Facebook The Third [split topic]

[purlieu]

It's back, then.

[kittens]

'pparently it was hacked. some kind of protest about it using the wrong kind of power station or something. Probably not true though.

[alan nagsworth]

You know the best way to rebel against Facebook? Come on a forum and tell everyone how much you hate it and are glad that it's temporarily down. Because that's nothing like a status update at all.

[Retinend]

another annoying 'about me' I found on my friends list

Smiles always seem fake no matter how hard he tries.

Only passviely reciprocates hugs and other embraces (rarely likes to be touched).

Mumbles and is annoyed when people mishear him.

Believes that consdierable artisitc skill should be applied when doing one's hair in the morning

Advocates having 14 bottles of scent. One for every night and day of the week. When Spencer can afford it he shall follow his own advice.

Believes that the traditional 'lunch-time' should be replaced with low-calorie protein shake-time.

Spencer recently declared war on pastry. The UN condemned the war as unlawful but Spencer continued anyway to rid the world of such delicious but dangerous foods as pie! Oversized citezens riot daily

Thinks that book-holders are the new black (?!)

Spencer, try as he might to draw a door accurately simply can't get the perspective quite right. Reading many journals and academic articles on the matter, Spencer concluded that this enigma was not meant for man to unravel.

He does not fulfill the key demographic of a real-ale drinker. Not having a full beard, pot belly, long leather trenchcoat, long wispy hair, the demeanour of one who socialises among cliques of very similar people; he feels left out when attending real-ale conventions and sheds a tear that these are the main representatives of the drink.

Spencer's prefered method of execution is firing squad.

Spencer has developed a hate for nature.

Leaves apple cores in the most innapropriate of places!

Feels a glowing internal warmth when greeted with a smile!

Wishes that leaves and other foliage were tasty and could be digested.

Wants to be less like Spencer [surname] and more like a proper English gentlemen.

Is always dissapointed when a mixed bag of 'fruit and nuts' is the only option.

[vrailaine]

I haven't activated mine since it went down there, was that two weeks ago? Can't really think of a justifiable reason for why I haven't went to delete it properly.

[Utter Shit]

Is there a justifiable reason for getting rid of it?

Retinend, think of it as a good thing - things like that just provide further evidence that you can judge a person by his name. Anyone called Spencer is bound to be a twat. Same with Todd or Toby. Whereas on the other hand I would be happy to leave my life in the hands of a Roger, or a Ron.

[vrailaine]

Is there a justifiable reason for getting rid of it?

Nope, guess that makes sense then. No point limiting my resources for nosiness.

I've a few friends with about me things like that there, Retinend, pretty sure I had shite like that on my myspace back in 2005... maybe it's something people have to get out of their system.

[PaulTMA]

Oh the 'Photo Memories' thing can just fuck right off, basically.  It spent the last two months showing me pictures of my ex-girlfriend, despite the fact I 'hid' her activities from my news feed, for obvious reasons.  As another potentially great relationship has just the other day gone completely down the toilet, I'm getting more 'memories' I especially don't want to see.  Does anyone know how to get rid of it, without having to resort to removing them from my friends list, in a fit of pique?

[The Boston Crab]

Booze.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Maybe if you delete then re-add her, it will unmemorize it.

Although if it doesn't work, and for all I know it won't, then the hassle and aggro of doing that will jar all the more.

Happy to be of service.

[chand]

Is it possible to stop Facebook defaulting to 'Top News' when I go there? I don't have such an action-packed life with so many millions of friends that I need Facebook digesting for me, I just want to see the most recent things.

[PaulTMA]

Maybe if you delete then re-add her, it will unmemorize it.

Although if it doesn't work, and for all I know it won't, then the hassle and aggro of doing that will jar all the more.

Happy to be of service.

Don't mention it, that seems like a foolproof method of avoiding coming across like a desperate fool.

[El Unicornio, mang]

Oh the 'Photo Memories' thing can just fuck right off, basically.  It spent the last two months showing me pictures of my ex-girlfriend, despite the fact I 'hid' her activities from my news feed, for obvious reasons.  As another potentially great relationship has just the other day gone completely down the toilet, I'm getting more 'memories' I especially don't want to see.  Does anyone know how to get rid of it, without having to resort to removing them from my friends list, in a fit of pique?

Stick some black tape on the monitor screen where they show up.

I know what you mean though, I keep getting them for the same two people, both exes. It's like facebook has somehow found out about my past and is purposefully messing with my head.

[PaulTMA]

Stick some black tape on the monitor screen where they show up.

I know what you mean though, I keep getting them for the same two people, both exes. It's like facebook has somehow found out about my past and is purposefully messing with my head.

Possibly as they may have been the ones you spent the most time gazing at/masturbating over back in the good old days - Facebook has probably detected the persons whose photos you were most interested in.  Extremely insensitive to have them continue to pop up even after you've 'hidden' them, like any sensible person really should.

[PaulTMA]

double post

[The Duck Man]

Is it possible to stop Facebook defaulting to 'Top News' when I go there? I don't have such an action-packed life with so many millions of friends that I need Facebook digesting for me, I just want to see the most recent things.

Mmm, it's a pain, isn't it? Normally once you've clicked "recent" it sticks to it for the rest of the session, but recently it's been reverting back to "most popular" everytime I've loaded Facebook.

Also this new photo viewer is odd. Initially it seemed to have solved the loading freezes Facebook was continually having when scrolling through photos - and I presumed that was its purpose. But the freezes are back now, and this viewer doesn't tell things like what album the photo you're looking at is in, as well as making navigating away from the page slower.

[small_world]

Has this been noted?
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=97666262433

I enjoyed the; More Info bit...
"Walk up to random people and say "WHAT YEAR IS THIS?" and when they tell you, get quiet and then say "Then there's still time!" and run off"

Even if I don't play along I'll be looking out for those who are.

