Comments on: Friend requests and other dilemmas

By: nishant

nishant — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 09:45:13 +0000

how can i actuly know without searching that a friend has been deleted me from his/her account……pls tell me this

By: Zohra

Zohra — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 03:35:21 +0000

I think baying sheep especially need company. I still think you’re pretty !!

By: Rohan

Rohan — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 00:04:48 +0000

Hey dude (I’m assuming!),

I completely agree. The best filter in this case are in your mind. Anyway, check out a hilarious letter on the Orkut ‘fraands’ here: http://daily-humor.blogspot.com/2007/12/fraandships-on-orkut-netsite.html.

By: 00rush

00rush — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:55:46 +0000

The hardest thing I find about facebook is 'Friend Segregation'. I know its been big in the US for a while, but I think it really hit tipping point here in the UK this summer. Now things are Facebook crazy!! You can't even walk into a pub without over hearing something that involves 'blah de blah.. on Facebook.. blah '. The worst thing about Facebook is how do you segregate your friends. My manager at work has been ranting about Facebook, but do I really want her to see compromising photos of me? Not that there would be any 'cause i am a good Indian boy, but one must be prudent in life.

She asks me 'Are you on Facebook?', and I just say 'Yes', and back out of the room slowly.

Oh, the dilemmas of social networking..

By: Salil Maniktahla

Salil Maniktahla — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 19:58:52 +0000

I just switched tabs from Facebook to see what was going on here. After spending 30 minutes on Facebook, coming back to Sepia Mutiny looks like this:

blah blah blah blah A N N A blah blah blah Abhi blah blah blah trolls blah blah razib Ennis blah blah blah blah blah statistically-speaking blah blah brown politician good blah blah brown politician bad blah blah term "brown" is offensive blah no it's not blah blah

I never noticed how many WORDS Sepia Mutiny has. Man! Too static for the newfound sense of freedom and...and...webby dynamicism that Facebook has given me. Or maybe it's just ADHD. I would try and figure it out, but that would take like, effort and stuff.

So whatever.

See you on the other (funner!) side of the Internet, where the trolls type in all caps, you can throw sheep at people, and drunk-dial without hangovers.

(Oh, there is a downside: it's a lot harder to stalk on Facebook. Boo!)

By: DTK

DTK — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:17:09 +0000

57 — Hey Nizam of Sarakki, what’s with the handle? Are you from JP Nagar in Bangalore by any chance?

By: sic semper tyrannis

sic semper tyrannis — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:38:03 +0000

Abhi, "how will people know that Iâ€™m not a sheep?"

Are you implying people should be aware that you are, instead, many sheep?

Facebook is a fad, it's only popular now because the company is in its pre-IPO infancy. Once shareholders are controlling your virtual world, expect to see either: (A) "tiered" service like everywhere else, Free, Silver, Gold, Platinum, whatever. And expect the features to all gradually migrate upward until Free becomes window shopping: "can create a profile, and view others', but cannot communicate". -or- (B) non-interruptible periodic advertisements that occupy fullscreen for 15 seconds.

Take your pick

By: Nizam of Sarakki

Nizam of Sarakki — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 12:38:39 +0000

I don't know if I'm missing the joke here:

At this point I face a Hobbesian choice: either evolve or perish.

But a Hobbesian choice pertains to Thomas Hobbes, and most classically would be: subject yourself commonly to a single authority and definer-of-terms or perish in anarchy.

Who you link to is Thomas Hobson, which must be what, Hobsonian?

By: dravidian lurker

dravidian lurker — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 09:50:52 +0000

Name: All this new Facebook Shit is Fucking Ridiculous

thanks, anna i cannot decide if this new group is officially the beginning of the end of irony, or just a sublime manifestation of it.

By: A N N A

A N N A — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 07:02:49 +0000

Here you go Dravidian Lurker:

Name: All this new Facebook Shit is Fucking Ridiculous Info:

im so tired of all these new applications:

"movie" friend requests-??? do i need to download all this shit just so that i can say, "hey i want to watch this movie everybody!!!", or "i really like it!!" go fuck yourselves