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

I'll be really curious to see if ILx lasts until we're all in our sixties. I can't even imagine the level of moaning over trivial annoyances by that point.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0,,2-13-1443_2174104,00.html

i think the point of poking is it allows whoever you poked to see your profile page for a week

rilly? i didn't know that.

so it turns out they didn't want to have sex with you after all :(

the only offers of sex i get from facebook are from people who haven't seen my profile. make of that what you will!

I'll be really curious to see if ILx lasts until we're all in our sixties. I can't even imagine the level of moaning over trivial annoyances by that point.

hahaha We'll be slapping eachother with cyber incontince pads by then.

Oookay, that was something I didn't want in my head. Please delete previous post.

I'm afraid of what the movie compatibility results will be with my wife. Our tastes seem to be diverging these days.

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/conservatives/story/0,,2162833,00.html

'young professionals'

i can see cameron pursuing facebook as an outlet, and it working for him, in a way that myspace just wouldn't have worked, whereas for certain elements of the right in the us, myspace would work a lot better (though prob by proxy),..i dunno if theres something still prim/proper/stuffy about the right here in a way that is less so about the us?

I think it's because doing anything on MySpace looks like bandwagon jumping regardless of the party doing it, whereas Facebook is beginning to be taken seriously as a medium for communication like, say text messaging.

Alternatively TS: "A place for friends" vs "a social utility".

hmm fc. is anyone angling for the working class vote? wasn't thatcher's truimph fueled by wooing traditional labour voters over?

you can't win without working-class votes.

i suppose facebook young professionals are tomorrow's middle england-y mondeo men though.

but no one seems to be courting them in any overt way.

xp

i dunno if theres something still prim/proper/stuffy about the right here in a way that is less so about the us?

bigger culture in the States - more permutations?

i am planning a trip with a not close friend over facebook, and i thought it was kind of silly that we were not just using e-mail until i realized that our school e-mails were closed after graduation and we actually don't know how to get in touch outside facebook anymore! and suddenly it makes sense.

suddenly it makes sense.

To ask eachother's new email address? ;-)

we could do that, but why bother at this point? facebook's working!

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I don't like how funny these dudes try to be.

This makes me very depressed. A lot of old friends are on Facebook and it hurts to see them all still friends, while I have been forgotten

maybe now they'll remember you?

I am too scared to show my face, maybe they think I am a loser

better to know than to forever wonder

I just discovered my cousin's on FB. It was really... strange. Like two worlds colliding, really. I added her and we've been messaging back and forth.

my cousins are all over the bloody thing. it's quite good fun.

ken's application is amazing

Same here grimly. Shocked at their spelling though!

i blocked my cousins.

Par for the course with you, I'm sure.

xpost me too. :-( I mean, she only spelled one word wrong, but I also noticed how "internetty" she wrote. VEry strange. But then I realize it's my fault, I'm a bit oldfashioned when it comes to spelling and text messaging, I PH34R.

Ken, what's the app DO?

My mother joined Facebook, friended me, and now writes stuff on my wall constantly. Surely this is the kind of awkward social situation one is supposed to transcend post high school.

that is just wrong. facebook should be logan's runned.

and then you have to move on...to 'facelift'

your host on 'just a minute' this week was louis jagger

REPETITION!

my sister just joined. i feel a bit guilty about only letting her see my limited profile but...will she know that's all she's seeing? i think not. so fuck it. she doesn't know a single one of my friends so it really doesn't matter...

Ha my little sister refuses to friend any family members or mutual friends so we can't spy on her!

i knew it was weak from the moment i pressed 'submit', enrique, but that's LOW

My mother joined Facebook, friended me, and now writes stuff on my wall constantly. Surely this is the kind of awkward social situation one is supposed to transcend post high school.

My mom labeled knowing about myspace a waste of time. So I doubt she'll be getting on FB.
Thank GOD.

my sister is 40 with three kids (two teens). i'm more worried about the teens finding me tbh...

Is that on the wrong thread, L?

hmmmm.

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200710/facebook

"I like it because it's something for everyone (until everyone is on it)." Lather, rinse, repeat.

CIO: english newspaper columnists in their late 20's or older being all "i just joined facebook, here are some of the things i can do, the old social order is dead, lol poking"

The experience is initially unnerving, but once you get the hang of it, you start feeling like you’re part of some great undulating, pulsing virtual experiment—like that scene in Wim Wenders’s Wings of Desire when Cassiel and Damiel wander Berlin hearing the innermost thoughts of everyone around them, except funnier and less pretentious.

I wish that sentence was funnier ans less pretentious.

Meanwhile Apparently last month Bebo overtook Google as the most-viewed website in the UK

There was an amusing Talk of the Town piece in the New Yorker last week about a freshman-orientation workshop at NYU that teaches students who conduct most of their social interactions on Facebook how to interact with people IRL.