Tell me about Facebook?

[cold before sunrise]

i've got a peanut knife?! badass and cute, not scary, like me: fuck. the pix aren't .jpg and won't transfer but go ahead and google that shit. way cute, fun to joke about and nothing to get ruffled feathers over. it's an elephant's wet dream!

[Nick Ink]

yeah it'd almost be like sending people PMs saying you want to stab them

well remembered! 

[Anne the Man]

I was joking myself. Couldn't resist, though I should know better than to grind yer gears. Sorry cbs/board.

[cold before sunrise]

nick ink: you claim to have blocked my pm's and not read my messages but have revealed yourself to be a complete liar, because i'm actually pretty awesome and don't know what the problem is. oh yeah! half the board is total dorks who think i care enough to bother throwing them in the river. sorry guys.

[Nick Ink]

Okay, here's the situation. I blocked your pms after receiving this on 01/07/09:

cold before sunrise
Registered user

Posts: 1468


i don't even vaguely know you
« Sent to: Nick Ink on: Jul 01, 2009, 02:28:56 PM »
     
so why do i hate your guts and kind of wanna stab you? is it secretly a crush or am i just way more psycho than i ever imagined?

Since then, I have tried to avoid contact. As indeed, I will do from now on.

I hope that's clear, you strange, strange person.

[milly balgeary]

See, a message like that would be great if I got it. Funny.  I like it.

[Anne the Man]

What Milly said. Though I can also understand Nick's reaction for sure.

[cold before sunrise]

Oh, come on...  Lighten up in here! It feels like a library.

Milly: Your updates never fail to brighten my day.

[davy]

Is there any way to revisit particular days in your facebook feed? Like, if I wanted to check up on a status update I may or may not have posted a year ago, how would I do this?

[mixed cats]

From what I can tell, you could just sit for hours clicking the "see more" link on your wall, but there are a couple of FB applications that appear to help you find them in some way. There are at least three mentioned in this thread: http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=6628568379&topic=11641

[davy]

Thanks, I'll try those!

[milly balgeary]

Oh, come on...  Lighten up in here! It feels like a library.

Milly: Your updates never fail to brighten my day.

Why thank ye, CBS.

[ellaguru]

I have succumbed to the social pressures and, under some protest, have finally gotten a Facebook account. So now a few people from the before time (the long, long ago) have friended me or whatever. What's the etiquette on that? Am I supposed to say hi to them or something?

[davy]

If you want. In most cases, it's not expected.

[ellaguru]

OK, thanks, I didn't want to look like the rude guy.

[YojimboMonkey]

BAM  facebook stalker extraordinaire

or at least, I just sent a friend request to a dude who shares a first name with you and looks kind of like you who was wearing a goofy hat in his profile pic

[ellaguru]

That is clearly enough clues to find me.

[diesel_powered]

Found you! Through trolling Jim's friend list. I also found another LPTJ-er, but I'm not quite sure which one as I'm absolute shit when it comes to remembering people's real names. I think I know who it is, but I'm not sure.

[ellaguru]

I'm absolute shit when it comes to remembering people's real names.

Actually, I didn't recognize your name at first, but I figured it out from the picture.

[diesel_powered]

Yeah, I try to maintain some halfassed level of plausible deniability about what I say on here (mostly in the MHC) and what's directly connected to my public online presence. I don't really expect a potential employer to go after me too badly, but you never know.

[ellaguru]

The kids today will all have to change their names when they want to get a job.

[davy]

I've often wondered what presidential campaigns are going to do about all this internet stuff 10-20 years down the road. We're going to reach a certain point where NOBODY will be clean anymore.

[diesel_powered]

I'm pretty sure the voting public will stop caring since they're all going to be on Facebook with so-called compromising pictures as well. Sort of like how people have stopped giving a shit that politicians smoked pot in college.

I did actually find some college-era photos of myself on some other people's Facebook pages, but I'm not particularly worried about them. There's alcohol involved, but no beer bongs or strippers. The greater crime is probably my wardrobe at the time.

[ellaguru]

I'm in favour of that day. I mean: I hope the day comes when people actively decide what dirt they care about and what dirt they don't, rather than just being scandalized by scandal.

But the tide is turning, though, right? I mean, aren't both of the last two presidents confessed/convicted cokeheads?

[ellaguru]

I exaggerate.