December 22, 201014 yr What are people posting on facebook that they don't want seen? Are you like making your SSN your status every few days? If there's something you don't really want known, I have this novel idea - don't put on facebook! No more calls, we have a winner!
December 22, 201014 yr What are people posting on facebook that they don't want seen? Are you like making your SSN your status every few days? If there's something you don't really want known, I have this novel idea - don't put on facebook! Yes, and monitor your Wall constantly to make sure that no one is posting anything on it that you don't want others to see. And make sure that you follow everyone else around to untag pictures of you (and tagged status updates now, too) that they tag that you don't want others to see. And be careful which other sites you give any information to, because Facebook often seems to know where you've been.
December 23, 201014 yr What are people posting on facebook that they don't want seen? Are you like making your SSN your status every few days? If there's something you don't really want known, I have this novel idea - don't put on facebook! Yes, and monitor your Wall constantly to make sure that no one is posting anything on it that you don't want others to see. And make sure that you follow everyone else around to untag pictures of you (and tagged status updates now, too) that they tag that you don't want others to see. And be careful which other sites you give any information to, because Facebook often seems to know where you've been. Oy! That's a lot of work just to stay in touch with 'friends' from high school that I don't stay in touch with.
December 23, 201014 yr What are people posting on facebook that they don't want seen? Are you like making your SSN your status every few days? If there's something you don't really want known, I have this novel idea - don't put on facebook! Yes, and monitor your Wall constantly to make sure that no one is posting anything on it that you don't want others to see. And make sure that you follow everyone else around to untag pictures of you (and tagged status updates now, too) that they tag that you don't want others to see. And be careful which other sites you give any information to, because Facebook often seems to know where you've been. If you set your privacy controls properly you dont have to worry about that.
December 25, 201014 yr What are people posting on facebook that they don't want seen? Are you like making your SSN your status every few days? If there's something you don't really want known, I have this novel idea - don't put on facebook! Yes, and monitor your Wall constantly to make sure that no one is posting anything on it that you don't want others to see. And make sure that you follow everyone else around to untag pictures of you (and tagged status updates now, too) that they tag that you don't want others to see. And be careful which other sites you give any information to, because Facebook often seems to know where you've been. What kind of friends do you have? lol . If my friends have something personal to say, they have the decency to send a private message. That's kind of an unspoken e-law. You married and have some drunk female co-worker typing "last night was amazing!" on your wall?! lol!
December 30, 201014 yr I'm a dork, and I'm addicted to facebook. If anyone wants to be "friends" with me, send me a PM and we'll set it up!
January 7, 201114 yr with a nod to a Talking Heads lyric: BUILD YOURSELF A CITY TO CLICK IN CityVille overtakes FarmVille as Facebook’s top app http://www.grist.org/article/2011-01-04-cityville-overtakes-farmville-as-facebooks-top-app I don't play games on Facebook, but I thought this was fun.
January 30, 201114 yr You're wrong. You're the most wrong person ever. I had an uncomfortable urge to tell you that even though I can feel myself getting pulled into something we'll both regret.
January 31, 201114 yr Facebook is a great venue for advertising - I limit myself to $500/month for my company, might go up to $1000. But you gotta lock up your wall and untag inappropriate pics. That goes without saying.
February 1, 201114 yr I am trying to avoid Cityville...I know it will be another game to suck up my time, especially since it seems to look like SimCity.
February 15, 201114 yr A couple of shameless plugs... For those interested in Ohio high school sports... 'Like' http://www.facebook.com/pages/OHSAA-OFFICIATING/145393855870#!/pages/OHSAA-OFFICIATING/145393855870 And follow http://twitter.com/#!/OHSAASports
March 9, 201114 yr Noticed this on facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cleveland-For-Life/162992317074246
March 9, 201114 yr Just clicked onto this thread for the first time and went to the first posts (from 2004)....kinda funny. Amazing how the world changes in such a short period of time.
