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

Ned, you have been added!

i got poked by my boss! she's married w/a small child

??

Incest legalized. Ewie!

i know i asked to join the ILX group. i think nath allowed me in. can't remember, and can't check 'cos am at work using steam-powered browser of all fucking doom.

can't say the groups/associated discussions do much for me, really. two weeks in (is it? i think) and i'm still just enjoying the fact that a) it's a lazy-ass way to keep in touch with dudes around the globe, and b) the fact that a (second) GRATE LONG-LOST FRIEND popped up the other day, with typical insouciance, and it made my fucking month to hear from him. srsly: this is the dude who got me into SO MUCH music when i was 15/16; the last time i saw him, we were in a dodgy club back home and someone was dropping a bottle on his head. i've tried to get in touch with him a couple of times; having him suddenly appear from nowhere and add me as a friend was glorious.

so yeh, i still like this thing. how long before the backlash?

theres no point in me poking anyone from ilx as no one would know who on earth i am.

You'd probably be surprised. Get over teh fear and give it a try!

but i like my anonymity ;)

i've come around to it a bit, has reconnected me a bit with a couple of people. otoh it has sort of revealed to me how easily i've cut people out
: /

im warming to it... some people im adding just for the sake of it but its nice to see what theyre up to and just poke each other for no reason over and over.

"otoh it has sort of revealed to me how easily i've cut people out" just made me remember some people i havent seen for an age and lo and behold theyre on here...

What is the point of poking people? I don't want to poke any of my friends, particularly, but I might if I knew the point of it.

I think it's just a way to say hi without having to think of a specific message to send.

Let's see.

i suppose its the equivalent of passing someone you know in the street and just nodding at them.

I've just poked accentmonkey, so we shall see. Report back, please.

i need to create a fake ID on facebook then i will poke every single one of you til your dying days

Pervert.

Why does it need to be fake? Surely your anonymity will protect you?

Also Ned just loves pokes, the dirty tart...

(I think I might be unfriended now. One to many 'poke' jokes at Ned's expense)

I got a notification with a picture of a finger on it to say that Ailsa had poked me, and asking me if I wanted to poke her back. But our math teacher is, like, a real hardass? So I decided not to.

How do I get round this mobile notification thing? I don't want to have to input that 'cathchpa' (sp?) code each time I add someone but it says it can only send the mobile verification code to an American or Canadian mobile phone. I did a google and if I email them saying I'm blind they'll email me the code but I'm not blind.

mobile notification?

Yeah, to verify that you are who you say you are (and thus stop you having to input a code each time you add someone) Facebook send a code to your mobile phone which you then need to input in the 'mobile confirmation' box. At the moment it seems that it's only for US and Canadian mobiles but does anyone know a way round this for UK people?

Someone I knew many years ago just became friends with our old classmate. I want to write to him but can't think what to say! ARGH!

i just got sent a friend request from this guy i had a brief fling with about five years ago. he found me through another guy who also just sent me a friend request, a guy i met randomly on myspace and who lives in my city. fucking hell, this world is just too small sometimes. i don't really want to be friends with either of these guys, really, but it seems just too rude to deny the requests. i hate facebook. but the guy i had the fling with borrowed some books off me before we split up and never returned them, so maybe i'll get them back now.

Maybe you should set it so they can only see your 'limited' profile. That might send a bit of a "don't think about getting too chummy" vibe from the outset.

i just had an interesting message exchange with the fling guy... he's married and living in japan teaching english! which is funny, because i'm thinking about doing the japan thing next year. his contract runs out in aug 2008 and he thinks he can hook me up as his replacement... very interesting...

Cool. So not weird at all.

he's also promised to buy replacements for the books he borrowed and send them to me. but i doubt that will actually happen.

Facebook 'poke' leads to awkward one-nighter

marc loi, facebook satirist.

I don't think I'll ever be joining Facebook, despite having been invited to by one friend recently. Its one online area I don't feel like I belong in for various reasons.

G***** W**** wrote
at 12:04am
can you get rid of that terry lennox guy.. I assume he is just a spammer or something. CAn you not just delete him from your friends or is facebook heading towards myspace spamtastic land?"

G***** W**** otm

well get rid of him then

Right, well I bit the bullt, and registered.

Now what?

Waste lots of time adding applications.

OK.

Maybe that's why it's so quiet here!

and waste some more time deleting them again.

Jon Swift friended me!

is it possible to export facebook contacts to, say, the address book on my mac? it occurred to me that this would be useful, and the same idea seems to have occurred to other people too, some of whom did something about it, for example:

http://wwww.tuaw.com/2007/04/03/facebooksync/

unfortunately, it seems that i'm a month too late:

http://www.fsbsoftware.com/

does anyone know anywhere where i could find this or similar? i tried some obvious torrent sites, but with no success...

facebook is now weirding me out. too much school :/

i got send a friend request quite randomly by an english guy. turns out he was searching for a nz friend and the search engine threw up my name (true? or a line? i dunno). so we got talking and now he wants to take me out for coffee (he lives in my city). but he's an adrenalin junkie and i'm a lazy bitch. maybe he's just trawling the net for potential shags??

would that be so bad?

no.

but he won't be getting a shag from me.

my facebook relationship status is 'complicated'. so hopefully that preempts any unwanted player-moves.

you think so? why? 'complicated' doesnt necessarily suggest that to me

exactly. complicated relationship vs easy shag.