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

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

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.

I'm thinking aloud here so it may well sound like crap.

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.

bloody tesco
what is your favourite supermarket? London Sponsored Poll

asda 12%
marks & spence...18%
waitrose 19%
sainsbury's 21%
tesco 28%

I'm back on it. I've had a load of emails from people saying they couldn't contact me on fb! Am I the only one who sees the irony in that?

I must admit I'm not on facebook largely because I already waste too much time on the Internet and I don't need any excuse to waste even more time. That said, I do find all the privacy issues a bit disturbing. No simple way to delete your profile, no guarantee that facebook won't keep your information anyway, no real knowledge of what facebook will do with the info, who they'll sell it to etc. Yeah, I know Google is no better, but Google is somehow less avoidable.

I'm back on Facebook because impro events (I do this) are organised through it. There's no other convenient way for me to find out about them.

Also Tesco = cheap sandwiches in London, therefore classic.

If people are inviting me to shit via FB then they're never going to see me at their parties, simple as that. Same with LJ, though I'm a little softer on it as I look at it daily. But it is surely common politeness to also email/txt/phone people to invite them to things.

wait, Trayce, you use LiveJournal but not FB? i thought the only people who used LJ were...well, weirdo gays and sad sad teenage girls.

that and about that article above:

After 9/11, the US intelligence community became so excited by the possibilities of new technology and the innovations being made in the private sector, that in 1999 they set up their own venture capital fund, In-Q-Tel, which "identifies and partners with companies developing cutting-edge technologies to help deliver these solutions to the Central Intelligence Agency and the broader US Intelligence Community (IC) to further their missions.

Um, 9/11 was 2001, dipshit.

that said, i only have the iLike application (because showing my musical weirdness to faraway friends is nice), and the original wall. otherwise, fuck that clutter and bullshit. cannot deal with it.

and tbh, i friggin love the facebook.

table: I use both, I just dont pay FB any attention rly.

I'm not the typical LJ demographic but pretty much all my social circle are on it, and they actually make well written, thoughtful posts. I dont see any bitching or whining or polls or childishness. Its like I'm in some weird parallel LJ somehow.

...if anyone puts that in the out of context thread I'mma kill them.

lol, i thought about it, but then thought better about posting it.

also, yeah, trayce, that is weird. but good for you and your friends for keeping the faith.

Facebook is a good way to discover which of your friends are bigots.

Hah, I'm kind of glad I haven't seen too much of that so far.

true true, especially during the Aus federal election.
So many such and such has joined the group "I bet i can find 1000000 arseholes who hate Kevin Rudd" update message thingys

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Yeah and all the 'if Howard loses I am moving to the US' crap. Just fuck off.

I thought "just fuck off" at people who said the sameabout howard winning last time round, I have to say (the statement as it stands is pointless grandstanding).

Me too.

It was sooo nice to see these idiots have a giant sook when Rudd won though. 'Oh noes we are doomed' etc. Never mind all the groups Howard fucking marginalised. Uh oh I'm on that soapbox again.

other than my one super-catholic friend from london, no bigotry in my friends. and even he is extremely liberal. just very very pro-life.

Start me on pro-lifers and that soapbox will come out again.

i mean, i give just a bit of lee-way to my polish catholic friends, unless they're homophobic. which he is not. he's also not some sort of raving pro-life lunatic.

In recent years I've had to distance myself from friends/family who proclaim rubbish such as 'gay is not normal/healthy' or whatever. There's no excuse for that way of thinking anymore, particularly in a 'developed' country.

On second thought, that one is just family.

Johann Hari is SO glad he opposed the catastrophe in Iraq from the beginning. Oh, wait...

^^^^ unfuckingbelievable

r u one of his 848 friends? He's popular. Or desperate.

no im not!