March 9, 201114 yr For all of you who feel you're not spending enough time on Facebook. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/09/uk-facebook-idUSLNE72800E20110309 Warner Bros to offer movies through Facebook (Reuters) - Warner Bros is making some of its films available on Facebook, opening up a new revenue source for the Internet social network and signalling new competition for online entertainment companies. Consumers can pay for the movies using Facebook Credits, a virtual currency so far used mainly in social games on the site, according to Warner Bros, a unit of Time Warner Inc (TWX.N), on Tuesday. Facebook, which makes money mostly through online advertising, takes 30 percent of the revenue from sales by third parties on the website using Credits. A 30% cut on the revenues? How does anyone make money that way? (aside from Facebook, that is)
March 9, 201114 yr Just clicked onto this thread for the first time and went to the first posts (from 2004)....kinda funny. Amazing how the world changes in such a short period of time. I was in grad school at Marshall when Facebook hit (2004 or so?). There were all these articles in the school paper about it and I would see people in the library using it all the time. Taking the "it's only for college kids" thing seriously, I never got on it until 2009 when MySpace got really boring. I was thinking, "Where'd everybody go?"
June 26, 201113 yr This showed up on my News Feed this morning: Missi : "husband" got home at 5 a.m. today. No shirt + drunk. REALLY? Poor thing. I don't think he realizes HOW replaceable he is. There's a certain allowance for understanding + support. Unfortunately, that window is now closed. Missi-OUT! about an hour ago · Like · Melissa You poor thing... U have to do whats best for u and take care of yourself! 55 minutes ago · Like Missi True. Sucks, but I want better for myself! 47 minutes ago · Like · 1 person Heather You deserve better for yourself Missi :) 44 minutes ago · Like Missi Yep, enough of this trash-insanity. 40 minutes ago · Like Desiree Ughhhhh, no way I would put up with that. Missi, do what's best for u girl. 31 minutes ago · Like Missi I don't know what kind of trash he's used to, but CLEARLY, I'm MUCH too good for his idiotic irresponsibility. 26 minutes ago · Like Anna I think he has some growing up to do...I know it is a hard decision to make, and it is your decision....do what is best for you and your mental and physical health.... 26 minutes ago · Like Kelli U definitely deserve better! 9 minutes ago · Like
June 26, 201113 yr AND (this sequence is amazing if you know that "Sarah" is a tenured college professor): Sarah there is nothing quite like being a bridesmaid with hot girls 10 years younger than myself to get me going to the gym again...dear lord. 2 hours ago · Like · 3 people like this. Courtney Oh hush! I wouldn't have asked you if you weren't hot already!! 2 hours ago · Like Kimber psht. i'm sure you look stunning 2 hours ago · Like · 1 person Courtney I asked you cause I like you. I just like pretending to be shallow. But for realz- you'll be beautiful! 2 hours ago · Like Ali Oh you are a good friend! You'll be stunning! And it IS good workout motivation! 2 hours ago · Like
June 27, 201113 yr People keep telling me about how I'm missing out on all of this great stuff on FB. Now I see what I'm missing. Can't wait until Mark Zuckerberg reviews the application I mailed in for membership!
September 22, 201113 yr Apparently this is what college party invites look like now...in my day we would post signs around campus. One time we put the wrong phone number on our flyers and some poor old lady was getting calls all night!
September 22, 201113 yr So, I go to The Serpent in Cincy and meet this guy...again...who I met two weeks ago...same place. We go to a dark corner...again.... and start making out. I'd like to see him again and he seems interested. He tells me to friend him or send him a freind request on FB ...before I go to bed that night. I do. Never heard back. So, I figure that this the social network version of exchanging numbers on scraps of paper or matchbooks, where you give the guy yr contact info and never hear back (or never call back).
September 13, 201212 yr Well, everybody knows by now about Facebookers getting sarcastic about people sharing too many baby pictures and the unbaby.me site. But now, a new menace also threatens Facebook serendipity: sneaky techniques that make sure newlywed ladies' wedding pictures stay at the top of your feed. Here's how it works: A young lady uploads a ton of wedding pictures after she receives them. Her friends also upload their pictures from the wedding and reception. Then the group of ladies slowly tag each other in the pictures over the course of months or even years. All that tagging moves the pictures back to the top of a user's feed. The analog equivalent would be the young lady bringing by her wedding album daily so that you look at the pictures again and again.
