[atsonicpark]

anyway, I think it's one of the reasons I love my girlfriend.. she wouldn't accept a friend request from someone like that, and she doesn't have a facebook because of shit like that.

[automatic bzooty]

MY EXISTENCE IS NEBULOUS

brb ice kreem & ramonez lol

[automatic bzooty]

by ice cream and ramones i mean tacos and new order

[SuperCreep]

Originally Posted by Bytor Peltor

Facebook is a convenience when used properly!

this.

if you find facebook annoying, most likely, you've chosen to surround yrself with annoying people on there. in which case, you're a moran and deserve every trivial status update and farmville request that comes yr way.

facebook is just a website, gyuz.

[atsonicpark]

Yeah, except my complaints had nothing to do with status updates -- that you can block/hide -- or farmville requests -- which you can also block. It has to do with not being able to hide your friends list. It's a privacy issue!

[greedrex]

facebook = good (unless you have 5000 friends with only 10 people your really know or care about in yr list)
twitter = shite and useless
myspace = half-dead

[atsonicpark]

Myspace was technically the best of all those sites -- there is privacy (!), it's simple, there's no farmville, etc. It still has all those features, but people gravitate towards the lamest things, all the time, and so myspace has had to try to rip off facebook to try to get ahead, and they've betrayed what made them so great to begin with. Myspace band pages still rule, and myspace lets you hide your friends list, and they make it a chore to add friends (often having to enter their last names, or their email addresses, before a request gets sent) -- THAT IS GOOD.

Don't really know what a twitter is, seems like status updates from facebook about shit people don't care about.

[SYRFox]

Originally Posted by atsonicpark

To syrfox regarding how facebook apparently isn't "inclusive": You can't even hide your friends' list on Facebook. To me, that's the EPITOME of a privacy issue.

but then again that's one of the primary concepts of social networking. sure, it might be ridiculous but that's the main point. note that - as far as i know - most sites of that kind don't allow you do this either. on facebook, you can choose not to display your friend's list to people that are NOT on your friend list, so i don't see where the privacy issue is: if you don't want people to see your friend list, just don't add them as your friends.

Originally Posted by atsonicpark

A lot of my friends don't want to be seen, or know to be on there. You can make yourself invisible on searches.. er, you USED to be able to.. probably not anymore... so, why not make yourself invisible on friends' lists?

you're still able to do this; and no one compells you to even put your real name on? i mean, if they don't want to be known to be on here, why not just use a nickname? in fact, i myself was under the name "Aurélien SyrFox" for a while on there because i did not want that everyone knowing my real name could find me (eg my father, who i've not seen in 3 years now and don't want to see again, yet is on facebook), so only people "in the know", knowing my nickname could find me. now i don't give a fuck, though, which is why i'm under my real name. and i'm actually practically sure you can make yourself invisible - not totally invisible, but not displaying your name. sometimes when i look at someone's friend list some people would appear with blank pics and no name at all - and you can't add them as friends themselves. i don't see a major privacy issue there.

Originally Posted by atsonicpark

Oh, and you can't hide your activities, they're all displayed until you MANUALLY remove them. Now, I don't do 5404808486 things on FB a second like some people do, so I don't have a lot to remove, but it's still annoying as fuck. Privacy issues out the ass. Oh, what else... I don't like how google brings up facebook pages, either.

well i don't know, but nearly every app i use asks me to confirm whether or not i want them to publish something on my profile. it must depend on the app, though, and i do not use a lot of them anymore so i'm not quite sure if that's still the same.


i agree twitter is useless though, except for news and stuff maybe. i don't see the point in making one to tell your life.

[atsonicpark]

All I'm saying is, there used to be a way to make your friends list invisible. There isn't now. That's stupid.

[radarmaker]

I use Facebook to remind me about gigs and events I'd otherwise forget about and for playing chess. Pretty much everything else is blocked/hidden because I have absolutely zero desire to know about every banal detail in the lives of people I only know tangentially.

Oh, and I've adopted a "one-in, one-out" policy too, so whenever another friend gets added, I take pleasure in looking through my friends list and giving someone the boot for whatever trivial reason seems justified at the time. 'sbeen working out pretty well.

[Genteel Death]

Atsonicpark, the biggest networker of the internet, complains about facebook. Man, you are pathetic. You also seem like a nice dude, since the amount of information you put on the internets sometimes indicates as such. But who are you, really?

[atsonicpark]

Ha.

It just seems like common sense to have an option to hide your friends list. You used to be able to. There are people on my friends list who don't want anyone else to know they have a FB. I'm not secretive, but plenty of people I communicate with are. FB just creeps me out, though, gives me a weird vibe...

myspace >

[ni'k]

Originally Posted by Genteel Death

Atsonicpark, the biggest networker of the internet, complains about facebook. Man, you are pathetic. You also seem like a nice dude, since the amount of information you put on the internets sometimes indicates as such. But who are you, really?

i don't get this. if he's "the biggest networker of the internet" does that not make him even more entitled to complain about facebook?

[atsonicpark]

I think what he's saying (and I'm probably wrong -- it's hard to tell with GABE) is, he thinks I, of all people, should be using Facebook to my advantage, to advertise whatever I want to advertise, since it's the biggest site on the internet.

But, actually, I've met less people interested in my shit on FB than any other site I've ever been on, because people on FB are mainly interested in the status of some chick with huge tits going "I GOT A NEW BRA"

[atsonicpark]

*3626626 people like this status.*

[atsonicpark]

A vasovagal episode or vasovagal response or vasovagal attack[1] (also called neurocardiogenic syncope) is a malaise mediated by the vagus nerve. When it leads to syncope or "fainting", it is called a vasovagal syncope, which is the most common type of fainting.

[EVOLghost]

lol farmville.

[Genteel Death]

Originally Posted by atsonicpark

Ha.

It just seems like common sense to have an option to hide your friends list. You used to be able to. There are people on my friends list who don't want anyone else to know they have a FB. I'm not secretive, but plenty of people I communicate with are. FB just creeps me out, though, gives me a weird vibe...

myspace >

Well, they should just delete their accounts and use emails, txt messages or whatever mean would be necessary to comunicate with their friends in a more secretive way, then. Not that hard a thing to do, is it?

[atsonicpark]

Apparently, it is. The irreducible ontological unit is pontifical in its ubiquity. What are the truth conditions of necessary truths? How can we come to have justified truths about modalities of qualified propositions? Arguably all else must be non-sanguine, seldomly maximal. Modality, therefore, is or isn't alethic. It is to this all correctivity is elevated.

[Genteel Death]

Exactly. Even though, you know, I could easily start a page on facebook to prove that I can find more than one million people who don't care at all about atsonicpark's thoughts about facebook. And it would be very easy.