ken who are these two american girls you are in the shower with? did you pick them up in vegas?
― Rubyredd, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 12:04 (sixteen years ago) link
i can't log in either. and i have a MESSAGE from a crush awaiting me inside. facebook, y u torture me like dis?
― stevie, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 12:06 (sixteen years ago) link
OH WOW poor you!! i'm not having any trouble logging in over here.
― Rubyredd, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 12:08 (sixteen years ago) link
i picked up those two american girls when i was in a mars bar eating competition (i ate 6 in half an hour!), this was the day after i unearthed a bomb while working on a site
― ken c, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 12:31 (sixteen years ago) link
i hope a crush will have messaged me next time i log in :\
― ken c, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 12:32 (sixteen years ago) link
* After the maintenance is over, you will still be able to login with the same password * Your profile and account will not be affected by the maintenance * There is no need to notify Facebook of the site maintenance. We're the ones doing the work, so if you see this notice, it means that we're already aware of the issue. * We don't do site maintenance on all accounts at the same time, so it is possible that some of your friends will be able to access the site while your account is unavailable.
― stevie, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 12:35 (sixteen years ago) link
fucking hell, phd supervisor has friended a mutual friend.
this shit is wrong.
but it's too late to block him now. i just hope he has the good sense and tact not to friend me.
there is a time for earnest academic discussion of bullshit old movies no-one cares about, and there is a place for mondeo pop and... they're not in the same place.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 09:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Dude I've seen I Love Film, I'm calling bullshit.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 10:09 (sixteen years ago) link
no crush has messaged me yet :\
― ken c, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 10:14 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm too shy and scared of rejection for facebook.
― Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 10:17 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm too easily swayed by peer pressure *not* to be on Facebook
― Forest Pines Mk2, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 10:24 (sixteen years ago) link
i'd totally reject you ned trifle ii as we had never met
― ken c, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 10:26 (sixteen years ago) link
although sometimes i make exceptions so you may get lucky
― ken c, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 10:27 (sixteen years ago) link
i think this glimmer of hope of becoming my facebook friend should be enough for you to join.
― ken c, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 10:28 (sixteen years ago) link
You can let him see just a limited profile. Check your privacy settings...
― kv_nol, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 10:38 (sixteen years ago) link
or just not accept his friending
― ken c, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 10:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Stone cold rejection is an option, yes. Perhaps not the politest mind!
― kv_nol, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 11:01 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm figuring out what to do in this situation. The person tries to get you to befriend them, and you choose ignore. Then you see them in real life and they go 'hey! You didn't befriend me!' and you act all confused and say 'oh, sorry, some spammer was trying to befriend me last week, I must have hit the wrong button. Send the request again.'
If they never say anything, you never have to worry.
― accentmonkey, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 12:05 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm already in it ken and, of course, it is your rejection I fear the most.
― Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 12:16 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost instead of rejecting per se i've currently left about 10 requests in limbo.
― ken c, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 12:21 (sixteen years ago) link
it was just that the last time i rejected somebody, they came back with a request again - so if i leave everything in limbo at least i won't get another notification that i don't need if they do.
it's getting increasingly annoying having 10 friend requests pending though so maybe i should actually just reject it all.
― ken c, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 12:23 (sixteen years ago) link
I wish there was an "abjure" option. I just really like that word.
― accentmonkey, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 12:27 (sixteen years ago) link
this has just appeared:
"My Band
Are YOU in a band? Promote it on your Facebook Page w/ MyBand!"
...is this the killer blow to myspace???
― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 12:41 (sixteen years ago) link
i thought my band has been there for ages! i looked it up because i wanted to make a similar application myself. but it seems to have like 10 people using it to last time i looked.
― ken c, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 12:47 (sixteen years ago) link
The 'Friend Groups' thing that Facebook are supposed to be launching rsn could solve some of your problems, accentmonkey. You can friend someone, and then add them to the group "wish I hadn't friended this person", where they never see your updates and you don't see theirs.
― Ray, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 13:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes, that sounds like exactly what I want.
― accentmonkey, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 14:04 (sixteen years ago) link
...is this the killer blow to myspace facebook ???
-- Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 12:41
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 15:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Top Movies in the London network. 1 Pulp Fiction 2 Shawshank Redemption 3 Dirty Dancing 4 Anchorman 5 Fight Club
which says to me people aged 25-35.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Sunday, 14 October 2007 14:33 (sixteen years ago) link
I heard an awful tale at lunch today. One of my colleagues missed someone's wedding coz they had sent out the invitations via facebook rather than in the traditional way.
― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 18 October 2007 15:18 (sixteen years ago) link
wtf i've just been added by an extremely hot girl, i check her profile and a) there is no information except the basic 'interested in, relationship status, DOB, hometown' shizzle at the top, and b) i am, at time of writing, her only friend.
is this some sort of joke? does dom really have that much spare time?
― Just got offed, Saturday, 20 October 2007 20:59 (sixteen years ago) link
You're in there.
― Ned Trifle II, Saturday, 20 October 2007 22:48 (sixteen years ago) link
OK, I'm still her only friend. OWN UP, SOMEONE.
― Just got offed, Sunday, 21 October 2007 08:50 (sixteen years ago) link
it's yr mom dude
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 21 October 2007 09:06 (sixteen years ago) link
I was going to have a look but you've got 544 friends! That's more friends than I've had in my entire life. In fact that's more people than I've known in my entire life. I am depressed.
― Ned Trifle II, Sunday, 21 October 2007 09:06 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost
There's a chance it might be my 16 year-old brother playing an elaborate stunt, but it doesn't really strike me as his style.
― Just got offed, Sunday, 21 October 2007 09:14 (sixteen years ago) link
And old, faint high school acquaintance found me on facebook, and tonight I was forced to personally message her. It was the last straw.
I 'member you! :)
But plz, no more werewolves, vampires, pirates, zombies, mummies, dragons, unicorns, satyrs, bigfoots, chupacabras, loch ness monsters, centaurs, sphinxes, angels, krakens, or hippogriffs.
― kenan, Thursday, 25 October 2007 08:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Most depressing message I have received so far from an old school person:
"Hi Matt, not much has happened in the last 12 years, apart from me getting older. How are you?"
I didn't really know how to respond.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 25 October 2007 08:40 (sixteen years ago) link
First fake Luna - took a little while...
― Matt DC, Thursday, 25 October 2007 08:41 (sixteen years ago) link
I had a friend request from someone with the same name as me, so I added him. The next day I removed him, it was way too confusing.
― Mark G, Thursday, 25 October 2007 08:46 (sixteen years ago) link
ok i don't want to get too jon williams on this girl, except that I do. I was just chatting with someone else who went to school with us -- her facebook profile photo is of her in a wedding dress, and she's been married for THREE YEARS. And her list of "want to read books" looks like this:
http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/want_to_read.png
― kenan, Thursday, 25 October 2007 09:02 (sixteen years ago) link
i mean, holy crap on a cracker.
Well, you can't say she aesthetically inconsistent, at least.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 25 October 2007 09:07 (sixteen years ago) link
true, true
― kenan, Thursday, 25 October 2007 09:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Also no comment yet on the news that Microsoft has spent $240m on a 1.6% stake in Facebook? That values it at $15bn, for a site that's expected to make maybe $150m of revenue this year.
If I were Mark Zuckerberg I would sell the whole thing now and laugh all the way to the bank when the thing fails to make anywhere near as much money as people are hoping.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 25 October 2007 09:31 (sixteen years ago) link
or sit on it until it becomes useful
― kenan, Thursday, 25 October 2007 09:44 (sixteen years ago) link
but maybe you're right, maybe open-sourcing a social network will only make more zombies, so to speak. How's th IM app working? Anybody using it? Any word on email integration?
― kenan, Thursday, 25 October 2007 09:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Kenan, so she likes Stephen King huh? (I'm not one to speak tho as my book collection is very inconsistent.)
― nathalie, Thursday, 25 October 2007 09:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Well yeah, email integraton and so forth is the next logical step. I presume what Microsoft is trying to do is find a way to take on Google as the portal through which people access the web and organise their online lives, without trying to beat Google at its own game.
I'm pretty sure that within a year, all Microsoft applications will be fully operable through Facebook in some form or another, maybe Google Docs style. That could lead to a lot of people spending a lot of time on the site.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 25 October 2007 10:02 (sixteen years ago) link
do people actually use google docs a lot? (this is a genuine question)
if anyone wants to make money they should buy scrabulous cos that's what people do solely on facebook these days!
― ken c, Thursday, 25 October 2007 10:09 (sixteen years ago) link