Facebook The Third [split topic]

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

To be fair, I don't think she should be expected to name every race of people on the earth to make her point. She's not the problem here (she's being sarcastic, right?)

She is, yes. She's a goody.

[Custard]

Ah, fair enuff then. Thought it was a little too stupid, and the "party like its 1899" bit should've made it obvious to me. Sigh.

Must read things slower.

[fat_abbott]

She's a Goody? Haven't members of that clan already kicked up a racist shitstorm?

[alan nagsworth]

a racist shitstorm?

It was more like a white dog-shit storm

[GoochDogHigh5s]

I would just tell the bloke to fuck off
There are no room for racists like that
There has been a problem at Leyton Orient recently with the EDL and after trying to educate them, I found that the best thing to do was defriend the wankers

[Tokyo Sexwhale]

I need your assistance to rebuke an unpleasant racist twat in a witty way.

It all started when my brother declared he was happy with our medals in the European Championships...

Currently I'm stuck on 'will you shut the fuck up you tedious cunt', which isn't really doing anything.

You could point out that Hussey isn't a British/English name...

http://www.hussey.ca/where.html

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

He'd probably have a wank over the Nordic roots.

The French and Irish angle might be good for a laugh though.

[SOTS]

I just decided to add people for realz on Facebook (after fucking HATING it and not using it properly) and then having a bit of a panic attack and deleting most of the friend requests like a mentul. It was only after doing it that I realised how much I fucking hate the idea of the whole thing. The idea that people can get at you for not checking it often enough. The idea of all of the separate groups of friends being exposed to each others weirdness. It doesn't bear thinking about.

And now all the people I sent friend requests to, that I then retracted, will think i'm bizarre. I FUCKING HATE FACEBOOK.

[Milo]

Or "No, but a Labrador and an Alsatian born in a stable still come from the same stable"

This is probably the closest thing as it recognises differences in breed (ie; genetic history) while still accepting that the dogs are the same species.

The horse/dog thing contains the utterly unacceptable idea that people of different races are not human, and that perhaps only white (or British) people are the 'true' humans.

Unless he genuinely believes that horses and dogs can breed and produce fertile offspring.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Update on the racist:

*** Anderton feels incredibly sorry for the people caught up in the floods in Pakistan
about an hour ago · Comment ·LikeUnlike

*** Myers Me too, and the epidemic of islamaphobic bigotry in this country will only work against the charity work for it.

****** Hussey Yeah,apparently it looks like a massive bowl of Coco Pops now !!!!

Yes, I've asked my brother to delete him or just find some way of rendering him unable to communicate.

[The Boston Crab]

And now all the people I sent friend requests to, that I then retracted, will think i'm bizarre.

If you feel this anxious about it before you even use it, I'd say that a) you should just use it for a bit to understand that the reality is significantly less troublesome than your anxieties and b) you should ultimately listen to yourself and fuck it off if it stresses you.

I use it very sporadically now, just have a little Facebook extension thing in Google Chrome which pops up if I get a notification dircetly related to me, i.e. something on my wall, reply to my post, group invitation, PM, etc. I also use Facebook Purity to strip my feeds of all the inane application updates and so on. A few times a week I'll go onto the main thing and see some people's news but if it's that important, I'd hope they'd do better than simply post on Facebook. If not, sod 'em, basically.

Dip your toe in just so you see there's nothing to be freaked about. You can always leave it to go dry your toe and do something else.

[GoochDogHigh5s]

Update on the racist:

Yes, I've asked my brother to delete him or just find some way of rendering him unable to communicate.

Err Yeah!!!!!

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

But if you think about it hard, so hard that your brain turns into the shape of a colon, it isn't surprising that a man would be racist, because statistically there are a sizeable minority of racists, which means I should have shut up and accepted it, because it is unsurprising.

[switchbitch]

Racists? That leads me quite nicely to this: http://www.collegehumor.com/article:1802364 - WWII via FB status updates.

[Small Man Big Horse]

Someone just posted this as their status update:

This week we remember all babies born sleeping or whom we have carried but never met, or those we have held but could not take home... Make this your profile status if you or someone you know has suffered the loss of a baby. The majority of us won't do it, because unlike cancer, a baby loss is...still... a taboo subject... ...please help break the silence.... In memory of all the little angels ♥ ♥ ♥ x x x

The use of bold was their own. So yeah, fuck you cancer for being all popular and shit.

[Subtle Mocking]

Need some help here guys. Completely sick to death of just about everyone now and would like to (at least) deactivate my account. It's saying an error has occurred over and over again, so it seems like there's no way to deactivate my account. Anyone know a work-around?

[purlieu]

How long have you been trying?  Leave it a few hours and try again.
Also, they don't advertise it, but you can delete your account permanently.

[Subtle Mocking]

Think I'm going to deactivate it for a week or so, then if it goes alright, delete it. I might just be sick of it after a bad day, or maybe I really am sick of it altogether. Hopefully the latter.

EDIT: Oh and I've been trying for about an hour now.

[Cerys]

You could always just not use it for a week or so, leaving a status update as an explanation.

[Subtle Mocking]

I'm going to at least give it a try, as I've met some people who've said that deleting Facebook was the best thing they've ever done.

[SavageHedgehog]

My sincere advice would be to just leave it for a while. I'm not the world's biggest Facebook fan, but ignoring it can be only so much trouble, deleting and re-instating it could be a pain in the arse. Heck, explaining why you deleted it X number of times could be a major pain.

[chand]

Facebook keeps encouraging me to "say hi" to a friend who died three months ago. His girlfriend gets it too, bit depressing for her to say the least.

[Subtle Mocking]

Really hope Diaspora doesn't take too long. In the meantime de-activation will have to suffice.

[23 Daves]

Never mind racism, here's a status update that will really see Verbwhores everywhere demolishing their household ceilings with the sheer upwards velocity of rage:

A friend of 23 Daves said:  Government defends right to homeopathy on the NHS - some real 'sense' at last http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_117810

She is an ex-colleague of mine who runs her own small homeopathic remedy business, by the way.  No, she's not being sarcastic.  And no, I'm not going to bother to argue with her, though I can take comfort in the fact that only one of her friends 'liked' this, and nobody commented.

[Uncle TechTip]

Think I'm going to deactivate it for a week or so, then if it goes alright, delete it. I might just be sick of it after a bad day, or maybe I really am sick of it altogether. Hopefully the latter.

Change the password by banging the keys like a crazy man, using copy & paste to confirm. If you change your mind request a password reset.

[JesusAndYourBush]

Wait 2 weeks?  Just upload a porn pic as your profile photo, add a few comments to a few groups so your pic gets seen, and your account will be gone in hours!

[Jemble Fred]

I've met some people who've said that deleting Facebook was the best thing they've ever done.

Am I the only one who finds that incredibly bleak, even allowing for hyperbole? It's just a silly website. Delete the bookmark, and ignore the place.

[purlieu]

Nah, it's something to do when bored.  Can be difficult to slip out of the routine of checking it, and it's easy to just sit on it looking at awful crap when you're avoiding doing other stuff.  My girlfriend's recently deleted hers as she said it was making her down looking at all her school friends who were in high paid jobs and people who'd got work straight from graduating while she's stuck struggling to claim benefits because she's unable to work.  She deleted it and now she can't idly click on it when bored and feels a lot happier.

[Viero_Berlotti]

It's funny, I've never bothered with Facebook myself, but I don't half enjoy coming on here and reading people moaning about it.

[Neville Chamberlain]

Someone's just linked me to a youtube video of a weatherman maknig a rude sign!!!

Has anyone else seen this?!?!?!???