iyo did facebook ruin the internet?

4. I just want to say something dickish. I don't like you and I only keep you on fb to remind you of that cause my life is sad as fuck.

ha ha I love it that people who spend enough time online to come up with arcane rules about FB likes can still take the "people on the internet have sad lives" attitude

One of my favorite things of late re: dealing with dumb people on Facebook is leaving a real bunker-buster of a comment about them in someone else's comment thread then clicking "Turn off notifications" and never going back.

example?

None that come to mind-- like back in July a friend posted something on the anniversary of the moon landing, and someone else in the comments turned out to be a denier, and I was trying to educate him and explain why his repeatedly copy-pasted points were nonsense; and finally I just told him he was, in effect, a stupid moron with an ugly face and a big butt and his butt smells and he likes to kiss his own butt. Then I clicked "Turned off notifications."

yeah, that smarted for a moment Phil, but I came back with a real doozy, all our mutual friends were laughing at you

I SAID NO NOTIFICATIONS

@DarkBananamanKnight, @BarfSimpsonreal, and @PattyArquette are tweeting about #FacebookDoozies

heh I've done the No Notifications thing a lot lately too. a few times I've gotten a message from the thread starter apologizing for the nasty shit the other person said to me in response and then I'd be all confused cos I never saw it.

Holy shit HSB, I didn't realise anyone took FB (or twitter or w/e) so seriously that they think there's agreed-upon etiquette such as must-like-when-commenting, wtf. That kind of does my head in.

so seriously to think that but somehow not seriously enough to notice that it's not something anybody else does.

just to be safe i'm going to start fp'ing every ilx post i reply to

maybe these people are the wave of the future

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I morbidly wish I knew that person on FB so I could reply to them with YOU ARE AN UTTER WEIRDO NO ONE DOES THIS WHATS WRONG WITH YOU.

I saw the dude at a wedding less than a week after he scolded me. He said hello to me the way a couple says it after an awkward breakup.

I was like man yr really invested in your FB persona

Did you defriend him? He sounds like type to take that as a dagger to the chest.

lol @ author of 'the wave' being called Strasser

xxpost You should have handed him a napkin with "Like" written on it

ha ha I love it that people who spend enough time online to come up with arcane rules about FB likes can still take the "people on the internet have sad lives" attitude

This reminds me of when a friend-of-friend acquaintance defriended me with a message that I was always signed in to chat all the time so I must be a sad bastard. Like, how did they know I was always signed into chat unless they were themselves checking it all hours of the day? The irony being I hardly ever used FB chat I just had the tab open on my work computer all day.

that is some real lack of self-reflection

half the people that have it on don't even realize they have it on

sad sheeple

weeple

meet the FeeBles

This reminds me of when a friend-of-friend acquaintance defriended me with a message that I was always signed in to chat all the time so I must be a sad bastard. Like, how did they know I was always signed into chat unless they were themselves checking it all hours of the day? The irony being I hardly ever used FB chat I just had the tab open on my work computer all day.

― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, August 19, 2015 9:40 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

who the fuck sends somebody a message saying that? what a psycho

Dear Poo,

I am sorry to tell you that we can no longer be FB friends. Your constant presence on chat leaves me convinced that you are hollow and sad and I must always move toward light.

Sincerely,
Guy With Lots of Real Life Friends Who All the Time Does Fun Real Life Stuff Like Having Sex

the thing abt facebook is I've been added by people from elementary school or even later than that, and these were people I'd forgotten completely and now they are back in there. It feels unnatural. Some people in your life, and I mean this without rancor or hostility, are meant to be forgotten. Just like you are meant to be forgotten by others.

Yeah, I'm fb friends with my babysitter from when I was 4. It's really weird.

Some people in your life, and I mean this without rancor or hostility, are meant to be forgotten. Just like you are meant to be forgotten by others.

In the long run I think this may be one of the biggest shifts wrought by "social media" generally. I mean we can block and unfollow, and there's clearly less shit on my feed from random people I went to high school with than from people I hang out with in the here and now, but I still know WAY more about the lives of random people I went to high school with than an equivalent 33-year-old would have known ten years ago. I'm not sure what all kind of knock-on effects this would have, but I think it'd be kinda interesting to live in a much smaller world, with a much shorter list of people whose lives I know about, or have to choose to stay abreast of. My sense is that even most people's Christmas-card lists, in my parents' generation, though being by nature broader than the people they really stayed actively in touch with, were consiiiiiderably edited down from "everyone they've ever known at all in their lives."

