1 Heh, and I'm sharing this story on Facebook.

2 No fair, I was going to share on my FB account!

3 You know what this means, right?

Democrats will gain 25 seats in November.

4 Old: Facebook

New: Assbook*




_{^{*Just made that up.}}

5

I've had one since college. I am debating whether or not to delete it. I am told they are selling personal information. And it is becoming a haven for identity theft.  I've gotten maybe 20 friend request from people who clearly aren't actually the person they claim to be. They are just fishing for information. I mean where else can you get someones address and birthdate so easily?

 

The only reason i still have my account is because i put up photos of my dog for my sister to see. 

 

 

6 Its up to #5....

LOL

7

The only thing Facebook is good for:

Looking up the profiles of hawt Hooters' waitresses when you get home.

8 I have over 200 friends on FB (from 20 years in the Marine "Corpse", not due to my scintillating personality), and they've finally stopped giving me shit for never logging on.  It only took two years. 

9 Jeff Goldblum is still watching me poop?

10 New: Assbook*

Already there.

11 I wouldn't touch Facebook/MySpace type sites with a cattle prod.  Too much real world risk for an non-existent/ephemeral reward.

12

I'm apparently one of the few holdouts my age who hasn't taken a sip of the FB Kool-Aid.  I have no regrets.  My wife uses it, she's always getting "friended" by people she doesn't even like. 

 

13
o/t:

Democrats are in control, so shouldn't they be the ones to select certain government cuts?  Or are Democrats just hype and bullshit? (and false promises)

YouCut The Federal Budget.

Your choices?

Eliminate the Presidential Election Fund, a federal program that provides matching funds to political candidates during Presidential primaries, certain third-party candidates, and funds for political conventions. In the 2008 Presidential election the candidates raised over $1.3 billion from individuals and PACs; do they really need to supplement that with taxpayer money?Prohibiting taxpayer-subsidized union activities by prohibiting federal employees from being paid by the government for performing union functions.  Currently some federal employees spend up to 100% of their workweek, paid by taxpayers, doing work for their union. Federal employees unions collect millions in revenue each year and spend significant amounts on political activities and lobbying; should they also be subsidized by the taxpayer for their official functions?
etc...

14

#4

Damn, just as I was about to google it.

15
2. Prohibiting taxpayer-subsidized union activities by prohibiting federal employees from being paid by the government for performing union functions.  Currently some federal employees spend up to 100% of their workweek, paid by taxpayers, doing work for their union. Federal employees unions collect millions in revenue each year and spend significant amounts on political activities and lobbying; should they also be subsidized by the taxpayer for their official functions?

16
Facebook - a reminder of why you lost track of all those people from high school.

17
Wondered how long it would take all the idiots who put their whole lives online to figure this one out.   Identity theft, no shit?  Duurrrrr.

18 I had one long ago for about a week...but being a adult male, it felt really, really creepy. Deleted it long ago.

19 Never did one. I also don't have a cell phone. And this PC is coal-fired.

20

"...she's always getting "friended" by people she doesn't even like. "

What's with that?? 

I've had probably 6 people whom I've considered total douchebags and who I'm fairly sure were aware of my feelings toward them try to friend me on there.  Time never seems to cure douchebaggery in my experience.

It's sort of like people who want to go to their 5 year high school reunion.  Why?  Most of those people still got on my nerves at that point.

21 I just reactivated my FB account after a long hiatus - don't ask why. 

22

South Park dealt with Facebook in the episode "You have zero friends" quite well with a nice homage to the movie Tron.

Anyway, I have to say that I've mixed feelings about it.  It's helped me locate and chat with people I haven't seen in 15 years.  However it can also divert time away from more worthwhile activities, and can seriously compromise your privacy.  (I won't even get into the whole issue of drinking and Facebooking)

I think Facebook's problems are the internet's problems.  It draws time and the attention of society away from natural and real human interaction.

 

 

 

23 If you type in "Obama" on Google, the third suggestion that comes up is "Obama Jokes."

I take this as a positive sign.

24

I'm apparently one of the few holdouts my age who hasn't taken a sip of the FB Kool-Aid.  I have no regrets.  My wife uses it, she's always getting "friended" by people she doesn't even like. 

I've refused to get one either. However, my decision was easy because although I get emails etc begging me to get on or "link in", I don't really like anyone very much and I have ZERO interest in keeping up with their random postings. There are thousands of people that would find me and bother me and my goal everyday is not to be bothered. My husband, children, mother, and sister bother me enough.

