Facebook II

[petula dusty]

That pic has just made my day - hilarious! She could have at least trimmed it though.

When I looked at it I was struck by a) how neatly trimmed she was and b) that her vadge didn't have the appearance of chopped liver which considering the size of the baby (not that a smaller baby would have had less of an effect) is mighty impressive. In fact the whole scene looked very neat and tidy considering she's just given birth. 8/10.

[Lady Beaner]

Haha! '8/10' - it's like 'Come Dine With Me'. There ought to be a giving birth version. No? Oh.

[Captain Crunch]

What knocks off the extra two, is it the lack of a hilarious tattoo or the overtly biblical lighting?

[Braintree]

It should never be the top of anyones list

Truly awful porn-inspired craze

You certainly shouldn't be going at your pubic hair with a razor, no.

[SOTS]

That pic has just made my day - hilarious! She could have at least trimmed it though.

It looks like it's been trimmed a bit. It's in a "pube triangle."

[rudi]

She might just have a naturally neat arrangement though; so neat it looks manufactured. I've, um, encountered two so far in my many, many years.

And why shouldn't a girl go at it with a razor? No different from arms, legs, face shaving, is it? It's not like you're hacking away with a scythe in semi-darkness (I hope)...

[wherearethespoons]

EDIT: Balls.

[petula dusty]

No, it's her vulva.

[purlieu]

MySpace has just added a little instant message bar along the bottom, probably the final nail in its coffin.  Rather than focussing on what makes it different - the reason I always chose it over Facebook - it's just become a terrible copycat now, albeit with more barely legal emo looking girls with names like TERRIBLESLUT[TM] parading themselves around.

[Lookalike Mark Chapman]

with more barely legal emo looking girls with names like TERRIBLESLUT[TM] parading themselves around

AKA, the real reason you always chose it over Facebook ;)

[Little Hoover]

I was just about to say that! then I thought nah too obvious, I won't bother, but clearly you have lower standards.

[Lookalike Mark Chapman]

You mean I'm quicker.

[purlieu]

I'm quicker than all of you, as that was the suggestion in the first place.

[Suttonpubcrawl]

I came up with that joke before MySpace even existed.

[buttgammon]

Yeah, well I came up with it before Purlieu was born.

[23 Daves]

MySpace has just added a little instant message bar along the bottom, probably the final nail in its coffin.  Rather than focussing on what makes it different - the reason I always chose it over Facebook - it's just become a terrible copycat now, albeit with more barely legal emo looking girls with names like TERRIBLESLUT[TM] parading themselves around.

MySpace was always great for promoting gigs and giving people early access to your work if you were a band or comedian or any other type of live performer (apart from a mime artist, obviously).  It worked brilliantly for me at its peak and took a lot of the misery out of promoting.  These days, though, it's dead - I was looking through my friends list earlier and I don't think most of them have been active there in the last six months.  I also updated my profile to bring attention to something which was coming up, and in the last 24 hours five people have looked at it.  What a waste of time that was.

Facebook is a bit more 'private' and less specialised, so it's harder to promote events to anybody outside your friends list.  You can't just randomly add people you think might be interested in your stuff - or you can try, but they get much more huffy.  Being friends with somebody on Facebook is seen as being like part of an exclusive club, whereas I always liked the free-for-all randomness of Myspace.  So what if a band wants to add you?  If you don't like them, ignore them.  If you do, then that's great, you might not have found out otherwise.  I genuinely liked all that (although I remember getting riled about endless Oasis clones trying to add me).

[Lady Beaner]

So this little titbit of wonderous activity popped up on my facebook feed this morning because a ye olde ex commented on the photo:



Ahahaha... LOLZ UR SO FUNNEEE!!!11 YOU SIKD UP IN A SUBWAYZ!!

She doesn't look any older than 12. Yes, I am sneering with an air of pomposity.

[The Boston Crab]

I'll try to end every future correspondence with the sentence 'I got banned from Subway for throwing up on somebody's Subway xx'.

It's much better than 'Bye xx'.

[petula dusty]

I should think it probably tasted a whole lot better after it had been vommed on. They should have offered her a job instead.

[Captain Crunch]

Stop reading now if you object to navel-gazing tripe.

I've been thinking a lot about Facebook lately and I've almost nailed it, I hope.  I think the reason why I can't seem to get on with it is because the pros and cons are 50/50, there's nothing tipping the balance into 'this is great, do it some more' or 'this sucks, go and do something more interesting'.

On the plus side it's good to keep in touch with people who live far away and the event facility is good.  I've also found a couple of people who are quite reticent in real life are a bit more frivolous on it which is great.

On the bad side, well it's not really the site, more my reactions that wind me up.

For example, my dear old Mum came round last weekend and we spent a few minutes looking for her work colleagues (she looks after a team of young blokes, all under 25 and each with a different hue and shonky religion, it's like a Benneton advert gone wrong).  Anyway, she then said "whatever ever happened to that nice girl from school, the one that lived on Days Lane?"  I found her, befriended her and was a bit disappointed when I found out she had settled down in her hometown, had a couple of kids and used LOL a lot.  What kind of a nasty snobby cow does that make me eh?  Who am I to judge? 

In a similar way, someone I had a giant crush on back in the day posted a topless picture of himself.  Cue the split second 'cor' and the next five weeks feeling guilty about it. 

I dunno, I'm just waffling and I've thought about this too much lately but does anyone else get in knots like this?

Ta

[chand]

I'll try to end every future correspondence with the sentence 'I got banned from Subway for throwing up on somebody's Subway xx'.

It's much better than 'Bye xx'.