[non capisco]

Is it possible to stop Facebook defaulting to 'Top News' when I go there? I don't have such an action-packed life with so many millions of friends that I need Facebook digesting for me, I just want to see the most recent things.

I quite enjoy seeing what Facebook arbitrarily deems 'top news', today it was my mate Keith noting that it has suddenly got colder.

[Custard]

So there's this mate of a mate who I met once, and after months of us not bothering to comment on each other's Faceybooks actions once, yesterday I decided i'd quietly unfriend him.

I get home just now, log on, and there's a friend-request waiting there for me. Yup, from him.

Creepy, and a bit dumbfounding, but is it also some kind of record at attempting to re-add someone?

When people remove me, it usually takes me at least a few weeks to work out who's vanished. HOW DID HE KNOW. HOW.

I said no, anyway. Feel a bit bad now. (I don't).

[Buchstansangur]

For fuck's sake, who thought it was a good idea to let humans have this web site.

[Mr Colossal]

When people remove me, it usually takes me at least a few weeks to work out who's vanished. HOW DID HE KNOW. HOW.

haha. this always drives me nuts.  whenever I see the numbers go down it sometimes fuels a micro-obsessive panic of checking you haven't offended anybody you've recently sent a message to and that all your prospective fancies are still there.  I find facebook to be quite erratic anyway, and the numbers tend to fluctuate between being 3 and 4 friends out. sometimes you press 'home' and 'profile' again and the number is restored, other times it seems to hang 3 or 4 low until magically self righting itself.  These people that keep attention-seekingly 'closing' their profile and reappearing every few days fuck me off because when i look in my inbox and saw their name blanked out for the first few times I thought i'd been randomly blocked until I got accustomed to their behaviour.

Anyway,  I did hear there was this app that you could install and it would tell you who had 'unfriended' you, so maybe he had that.  Or maybe he had taken a shine and had taken to visiting your profile and studying you like his own personal ant farm on a daily basis so found out straight away.      Why dont you just ask him? "sorry was having a routie clear out and thought i'd get rid of anybody that hadn't bothered to talk to me in months" at least sounds reasonable.

[Ronnie the Raincoat]

haha. this always drives me nuts.  whenever I see the numbers go down it sometimes fuels a micro-obsessive panic of checking you haven't offended anybody you've recently sent a message to and that all your prospective fancies are still there.  I find facebook to be quite erratic anyway, and the numbers tend to fluctuate between being 3 and 4 friends out. sometimes you press 'home' and 'profile' again and the number is restored, other times it seems to hang 3 or 4 low until magically self righting itself.  These people that keep attention-seekingly 'closing' their profile and reappearing every few days fuck me off because when i look in my inbox and saw their name blanked out for the first few times I thought i'd been randomly blocked until I got accustomed to their behaviour.

Anyway,  I did hear there was this app that you could install and it would tell you who had 'unfriended' you, so maybe he had that.  Or maybe he had taken a shine and had taken to visiting your profile and studying you like his own personal ant farm on a daily basis so found out straight away.      Why dont you just ask him? "sorry was having a routie clear out and thought i'd get rid of anybody that hadn't bothered to talk to me in months" at least sounds reasonable.

Indeed there is:

http://apps.facebook.com/my_friends_mood/

[El Unicornio, mang]

haha. this always drives me nuts.  whenever I see the numbers go down it sometimes fuels a micro-obsessive panic of checking you haven't offended anybody you've recently sent a message to and that all your prospective fancies are still there.  I find facebook to be quite erratic anyway, and the numbers tend to fluctuate between being 3 and 4 friends out. sometimes you press 'home' and 'profile' again and the number is restored, other times it seems to hang 3 or 4 low until magically self righting itself.  These people that keep attention-seekingly 'closing' their profile and reappearing every few days fuck me off because when i look in my inbox and saw their name blanked out for the first few times I thought i'd been randomly blocked until I got accustomed to their behaviour.

Sometimes it's just from people disabling their accounts then re-enabling them. Other times it's just facebook being crap.

[alan nagsworth]

I don't give a rat's cock who unfriends me. Yesterday I unfriended over 50 people because I never talk to them and they're only there through us meeting once at a party of went to primary/secondary school together. So basically they're not friends at all, and I don't see why I should consider them such through these weak associations over the years. A couple of them went way back from not seeing them literally since I was 11 years old - fuck knows how they found me as I use a nom de plume - and when they added me and I asked how they were doing, I had no reply.

[Icehaven]

I was really pissed off that any page I joined or commented on was automatically reported in my friends feeds, and spent ages trying to work out how I could stop this happening (the numerous apparent fixes like adjusting your ads and pages settings and blah don't work) until I was gently reminded that this is just something that this website does, it's under no obligation not to share anything I do with anyone it wants, there's no reason why it shouldn't, and if I'm going to make use of it and agree to it's terms I have no real reason to expect it to respect my privacy. Annoying but true.

[vrailaine]

Y'know when you go to deactivate your facebook account and it shows you a list of people who'll "miss you" or whatever? Does that show up a random 5 of the top 10 most regular viewers to your profile or something? It's always the same few appearing on mine and they seem to be the people I'd assume would be viewing my profile.

[Retinend]

http://youropenbook.org/?q=procrastinating&gender=any

a taste of my feed recently. that word is becoming one of my least favourite in the language. Did people use it much before the last decade?

[spanky]

http://youropenbook.org/?q=banter&gender=any

This is my most hated.

[Buchstansangur]

http://youropenbook.org/?q=epic&gender=any

[phes]

http://youropenbook.org/?q=happy+dayz+&gender=any

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