Option 1, FTW! Do I know you? Do I like you? Facebook purgatory it is!

How hard is Option 1 anyways?

bravian: How hard is Option 1 anyways?

When they actually notice that you haven't accepted yet.

/not a cool story, bro.
//Restricted lists make it much easier to do #2

Um... ignore them?

*clicks link*

Wow, thanks CNN. Once again on the cutting edge of technology.

I just tell them why I don't want them on my list.
"Sorry, my friends can be very crude and I know you don't like that sort of thing."
"Sorry, my girlfriend might get a bit defensive if exs start popping up"
"Who are you?"
If they reply with a convincing enough reason to let them on I allow if not at least they know why.

Pants full of macaroni!!: /srsly, f**k facebook and all it stands for

Well, what does it stand for? I'm guessing you think it's something other than 'sharing with friends'.

gregfark: Pants full of macaroni!!: /srsly, f**k facebook and all it stands for

Well, what does it stand for? I'm guessing you think it's something other than 'sharing with friends'.

It stands for "handing over all your personal info to corporations"

BurnShrike: gregfark: Pants full of macaroni!!: /srsly, f**k facebook and all it stands for

Well, what does it stand for? I'm guessing you think it's something other than 'sharing with friends'.

It stands for "handing over all your personal info to corporations"

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You mean I need to give facebook all my personal info to use it? Why hasn't this been in the news? They should make it voluntary, so you only put things on there if you want to.

gregfark: BurnShrike: gregfark: Pants full of macaroni!!: /srsly, f**k facebook and all it stands for

Well, what does it stand for? I'm guessing you think it's something other than 'sharing with friends'.

It stands for "handing over all your personal info to corporations"

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You mean I need to give facebook all my personal info to use it? Why hasn't this been in the news? They should make it voluntary, so you only put things on there if you want to.

I believe the contention is that, by using it at all, you are giving them valuable mining data about you, your habbits, etc. And it may not be limited to things you put on/in, since people can easily tag you into photos/places, etc.

kroonermanblack: gregfark: BurnShrike: gregfark: Pants full of macaroni!!: /srsly, f**k facebook and all it stands for

Well, what does it stand for? I'm guessing you think it's something other than 'sharing with friends'.

It stands for "handing over all your personal info to corporations"

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You mean I need to give facebook all my personal info to use it? Why hasn't this been in the news? They should make it voluntary, so you only put things on there if you want to.

I believe the contention is that, by using it at all, you are giving them valuable mining data about you, your habbits, etc. And it may not be limited to things you put on/in, since people can easily tag you into photos/places, etc.

Sounds like a reasonable expectation. Still, one should be wary of just how much one shares on the web, where nothing is "private". I hope if facebook finds a way to profit from sarcastic comments and pictures of food and pets, they let me know what it is.

Pants full of macaroni!!: Refusal to use Facebook conspicuously missing

Looks like I'm ahead of the curve for once!

/srsly, f**k facebook and all it stands for

THIS. In spades. And buckets. And dump trucks. And oil tankers. And other containers used for carrying massive quantities of goods.

I just made my wife add my name to her account. It's kinda awesome, if someone needs to get in touch, they can through her and I avoid all the inane postings of whatever people talk about on there. That's what fark is for.

Fuque facebook.

My mom keeps bugging me to add her. I don't want to not because I have boozy pictures or anything. I quote alot of internet memes and she wouldn't get any of them. Plus she'd complain about every status I wrote and how employers are going to see that. I told her that if she was friends with me, all of her friends would see my stuff. She knows I'm an Atheist but her friends don't and that would be another thing she'd tell me to take off.

Remember Michelle Harris, who got busted for (I think) DUI in Arizona and had the grinning thumbs-up mug shot? She accepted the Friend request I sent after some Farker tracked her down.

I'm one of over 800. I wonder how many requests came after that news article?

