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
I use Google Docs but very VERY rarely.
― nathalie, Thursday, 25 October 2007 10:15 (sixteen years ago) link
so she likes Stephen King huh?
christ almighty, apparently.
my point, nath, is that someone who never reads anything OR EVEN ASPIRES TO READ anything outside of three authors is intellectually stunted. Obviously!(?) I mean, maybe if the three authors were not King, Nora Roberts and Anne Rice.
xpost.
all Microsoft applications will be fully operable through Facebook in some form or another, maybe Google Docs style
but MS apps are already operable through the web, it's just nobody uses them like that -- it's frustrating. People in my company bitch about the poor quality of their web-based Outlook access, or how they can open a word doc on one machine but not another (well, there's a very simple explanation for that, they're idiots, but i'll save that rant for later).
The thing is that most businesses use MS Office, and MS office does not work so well on the web (if at all). It just don't, sorry microsoft. Your code is inscrutable, and no one can develop for the web at all with MS products except by using MS products. Which is a clusterfuck that will continue for a while, if my company is any indication, but it's no model for the future.
― kenan, Thursday, 25 October 2007 10:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Dude, at least she reads.
― Mark C, Thursday, 25 October 2007 10:19 (sixteen years ago) link
reading is overrated
― ken c, Thursday, 25 October 2007 10:22 (sixteen years ago) link
reading schlock horror and soft porn is... well... rated exactly right.
― kenan, Thursday, 25 October 2007 10:24 (sixteen years ago) link
I suppose we could congratulate her on gratuating into adult sublect matter, if not reading level? I dunno. Yeah, at least she can read. I mean, at least she reads.
― kenan, Thursday, 25 October 2007 10:25 (sixteen years ago) link
but can she spell?
― Mark G, Thursday, 25 October 2007 10:26 (sixteen years ago) link
spelling is sublective
― ken c, Thursday, 25 October 2007 10:27 (sixteen years ago) link
oh fubk both of you
― kenan, Thursday, 25 October 2007 10:27 (sixteen years ago) link
maybe you should test her by playing her in scrabulous, kenan!
― ken c, Thursday, 25 October 2007 10:28 (sixteen years ago) link
but word of caution: imagine the humiliation of losing to a stephen king reader..
― ken c, Thursday, 25 October 2007 10:29 (sixteen years ago) link
hey hey, that's just ugly. Let's not drag something as personal as scrabble into this.
― kenan, Thursday, 25 October 2007 10:29 (sixteen years ago) link
The worst book I've read in recent times was a Stephen King book (I had to read it for work). It was SO BAD.
― Mark C, Thursday, 25 October 2007 10:31 (sixteen years ago) link
I remember a Steven King interview where he talked about how he doesn't really know how his books are going to end, he justs starts with an IDEA, and then just lets that IDEA take him where it will. I think it was Truman Capote who called that "typing."
― kenan, Thursday, 25 October 2007 10:36 (sixteen years ago) link
web-based Outlook is like going back in time 10 years
― Alan, Thursday, 25 October 2007 10:44 (sixteen years ago) link
"Yes," your friendly local IT guy will argue, "But it's THE BEST of 10 years ago!"
― kenan, Thursday, 25 October 2007 10:53 (sixteen years ago) link