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

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.

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."

web-based Outlook is like going back in time 10 years

"Yes," your friendly local IT guy will argue, "But it's THE BEST of 10 years ago!"

But plz, no more werewolves, vampires, pirates, zombies, mummies, dragons, unicorns, satyrs, bigfoots, chupacabras, loch ness monsters, centaurs, sphinxes, angels, krakens, or hippogriffs.

I'm going to have to start doing this. One of my old co-workers seeme to be adding EVERY APPLICATION UNDER THE SUN and sending me crap. He even sent me some stop smoking message the other day. Grrrrr.

It's too easy... every frickin' application gives you this automatic screen to "send to your friends!" with a list of your friends and every one of them checked.

I know but I make the effort to uncheck those things so that I don't piss people off. Why can't he? /vent.

because it's specifically designed to seem like more of a pain in the ass NOT to send a message to everyone in the world (even if that's not actually true)

It's too easy... every frickin' application gives you this automatic screen to "send to your friends!" with a list of your friends and every one of them checked.

And the horrible thing: I CAN NOT UNCHECK ALL most of the time. :-(((((((( I'll have to try Firefox to see if this is due to Safari or something. Sometimes I uncheck them all seperately but most of the time I'm too lazy and send it to you guys. Sorry. Really. :-(

my point, nath, is that someone who never reads anything OR EVEN ASPIRES TO READ anything outside of three authors is intellectually stunted.

I hate to agree, but you're right. :-(

just seen this on facebook, or, at least a link to it:

"Are You Sexy ?
Enter your date and time of birth and find out now! "

er, rly?

I tend to "unclick everyone" button then reselect.. usually one Stvynx.. (gets too many mesages all the same no doubt)

xpost yeah and if it's earlier than the eighties, then it's not got love for you...

My sister asked me if I'm on Facebook, I found her profile and my mum is one of her friends... this means if I add my sister I will be Facebook friends with my mum. There's not really any reason why I wouldn't want my mum to see my profile but it still feels a bit odd! Hmm.

Also xpost to people having trouble with applications wanting to send to all your friends, you know you can skip that step right?

no, they don't seem to.

i don't want to be a fucking zombie, werewolf or vampire, or add any other cunting stupid feature. pls to naff off.

colonel -- i've had that problem. just pre-emptively block your mum.

mumblocking?

lol

pre-emptively cock-block your mum

Oh great, now my friend's cousin is posting anti-immigration "funnies" on my "Fun Wall". I think I may have to remove that application, unless I can block certain people from posting on it...

Friend's cousins on your friends list??

I know, I know. His dad friended me as well. I do know them all, have been out drinking with them etc. Seemed rude not to.

'Ken Livingstone and Chris Kamara are now friends'

I wish celebs were on Facebook, putting gossip bloggers out of business...

http://www.pixelbuddy.com/images/broken_heart.gif Jake Gyllenhaal is no longer in a relationship.

aww imagine the broken heart was where it belonged there

I have now rejected one individual's friend request three times. I almost feel bad but there's a reason I haven't spoken to him for 7 years. He was a cockfarmer then and by all accounts, having seen his uber-twattish professionally taken pictures (in many of which he is shirtless) on someone else's account, he is still a cockfarmer now. and he has a terrible terrible tache too.

no luv for the selleck

i should have blocked my sister. her social life is not something i want to know about.

lolololololololol

my brothers aren't interested in f-book thank heavens. although they are not yet 18 so maybe there is time yet.

GET THEM ON ILX.

one of them is a long-time lurker, but if he joins it will be as an ILM-specific thing. he is a lot more mature and discreet than me in many ways. he is very experienced with internet dialogue and will fit in seamlessly, only posting about things he is an expert on. the other one will not join ilx. i can say that with confidence.

if the first brother joins ilx, i will not draw any attention to him, and you will not be able to tell who he is.

ok, wtf, my mom is on facebook now. how did i find out? she's friends w my aunt. argh!

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.

WHOA I tried that and it's like throwing armpit hair into a bottomless tunnel, ie pointless.

You need different hair.

Your favorite musicians and businesses are here.

Your favorite bands, businesses, and products are coming to Facebook. Check out Dave Matthews Band, become a fan of (RED), or search for your favorite brands. You can also find out about what your friends like through the new "Fan of..." box on their profiles.

Syria: not a fan

This was my first Thanksgiving away from home, and after a phone call with most of the extended family gathering, I ended up facebook friending my aunt and both her kids to see the pictures they posted the next day. Crazy!

and also to make them werewolves.

haha my brother-in-law's uncle is a weird dude to begin with but now i'm seeing strange comments from him on my sister's facebook page. it's freaking me out that he's going to find me next! alsdkgj!

Apparently your activity on other websites may soon show up on Facebook's news feed. I was forwarded an e-mail from my girlfriend's co-worker that said that after he bought something on Amazon, a comment about the purchase then appeared on Facebook, even though he uses a different e-mail address for each site. MoveOn.org is starting a petition against this blatant privacy violation, and they've created a Facebook group as well.

More from the NYTimes.

Yeah this is part of the new advertising model cooked up to attempt to justify Facebook's ridiculous overvaluation (see also becoming a 'fan' of things). *Apparently* you can opt out of this somewhere but I'm going to be keeping an eye on my newsfeed whenever I buy something.

There is a huge potential backlash here.

I went to my privacy settings to see if I could turn this off, and it said that no websites had tried sending my data to Facebook yet, so there was nothing I could do, even preemptively.

I just saw this via kv_nol posting a comment on Facebook - how the fuck does this work anyway? How does Amazon etc know what yr Facebook account is? Via your cookies or something? This sounds pretty fucked up. Not that I've noticed anything on my news feed yet.

Amazon & FB both use email addresses as logins - I assume they're just feeding back for every email address that matches up on both sites.

Well, as I said upthread, my girlfriend's co-worker uses different e-mails for Facebook and Amazon, so he was guessing IP address (although that doesn't seem like it would be very accurate if you share your computer with someone else).

domain cookies

http://www.ideashower.com/blog/block-facebook-beacon/

Sorry jaymc, didn't notice you said they were different emails. As you say IP addresses are no good (I share one of my work IPs with a squillion others). Unless they're 100% sure about someone's identity (and even if they are!) this could lead to some very dodgy situations.

xpost thanks Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃 - if that's the case it can be prevented locally, though many wouldn't know how to do it

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WHAT'S NEXT GUYS? WHERE TO?

I like facebook, and lord knows I like scrabble, but lord also knows that if I get just one notification from facebook that says "Congratulations! We're going to tell all your friends that you heartily endorse the Hitachi Magic Wand!" I am so deleting my account and never looking back.

WHAT'S NEXT GUYS? WHERE TO?