25

"I just reactivated my FB account after a long hiatus - don't ask why."

I got 5 bucks that says it's chick-related. 

26
Posted by: Lemon Kitten at May 13, 2010 10:14 AM (0fzsA)
I voted to eliminate the 2.6 billion CDBG. Had to give an e-mail address to vote. A vote every week to cut the budget? Winner. Go Cantor!

27

23 If you type in "Obama" on Google, the third suggestion that comes up is "Obama Jokes."

How can that be?  He's such an esteemed statesman that I cannot even conceive of people making fun of him.

28 Is Facebooking anything related to teabagging?
NTTIAWWT

I am asking purely as a researcher.

29 Yea, I had one for awhile. It's cool getting back in touch with people. However, when they have those games where you grow, cook or fight Mafia is a waste of time.

Rather spend my evenings adapting Jimi Hendrix songs to mandolin.

30 #25  I got 5 bucks that says it's chick-related.

You don't know me very well, .  Actually it's more to keep taps on a way-ward family member.  Some people are so stupid that they'll post their wrong-doings on FB.

31

http://tinyurl.com/2bb77nj.

National Geographic Border Wars section.  Hmmmm, goodish sign?

32 "Deanna Zandt has spent the last three years explaining to people why they should join Facebook and the last week wrestling with the urge to delete her own account." Intellectual overconfidence and arrognce summed up in one sentence.

33

Haters gonna hate...

FB is great for staying in touch with old friends.  FB is not great for storing certain personal information.  They need to tighten up their act with regard to ID theft and communicating policy changes to the user base.  In the meantime, AoS gets some hits from articles I share there.

34

A group I was working with wanted to do some marketing through Facebook so I had to get one...was holding out.  Anyway, I didn't put my real name in there. 

Anybody playing Zombie Wars?

35 "Intellectual overconfidence and arrognce summed up in one sentence." Poor typing and proofreading summed up in one sentence.

36 I have a love/hate with FB.  It started out pretty dorky to me, even though I had been "found" by high school friends from 30 years ago.  That was pretty cool.  Several family members are now on & it's nice to see pics of everyone, etc.  I hate the stupid "what I'm eating for breakfast" status updates, however.  But the one reason I do log on is because it has enabled me to get connected with a LOT of like-minded political "friends," including several conservative politicians and radio hosts.  Many are very prolific posters and are almost like mini blogs in and of themselves.  It's probably 80% of what I do on FB.  I don't put personal info on mine. 

37 I used it for political info purposes only--and to look at the avatars of certain hot women I want to date.

38 17
Wondered how long it would take all the idiots who put their whole lives online to figure this one out.   Identity theft, no shit?  Duurrrrr.
  So that's why girls I've never met with superhot profile pictures send me friends requests!  

39 Is it possible to delete a Facebook account? I've only managed to deactivate mine. I didn't see an option for deleting. Someone, please let me know if deletion is possible. Thanks.

40 Anyway, I didn't put my real name in there.

You'd need a full body Hazmat suit and be shunted through a dozen anon proxies to touch that shit safely.

41 O/T Obama wants to raise taxes on all fuel companies to put into a disaster relief fund.

42 You have a friend request from Natasha

43

My family is now joining facebook. Sigh.

That's just waaaay too much together time for me.

I have an Aunt that talks to my Mom about six times a day. I don't need her sharing every detail of my life. (Then again, I don't need to be sharing every detail of my life--which I don't). But every now and again someone will put something on my wall that I just don't need family members knowing about.  

I've really stripped it down to people I talk to and/or like.

44 There are thousands of people that would find me and bother me and my goal everyday is not to be bothered.

Eh.  The only people who ever post or comment on mine, now that I purged the evangelical Obamatrons, are the people who managed to stay in touch before, and the occasional conservative blogger or AoS moron.  The rest just wanted to verify that I'm still a complete failure at life, then snickered and moved on.

OTOH, yesterday the daughter of one of my parents' friends from college found me and asked me to please relay her contact info because she had to talk to them about her mom, who is in hospice.  That's kinda cool...my mother was all "Oh, I was just thinking about her!"

45

Most of my FB friends actually came from joining the AoSHQ group from last year.  And as noted above, there are a lot of conservative causes going in there. 

