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

that's from facebook extreme stress test.

jesus christ, is that really your profile???

xpost - oh, ok. my internet connection is running at a snail's pace so that link took forever to load. which means that if one of my friends ever had a profile like that one above (and some seem to be getting dangerously close) i would never visit it.

At this rate, my cat is going to end up with more friends on Facebook than me. Although I don't understand how you can have something cutesy enough to let your cats be friends with each other, but not cutesy enough for them to send messages to each other or write on each others' walls.

Cozen, are you sure yu don't want to stay on MySpace?

i've somehow racked up 39 friends but they consist mostly of old high school acquaintances, ex shags, old uni acquaintances, and a handful of real friends. and ned ;)

Hah! I managed to get about 70 friends. All people I know from here, Kindamuzik and a mailing list. haha

i'm enjoying the voyeuristic nature of it though - seeing what's going on in other people's lives.

but i'm also finding myself feeling quite embarrassed by the fact that every single one of my old acquaintances is travelling extensively/making lots of money/happily ensconced in a relationship.

meanwhile, i am still in my home country, working two crap jobs and going to school. and single.

Traveling: they are escaping their problems.

In a relationship: the other is probably fooling around.

Making lots of money: They have to or the mob will slit their throat because they can't pay off their debts accumulated through online betting.

;-)

oh, nathalie - you're awesome!

I have searched for maybe 75 people from my school, univ, work past and present, friends, neighbours, band-mates, family.....

...and have found only 2 people outside of ILX who are on Facebook. For various reasons I'm not sure that I want them as friends anyway.

Loads of people I've asked have never even heard of it. I'm trying to figure out what that means (apart from the fact that I am old and everyone I know is old too).

acrobat, mine was doing that earlier as well.

i am mainly using mine for playing scrabble btw.

ha. it's freaking me out because i keep ending up in other peoples inboxes.

i had a big ass message i sent completely vanish into the void :(
facebroke

that happens on myspace all the time too, so i've taken to writing in a notepad file or cutting and repasting them.

hi new friend mark c!!!

;)

facebook is funny shit

"Hey, your account is temporarily unavailable due to site maintenance. It should be available again within a few hours. We apologize for the inconvenience."

been saying this since last night

Seems fine for me.

Facebook doesn't want to be Stevem's friend!

2 Ghetto Scrabulous 4 Dem

i just joined the ILE group. let the games begin!

ok, now i have full access to the account of someone called katie hobbs but no access to my own.

to the account? hoo. the fun you could have.

i sincerely hope nobody is having the same fun with mine.

might be worth dropping facebook a line and saying, er, dudes, this isn't good.

if you're going to go on a wrecking spree, do it first, natch :)

i'd guess they probably have an idea, it does seem to be happening a lot...

Hi Ruby R!

Facebook is working fine for me. Possibly too well.

What's the rule about letting people go? Is there a notification that gets sent to them?

apparently not - when i mentioned upthread that i had accepted a friend req from an old moronic ex out of politeness CJ (i think) told me that you can unfriend people and they don't get a notification.

scrabulous is ruining my life.

Ah, okay so. Scrabulous is the devil.

It's not that bad! come on folx.

Given that I have no self-control, I can't stop playing.

Well me neither. but I've also managed to submit a design mock up for one site and nearly finish building another since this madness has become. Granted I have the manic, ADD-riddled mind of a young child hopped up on chocolate and coke so the paces suits me well.

That said, I will wait awhile before taking my turn with Molly to give her some breathing space. :)

wtf?? the ILE group is 'currently unavailable'. so much for my attempts to stalk all your asses out.

my quadrupulous bingo droppage over the last 24 hours is the only thing keeping me going right now in light of last night's PC death. at least they've let me back on now.

FB can be quirky. though not nearly so as MySpew.

What's your name ruby? (if you want to post it here)

just1n3 paul

:) okay i'm off to sleep for realz this time.

A coworker of mine got a friend request (wich she accepted) from on old friend of her brothers (old as in they hadn't seen each other in years). He then proceed to send an unsolicited email to another (rather attractive) coworker of mine; whom he'd never even met before!
neither of the girls were amused.
i was tho.

my quadrupulous bingo droppage over the last 24 hours is the only thing keeping me going right now in light of last night's PC death. at least they've let me back on now.

The last thing I did before it died was start a game of Scrabulous with you. I'm not sure I want it to come back up now :-(

It's back.

official statement:

"This morning, we temporarily took down the Facebook site to fix a bug we identified earlier today. This was not the result of a security breach. Specifically, the bug caused some third party proxy servers to cache otherwise inaccessible content. The result was that an isolated group of users could see some pages that were not intended for them. The site has now been restored, and we apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused."

It's not letting me send messages to people now, annoyingly.

people from school friending me and the snowball effect (once you accept their request you feel you should anyone else on their list you also went to school with) is freaking me out right now.

nobody from my school seems to be on it. I am assuming this is because I'm old.

i'm collecting ilxors like baseball cards - eventually, when i have enough, i'm gonna sell them off to some poor fb loser with no friends.

It's not letting me send messages to people now, annoyingly.

mods be playing ban tricks on ya. ;-)

nobody from my school seems to be on it. I am assuming this is because I'm old.

Thinking similarly here.

Here cause we're still catching up. They are at the point of discovering electricity.

i don't have schoolfriends' email addies (or they mine) on the whole so that problem hasn't come up, fortch.