Says you. I've had mine for nearly 10 years after graduation by now.
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx immer wieder (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:15 (eighteen years ago) link
The sad truth is that I think it would make me feel lonely, and out of it! And I have a perfectly good LIVEJOURNAL for that arf arf ARF.
― Bhumibol Adulyadej (Lucretia My Reflection), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:15 (eighteen years ago) link
xpost
― jng (jng), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx immer wieder (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:23 (eighteen years ago) link
Yes. He seemed to know everyone and was walking around making sure people were having a good time.
I never signed up for an alumni e-mail account, and now I'm unsure of how to do so, but the only people I'd know on Facebook are young punks like deej, anyway.
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:30 (eighteen years ago) link
a bit like MEETING THEM, HOLDING CONVERSATIONS, THAT KIND OF SHIT.
― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:31 (eighteen years ago) link
It's far classier than myspace because you can't change your page much. No background music. No videos. This is good.
Very recently though, there has been a very noticeable trend (in Berkeley at least...can't speak for the nation) to make your profile super-private and only visable to friends. People are either getting wary, or snobby, I'm not sure which.
― starke (starke), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:35 (eighteen years ago) link
1. My brother is a grad student and when he TAs a class, he always checks out his students' Facebook profiles and is sometimes surprised at what they're willing to divulge. (Then he stores this information in an Excel spreadsheet ... oh wait.)
2. I have a cousin who just finished his freshman year at Northern Illinois University. He tells me that as soon as he received his school e-mail address last summer, he immediately signed up on Facebook and found that dozens of other incoming students had done so as well. In fact, the ability to notate your dorm and room number within your profile meant that he knew nearly everyone in his hall before they ever actually met face to face.
3. Haha, my dad moderated a panel about Facebook last month.
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― robots in love (robotsinlove), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 15:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 15:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― robots in love (robotsinlove), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 15:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 15:12 (eighteen years ago) link
There's an annoying girl at my job who has some serious growing up to do. One of her many horrifying common behaviors is playing "house" at the job and designating different coworkers as different members of her family. For a while she had a huge crush on me, and thus I became the husband. Whenever new people were hired, she'd excitedly hug me and exclaim in her nasal voice, "This is Derek, he's my husband! He's the best husband in the world!" Then she'd switch to a more serious tone to warn the girls that they'd better not flirt with me. Terrifying. Of course, she wanted to marry me on Facebook. After weeks of continually reminding me that I have yet to click "yes" that we are indeed married, I finally gave in and did it. After a while, trying to finally give her the message that I'm not interested, I switched to being married with another one of our coworkers, a girl I'm good friends with but my "wife" hated. When she saw that I'd switched the status, she had a real break down. Female co-workers told me about her heart break over the incident.
In conclusion, jesus christ, be glad you're not on Facebook.
― like murderinging (modestmickey), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 15:42 (eighteen years ago) link
Certain features that make it really useful for college students. You can list your classes in your profile and the page can create a list for you of people in your classes. You can easily find people in your class to ask them questions about upcoming tests, what the homework was, etc. Also, unlike MySpace, there's more local community centered stuff since the only people on Facebook I interact with are fellow UNCC students and I don't see anyone from Harvard. For example there's groups with local interest like "I LOVE " rather than just "I LOVE LIMP BIZKIT." Like other people mentioned, there's the announcing/organizing events too.
― like murderinging (modestmickey), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 15:49 (eighteen years ago) link
MORE IMPORTANT THAN TEXTING?!?!?!?!??!
― matlewis (matlewis), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 15:54 (eighteen years ago) link
That is pretty harsh.
― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 15:54 (eighteen years ago) link
Au contraire. I think a lot of people use it for exactly that reason. That's the impression I've gotten, anyway.
― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 16:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― adam (adam), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 16:41 (eighteen years ago) link
hi, do you know the internet?
― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 16:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 16:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― like murderinging (modestmickey), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― jeffrey (johnson), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― starke (starke), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― starke (starke), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:47 (eighteen years ago) link
It's not that social networking replaces your social life, it just... mediates it. Instead of personally inviting people to parties via word of mouth/telephone/email or just throwing it up on a flyer, you're sending it to a reasonably targeted, much larger group than you'd be comfortable calling. The downside is that pretty soon you're doing the majority of communication through there, any "event" that can vary from a party or concert to two people sitting around drunk turns into some "scandalous" photo diary, and there's the online backchannel that sucks everyone in.
I've been around people where there's this obnoxious feedback loop where they're pretty much trying to come up with new people to befriend and more pictures/content to put up on things like myspace, and half of what they talk about is myspace. Urgh.
― business up front, party entrance at side door (mike h.), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 18:20 (eighteen years ago) link
Still, why is word of mouth/telephone/email an inherently better form of communication? I agree that it's a "larger group than you'd be comfortable calling" but I think that's very likely a good thing. For example, tonight I'm going to play soccer with a casual friend from a class. He invited me and the rest of the group with a facebook message. It would have been awkward for an acquaintance to call/email, and probably would have never happened.