Just don't use your real name or put address/personal info in there.  If you have put it in there and can't delete the account, you can at least change your name to an alias and change your address to a dummy...that would be just as good.  Of course, it'll make you hard to find by your high school buddies but that's a feature, not a bug

46 See!  See!  I was right to loathe Facebook and I'm not just an enormous bitch old crank.

My big problem with Facebook is the "privacy" issues.  Yes, the scare quotes are there for a reason.  People think that their Facebooks are far more private than they really are.  Then there's the fact that Facebook keeps changing the default privacy settings without clear explanation and yeah.  I know someone who had a stalker hunt him down through Facebook because he was careful not to put up private stuff but his family members weren't.  So, yeah, not a fan. 

In conclusion, see re:  lawn, the getting off of. 

47 That Google search result is probably due to the popularity of the site. They also don't have an obvious way of deleting an account the user can do themselves.

48 Facebook parody on the Brit-comedy The IT Crowd.

49 Backlash?  but but but I just got to level 19 in Farmville.

50 I've had one since college. Posted by: Ben at May 13, 2010 10:11 AM (wuv1c) I don't know what to say about that.

51 23 If you type in "Obama" on Google, the third suggestion that comes up is "Obama Jokes."

I take this as a positive sign.

Posted by: Winston Smith at May 13, 2010 10:21 AM

 

Type in "Obama is a"

52 you gotta jump thru flaming hoops to "delete" your account. simple to de-activate it, but you gotta dig around their "help" section to find out how to delete all the information you input into the site.

53 HOW TO DELETE (short version)

Go here:
http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account

Click "Submit" and follow the instructions.

Hopefully this is it

54 Actually, the timing makes perfect sense.  We are coming up on college graduation time, and all of those kids who thought it was great to post drunk party pics on their account are finding out that potential employers look there, too. Too late, suckas!

55

"You don't know me very well, .  Actually it's more to keep taps on a way-ward family member.  Some people are so stupid that they'll post their wrong-doings on FB."

Nah, I know you have a righteous fear for your soul around women, that's why I thought you wanted to keep your reasons private.

It amazes me though what people will post about themselves on FB or MySpace.  Sort of like that guy that knocked the Arab dude out and pissed on him in the gutter.  That's one helluva friend that captures it on video for ya. 

Ahhh memories...and exhibit A.

56 How to Permanently Delete Your Facebook Account:

http://tinyurl.com/2pkf9u

57 FB is not great for storing certain personal information.

Reporter: "Your challenger claims to have unearthed an old archival Facebook account of yours Mr. Smith and claims it has a picture of you fellating a very eager donkey.  Do you think this revelation will impact fundraising for your Senate race this year?"

58

Type in "Obama is a"

 

Awesome

59 Reporter: "Your challenger claims to have unearthed an old archival Facebook account of yours Mr. Smith and claims it has a picture of you fellating a very eager donkey.  Do you think this revelation will impact fundraising for your Senate race this year?"

Voters:  "Hey, that's kinda hot.  I think I'll vote for her."

60

I know someone who had a stalker hunt him down through Facebook because he was careful not to put up private stuff but his family members weren't. 

 

Sounds like those family members need a little "crab revenge".

61 34 "Deanna Zandt has spent the last three years explaining to people why they should join Facebook and the last week wrestling with the urge to delete her own account."

Intellectual overconfidence and arrognce summed up in one sentence.

If there's anything sillier than being a FB evangelist, it's giving your story to the NYT.
Or being a twat that twits on twitter.

62 I opened a fake account years ago to read my son's accounts.  That was the end of their accounts.  Kids post shit that will bite them in the ass later in life, and they have no clue that the shit DOESN'T disappear, EVEN if they delete it.

If you have kids, demand access to their accounts and purge the account of ANYTHING off color.

My sister, who is over 50 has an account.  It seems some women think they are still in HS.  The silly photos of cats and kids are NOT cute.  They are STUPID.

63 Listening to Beck. It's armageddon again. Now moving on to Michelle Obama--ouch--what's the difference?

64 Type in "Obama is a"

All of those apply. But "failure" is most fitting.

65 The silly photos of cats and kids are NOT cute.  They are STUPID.

Bite your tongue.  My cats are adorable.

66 23

19) Lincoln and Obama were both the first President with a beard.Tip o'the hat to Joe 6-pack

67 My cats are adorable.

They're not your cats, you're their human.

68 #66  Bite your tongue.  My cats are adorable.

That's what all the cat-ladies say.

69 Bah, 3/4 of the people deleting FB accounts are deleting it because of one specific piece of personal information they regret... and then immediately starting a new FB profile.