September 13, 201212 yr I need to figure out a way to block all marriage and baby-related posts without blocking entire newsfeeds.
September 13, 201212 yr Well, everybody knows by now about Facebookers getting sarcastic about people sharing too many baby pictures and the unbaby.me site. But now, a new menace also threatens Facebook serendipity: sneaky techniques that make sure newlywed ladies' wedding pictures stay at the top of your feed. Here's how it works: A young lady uploads a ton of wedding pictures after she receives them. Her friends also upload their pictures from the wedding and reception. Then the group of ladies slowly tag each other in the pictures over the course of months or even years. All that tagging moves the pictures back to the top of a user's feed. Mind = blown. My ex gf and her friends are definitely doing that. It is maddening to say the least. I have been bombarded with her wedding pics at the top of my feed for about a month!
September 13, 201212 yr Template for Facebook discussions (Or Urban Ohio Discussions?) That just made me laugh out loud
September 13, 201212 yr I need to figure out a way to block all marriage and baby-related posts without blocking entire newsfeeds. Tired of seeing fetuses in X-rays and large bellies every few days from people I barely knew in high school, yet want to be my friend.
September 13, 201212 yr Mind = blown. My ex gf and her friends are definitely doing that. It is maddening to say the least. I have been bombarded with her wedding pics at the top of my feed for about a month! Oh God, if it's your ex-girlfriend doing it that's got to suck.
September 13, 201212 yr I need to figure out a way to block all marriage and baby-related posts without blocking entire newsfeeds. I haven't tried this but I would like to filter stupid political posts & keep the few intelligent ones I get. http://lifehacker.com/5940319/how-to-block-annoying-political-posts-on-facebook
September 13, 201212 yr Or such stupid shares like this one: My reply, which went unanswered: You know, he did release another tweet but it was conveniently snipped out above: http://twitter.com/BarackObama (9 hours ago). "As painful as this day is and always will be, it leaves it with the lesson that no act of terrorism can ever change what we stand for. -bo" Then today, she posts: "I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction" - pg. 261 of Audacity of Hope by Pres. Obama . I don't know about anyone else but this seems a little scary to me..." Had she read the book, she would have known that the passage is, without snipping, "Of course, not all my conversations in immigrant communities follow this easy pattern. In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific reassurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction." Taking things out of context or posting snippets is hardly a conservative bit. There is one liberal flamer that does the exact same thing, only he removes his posts once he's countered by anyone. If people share something, and it's political, I'd wish they would fact check.
September 14, 201212 yr Mind = blown. My ex gf and her friends are definitely doing that. It is maddening to say the least. I have been bombarded with her wedding pics at the top of my feed for about a month! Oh God, if it's your ex-girlfriend doing it that's got to suck. My ex did the same. It was annoying but what made up for it was finding out in those pics what her husband looks like. She got married and had a baby with a guy who looks like the villain in 'V for Vendetta.' He has the same facial hair, smile, hair cut, everything.
September 15, 201212 yr >I have been bombarded with her wedding pics at the top of my feed for about a month! Yeah I've got somebody doing that right now. She's posting about 4 photos at a time from the wedding.
October 11, 201212 yr Seven days, seven engagements! Enough already! Facebook is basically Marriagebook now.
October 11, 201212 yr That or Morbidbook. I keep seeing newsfeeds of people asking their FB friends to keep someone in their prayers. Even worse is when someone is practically documenting the immediate before and after death of a loved one. They're nuts - stop posting all this personal $hit. It's like a cry for sympathy and is a total downer.
October 12, 201212 yr I've got a "someone you might know" who died two years ago. Nobody ever took his facebook profile down.
