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

your work sounds fun!

lol

rfi: where do I get these applications?

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/facebook_want.png

damn the hat is so close to being on the bear's head resulting in best facebook app ever

gramophone on cow a close second

edwardian ipod style

I want out of facebook but can only seem to de-activate it. Is it deletable?

if it isn't, just delete all your friends and change all your personal details (name, email, age etc.)

http://www.wikihow.com/Permanently-Delete-a-Facebook-Account

that's pretty odd that you can't just delete it.

Doesn't that just make another facebook account?

I was so excited about Facebook last year. Now I can't stand the fucking thing. If it weren't for invitations to important things I wouldn't bother using it at all.

People just can't resist plastering their pages with tardloads of useless crap, and of course they have to send every one of their contacts a billion impersonal Pokes or Whacks or Are You Stronger Than a Dog? requests... so weird.

also: sky blue, sun rises daily

Two people I know send me literally hundreds of these shit invitations every month. One of them works in my company: if you email her a support request you NEVER get an answer, but she has enough time to invite me to all these bloody applications. I put in a request for some hardware TWICE last year and I haven't had a response, much less the hardware I asked for, but it's okay because she invited me to What Housebrick Are You 500 times. I mean for fuxake.

Yeah, that's partly the reason for my going, people using facebook as an alternative to email/phone/letters. Maybe I'm just too old but I just don't get it.

I used to get it. It's when (a) people went application crazy and (b) my mother started passing me messages through my cousins that I withdrew.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/14/facebook

Large company run by people who have right-wing viewpoints, liberal media reported "shook".

Also, you should know all this before you make an account. I did. That's why my address and phone number are not there.

Large company run by people who have right-wing viewpoints, liberal media reported "shook"

jesus, dom. i just posted this in reply to the person who sent me the link:

oh for fuck's sake. "dudes bankrolling successful business venture aren't actually hippies shock; next, the weather."

:)

Great line in "sitting in a darkened room sending "e-mails" backwards and forwards doesn't sound like bringing people together to me - I'd rather go to the pub!!??" point-missing to establish that credibility early on though

Yeah, that's partly the reason for my going, people using facebook as an alternative to email/phone/letters. Maybe I'm just too old but I just don't get it

also: is it just me or is there some kind of nose/knife/spite interplay going on there, ned? i mean, if you wipe your account, it's not going to change anything. except that you'll be even more pissed off that you miss out on something.

i dunno. i refuse to have any of this funwall shit going on (i think i've got a superwall, but it isn't displayed on my profile) and on the odd occasion that i do get some stupid invite to some daft app, i hit "ignore" and forget about it. as i've said above: i like the fact FB has put me in touch with some long-forgotten friends, and provides a very simple way of keeping in touch with dudes. the trappings are unimportant.

xpost: yeh, i bet the author of that piece is the life and soul of his local.

why be bored at work when you could be in the pub? honestly, some people.

One of the long-lost friends fb put me in touch with told me she's been crushing on me for 14 years. Um, great.

Other reunions have been less scary.

xpost: yeh, i bet the author of that piece is the life and soul of his local.

-- grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 10:27 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

If he's the guy I think he is, he's editor of smug-as-fuck "Hey, who needs to work we all have enough money" piece-of-shit middle class rag The Idler.

oh, a professional cunt! that explains a lot.

that's the feller. he wrote an article about quitting email last year. lives in the west country. fuck him.

is it just me or is there some kind of nose/knife/spite interplay going on there, ned?

Ha! Probably. Something will have changed though, I won't have a facebook account.

xp. Actually, I like Tom Hodgkinson but then I am middle class, I like the west country, and I am mostly idle. Also I don't like right-wing libertarians, I don't like facebook, both of my friends know how to contact me without using facebook, why should I stay?

i just ignore pretty much any and all non-event invitations now, and have banished any kind of superwall. "fwd and see what happens!"

A friend of mine recently told me that he had spent a Saturday night at home alone on Facebook, drinking at his desk

lol I did this last Saturday :(

(until MOTD was on)

He has been known to sweep the chessmen off the table in a fury when losing. And he does not apologise for this hyper-competitveness, saying: "Show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser."

This is astonishing.

I hope he looks and sounds like Alan Rickman doing his most half-arsed evil dude by numbers.

he should find finding losers easily seeing as he owns facebook, amirite?

I use Facebook for two things; Scrabulous and Catbook.

I use it because more and more people I know are using the god damn Events application to base the social calendar around it's dragging me in.

I'm not saying that is isn't convenient...but shurely, there must be a better way...

Maybe its because the events application is actually really useful?

Ugh lack of apostrophe, maybe Facebook is killing my literacy.

y u tlk so preppy??

Funny that that Guardian article leaves out the fact that Chris Hughes, who is mentioned as Facebook's publicist and one of its cofounders, moved to Chicago to work for the Obama campaign.

George W Obama

I use Facebook for two things; Scrabulous and Catbook.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7191264.stm

lawls

somebody smarter than Hasbro...shut 'em down

Why should my relationships be mediated through the imagination of a bunch of supergeeks in California? What was wrong with the pub?

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a million and one things were and still are wrong with it.

and what's a 'workstation' if your compter's at home??! who calls it that?! not everyone's a fucking freelance guardian writer you miserable sod.

facebook is another way to arrange meeting people in pubs. i wouldn't get too upset. i would love to live in a place where i could go "down the pub" and have a certainty or near as damn to meeting someone i know, but the world ain't like that. evil technology conspires to make it possible for me to organize the meet first.

But why do you need facebook for that? Why not just phone 'em up? Or text them?

why phone when you can write... it's just another way is all. i had my reservations but nothing truly bad has happened and i've probably been better at staying touch with people since i went on it.

The threat to the game has spawned a new facebook group "Save Scrabulous" that already has more 600 members.

lol @ low standards