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

I think you can click on a person's name and see a list of who their friends are .... that might narrow it down, if you recognise any of those names.

Dear Mr Carlin

Are you Mr Carlin? If so I want to friend you. Please provide confirmation of identity, including full bank details, passport number and comprehensive list of all worldly goods and chattels.

Sincerely etc.

I think I get enough of those types of email from Nigeria...

I've been seduced by FB for the past couple of weeks but now I am drifting back to the ILX fold.

Can you help me with something? If I want to find old friends, and I search their name and lots of people come up and it's not immediately apparent if any of them are who I'm looking for, how do I see their full profile?

You can usually tell by looking at their friends list, I find. If you've got any people or places in common that's usually the giveaway.

searching friends' friends, or looking for groups/networks people from the past might be in, is the better way of finding people.

the "find people via your email contacts list" reveals only that i have NO IDEA who most of the people in my gmail address book are.

"find people via your email contacts list" = "would you like to add everyone you've ever bought or sold something to on Amazon marketplace?"

Also: suddenly noticing that annoying PRs are really hot

^^^ this.

someone snubbed my friend add. how rude.

who is it? i snub most people now unless i know them like properly.

*properly*

someone i met once at a work related do... lots of people are adding me and i barely know them properly. maybe the person is part of a gimp S&M torture group and doesnt want me to see.

Jizzy. ;-)

Maybe they hate dubstep.

Ken, define properly. Nekkid pics?

did nobody else get a message from Darramouss then

Who? /Lex

Are you on Kit? Are you my friend?

Yeah teh_kit, friend us!

BusinessWeek is on the case.

xpost

For a second I thought you were claiming you and teh-kit were one. Confusing.

How was Berlin?

ow maan, i have to deal with the zombie thing now.

When people poke you, are you supposed to poke them back? What's the point of it? There's no message with it or anything.

Poking is a way of saying hello i am here and i want to fuck you...but for people without the confidence to actually say or even imply it

You ask for money to be paypaled to you. A tenner normally unless it's without the glove, then it's twenty. (xpost)

Poking is a way of saying hello i am here and i want to fuck you...but for people without the confidence to actually say or even imply it

-- Filey Camp

oh shit. i poked my boss today.

What? It's just letting'em know you're here/there.

that's a relief. because my boss is a married woman.

Live a little </crepe>

<a href="http://warwick.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2223261784";>Two hundred thousand members can't be wrong.</a>

There are a bunch of people on FB from ILX that I would like to friend but think it would through them off because they wouldn't know who I was. What to do?

I think a poke to a non-friend allows them to see your profile for a limited period ("yes, it is me - I sat next to you in Geography in 1983 and now I like embroidery and Wolf Eyes"); if they poke you back you can see their profile. From such jabbing beautiful "friend"ships are rekindled. Any subsequent pokes are for laffs.

There are apparently 686,000 Londoners on Facebook.

So far I only have ILX0rs I've actually met in IRL as friends, but that's not a conscious decision on my part. I don't think I've actually added any ILX0rs yet anyway, they've added me. I was the same as you, wasn't sure if I should or not!

xpost the pokes I was talking about were from people who are already friends, so it wasn't to add me or anything, that's why I wondered what it was for.

Did you add me yet, I cannot recall.

Ned - Me or CP? You were one of my first FB friends.

Ned trying to brag he has a gazillion friends on FB. ;-)

former left-wing comrade is now in the "I WILL BE A BILLIONAIRE" group, who's a self-employed investor/stock trader.

Facebook, why u shatter memories/illusions?

is a 'self-employed investor/stock trader' - feel like scare quotes are a necessity there.

i got poked, poked them back, never heard back from them again. which is how i like it. usually the etiquette seems to be that you get poked, then add the person.

I'm a zombie - thanks Trish!

She tried to get me too but I ducked. Take that zombie Trish!

Every second dude on there has the "hilarious" Chuck Norris application. Makes me slightly angry.

Also, add mee. If you like. M4rk W4lt3r.

^In the ilm group.

Haven't joined ILM group as would feel like an imposter because I only pop on there every now and again.

Yeah, i guess it should have been an ilxor group. ah well.

There's an ILX group too!

sweet nectar.

Just get onboard http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2382779449

It's private or whatever. Was the ilm one private?

I don't know, I can't remember. I think you just submit a request to join this one and then Nathalie approves it.