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[washingcattle]

There's only about two girls here though...

Yeah, Problem ?

 

[Psycho Punk]

Yeah, Problem ?

Yeah, I only joined thumped because I was told it was a good place to pick up girls.

 

[jonah]

How's that working out for you?

 

[Psycho Punk]

How's that working out for you?

So far only Theo in drag.

 

[pete]

Facebook have a new "bang with friends" app, which is pretty hilarious.

upgraded already

http://mashable.com/2013/02/01/bang-with-friends-same-sex/

 

[shower another shower]

Winding it down. 429 friends to 219 in 2 weeks. Prolly be down to less than 100 shortly. Family and friends that I know and would interact with outside facebook normally.

 

[shower another shower]

And once it's down to about a hundred, email.

 

[shower another shower]

In fact, the internet is getting a bit tired. Telepathy is the way forward.

 

[ann post]

And once it's down to about a hundred, email.

YEAH I NOTICED YOU UNFREINDED ME.

but its grand, in the rare event you/i'd actually need to drop an email, you can still do it with people who arnt on yer friends list.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

Winding it down. 429 friends to 219 in 2 weeks. Prolly be down to less than 100 shortly. Family and friends that I know and would interact with outside facebook normally.

Less is more.
I got rid of the app on my phone a couple of weeks back,get on every couple of days now,I doubt I've missed anything life changing.

 

[shower another shower]

caught hell from my mother for unfriending, what I thought, was an inactive cousin. Now she's afraid I'll unfriend her.

 

[therealjohnny]

I had a guy expressing his disappointment with me for deleting him..after he'd posted tirades threatening to beat up my mate

facebook does strange things to people

 

[shower another shower]

who the hell beats someone up!?

 

[ann post]

kids, from cork, apparently.

 

[therealjohnny]

saw that earlier..nasty stuff, reminded me of my own school days


shudder

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

Facebook acting the bollix for anyone else?
Been trying to send a message with pictures attached all afternoon,sent the text on its own with no problems but the pics just won't work. Despair.

 

[Jill Hives]

Been that way for weeks now. Sending images in messages anyway.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

Really?Not good,wonder how I'll get around this.
Thanks.

 

[pete]

 

[pete]

This morning Gawker posted surveillance video of a terrible mugging that took place not far from my home in Brooklyn. The video (don’t watch it, it’s not important here) clearly showed the victim going down the stairs and then the attacker coming up behind her wearing a hoodie emblazoned with the Alpha Phi Delta insignia, the nickname “Stugotz” (Italian slang for “dick”) and the number 27. There were a few more clues as to the mugger’s identity, but those were the major ones. The woman sustained minor injuries, according to Gawker, but the attack was particularly jarring and disgusting.

Minutes after the Gawker post hit, a reader found this Facebook page. It was all there: the hoodie, the logo, a set of keys, a purple bracelet, and the thief’s yutzy mug preening from a set of clear Facebook photos that could have come right from the “how not to be a frat boy who mugs people” playbook. Today Stugotz, aka Aidan Folan, 21, was taken into custody in Brooklyn.

Internet vigilantism isn’t new, and this isn’t what I’m on about here. This is about the dangers of exposing yourself too much in one way - in the case of the PyCon debacle two weeks ago or this dark other way. Is it right and good that Folan should be called out and caught for his misdeeds? Absolutely. But taken to the other extreme, these same tools can be – and are – used against the innocent.

It’s easy to write a jeremiad against oversharing in the social era. It’s been done before and will be done again. However, as we watch fools and villains hoisted on their own petards again and again, why can’t we learn something? Why can’t we treat Facebook like a mini social club where our relationships are splayed flat and squirming in other people’s browsers. Or, more important, why do we?

http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/03/the-idiocy-of-the-social-animal/