By the way, nobody's wanted to be my Friend in over a year. That's still better than real life though.

I don't get it -- didn't everyone figure out that Facebook is essentially public, with the exception that privacy controls keep out individuals who don't know you and prevent the companies who buy your information from publishing it in a way that can be linked to you?

I'm Facebook friends with people I don't give a shiat about as well as people I actively dislike. I don't send friend requests to people like that, but I do accept them if I have any professional or social connection that requires me to maintain civil relations with them. There's no sense resisting. Besides, my Facebook friends I do like are diverse enough (family members, coworkers, extremely religious but nice girl that I dated once) that I keep it pretty tame on Facebook. I always assumed there was some other social forum where young people let it all hang out. Facebook is not the place for private thoughts, sensitive information, or among-(real) friends-only behavior.

If some hot chick says she knows you, but you can't recall who she is? Check her friends list. If it's entirely made up of guys, it's bullshiat.

FrankTheYank:
I'm Facebook friends with people I don't give a shiat about as well as people I actively dislike. I don't send friend requests to people like that, but I do accept them if I have any professional or social connection that requires me to maintain civil relations with them. There's no sense resisting.

Completely disagree. Im VERY choosy about who I add to mine. Actual friends and liked family only. Privacy set to max.

If I dont like you in person (at work, etc) then I really dont need to see or hear (read) from you on my personal time.

gregfark: kroonermanblack: gregfark: BurnShrike: gregfark: Pants full of macaroni!!: /srsly, f**k facebook and all it stands for

Well, what does it stand for? I'm guessing you think it's something other than 'sharing with friends'.

It stands for "handing over all your personal info to corporations"

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You mean I need to give facebook all my personal info to use it? Why hasn't this been in the news? They should make it voluntary, so you only put things on there if you want to.

I believe the contention is that, by using it at all, you are giving them valuable mining data about you, your habbits, etc. And it may not be limited to things you put on/in, since people can easily tag you into photos/places, etc.

Sounds like a reasonable expectation. Still, one should be wary of just how much one shares on the web, where nothing is "private". I hope if facebook finds a way to profit from sarcastic comments and pictures of food and pets, they let me know what it is.

Considering the company is worth over a billion dollars atm, I think they have. Mostly from people like you.

Guidette Frankentits: My mom keeps bugging me to add her. I don't want to not because I have boozy pictures or anything. I quote alot of internet memes and she wouldn't get any of them. Plus she'd complain about every status I wrote and how employers are going to see that. I told her that if she was friends with me, all of her friends would see my stuff. She knows I'm an Atheist but her friends don't and that would be another thing she'd tell me to take off.

Modify your privacy settings accordingly using lists. Friends (people I hang out with) can see everything, family can see less, and professional (people I work with) can see almost nothing that I don't explicitly allow.

Facebook is rather flexible in that regard.

BurnShrike: gregfark: Pants full of macaroni!!: /srsly, f**k facebook and all it stands for

Well, what does it stand for? I'm guessing you think it's something other than 'sharing with friends'.

It stands for "handing over all your personal info to corporations"

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If you're an idiot.

Don't post personal information that you don't want corporations to have on the internet, it's a very public forum.

/don't blame the thief for stealing your bank information after you've spraypainted it all over town.

Facebook keeps 'recommending' my niece's high school friends. It's kinda creepy.

Creepier: when her friends send me a friend request. They sit in limbo, and I fear for the day I may accidentally accept them. I do *NOT* want to be known as the Creepy Old Uncle.

Sure, I might actually *BE* a creepy old dude - but I don't want anyone to actually *KNOW* that.

ItsJustJake: Creepier: when her friends send me a friend request. They sit in limbo, and I fear for the day I may accidentally accept them. I do *NOT* want to be known as the Creepy Old Uncle.

Hit ignore, and check that you don't know them on the resulting popup. There's no notification from the other side that you did this, and after you put that mark in, they won't be able to readd you.