On Football365, confusing or baffling posts/topics are frequently responded to with the bamlem-esque meme 'wat r these commets mean lol x', derived from the following profound and moving discussion:

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

I got a in silly knot about adding people. When I first signed up, I decided I wasn't going to be one of those folk who adds everyone they've ever said more than two words to. The problem then was if there was a tangential acquaintance that I wanted to invite, I was reluctant to do so in case they took a look at my meagre friends list and thought that I must have some creepy ulterior motive for inviting them.

It's a stupid neurotic thought process of course. One which I doubt anyone else would share. Which is a shame, because they'd have been right to think that.

[chand]

Just had this ridiculous spam:

Face book is going to clear face book accounts if ..


We all know that Facebook is an extraordinary social network where you can talk to friends, find old friends, and so much more.

The Face book team is well aware that Face book is getting too over populated due to the fact registrations have increased 50% since February 15 2008. At there signing in database, it shows that more than a quarter of the members of Face book hasn't log in their accounts in over a month.
So where is this leading to you may ask. Face book is clearing their entire data base and deleting users of who have not sent this message to their friends. If you are one of the following people, you will get your user account wiped and would have to re add all your friends. So send this message to as many of your friends as you can, I know you don't want to start all over from scratch so send away, show your pride for members Face book!

What kind of moron believes this kind of badly-written shit and then forwards it? Well, my cousin, apparently.

[hpmons]

I have at least eight people on my friends list purely so I can browse through their photos.  And another three purely so I can browse through their photos in case they include one of their friends.

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

What kind of moron believes this kind of badly-written shit and then forwards it? Well, my cousin, apparently.

That guy.1

[El Unicornio, mang]

MySpace was always great for promoting gigs and giving people early access to your work if you were a band or comedian or any other type of live performer (apart from a mime artist, obviously).  It worked brilliantly for me at its peak and took a lot of the misery out of promoting.  These days, though, it's dead - I was looking through my friends list earlier and I don't think most of them have been active there in the last six months.  I also updated my profile to bring attention to something which was coming up, and in the last 24 hours five people have looked at it.  What a waste of time that was.

Facebook is a bit more 'private' and less specialised, so it's harder to promote events to anybody outside your friends list.  You can't just randomly add people you think might be interested in your stuff - or you can try, but they get much more huffy.  Being friends with somebody on Facebook is seen as being like part of an exclusive club, whereas I always liked the free-for-all randomness of Myspace.  So what if a band wants to add you?  If you don't like them, ignore them.  If you do, then that's great, you might not have found out otherwise.  I genuinely liked all that (although I remember getting riled about endless Oasis clones trying to add me).

It's actually quite sad to see the barren wasteland of Myspace now, hundreds of millions of accounts barely being used, Myspace desperately trying to keep up with facebook by copying all their ideas (People you may know! Status updates!), and a shame as I think Myspace is miles better and has practical uses, whereas facebook is more or less just a big internet circle-jerk. Mind, it serves them right for keeping the same badly designed format that looked like it was straight out of 1996 for years.

[23 Daves]

It's actually quite sad to see the barren wasteland of Myspace now, hundreds of millions of accounts barely being used, Myspace desperately trying to keep up with facebook by copying all their ideas (People you may know! Status updates!), and a shame as I think Myspace is miles better and has practical uses, whereas facebook is more or less just a big internet circle-jerk. Mind, it serves them right for keeping the same badly designed format that looked like it was straight out of 1996 for years.

That was the central problem, wasn't it?  That plus the fact that it did seem to crash a hell of a lot, and allowed people to have such overblown settings on their profiles that they were either unreadable, or took a whole minute to load (One particularly cheesy girl I'm friends with used to have a profile where the first thing you'd hear on clicking her photo was an MOR balladeer going "Mmmm, woooahh, yeeeah, noowwww - yeah baaabeeey..."  Then some glitter would slowly start to fall down the screen.  Then the screen would go pink.  Then some text would start flashing. Then finally, eventually, after 30 seconds of this sheer guff, her profile would actually load, and it was largely unreadable anyway.)

Myspace just had more uses than Facebook.  I could see it had a point and a purpose as a networking tool.  People actually did used to set up pages highlighting up and coming new artists, and they would get taken seriously - a friend of mine got a write-up on a MySpace group once and landed two festival gigs as a result.  With Facebook, you'd never get that happening. 

[purlieu]

Mm, it started with 'you can now tag your friends in photos!', which seemed to garner the almost universal reaction of 'what the fuck?  This isn't what I use MySpace for!'  It was a networking site, as others have said, with many uses - videos, music, groups, bulletins (something Facebook is sorely lacking), and even though many of them were awful, it was nice to be able to adjust your profile at least a little.  Facebook is a little too straight up 'this is me' and nothing else at times.

I still try to use both sites the same amount, and know some people who are still sticking to MySpace.

[SavageHedgehog]

So this little titbit of wonderous activity popped up on my facebook feed this morning because a ye olde ex commented on the photo:

Jazz in a Bin?!? Sounds like the b-side to Old Pop in an Oak.

I like how that guy still gets an x after he "upset" her with that "rude" comment.

[Jemble Fred]

Myspace just had more uses than Facebook.  I could see it had a point and a purpose as a networking tool.  People actually did used to set up pages highlighting up and coming new artists, and they would get taken seriously - a friend of mine got a write-up on a MySpace group once and landed two festival gigs as a result.  With Facebook, you'd never get that happening.

It'd never happen, but some kind of merger would be perfect – imagine Facebook if you could set up Public Profiles, with all the Music and Comedy options you get on MySpace. And each one had a handy URL to flog.