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I created a new “life event” on Facebook for my move...

shawnblog — Mon, 28 May 2012 12:58:44 -0400

I created a new “life event” on Facebook for my move to DC.

If Facebook had any semblance of foresight in their projects, they would have made such a “life event” update the user’s profile with the new data.

What is the opposite of double plus good anyway?

"For anybody disappointed that they didn’t get their full initial allocation of stock, or who thinks..."

shawnblog — Sun, 20 May 2012 21:57:36 -0400

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For anybody disappointed that they didn’t get their full initial allocation of stock, or who thinks that small retail investors can’t buy into IPOs at the same price that large institutional investors can, this is great news: Monday’s going to be a do-over, with everybody being able to buy Facebook stock at the IPO price.

This of course helps to point up just how silly all the Facebook IPO hype really was. Yes, Facebook is now a public company, but it’s still controlled by Mark Zuckerberg, and the IPO itself was a bit of a farce: delayed at the open, artificially supported by the underwriters at the close, and mainly serving to demonstrate that a brand-new company, which no one knows how to value, trading at a stratospheric valuation, can still somehow end up trading within an incredibly narrow range on enormous daily volume.

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- Felix Salmon, Much ado about nothing (via soupsoup)

Facebook Messenger? H2theFN! I deleted the app after almost...

shawnblog — Tue, 15 May 2012 23:50:22 -0400

Facebook Messenger? H2theFN!

I deleted the app after almost never using it because the messages I had already responded to in “Messenger” still showed as new messages in the Facebook app. If this thing at least gave me the option to sync the message status between the 3-4 machines I use to view Facebook messages, they’d have a pretty decent app.

Without that ability? Well, it pretty much blows.

Adding insult to injury, the Facebook app is now prompting me to install Facebook Messenger…with no option to hide the prompt!

shortformblog: Hey wait a second, where have we seen this...

shawnblog — Thu, 10 May 2012 23:46:04 -0400

shortformblog:

Hey wait a second, where have we seen this before?

There's a guy on facebook ...

shawnblog — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 22:22:08 -0400

anomalist:

And he comments on all of my art things and says really nice things and gives great complements and actually seems to like a lot of the same things I like. I get genuinely happy whenever he comments on anything.

I know him somewhat well from high school, but we haven’t really talked until now - mind you, we graduated in 09.

I … I don’t know what’s going on here. I really don’t.

our advice: unless he pokes you—it’s on!

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shawnblog — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 20:41:33 -0400

theamericankid: How I feel when people fight on facebook

shawnblog — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 23:34:47 -0400

theamericankid:

How I feel when people fight on facebook

dxo: Mexican drug lords and such do not. fuck. around. They...

shawnblog — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:43:04 -0400

dxo:

Mexican drug lords and such do not. fuck. around. They will behead your fuckin’ ass and post that shit on Instagram. Now brought to you by Facebook. ;)

More Facebook Fascism

shawnblog — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:35:24 -0400

More Facebook Fascism:

Ten days ago, I posted about this new trend of employers demanding that their employees hand over to the boss the passwords to their Facebook accounts. Yesterday, the Daily Dot reported that Kimberly Hester, a teacher’s aide in Michigan, was fired for refusing to give her password to her supervisor at the elementary school where she works. The district’s special education director wrote her: “[I]n the absence of you voluntarily granting Lewis Cass ISD administration access to you[r] Facebook page, we will assume the worst and act accordingly.” And they did.

Perhaps not coincidentally, last Tuesday, Republicans in the House of Representatives voted down a proposal that would have made it illegal for an employer to demands his or her employees’ Facebook passwords. The vote against the bill was 236-184, with only one Republican voting in favor of it.

This social media “client” of mine is a lot exactly...

shawnblog — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:44:47 -0400

This social media “client” of mine is ~~a lot~~ exactly like Archer.

sade: too true white trash cousin

shawnblog — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:45:03 -0400

sade:

too true white trash cousin

I went on a sort of FRIENDZY a while back, friend requesting...

shawnblog — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:03:00 -0400

I went on a sort of FRIENDZY a while back, friend requesting people who had dozens of friends in common with me. With many of them, I had no idea if I knew them but assumed we might have met based on the large numbers of mutual friends we had in common. At least two (or maybe 20) of them got upset enough to give “feedback” to Facebook on the nature of my friend request. So much for being social, right!?

Of course, the “feedback” is collected when Facebook gives users who have first chosen “Not Now” the option to click “Yes” or “No” [that you do or do not know the person outside Facebook]. I’m not sure why they would develop the six degree like tool to show you all these people you may know and then offer a tool for uptight morons to say “No” after saying “Not Now” to a friend request.

