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

ye olde facebooke

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lol

these claims remain dubious at best

best error message I ever got was while searching was down; something to the effect of "We're sorry, this function is temporarily unavailable. Please try your search again in a little while, or right now."

ah, i never did reply to this thread. my computer's only letting me access ilx every three of four days atm, which seems a slightly harsh rate of censorship. i'll be gone all of next week too. aren't you lucky?

the vast flood of ilxors adding me as a friend is still only a steady trickle. c'mon! it's not like you don't know my name (and I'm still, to my knowledge, the only one on F-book, not that this isn't a cue for passantino to create a fake-LJ with amusing political views/sexual proclivities)...

Only a few ILXors have friended me. You know you can friend them yourself if all else fails.

All but one of my friends are from ILX. I should get out some more. Or my real-life non-ILX friends should get on teh interwebs more.

i like facefuck myself

^^^ and no, i cant, before you ask

i had an amusing blingee as my pic, for about two minutes.

i had a picture of drax power station

i look at it sometimes

Drax lack the majesty of Didcot.

Grain beats both

ive just joined farcebook and found it a bit weird. kinda interesting to see where old school friends are and have them poke and add you and all that but kinda creepy all the same and theres certain schoolmates who i really dont wanna see ever again but you cant help it as theyre friends with other people you know. its also a bit farcical i think, lots of people have added me just for the sake of adding (and well prob vice versa), not for any other real reason. seems a bit pointless. im going to use it for networking with people ive never met in my life anyway.

I have the same problem. All these people I'd happily left long behind certainly emerging from the woodwork, applying to be your "friend". Have we spoken in 5+ years? Are you likely to ever again make any attempt to contact me? Then wwe're not really friends are we? Better to be selective I reckon.

I'm just too busy trying to become a MUSICK EKSPERT

i actually got sucked in and poked a few old school friends who i havent spoken to in years.

worse than old school friends though is women you went out with who it didnt work out with poking you. WHY?

Well, she wants to get JIZZY with you. I said JIZZY, yes, JIZZY.

ha but no, i think she just wants me to click 'ADD' and bump up her friends list (although facebook doesnt seem nearly as bad for that as myspace).

I repeat: JIZZY with ya! ;-)

i added them anyway
lol

throw her a banana and add "stuff it" message

Can you help me with something? If I want to find old friends, and I search their name and lots of people come up and it's not immediately apparent if any of them are who I'm looking for, how do I see their full profile?

You can't. Send them a message or something and ask if they are who you think they are.

I think you can click on a person's name and see a list of who their friends are .... that might narrow it down, if you recognise any of those names.

Dear Mr Carlin

Are you Mr Carlin? If so I want to friend you. Please provide confirmation of identity, including full bank details, passport number and comprehensive list of all worldly goods and chattels.

Sincerely etc.

I think I get enough of those types of email from Nigeria...

I've been seduced by FB for the past couple of weeks but now I am drifting back to the ILX fold.

Can you help me with something? If I want to find old friends, and I search their name and lots of people come up and it's not immediately apparent if any of them are who I'm looking for, how do I see their full profile?

You can usually tell by looking at their friends list, I find. If you've got any people or places in common that's usually the giveaway.

searching friends' friends, or looking for groups/networks people from the past might be in, is the better way of finding people.

the "find people via your email contacts list" reveals only that i have NO IDEA who most of the people in my gmail address book are.

"find people via your email contacts list" = "would you like to add everyone you've ever bought or sold something to on Amazon marketplace?"

Also: suddenly noticing that annoying PRs are really hot

^^^ this.

someone snubbed my friend add. how rude.

who is it? i snub most people now unless i know them like properly.

*properly*

someone i met once at a work related do... lots of people are adding me and i barely know them properly. maybe the person is part of a gimp S&M torture group and doesnt want me to see.

Jizzy. ;-)

Maybe they hate dubstep.

Ken, define properly. Nekkid pics?

did nobody else get a message from Darramouss then

Who? /Lex

Are you on Kit? Are you my friend?

Yeah teh_kit, friend us!

BusinessWeek is on the case.

xpost

For a second I thought you were claiming you and teh-kit were one. Confusing.

How was Berlin?

ow maan, i have to deal with the zombie thing now.

When people poke you, are you supposed to poke them back? What's the point of it? There's no message with it or anything.

Poking is a way of saying hello i am here and i want to fuck you...but for people without the confidence to actually say or even imply it