70 #66

Bite your tongue.  My cats are adorable.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at May 13, 2010 10:54 AM (mR7mk)

They're real tasty too if you marinate them, er give them a bath in Worcester sauce and A-1.  Cover in bowel, with two sticks of butter, bake at 350 for two hours.  Skin before eating.

Goes well with Valu rite and tonic.

71 It's at Number 1 now.

72

69 #66  Bite your tongue.  My cats are adorable.

Ugh

73 Kemp, what size knife do you find best for skinning? I'm always left with hairs in the meat? Makes me gag.

74 Hey Purple - how do you miss Number 2 on the list: "how do i get a passport" What backlash does that represent?

75 Mr Miyagi say:
"Best facebook Delete, no be there in first place."

76 I have honestly NEVER gotten then attraction to Facebook.

They should change its name to "EverybodyKnowsMyBusiness.com".  I mean, it is just so easy to get busted by people that hate you, x-girlfriends, etc.  Have never understood why people want the world to know every time they fart.

77

#5 "The only reason i still have my account is because i put up photos of my dog for my sister to see."

Have you ever tried Flickr?

78 #74

A small paring knife is best, but skin under cold water to remove the hairs.  It's easiest just to breast them and throw away the tiny legs.  The tail tastes like shit, so to speak, so I always give it to the hobos.

79

I set up a FB account finally a few months ago.  I immediately started getting "friended" by folks I'd never heard of, which wierded me out.  Including some attractive you ladies half my age, which wierded my wife out.  I've never logged back onto my account. 

I don't get it.

80

#5 "The only reason i still have my account is because i put up photos of my dog for my sister to see."

Have you ever tried Flickr?

 

What ever happened to good old email?

 

81

"It's at Number 1 now."

 

Apparently AoSHQ has some power to influence the internet. 

We must consider these implications...

82 Never had an FB account.  But I do appreciate the use of color, bold and _font in the posts.  It gives it a certain je ne sais quoi.

83 79 Some of them are fairly lean. Do you think they will make Michelle's list of things we are allowed to eat?

84 I view FB as nothing but an short RSS feed. I only "friend" people I want to hear from, never send or reTweet, and have no followers - and the account is anonymous, based on made up shit.

85

Type in "Obama is a"

Posted by: TC at May 13, 2010 10:42 AM (DYJjQ)

I thought you were joking, but that was almost uplifting. Clearly a whole lot of skeptical searching going on.
No wonder the POS wants control of the intertubes.

86 I have a yahoo email address.  Recently I've had people try to "connect" with me using Yahoo messenger (which I didn't even know I had).  And I recently found out I have my own "blog" type page that lists every comment I make on Yahoo, every time I type a Yahoo answer, when I form a Yahoo fantasy sports team, etc...  I didn't know all this crap was recorded, it pisses me off.

87 What ever happened to good old email?

Do you enjoy getting 10MB emails of pictures of "kids eating breakfast" as part of a distribution list of 75-100 people?

88 #84

Only the free range feral ones!

89 Would rather spend my time on Ace-Book.

90

Do you enjoy getting 10MB emails of pictures of "kids eating breakfast" as part of a distribution list of 75-100 people?

The original poster just said something about sending pictures to 1 person.  I don't see why photos 1 or 2 people want to share need to be posted all over teh internets.  But that's just me.

91 "Cover in bowel"

Wouldn't that be uncomfortable?

92 Lone Wanderer - knowledge please?

93

Only the free range feral ones!

Ok. Because they aren't as "adorable". The domestic ones have all that fatty meat.

94

have no followers - and the account is anonymous, based on made up shit.

Welcome back to MSNBC...

95 I thought having a cat ranch was only legal in Nevada.

96 Some people are so stupid that they'll post their wrong-doings on FB.

Which brings me to my day yesterday where I got thrown to the lions at work to go explain to our 20 yo client that, yes, all those pictures of her drinking, doing drugs and making out with random people were going to be shown in court.  That was a fun conversation.

97 I'm torn on whether or not to get rid of mine. On one hand, I can really annoy a few lefties when I post political stuff.  On the other hand, I HATE Facebook with a white hot fury.

98 /sock begone!

99

#30 Rather spend my evenings adapting Jimi Hendrix songs to mandolin.

How YOU doin?   

100 I thought having a cat ranch was only legal in Nevada.

Posted by: Guy Fawkes at May 13, 2010 11:14 AM (7VvJB)

Certain parts of San Fran & Vancouver, too.