First, if we have 10-20 friends in common, it is likely that we WILL meet. Or, we may have met already and you, Mr/Ms Super Seriously Sad and Freaky Facebook Friend Filterer, forgot the momentous occasion (or maybe you’re just blocking it out because I was smiling). Either way, you’re doing it wrong.

Facebook is a new tool for connecting online. Just like in the days of “SPAM” (I know, they’re still here… but nobody reads email anymore and filters work most of the time), if you get something you don’t want or didn’t request or that offends you in some way, delete or ignore and move on. Of course, if they bother you repeatedly, I completely agree with going to Facebook with some actual feedback—like “make this idiot leave me alone”, but the idea of punishing someone for what is the equivalent of saying “hi, I’m _____… a friend of _____’s” is not at all social and incongruent with any kind of “network” I’m aware of!

When you select “No” to that dialog, you get:

Thanks. This person won’t be able to send you any more friend requests.

There’s an option to “undo” this action, but Facebook isn’t telling you that you are basically giving the other person a TOS violation, so why would you “undo” your friendly Facebook overlords keeping a strange person you have determined you don’t want as a “friend” online from sending you another request? Facebook should add a skip option to the Yes/No. I mean, what if I don’t want to tell them my status with a person who has friend requested me or what if I’m not sure?

They are recording this information.

What do you think?

QBits: Nepal Lawmaker Asks Facebook for Third Gender

shawnblog — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:58:56 -0400

QBits: Nepal Lawmaker Asks Facebook for Third Gender:

qbits:

Associated Press

Monday Mar 26, 2012

Sunilbabu Pant

KATMANDU, Nepal - A prominent lawmaker and gay rights activist in Nepal says he has asked Facebook to include a third option for people who do not identify themselves as male or female.

Sunilbabu Pant said he has written to…

how to remove poke? when i poke my friend..

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 22:25:06 -0400

Once you poke a friend, the deed is done. There’s no removing a poke. Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time!

fastcompany: An intimate portrait of the world’s most famous...

shawnblog — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:46:51 -0400

fastcompany:

An intimate portrait of the world’s most famous CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.

But the moment belonged first and foremost to Zuckerberg, who for years has had his own identity problem: “boy CEO.” Young, arrogant, and awkward—no one believed that Zuckerberg could survive the adult swim of real business, and thanks to his depiction in The Social Network, some folks will forever see him as the fatally flawed psychopathic robot nerd looking to steal your code, your personal data, your girlfriend. “I don’t think about it … much,” he once told me when I asked him how he handles all the noise, measuring his words as he always does. “I understand why people need to have these dialogues, to ask these questions. We have so much to do here, we don’t think about it if we don’t have to.”

Read on->

Dawn's Life.com: The Problem with facebook

shawnblog — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:04:44 -0400

Dawn's Life.com: The Problem with facebook :

dawnowar:

and all these sites is that they don’t mimic real life. In real life, you connect with someone for a short period of time and move on. You lose people along the way naturally. As your interests and concerns diverge, you lose touch and connect with new people. When you reconnect with an old friend,…

"‘Be The Match’ hopes that by showing people how unique they are, they will want to take an interest..."

shawnblog — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 09:48:21 -0400

“‘Be The Match’ hopes that by showing people how unique they are, they will want to take an interest in the bone marrow database. We can’t help but think people are more likely to simply have a look at their cool infographic and move on, though we obviously hope our pessimistic outlook on the average Facebook user is misplaced.”

- Turn Your Facebook Profile Into An Infographic Using My Social Strand | Redmond Pie

How spies used Facebook to try to steal NATO chief's details

shawnblog — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 12:44:29 -0400

How spies used Facebook to try to steal NATO chief's details:

infoneer-pulse:

Seems Adm. James Stavridis was hacked — and by Chinese spies no less, according to the U.K.’s Sunday Telegraph.

A recent investigation has revealed that senior British military officers and Defense Ministry officials accepted “friend requests” from a bogus Facebook account users thought to belong to Stavridis, head of U.S. European Command and NATO’s most senior commander. The move apparently let hackers gain access to private email addresses, phone numbers and pictures, the Telegraph reported.

While NATO officials haven’t publically pointed the finger at China, the Sunday Telegraph reported that information gleamed from classified briefings indicated that the evidence collected so far during the probe pointed to “state-sponsored individuals in China.”

» via Stars and Stripes

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shawnblog — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:37:26 -0500

My facebook has turned into car-chat

shawnblog — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 16:22:11 -0500

abloodymess:

“I would rather be killed instantly in a vintage BelAir than to have ever sat behind the wheel of the modern Camaro” - Me