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Ivo

Re: Are you on Facebook?
« Reply #275 on: 23 October, 2013, 03:49:19 pm »
You could try migrating to another social network and convince your friends to join you there. I'm on Facebook and vkontakte, if one fails I still have another one ;).
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spesh

Re: Are you on Facebook?
« Reply #276 on: 30 October, 2013, 06:35:01 pm »
Quote from: Wascally Weasel on 29 May, 2013, 02:14:14 am
It's got even worse and wants you to log ridiculous amounts of personal details and 'life events'.

Logged into Zuckerberk's monstrosity a short time ago, and at the top of my news feed Facebonk was nagging my for my home town. Usually, when you get notifications at the top of the page, you can click the x button to remove them and then get on with seeing what inanities your friends have posted, but not this time.

So I tried clicking on "I don't have a home town" - after all, it's not really any of their interest, and I have my reasons for not being more searchable on there than I am already - and that didn't work either, and when I tried entering a place name under "other", it would't let me select "only me" for visibility.

Hmmmmm...  ::-)

If Fastbuck is going to insist, I think I might have to follow your example and get creative.  :demon:


(EDIT) Although I can click on the gear icon and go to my account and privacy settings, I am unable to edit any of them - killing all functionality until I have given Facef&%$ my life story is just taking the piss IMHO.
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mattc

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Re: Are you on Facebook?
« Reply #277 on: 30 October, 2013, 07:37:02 pm »
I see NOTHING wrong with giving false - preferably humourous - information.

So, they have a rule requiring your real name; a part of me cheers every time I see someone breaking this rule. Especially any friend of Hugh Jorofice.

Childish? I prefer "childlike".
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rogerzilla

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Re: Are you on Facebook?
« Reply #278 on: 30 October, 2013, 09:41:24 pm »
I've permanently deleted my account, which had very little information on it and was never used anyway.  Do I really think they'll purge the data?  No way.

I never found anything vaguely interesting or useful on there and the "find friends" feature was utterly crap; it didn't even find Mrs Z, and she's a very heavy user.  It turned up a load of people who may have lived in the same town as me at some point in time.  The LinkedIn "people you may know" is rather better.
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spesh

Re: Are you on Facebook?
« Reply #279 on: 31 October, 2013, 12:51:00 am »
On further research, it's more likely that Farcebork has gone kablooey, it's not just me.

http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/facebook.com.html See comments

https://getsatisfaction.com/facebook/problems/recent

Interestingly, it could still be FB being bar stewards, as the last post on page 2 of one of the threads in the second link above suggests that there's been a code change which means FB doesn't work if you have the Do Not Track Me plug-in installed.

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Got this from DNTM--
Hello,

It seems that Facebook has just made some changes to their site, and in order for it to function properly, you will need to allow Doubleclick to track you on Facebook.

To allow Doubleclick to track you, click your DNTme icon, and then click under the companies that are tracking you. Slide the green toggle switch associated with Doubleclick from green to red and refresh your page.

https://getsatisfaction.com/facebook/topics/cant_like_or_post_anything_today_october_21st#reply_13220778

Well, there's a surprise...
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rogerzilla

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Re: Are you on Facebook?
« Reply #280 on: 10 November, 2013, 06:48:40 pm »
I do wonder how many accounts on there are completely fake; a trawl of the profile pictures for stock images might be illuminating for them  :)

The men's profiles look considerably more fake than the ladies'.
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spesh

Re: Are you on Facebook?
« Reply #281 on: 11 November, 2013, 02:54:58 pm »
Quote from: rogerzilla on 10 November, 2013, 06:48:40 pm
I do wonder how many accounts on there are completely fake; a trawl of the profile pictures for stock images might be illuminating for them  :)

The men's profiles look considerably more fake than the ladies'.

Methinks it's an anti-Graph Search countermeasure.  :demon:
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Are you on Facebook?
« Reply #282 on: 15 November, 2013, 06:05:34 pm »
Was this the thread which had stuff about Facebook refusing to remove pages approving of rape and stuff? Or was that in POBI? Either way, I've just read that they have blocked a page called "Burn, rainbow, burn" run by National Rebirth, a far-right group in Poland, on grounds of spreading hate against gays.
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rogerzilla

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Re: Are you on Facebook?
« Reply #283 on: 18 November, 2013, 09:12:47 pm »
They're very inconsistent in their attitude to rape, beheadings or homophobia, it seems, and the policy changes almost weekly.

