB hopes it is. After FB opened its doors to the public, I remember Myspace emptying out in a matter of months.

there was a live feed option on old fb and that was better than what they have now.

yeah everytime someone adds photos to an album, you get notified so there's like three or four notifications of the same album on your feed IN ADDITION to the notifications on the right. it's just too much. and too many goddamn quizzes too.

i wasn't going to complain til i got used to the changes and now that i am, i have to say i do not like them, not at all.

Problem with that is that, er, all your friends need to jump ship with you, no?

Bring them here !!

M3lissa M4rchant was never you.

Confirm.
Ignore.

I'm gonna have to de-fan Ashley Tisdale.

So all these people who I went to grammar school/middle school with are now my fb friends. One of them just left a message asking what I've been up to. Oh in the last EIGHTEEN YEARS? I mean really, how do I even answer that?

'stuff'

Say you've been obsessing over curly-haired pigs from Hungary.

small talk is tough

um NO

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I just noticed they've added an option in the feed to "hide [insert annoying application name here]" rather than hiding an entire person.

farewell, LivingSocial updates.

Oh, THANK FUCK.

thank u for this info! getting app updates is really the only thing i hate about fb

except everyone is using slightly different versions of the same app.

I don't think that matters for LivingSocial, which is by far the worst offender.

Is there a way I can hide quiz results and dumb virtual gift giving?

Er, that's exactly what Salsa Shark is talking about. Click on Hide next to the shit in your news feed; tell it to hide that application. Repeat for everything that crops up and annoys you.

unfortunately it seems that each quiz is its own app

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Yeh, I'm beginning to notice this. Christ's teeth.

One of the more surreal features social networking has brought to our lives is the articulation of all kinds of social decisions. And by that I mean that before the enlightened age of the internet, when you no longer wanted to be friends with somebody or something like that, there was no conscious decision or effort behind it, necessarily. You just stopped trying to engage them, meet with them, keep up with how they are etc. You both just drifted apart, or something essentially vague and mutual - no responsibility for the friendship ending and thus no one's fault. This also left the door open for potential reconciliation ("I would've called you but I lost your number, let's hang out again soon"). But Facebook has made things weird, where now you formally have to think about whether someone deserves the "friend" label or, more intriguing, if someone deserves to be "de-friended." An articulated judgment takes place now.

It'd odd because if you're the kind of person that likes to keep a lean friends list e.g. you simply don't like the idea of that one eccentric co-worker you knew for about a week in 2006 keeping tabs on your social life via FB - you have to actually take a moment to consider the person in question in all their completeness and gauge the worth of keeping them as e-friends before purging them from your friends roster. It's all so weird!

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Cunga speaks much truth. On the other hand, Facebook hones one's skill at insincere capitulation.

Ok, so how is Facebook recommending friends to me who are people that I know, but that I have no mutual friends with and no Facebook link with whatsoever?

Email contacts?

My mum was on the people you may know thing this morning o_O I can only assume cos she's an email contact. She's not facebook friends with my sister or anything and we don't even have the same surname! Spoooooky.

Yeah that must be it. The person is in my gmail contacts list, but I haven't used the friend finder feature on Facebook since I first signed up, well over a year ago. Has it had all my email contact details in its database since then, and been checking them periodically?

That's what I figured, yeah

I've always read this thread title as, "I don;t have a girlfriend and I'm a bit embarassed by that, so can I pretend you're my girlfriend when I post to facebook".

Is that just me?

chick was flirtin with me at work this weekend. left me a note w/name & number & instructed me to facebook her. have done so and it appears she is married.

lO_O_O_O_O_O_O_O_Ol

can i say i'm cuckolding your husband on facebook?

Is that just me?

No, me too.

And now that I think about it I remember getting a "Let's ironically pretend we're in a relationship," offer from a former co-worker, which was awkward because I had to politely say no to that idea.

"I don;t have a girlfriend and I'm a bit embarassed by that, so can I pretend you're my girlfriend when I post to facebook".

I thought that was the point?

But Facebook has made things weird, where now you formally have to think about whether someone deserves the "friend" label or, more intriguing, if someone deserves to be "de-friended." An articulated judgment takes place now.

Eh I havent let it change things that way for me. I just dont acknowledge people who added me if I dont know them/dont rly want to keep up with them. In fact I've done the "hide" thing on a few people, though thats mainly because they were constantly posting reams of crap. They dont need to know I'm not interested anymore and its not like they're trying to keep in touch. I do wonder why some people add you and then never say a word again. I rly should clear off a bunch of such people I suppose.

But anyone taking it as a personal affront is a bit... silly, aren't they?

But anyone taking it as a personal affront is a bit... silly, aren't they?

It is silly, I think, but the system behind social networking is so bureaucratized - and that is what's interesting and weird to me.

For instance, someone whom I thought I was still on really good terms with but hadn't talked to in almost two years wasn't dropping down from my friends list (meaning they either de-friended me or they're no longer on the site - and it was a case of former as it turned out).

What's interesting was that this friend, someone I knew at college that recently graduated, figures they'll probably never see me or contact me again (which was plausible) and so the online friendship was terminated like a business contract. It isn't the notion that the friendship was over that's worthy of discussion here (we probably wouldn't have seen each other again unless it was a school reunion tbh) but that its dissolution was articulated by one party for the other to see.

I'd argue that the single, most bizarre thing to come from social networking sites is the idea of writing down everything that was previously unwritten.

the list of girls i've banged remains unpublished.

i started posting way too many youtube videos. my husband actually started doing it (and is waaaay better than me at doing this, better music and better longterm span i think)

also, i was talking with our salesperson about facebook. i explained what it was and stuff. (we have mutual acquaintance who "accidently" changed his status to single) she seemed to not have a clue what facebook is. other day i was talking with her husband. he shows me his iphone (and gazillion apps he downloaded - who the fuck has four pages of apps?). so i notice he's on facebook. oO

lol try this: go to your facebook page, scroll all the way down, click on English (US) and change it to English (Pirate). amusing!

for the last few days, facebook keeps freaking me out by suggesting i add an ex-girlfriend as a friend. i don't know if she just joined it or what, but suddenly she's in the "people you may know" matrix. eeps.

cant you just delete the suggestion? maybe fb senses you can get it working again?

you can totally delete it.

the list of girls i've banged remains unpublished.

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At my old house (which was slated for demolition to make way for condos) we used to write on the walls of our smoking room with Sharpies, and one wall was a tally of how many people each person in the house had slept with. My male roommate: total manwhore.

I have had a couple of messages from ilxors suggesting I visit sweet.be. I understand this is fb virus/bug thing. I know we're all too savvy to actually go to sweet.be and put our fb password in but just so you know...

you can totally delete it.

How does one do this? (it's probably totally obvious, sorry)

I click the X when it's someone I don't know or don't want to but it still comes back a few days later.

I'd probably rather the whole "people you might know" thing got disposed of anyway cos it's led to me drunkenly adding lots of people I'm tangentally friends with and then I get anxious wondering if they think I'm a stalker/some annoying person who friends everyone they've ever met/etc although this time I did reconnect with someone who was a really good friend 10 years ago when I lived in another town and we're probably going to meet up for drinks so I guess it does have some uses.

I am pretty sure that Facebook indicates somehow that you found the person through "People You Might know". Not 100% sure though but I do remember seeing on my feeds activity amongst friends with that note.

So is the recent uptick in viruses just among my FB friends? Or has there been a huge increase overall? I've gotten those virus messages from about 13 different friends over the past week or so.

i've been getting alot of that stuff from people over msn over the last few months.