101 It's at Number 1 now.


Gheyz hardest hit.

102 Facebook - a reminder of why you lost track of all those people from high school.

Posted by: Lemon Kitten at May 13, 2010 10:16 AM (0fzsA)

Recently received phone calls from people who I haven't heard from in over 50 years.  Didn't like the assholes then, and don't want to know about their miserable lives now.  Not interested in grand children, facial melanoma, heart attacks, and the inevitable "do you remember so-n-so" nonsense.  They probably voted for Jimmah Cartah and Barack Obama and that's a criminal offense.  Fuck 'um!

103 I don't see why photos 1 or 2 people want to share need to be posted all over teh internets.

I assume you're not a grandmother?  My mother forwards me pictures of other women's grandchildren (from the same address my dad uses to send me stuff I actually want to see *weep*).  Their lives and mine would be easier if they would all get a Flickr or a Facebook. 

104 #100 We had a guy playing banjo sit in with our band and played Little Wing

105

all those pictures of her drinking, doing drugs and making out with random people were going to be shown in court

Good times, good times indeed.

I once had a conversation with a client where I told her that it was not going to be easy for me to whitewash her (current) job at a joint called Spanky's Dollhouse during her custody hearing.

 

106 alexthechick - I bet she said - "but thats my private stuff"

107 I've had people nagging me for years to go on Facebook.

Won't
Do
It

In the end, I simply explain that I have issues and have no inclination to share every moment of my existence with the world, and by the way, I have privacy concerns as well. That pretty much shuts everyone up.

108

 Backlash?  but but but I just got to level 19 in Farmville.

How strangely compelling virtual farming is. I collect crop proficiency signs like merit badges.

Facebook is like anything else--yes, you open yourself up to shits from the past, but you just have to shut them out. As for identity theft risk, that is what Lifelock is for.

109

Recently received phone calls from people who I haven't heard from in over 50 years.  Didn't like the assholes then, and don't want to know about their miserable lives now. 

Whoa--what are you giving your number out for?

110 Hooray for banjos, too!  I tried to learn to play mandolin, but I just couldn't get it.  Can't make my hands do that, plus they're arthritic, and I grew up playing brass.  Hard to wrap my mind around there being eight different ways to make a G.

111

I once had a conversation with a client where I told her that it was not going to be easy for me to whitewash her (current) job at a joint called Spanky's Dollhouse during her custody hearing.

[Debates whether to Bing "Spanky's Dollhouse" while at work.]

 

112 100

#30 Rather spend my evenings adapting Jimi Hendrix songs to mandolin.

How YOU doin?   

Posted by: Hooray for mandolins at May 13, 2010 11:16 AM (b0THY)

I've adapted Little Wing and Wind Cries Mary. I've borrowed Jim Richter's arrangement of Voodoo Chile (A Slight Return) for a guitar/mandolin cover. Deciding now whether to tackle Axis:Bold As Love.

113

#81 "What ever happened to good old email?"

Fair question... I like Flickr and YouTube to post scans and captures of family photos and old home movies for my siblings. They lead busy lives and appreciate the convenience of seeing that stuff from any web/phone.  If I only used email, they'd end up losing the files and asking em for them again anyway.

114 Hooray for banjos, too! Ditto for me. I've been playing clawhammer-style for years. I love clawhammer banjo. Wade Ward, Tommy Jarrell, and the legendary Doc Watson were all good frailers.

115 You know the economy is bad when home depot is running constant ads about how much food you can grow in your back yard.

116 I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.

117

I am happy to say I've never been on Facebook. Ever.

I am also happy to say that Facebook is the reason the psycho bitch at my job got fired.  

118 Facebook: The divorce lawyer's best friend. You know all that flirty, sexy stuff you post there? When you "delete" it, it isn't really gone. It's archived, and Google will keep a cache for essentially forever. The Internet is forever, folks. If whatever you're doing would embarass you or cause you trouble, then for God's sake don't put it on the Internet.

119 115 Hooray for banjos, too!

Ditto for me. I've been playing clawhammer-style for years. I love clawhammer banjo. Wade Ward, Tommy Jarrell, and the legendary Doc Watson were all good frailers.

Posted by: Monty at May 13, 2010 11:28 AM (4Pleu)

What amazes me is Mr. Earl Scruggs. That gentleman can play a banjo - still.

