gramophone on cow a close second
― Just got offed, Monday, 7 January 2008 16:04 (sixteen years ago) link
edwardian ipod style
― blueski, Monday, 7 January 2008 16:05 (sixteen years ago) link
I want out of facebook but can only seem to de-activate it. Is it deletable?
― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 09:19 (sixteen years ago) link
if it isn't, just delete all your friends and change all your personal details (name, email, age etc.)
― Rubyredd, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 09:28 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.wikihow.com/Permanently-Delete-a-Facebook-Account
that's pretty odd that you can't just delete it.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 09:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Doesn't that just make another facebook account?
― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 09:45 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 09:47 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Kerm, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 09:54 (sixteen years ago) link
also: sky blue, sun rises daily
― Kerm, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 09:57 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 09:58 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 10:00 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 10:01 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/14/facebook
― Ed, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 10:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Large company run by people who have right-wing viewpoints, liberal media reported "shook".
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 10:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Also, you should know all this before you make an account. I did. That's why my address and phone number are not there.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 10:12 (sixteen years ago) link
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."
:)
― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 10:21 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― That mong guy that's shit, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 10:24 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 10:27 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 10:29 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 10:30 (sixteen years ago) link
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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.
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 10:31 (sixteen years ago) link
oh, a professional cunt! that explains a lot.
― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 10:32 (sixteen years ago) link
that's the feller. he wrote an article about quitting email last year. lives in the west country. fuck him.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 10:32 (sixteen years ago) link
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?
― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 10:37 (sixteen years ago) link
i just ignore pretty much any and all non-event invitations now, and have banished any kind of superwall. "fwd and see what happens!"
― stevie, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 11:01 (sixteen years ago) link
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 :(
― DJ Mencap, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 12:05 (sixteen years ago) link
(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.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 12:08 (sixteen years ago) link
I hope he looks and sounds like Alan Rickman doing his most half-arsed evil dude by numbers.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 12:10 (sixteen years ago) link
he should find finding losers easily seeing as he owns facebook, amirite?
― Ed, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 12:10 (sixteen years ago) link
I use Facebook for two things; Scrabulous and Catbook.
― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 12:12 (sixteen years ago) link
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...
― King Boy Pato, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 12:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Maybe its because the events application is actually really useful?
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 12:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Ugh lack of apostrophe, maybe Facebook is killing my literacy.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 12:17 (sixteen years ago) link
y u tlk so preppy??
― King Boy Pato, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 12:20 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 06:58 (sixteen years ago) link
George W Obama
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 07:04 (sixteen years ago) link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7191264.stm
― Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 12:33 (sixteen years ago) link
lawls
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 12:35 (sixteen years ago) link
somebody smarter than Hasbro...shut 'em down
― blueski, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 12:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Why should my relationships be mediated through the imagination of a bunch of supergeeks in California? What was wrong with the pub?
-- 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.
― pisces, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 12:54 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 12:57 (sixteen years ago) link
But why do you need facebook for that? Why not just phone 'em up? Or text them?
― Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 13:03 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 13:06 (sixteen years ago) link
The threat to the game has spawned a new facebook group "Save Scrabulous" that already has more 600 members.
lol @ low standards
― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 13:11 (sixteen years ago) link
xp - I hear you and as someone who is very bad at organising myself let alone a bunch of other people I can see how it might help.
I think I just got caught up in a wave of stuff that sounded interesting but then turns out just to be another thing to *manage*. I know it sounds luddite-ish and kind of petty but I'm really trying to simplify stuff and facebook hasn't helped me do that.
― Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 13:22 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm thinking aloud here so it may well sound like crap.
― Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 13:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Facebook is profoundly uncreative. It makes nothing at all. It simply mediates in relationships that were happening anyway.
It's ironic that the Marxist doctrine that Capitalists are "adding nothing to the equation," and the underlying assumption that labor could and would've been coordinated without the capitalist's creative output has managed to find it's way onto teh facebook dot com.
Thiel's philosophical mentor is one René Girard of Stanford University, proponent of a theory of human behaviour called mimetic desire.
hahahaha, I love the philosophical figures brought into a discussion about the merits of social networking sites. Social scientists could've probably made a living off of the first year of Myspace alone if they wanted to.
― Cunga, Thursday, 17 January 2008 05:26 (sixteen years ago) link
bloody tesco what is your favourite supermarket? London Sponsored Poll
asda 12% marks & spence...18% waitrose 19% sainsbury's 21% tesco 28%
― blueski, Monday, 21 January 2008 11:20 (sixteen years ago) link