I don't generally re-add people from 20 years ago as I find it fairly pointless and weird, but sometimes it's actually a way of connecting with someone who maybe you missed out on the first go-round that actually connects with you. I wound up actually meeting a friend from junior high that I'd lost touch with in person and it was actually a very rewarding meeting. have also made friends with an old high school acquaintance that I didn't get to know well the first time around that actually turned out to be a cool dude that watches Dolphins games with me sometimes.

other than that, I prefer to forget I existed between ages 11-18

I still know WAY more about the lives of random people I went to high school with than an equivalent 33-year-old would have known ten years ago. I'm not sure what all kind of knock-on effects this would have, but I think it'd be kinda interesting to live in a much smaller world, with a much shorter list of people whose lives I know about, or have to choose to stay abreast of.

As someone who was a 33-year-old ten years ago, I would say that the presence of occasional knowledge about / commentary from people I went to high school with has an extremely tiny effect on my life, if any. It didn't feel like living in a smaller world 10 years ago, I can tell you that much.

Frankly I suspect if some people from longer ago than high school added me, I'd struggle to know who they were.

I ignore a lot or friend reqs anyway - especially from vague family-linked people (some old friend of my mums who I dont even know), or schoolfriends I havent spoken to in 30 years, because fuck off.

I prefer to forget I existed between ages 11-18

Found this event posting that showed up on my wall the other day kind of laughable. It's a Fast Times/Clueless double-bill at a local rep house in August. There are currently 906 people who are going. The theatre holds 200-250, and on the night of the screening it'll be me and 40 other people. Great way to apprise the world of all the great stuff you'll be attending without ever having to show up for any of it.
― clemenza, Tuesday, July 21, 2015 9:54 PM (1 month ago)

Sold out--couldn't get in. I don't know anything anymore.

I still know WAY more about the lives of random people I went to high school with than an equivalent 33-year-old would have known ten years ago.

only difference really is that it doesn't get filtered through your mom running into their mom at the supermarket

I was thinking about this, but I'm pretty thankful for not having pruned my friends list too much over the years. It's helped create a network of people who maybe I don't see every day, but are still good to have around. Just recently found a house via an old acquaintance I haven't seen in about 8 years. When my (now) other half went travelling, we connected again and got together using Facebook. She put me in touch with friends she knew, and that's how I got my first stint as a writer. I've connected and met with dozens of housemates and band members and collaborators over the years who've helped me with certain things, which all couldn't have been possible were it not for Facebook. So on the whole, I'm happy it exists and I'm glad I've never trimmed down my connections.

only difference really is that it doesn't get filtered through your mom running into their mom at the supermarket

LOL thanks to this grapevine, I once found out in my early 20s that there was a rumour doing the rounds that I'd caught AIDS, what the fuck. To this day I have no idea how it started, where it spread and why someone would think that about me (esp given at the time I barely drank let alone touched drugs or hung out with dodgy people).

hey you can add "how your name is pronounced" on your facebook profile and i'm surprised everyone isn't fucking with this

with a little siri lady saying it

Someone mentioned that on FB last week and I cant find the setting!

check under "about me" and do the drop down menus
my name is now pronounced TY-ROYL-smoo chee-WAW-lis

under "Details about you"
you can also give yourself a nickname; I went with "Sweet Jones"

One of the eeriest facebook phenomena to me is the way you can find yourself sort of snooping on some rando's life if they don't have their profile set to private. Like you're reading some not very close friend's thread, and somebody makes a post that interests you, and you click their picture, and suddenly you can see their kids, their cat, their vacations, etc., and it's just so easily to idly browse for a minute or two before you think "what the fuck am I doing here?"

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xdN0QQwsP1A/TBZFJ_uckmI/AAAAAAAAINU/1mntZpj09eY/s1600/vlcsnap-39344.png

I can see the nickname option but theres no pronunciation option. Boh.

pronunciation option is great for lolz

Author Supports Twitter Banter

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right that was the one i was forgetting

apparently it already slipped into the mists of facebork time

Facebook User Clicks on a Link and Reads for a While, then Returns to Facebook

never leaves, never really leaves