120 I have a yahoo email address.  Recently I've had people try to "connect" with me using Yahoo messenger (which I didn't even know I had).  And I recently found out I have my own "blog" type page that lists every comment I make on Yahoo, every time I type a Yahoo answer, when I form a Yahoo fantasy sports team, etc...  I didn't know all this crap was recorded, it pisses me off.

This past year Yahoo "updated" their email accounts to facilitate the exposure of personal information.

121 "Obama is a" works very well in Google. When you do it for Joe Biden, though, all you get are synonyms for idiot.

122 It's ok Heather, I like seeing pictures of "Fuzz and Smokey". Everyone else can suck it!

123 Keep playing those banjos you hillbilly pukes. Banjo players are inured to insults, my friend. We hear worse from friends and family all the time. "Q. How long does it take to tune a banjo? A. No one knows." "Q. What's the difference between a banjo and a chainsaw? A. A chainsaw has more dynamic range." "Q. What do you call a guy who hangs out with musicians? A. A banjo player." "You can pick your nose and you can pick your banjo, but you can't wipe your banjo on your pants."

124 [Debates whether to Bing "Spanky's Dollhouse" while at work.]

Adult Entertainment bar.  There was a court case from a guy getting shot to death there from 2006.  It's in Dayton Ohio.

125

I never could understand the allure of FB. My life is fairly dull, just the way I like it. I can't fathom why anyone would be interested in anything I do. Hell, I'm not even that interested in anything I do.

I'd much rather be here amongst the Morons.

126

I read something interesting last night in a history text book. Until 1964, most states had congressional districts divided by land not by population. The rural districts therefore were over represented in congress. The supreme court made them redistrict to one-man-one-vote or by populations. The congressional districts then became more urban.

This may have been the beginning of the end.

127 125 Keep playing those banjos you hillbilly pukes.

Banjo players are inured to insults, my friend. We hear worse from friends and family all the time.

"Q. How long does it take to tune a banjo? A. No one knows."

"Q. What's the difference between a banjo and a chainsaw? A. A chainsaw has more dynamic range."

"Q. What do you call a guy who hangs out with musicians? A. A banjo player."

"You can pick your nose and you can pick your banjo, but you can't wipe your banjo on your pants."

Posted by: Monty at May 13, 2010 11:38 AM (4Pleu)

Banjo play leaves his instrument in his car. Suddenly has a panic attack and runs back to save it from being stolen. Gets back to the car to find the window broken and three more banjos in the back seat.

128

The Internet is forever, folks.

Yeah, but therein lies the problem.

I specifically created my account to monitor the photos I was getting tagged in. I can't tell you how many times people would say, "Oh I just saw you in a pic on so-and-so's FB page doing {God Only Knows}.

I had to find a way to manage that.

Moral of the story: make good choices when you're young. And more importantly--make sure there's no camera around for Christ's sake!

129 The Internet is forever, folks.

The XYZ'ers got a hard lesson to learn there.  Us old fart techies who did battle on the newsgroups 30 years ago knew better up front.

130 Banjo players are inured to insults, my friend. We hear worse from friends and family all the time.

I took 9 years of piano lessons in my youth. The only instrument I have interest in playing is the banjo. Honest to God. I think it's cool.

131 I took 9 years of piano lessons in my youth. The only instrument I have interest in playing is the banjo. Honest to God. I think it's cool.

Wow, sorry to hear that. You must have had a rough time growing up

132 Us old fart techies who did battle on the newsgroups 30 years ago knew better up front. I still run across re-postings of essays I wrote when I was still in college and posted to FIDONet (and thence to USENET). That was more than twenty years back, and it's still out there. Kibo and esr probably have that happen to them all the time too -- they are denizens of the early days of the Internet.

133 All these social networking sites are fucking retarded. Join MY new ANTI-Social networking site.. or not.. fucking anti-social fucks. Facebook is still a piece of shit. Always has been and always will be. Just like my space.. and don't get me started on twitter... the (what it is it, 200 char?) smallest blog ever. Talk about fucking lazy. I can't believe people were duped into thinking twitter was something special.

134

I read something interesting last night in a history text book. Until 1964, most states had congressional districts divided by land not by population. The rural districts therefore were over represented in congress. The supreme court made them redistrict to one-man-one-vote or by populations. The congressional districts then became more urban.

I think you mean Reynolds v. Sims, which made state legislatures entirely by population mob rule and took away the power of counties in a State Senate legislature.

I think US House districts have always been population based and US Senate districts always have been two each, although they were appointed by state legislatures until 1913 (seventeenth amendment). Frankly, I'd like to go back to Senators chosen by state legislature. 

