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

Maybe I'll just bury them at sea (Lake Michigan).

Recently, Facebook wanted some answers to questions, such as "Which University did you go to" and "Where do you work?"

So, if anyone else out there went to "No I did not" university, or currently works at "Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band" then that's where you will find me also..

Mine kept asking me if I worked at Gawker.

don't all ilxors work unpaid by proxy for gawker

their wit and wisdom ripe for reappropriation by our resident gawker writer

i thought facebook was just taunting me for being unemployed. glad to see everyone's getting similar messages

Trrrrreeeeeershiiiiiiip my duuuuuude

I just noticed that in the messages Inbox there's an 'Other' link which has messages from non-friends, some groups, etc. I have messages from a year and a half ago that I've never seen!

Recently, Facebook wanted some answers to questions, such as "Which University did you go to" and "Where do you work?"

...you know you dont gotta answer these, right?

just write 'springfield elementary' and 'nuclear paner plant'

nuclear paneer plant

I answered "No, I did not" and often get asked "Who else went to No I did not University? "

(I also put my workplace as Captain Beefheart & his magic band)

http://qz.com/94574/fellas-facebook-is-allowing-your-profiles-to-be-used-for-this-new-hot-or-not-app/

wt serious f

i remember getting reviewed on ex-so.com

facebook started out as a hot or not site and so it would be poetic if one day it eventually just returned to its roots and became a hot or not site w/ 7 billion people

i have just noticed a "promote" button next to "share" and has this been mentioned yet? apparently i can pay $6.99 USD to shove my status updates in everyone else's faces.

I've seen that on mine too, but thought it was just because my account is affiliated as an admin on some of my work's pages.

Instead of "thought", make that "assume". I mean, it was an assumption that someone out there really wouldn't pay seven bucks to have their posts jump the line, but I shouldn't be that surprised, I guess.

Nah that promote button's been there ages now.

and yes, you pay to make sure the comment shows up in more peoples feeds, which WTF.

I'm convinced my fb statii appear in nobody's feeds...

I see yours by proxy in other peoples comments! I guess that dont count tho.

Good to know, but, yeah.

i would pay to keep my updates/pics of some people's feeds (people that i cannot delete entirely from my FB for social harmony reasons)

of=off

you can do that using the little nut icon next to the date on your statuses and setting up custom privacy groups

i changed my birthday to avoid 300 happy birthday wall posts from a bunch of bozos and now i can't change it back

wish i realized i could have just hid it

I've merrily cruised through life FB-free up until a couple of weeks ago, when I got had to get access to the company's FB account. It is thee worst. What a hideous monstrosity. Why people actively go to FB for "fun" or "pleasure"... http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Itisamystery.gif

Logged in as a business the search bar is ~gone~. FB becomes unsearchable. Whyyy, FB, whyyy? Do you actually think "a company" is an abstract entity and wouldn't want to search? You don't realize there's a human being using it for a company? Mind = blown.

I have to check on it on the go, on my ipad. Turns out you have to use this spiffy creation called PAGES. O RLY? The FB app points you to PAGES, the PAGES app points you to the FB app. And for what? Nations have started wars about less iirc.

Whatever floats yer boat, live and let live etc, not here to diss FB users. It is just literally such an unusable beast, and so so fucking ugly.

I just make it where no one can post on my wall

Xpost

uh just got in my timeline a "sponsored post" from "american conservatives of color" with a very graphic photograph of two dead men in a car. just popping up in the middle of my feed with pics of my friends' kids.

that's disgusting
those sponsored posts are the worst because you can't mark them "offensive" -- it's only "i don't want to see this" or sthg like that

u cld just quit facebook

do u know who doesnt have sponsored posts? MOTHER nature.

*likes mother nature*

u can RT me on that

My sponsored posts are always some freemium game.

i reported it to facebook for "graphic violence." just got a note back basically saying "sorry, it doesn't violate our standards, we're not taking it down." so i reported it again for "hate speech" because the subtext of the post is racist (it's some bs about the media not reporting black-on-black violence, only white-on-black violence), don't think it will help.

i don't know if this link will work and you should probably not click on it, but if you really want to see the offensive post here it is. WARNING VERY GRAPHIC PHOTOGRAPH https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=401795433274061&set=a.332228270230778.77575.332179256902346&type=1

what the fuck

how does that not violate their policies but nudity or whatever does?

UGH, why did i click on that....

I hate to be that guy who runs on to every thread proclaiming how he hasn't seen a pop-up in ten years because he's got some sort of fancy software running, but...

I downloaded Social Fixer to use with Facebook, and aside from all the neat tricks like hiding posts that you've already read, separating YouTube and Instragram links, and goofy shit like anonymizing the page for lol screencaps, it also blocks all promotional content like that. Check it out.

they've made it clear in the past that they don't take reports seriously, i've flagged multiple pages with very racist sentiments that claim to oppose "islamisation" of norway but they're "resolved" within an hour

Facebook.com/r/islamisation

Facebook is pernicious for stuff like this because a) ppl can click to join groups and share photos from group bcoz they happen to like one photo and sometimes these groups are actual neo-nazis and b) discussions of controversial matters always have a get-out clause provided by the social/self-expression nature of the site, i.e. 'it's just my opinion'

I'll bet that if you cross-posted this with a suitable "Facebook takes crypto-racist ads!" to Reddit and Gawker you might get some traction.

'it's just my opinion' is a real world get-out clause too (as per the innumerable people i've heard spouting utterly offensive shit followed by 'hey don't get angry it's just what i think') xp

i.e. clearly it's particular to facebook but i don't think facebook nurtures that behaviour specifically

If my wife posts some innocuous little gesture of affection on my wall like "I love you so much" and I comment back "I love you too, honey", odds are that somewhere between 12 hours to 2 days later, my father-in-law will pop up and comment "I also love my wife" or "...AND you're such a good father to my grandchildren!" or something like that. BLLLLLLLECH.