October 12, 201212 yr I have at least one social media friend who has died. Her "wall" serves as a shrine for people to post old images and would-be-birthday greetings, etc. I don't see why it should be taken down.
October 12, 201212 yr They can change it to an "in memorium" page. It won't come up as "someone you might know", but will still be there if you search for them.
October 16, 201212 yr ... I keep seeing newsfeeds of people asking their FB friends to keep someone in their prayers. Even worse is when someone is practically documenting the immediate before and after death of a loved one. They're nuts - stop posting all this personal $hit. It's like a cry for sympathy and is a total downer. My classmate from decades ago has kept us posted on her father's conscientiousness and regaining conscientiousness. I never met the man, but his loss of privacy and dignity is broadcast to the world!
October 17, 201212 yr It's narcissism. I like when someone wishes a happy birthday to the "best daddy in the world" and it is obvious the father doesn't have a facebook account to receive the good tidings. These things are not done out of kindness, they are done to get approval (likes).
October 17, 201212 yr I'll tell you what's funny...when someone you know on facebook updates their status with: "Hey, my boss sent for me to talk to him in his office and I found out it was because I'm getting a big PROMOTION! YES!" Then their baby's mom chimes in, hits the like button and says, "Great, I'll be taking you back to court for more child support money." Facebook certainly has changed a lot since the time when it was just a bunch of college students.
October 17, 201212 yr Not to be a contrarian but I've been posting pics of my newborn so aunts and uncles can see. I suppose everybody else is seeing them...is it that annoying?
October 17, 201212 yr This is why Facebook needs the Google+ separation model. Family members want to see baby pics, but friends don't. Friends want to see....well, after reading the last page or so of this thread, I have no idea what casual friends want to see, but it's clearly not anything related to life events...but I'm guessing that family members don't share the same interest. I wonder if anyone read the following. Facebook still has some issues with privacy they need to address: When the Most Personal Secrets Get Outed on Facebook AUSTIN, Texas—Bobbi Duncan desperately wanted her father not to know she is lesbian. Facebook told him anyway. One evening last fall, the president of the Queer Chorus, a choir group she had recently joined, inadvertently exposed Ms. Duncan's sexuality to her nearly 200 Facebook friends, including her father, by adding her to a Facebook Inc. discussion group. That night, Ms. Duncan's father left vitriolic messages on her phone, demanding she renounce same-sex relationships, she says, and threatening to sever family ties. The 22-year-old cried all night on a friend's couch. "I felt like someone had hit me in the stomach with a bat," she says. Soon, she learned that another choir member, Taylor McCormick, had been outed the very same way, upsetting his world as well. The president of the chorus, a student organization at the University of Texas campus here, had added Ms. Duncan and Mr. McCormick to the choir's Facebook group. The president didn't know the software would automatically tell their Facebook friends that they were now members of the chorus. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444165804578008740578200224.html?mod=WSJ_PersonalTechnology_MiddleBottom Me? I'm not interesting in anything anyone has to post. I'm deleting my account. If someone wants to tell me something about themselves, they can do it the old-fashioned way...email me a link to their blog on Geocities.
October 17, 201212 yr Theoretically you can do that on FB, but I think the problem arises from everybody's existing"friends" list would need to be converted. I basically limit my Facebooking to bitching about Cleveland sports.
October 17, 201212 yr I also can't stand the "wah, I'm depressed. I have no friends newsfeeds," followed by all these comments about how special the poster is and what not. It's not a plea for help really, just a lame need for validation, and is ultimately just attention-whoring.
October 17, 201212 yr I have to hide so many people its unbelievable. I'm down to like 15 active users that I actually haven't X'd out. And most of my friends on there are actually cool in real life!
October 17, 201212 yr You don't have to be on Facebook; and if you are on it, you don't have to post EVERYTHING you do. Assume that everything you post on Facebook is visible to the entire world. I assume there is an old proverb that says one shouldn't be boastful --- if you announce to the world that you got a raise, or just flew into Paris for a 2 week vacation, expect your house to get robbed, or more child support.
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