135
Remember the days when people would send "funny" stuff by fax?  I hated those days.

136

No discussion of bajos is complete without mentioning Bela Fleck. Saw him live out at Disney a few years back with the Flecktones. I really went to see Vic Wooten, but they were great.

He pulls out an E-Bow and cracked a joke about banjo players who have problems with sustain.

I was the only one in the audience who laughed.

137 "bajos"? Shit, I haven't even started drinking yet...

138

Facebook is the best way for me to bombard famliy and "friends" with the message that Obama's policies suck.    These fools wouldn't read my blog, and their sources of news suck, so I take what I learn on Ace and shove it down their facebook. 

The soapbox of the 21st century. 

139

I have a Facebook account but I donÂ’t play the games, I barely post updates, and I am careful who I friend. I also try very hard not to refer to my son by name and our photo is blurry on purpose.

 

IÂ’ve found that my friends on Facebook who are fellow technology people are also cautious. Others, not so much. I have one real life friend who is a addicted to Facebook. She has 800 friends because of the games she plays. ItÂ’s rather amazing the information she lets pretty much 800 total strangers know about her life.

 

By the way I feel this post is incomplete without a link to the South Park Facebook episode, one of the best episodes of Facebook ever in the history of ever.

140 #119  The Internet is forever, folks. If whatever you're doing would embarass you or cause you trouble, then for God's sake don't put it on the Internet.

Now you tell me...

/Must purge "cuddling" photos!

141 The only instrument I have interest in playing is the banjo. I love the banjo. It's a wonderful, beautiful instrument. It's got a very different voice than a guitar -- different dynamics, different attack/decay. Too many people assume than banjo = bluegrass, and nothing could be further from the truth. I play mostly old-time and folk stuff (clawhammer style) but I've seen guys do everything from jazz to punk to classical on a banjo. In fact, Norman Blake does a gorgeous classical piece called "Rag Baby Jig" on a cello banjo on his album Far Away, Down On A Georgia Farm that sounds for all the world like something Pachelbel would have done. A gorgeous piece of music.

142 /Must purge "cuddling" with goat photos!

fixed that for you

143 Primus is great on the banjo!

144

Never got into Facebook. But I find Spokeo even creepier. Way creepier. Who wants an unsolicited profile (a possibly inaccurate one at that)? It aggregates info from social sites and "public information," like, what you bought at Amazon or what survey you took recently? Disturbing.  

Ironically, or perhaps not, Spokeo has a Facebook page.

145 #135  Talk about fucking lazy. I can't believe people were duped into thinking twitter was something special.

In Twitter's defense, it was a useful tool in getting the news out about the Iranian crackdown last year.

146 #144  fixed that for you

Better hope you don't have one of these social-networking sites, pj momma, .

147 For years my friends say, why don't you have a FB account?

I have email, hardline, cell line, texting, and every conceivable way of getting a hold of me. I used to use FB as a means of screening out job applicants and tracking down deadbeat dads, arrest warrants, collections, and other ne'er do wells. FB is a background investigators greatest asset. It is a bonanza and a treasure trove of info. Reason enough to never sign up.

148 The old tune "Kitchen Girl" played clawhammer style. Frostymorn is a superb player, both on guitar and banjo. I can play "Kitchen Girl" pretty well, but not as good as this guy does. That banjo is like the ancient voice of God.

149 Here is what you get if you bing Spanky's Dollhouse

http://tinyurl.com/3adms6u

Looks like a nice place to work.

150 I guess those tickling pictures got to go to.

151 OT: The GOP is allegedly going to base targeting of budget cuts to online voting at YouCut. Unfortunately, the choices for which programs to cut are few, and don't go anywhere near most sacred cows.

152

O/T but thought it was good:

If a conservative doesn't like guns, he doesnÂ’t buy one.

If a liberal doesn't like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.

 

If a conservative is a vegetarian, he doesnÂ’t eat meat.

If a liberal is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for everyone.

 

If a conservative is homosexual, he quietly leads his life.

If a liberal is homosexual, he demands legislated respect.

 

If a conservative is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation.

A liberal wonders who is going to take care of him.

 

If a conservative doesn't like a talk show host, he switches channels.

Liberals demand that those they don't like be shut down.

 

If a conservative is a non-believer, he doesn't go to church.  

A liberal non-believer wants any mention of God and religion silenced. 

(Unless it's a foreign religion, of course!)