Apparently there is paedopr0n on FB if you know where to look, although this could just be an urban legend (I read it in one of those HYS bottom-half-of-the-Internet discussions).
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clarion

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Re: Are you on Facebook?
« Reply #284 on: 18 November, 2013, 10:24:25 pm »
Banning search terms doesn't help.  They could use codewords - rainbow unicorn or narwhal spang for instance.
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Re: Are you on Facebook?
« Reply #285 on: 23 November, 2013, 09:01:47 am »
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Get Important News
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[I figured you could all live without the pictures.]


Yeah. OK. Thanks for that Important News tipoff ...  ::-)
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hellymedic

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Re: Are you on Facebook?
« Reply #286 on: 03 December, 2013, 03:38:58 pm »
Great uncle is now 16 days from his centenary.
My Mum took him up the Shard today.
A video has appeared on Facebook.
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rogerzilla

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Re: Are you on Facebook?
« Reply #287 on: 03 December, 2013, 04:03:15 pm »
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/sex-survey-study-finds-brits-2851643

More to the point, women would rather gossip on FB than have sex.
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CrinklyLion

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Re: Are you on Facebook?
« Reply #288 on: 03 December, 2013, 04:34:10 pm »
Be a sweetie would you Roger old chap, and fuck right off?
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rogerzilla

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Re: Are you on Facebook?
« Reply #289 on: 03 December, 2013, 04:51:30 pm »
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Kim

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Re: Are you on Facebook?
« Reply #290 on: 03 December, 2013, 05:14:16 pm »
If it's in the Mail it must be true.   ::-)
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CrinklyLion

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Re: Are you on Facebook?
« Reply #291 on: 03 December, 2013, 05:16:16 pm »
A DM link to a survey in Cosmo, no less. 

But it's OK.  It's probably banter.
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Kim

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Re: Are you on Facebook?
« Reply #292 on: 03 December, 2013, 05:23:00 pm »
Yeah, Dibs was always more rigorous in his research methodology...


(The Mail has made a profitable business out of gratuitous clickbait, but how does Cosmo still exist?)
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hellymedic

  • Just do it!
Re: Are you on Facebook?
« Reply #293 on: 19 December, 2013, 12:14:27 am »
I have wished Great Uncle Happy Birthday on Facebook.

It might be cheesy but it's still special. I am still amazed how the technology has allowed us to share so much so easily.

Shame the knobs abuse it.
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bobb

Re: Are you on Facebook?
« Reply #294 on: 19 December, 2013, 06:07:36 pm »
Facebook is b0rked for me today. Anyone else?
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phantasmagoriana

Re: Are you on Facebook?
« Reply #295 on: 19 December, 2013, 06:13:39 pm »
Working fine for me.
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bobb

Re: Are you on Facebook?
« Reply #296 on: 19 December, 2013, 06:28:15 pm »
How strange. I logged myself out via an app I'd authenticated with FB, then logged back in and all is fine. As you were...
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hellymedic

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Re: Are you on Facebook?
« Reply #297 on: 19 December, 2013, 11:21:17 pm »
Quote from: bobb on 19 December, 2013, 06:07:36 pm
Facebook is b0rked for me today. Anyone else?

Facebook was very slow at times for me today; I thought this was due to overload by those sharing in great-uncle's centenary celebrations  :) ;D
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Re: Are you on Facebook?
« Reply #298 on: 30 December, 2013, 06:28:05 pm »
allofasudden I am getting "suggested" friends requests. Wossat all about?

It smacks of more automated shenanigans to me, but who knows? :shrugs:
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Are you on Facebook?
« Reply #299 on: 30 December, 2013, 09:01:02 pm »
Quote from: hellymedic on 19 December, 2013, 12:14:27 am
I have wished Great Uncle Happy Birthday on Facebook.

It might be cheesy but it's still special. I am still amazed how the technology has allowed us to share so much so easily.

Shame the knobs abuse it.
It's only special cos you're an old fuddy duddy.
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