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

From above:

BTW, the guy she slept with is apparently doing a semester at sea and is unreachable for the most part.

Ah was confused there; thought it was the fiancée who'd been at sea when the shag was ging

Don't know what the poster's deal is then. Very moral, but not moral enough to try and minimise damage from his own actions?

Well, I'd say his actions come more from a place of schoolyard bullying and shit-stirring than somewhere genuinely moral, and the whole ethical crusade feel of it all is really just "a-ha! I has a moral justification" trigger pulling on something more ugly and mean spirited. Like someone else mentioned, what could have been done privately and respectfully was sparked by a facebook comment most likely intended to be seen by family, friends, etc, and that to me is what's so slimy about it. (Apart, obviously, from the cheating itself...but...eh I'm feeling gross again...)

what a sickening spectacle on the internet

If you're all serious I'm more than a little bemused, considering some of the circus acts thatve gone on on this very forum over the years.

Those were weird, too.

Fair enough, obviously I'm not intending to paint everyone on ILX as a crowd cheering on cruelty (there were times I did wonder, though...)

http://1.media.collegehumor.com/collegehumor/ch6/2/9/collegehumor.9103eaa220702cb6d8a09209b742d759.png

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Hahah I thought that was our Grady for a sec!

o it is

gradtastic

wait that's our grady?!

It is not. I just checked. Joe lies. When he cries. Joe lies.

dude look on the 2nd page of his profile pics and u wll see it

apparently you can't be 'in a relationship' with your piano on facebook

― helping to make them awafe of the risks (nickalicious), Thursday, September 17, 2009 7:12 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

sorry to be the one to break this but another dude's been playing your piano

― astronimo domino (onimo), Thursday, September 17, 2009 7:16 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you can tune a piano, but you can't tune nickalish

there's a grady on facebook now?

also note the presence of a second ilxor in the comments xp

i remember that post as if it were 6 months ago

http://i29.tinypic.com/2va0d9y.jpg

also note the presence of a second ilxor in the comments

shit. I'm dense today. u r correct.

It just didnt look like him!

It's been so long I've forgotten what he looks like ;_;

Blimey, I've 'promoted' (if not invented) an internet meme.

Clicked that original BBC news link:

I'm disgusted with the youth of today. Whatever happened to the two most important things in my time at university, viz sex and drugs? Bah, humbug.
Simon Langley, Ilkley

That's three things...

ok, ok I apologize. LOL @ ew mom, btw.

"rogue spyware attacks that seem to be originating from Facebook"

Knew I shouldn't have added all those Nigerian widows as my friends.

Just randomly clicked on the profile page of a girl I met travelling a couple of years ago and got on with pretty well with the idea of maybe getting in touch, and was confronted with a wall full of RIP messages - seems she died in the last month or so. Damn. That's left me rather shaken. No mutual friends, so can't find out anything more.

can't you message any of the r.i.p. message leavers? i'm sure they'd understand.

Yeah, that's crossed my mind, I've just been weighing up how appropriate it would be. I don't want to intrude on anyone's grief, like I say we weren't best buds or anything. I did like her though. Probably alright innit?

Anyhow, weird way to find out something like that.

don't worry. anyone so obtuse as to get offended at you asking about her, deserves to have their toes stepped on. you're totally within your rights to ask a simple question, any friend - distant or not - would want to know.

i have a lot of friends overseas with few/no friends in common - so obv i have strong feelings on what's appropriate here.

Thanks, good advice.

Contemplating deleting account. I'm only on there for Lexulous, really.

wanna say your my girlfriend? it would be funny to see how my friends react

i can't join the seattle network bc it requires a valid school email address?

http://www.lamebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/daddys-girl1.png

That is wrong in at least six seperate ways.

six wrongs do make a right.

good rule of thumb btw: never post about an event you'll be at saying, "who else is going to be there???" or an event you'll be having saying, "come on over!" because inevitably you'll end up hanging out with no one else but the awkward guy who works two doors down from you in your office.

Posted this is the other (wrong) thread...

Have the notifications from Facebook changed recently or am I imagining it? I'm sure that I used to get an email whenever ANYONE commented on something I'd commented on etc. whereas over the last few days I have only seemed to get emails when it's someone I'm friends with who has done the commenting.

*is=in

im still getting them from everyone

my 50yr old uncle has friended me on FB - he's kind of an asshole and i haven't even spoken to him in probably 12yrs, but looking at his profile picture... i really really want to post it to Show me some men who look like old lesbians!

Sid Meier's Civilization coming to facebook? OMG OMG OMG.

http://www.edge-online.com/news/civilization-heading-to-facebook

I closed my account. :-)

someone tell me what's the difference btw live feed and news feed?

I will repost some of what I just posted to Facebook, because I think I have some questions worth addressing.

According to Facebook, this is the story: http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=162536657130

"News Feed picks stories that we think you'll enjoy based on a variety of factors including how many friends have liked and commented on it and how likely you are to interact with that story."

Why? More importantly, how? Dunno about you, but my news feed page looks like a live feed page that's broken and is just missing a bunch of posts, randomly. I understand if you're using this information to narrow your target market, and decide whose pages to feed ads to. That makes sense. But this is like applying the same logic to just talking about stuff. I know it's a neat thing to be ABLE to do, but why are you trying to sell people's own friends back to them?

Also, it does not and cannot account for all the people whose every Facebook post I hang on and look forward to, but never comment on. The News Feed is all the control I want over my home page -- I can ban people of they're annoying, etc. I do not need nor do I want this extra layer of filtering.

yes, it just seems very stupid and broken.

Although it seems that with this revamp my suggestions are finally working - I'm getting people who are friends with my friends rather than people who happen to be one of the 15,000 students at my university.

See, that's a GOOD place to apply this filter.

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