― starke (starke), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 18:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― lemin (lemin), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 19:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 19:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― starke (starke), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 19:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― business up front, party entrance at side door (mike h.), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 20:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― lemin (lemin), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 20:05 (eighteen years ago) link
I had a friend whose girlfriend changed her facebook relationship status to "single" in order to make him jealous, or something.
― 31g (31g), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 20:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― lemin (lemin), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 20:22 (eighteen years ago) link
putting yr actual girlfriend/boyfriend as 'wife' or 'husband' on facebook is kind of crepey though, surely it should refer only to actual married spouses or to best friends.
― permanent revolution (cis), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 21:18 (eighteen years ago) link
which reminds me ... enrique, are you still gonna be in glasgow this weekend?
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 21:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― adam (adam), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 21:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 21:34 (eighteen years ago) link
haha this is true.
― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 21:39 (eighteen years ago) link
just in case you needed another reason to delete your facebook...
FB paying one of the largest Republican consulting firms in the U.S. to orchestrate a campaign seeking to turn the public against TikTok, including opposition-research tactics, smear campaigns, sending fake letters to newspapers pretending to be "concerned parents" tying TikTok to dangerous teen trends that actually started on Facebook, targeting of new outlets trying to get headlines like “From dances to danger: how TikTok has become the most harmful social media space for kids", and other similarly ethical tactics you'd expect from a firm that's one of the biggest recipients of GOP campaign spending (over $237m in 2020), the biggest payments coming from national GOP congressional committees and a pro-Trump super-PAC.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/30/facebook-tiktok-targeted-victory
― Lee626, Wednesday, 30 March 2022 13:58 (two years ago) link
is Meta going to have to change their name again when this gets out? (I mean, it IS out but there's not much of a buzz about it)
― StanM, Sunday, 3 April 2022 11:29 (two years ago) link
"You have a new friend suggestion: Suzanne Moore"
Oh FFS.
― mike t-diva, Monday, 18 April 2022 09:33 (two years ago) link
I also had that and nuked it on sight.
― the thin blue lying (suzy), Monday, 18 April 2022 12:41 (two years ago) link
Whozzat?
― DAMAGED by Black Flat (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 18 April 2022 14:51 (two years ago) link
Terf journo.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 19 April 2022 09:22 (two years ago) link
My account has been hacked and because Facebook sucks, I can’t get back in. My email has been changed and ph number erased - so the only way to get in is to be sent a code, but only through the email it’s been changed to
― just1n3, Saturday, 20 May 2023 16:41 (one year ago) link
Does this link work for you?
https://m.facebook.com/help/203305893040179
― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Saturday, 20 May 2023 16:46 (one year ago) link
No - Facebook will only send a recovery code to the new email that’s been added to my account
― just1n3, Saturday, 20 May 2023 17:05 (one year ago) link
That's really dumb. I had thought they'd give an alternate way to authenticate if you report being hacked.
I had a friend of a friend get locked out by a hackers and get back in, I'll ask what they did
― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Saturday, 20 May 2023 17:15 (one year ago) link
In the last few days I've noticed my feed seems to be almost entirely suggested posts with the odd meme from groups I follow. Hardly any content from my friends. Not sure exactly when this encroachment truly started but it's lousy
― Stomp Jomperson (dog latin), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 16:36 (one year ago) link
You can curate this somewhat with the show more / show less buttons. Whenever I see a post from a friend I tell it to show me more like this. Whenever I see a suggested post I tell it to show me less like this. It seems to be working, at least for me.
― Pontius Pilates (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 16:51 (one year ago) link
If you view FB in a browser rather then app you can install Facebook Purity which gets rid of all that shit.
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 17:55 (one year ago) link
lol Purity has been amazing. sadly I tend to use it more on my phone these days but it gets all the keywords you wanna avoid out, plus that stuff too
― Make the chats AI (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 18:01 (one year ago) link
This @highlight thing got annoying really quick.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 9 December 2023 18:53 (nine months ago) link
Please, if you’re sending a fellow ilxor a friend request and their profile is set to private, introduce yourself unless you already use your full govt name here. Not gonna accept just because we have ilx friends in common if I don’t know who you are on this forum. Like, my profile is private for a reason.
― just1n3, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 09:35 (six months ago) link
otm
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 19 March 2024 14:48 (six months ago) link
There's a Facebook page called "Caught in the act" with more than a million followers which posts what used to be known as "fail" videos, but with zero content control. This includes traffic accidents where people are clearly severely injured or even killed. I reported one.
thanks again for your report. This information helps us reduce unwanted content for you and others.We use a combination of technology and human reviewers to process reports and identify content that goes against our Community Standards. In this case, we did not remove the content that you reported.If you think that we've made a mistake, you can request a review of this decision within 180 days.We understand that this might be upsetting. If you want to see less of Caught in the act on Facebook, you can unfollow or block them. Learn more about how we take action on reports like yours.
I also reported a comment on a local newspaper article about a pride event which wished death on LGBT people, same result. Not sure there's any point.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 15 June 2024 23:33 (three months ago) link
I've given up. A report of a white guy using the n-word "didn't violate community standards " this month
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Sunday, 16 June 2024 00:47 (three months ago) link