  

If a conservative decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it, or may choose a job that provides it.

A liberal demands that the rest of us pay for his.  

         

If a conservative reads this, he'll forward it so his friends can have a good laugh.

A liberal will delete it because he's "offended".

 

 

153 Doll House, did someone say Doll House?  A great place to work!

http://tinyurl.com/26hlufl

154 Monty, can you play the guitar riff on this? (There is synth in, just to let you know).

Diablo 2 - Outtake 2 (Wilderness)

155 Never wanted or trusted Classmates, Facebook, email group networking, whatever social networking exposure and resulting susceptibility to general abuse and potential identity fraud. Those internet databanks producing everyone's personal info online have me confused with someone quite different, lol.

Advised my dad to remove his life story from the internet after he completed his biography and his "publisher" took it upon himself to promote by proving that it could be read worldwide. Nothing like feeding off an old man's vanity, failing to warn of possible negative consequences.

Selectivity goes a long way these days.

156 But I find Spokeo even creepier. Way creepier.

And incredibly inaccurate.  Easily 1/2 the information about me and my neighbors was completely bogus.

157 Hey, those sites are a great way to get back in touch with people you've lost track of...

Of course I didn't so much "lose track" of the people in my past as "deliberately lose them".  If I join, either I have a page nobody looks at or I now have to work to lose all the people in my past all over again.

I know there is supposed to be an "up-side" to these things; but I can't see it.

158

If a conservative is homosexual, he quietly leads his life.

If a liberal is homosexual, he demands legislated respect.

PC "Respect" for the liberal meaning more special or better than other people.

159 I caved last year and opened a facebook account so I could keep track of my cousins who live elsewhere.  Kept it as private as possible and made it unsearchable, as far as I can tell.  Don't really post on it much - maybe once every couple months.  Honestly, I'd probably delete it if possible, except for the access it gives me to family happenings.

160 Monty, can you play the guitar riff on this? Probably. It's just an E\A bass riff and arpeggiated chords. I haven't had my Gibbie ES out in a long while, though -- I'm really pretty much an acoustic guy these days. Country-style flatpicking and Travis-picking are my preferred styles.

161 Sometimes I'll post on facebook that we'll be leaving town for the weekend. Then I'll sit in my darkened house with the front door cracked open to encourage intruders.

No takers so far. Pussies.

162 My sister is always constantly posting pictures of herself drunk with her loser ass friends. Why would anyone want to see a picture of some drunk chick puking her guts into a toilet? Oh and one of my sister's friend is on welfare and she is always complaining that she doesn't get enough money. Um, I saw a picture of her with my sister and she was holding a Coach bag. Coach bags usually costs over $300.

163 #147: So you're saying Iranians are stupid too? I concur. They are no different. In fact, nothing stopped them from using other blogging engines that weren't being blocked by Iran's techno-fascists. In fact, there a lot of posts on regular blogs. ... btw, I hate the word blog. It's also retarded. We need a new, stronger word for sites like this. I mean, blogging was the kiddie shit 5 years ago. This is more than blogging. It's more than what facebook is. See, facebook wanted to recapture those old days of when people just pretended like people gave a fuck about them, including their family, as well as feed their ego and narcissistic tendencies by giving them an avenue to bleed on the interwebz and make money off of the worlds biggest fucking live soap opera. Twitter just forces you to be more concise about your soap.. too me, these are useless play things. And hell yes I'm jealous. I actually try to come up with decent ideas that aren't taken and these douche fucks come along with the single most life sucking pieces of software next to World of WarCraft and we wonder why no one gives a shit about what Obama and his looney tune bunch are doing? distracting toys.. nothing more.

164 Better hope you don't have one of these social-networking sites, pj momma

Hah, I already know I can never run for politics or even get a job for that matter. Waaay too scandalous.

165 Sometimes I'll post on facebook that we'll be leaving town for the weekend. Then I'll sit in my darkened house with the front door cracked open to encourage intruders.

No bait posts?

166 Start typing "How do I..." into a Google search...

...and Google will keep a permanent record of your search.

167 Sometimes I'll post on facebook that we'll be leaving town for the weekend. Then I'll sit in my darkened house with the front door cracked open to encourage intruders.

HAHAHA!

168 If you seek an unbiased opinion of Facebook, simply ask Meggy McCain about posting a self portrait and then reading numerous responses about her fat ass.  If  the truth hurts, don't post fat photos, drunk pics, or that adorable snapshot of Lena and Squiggy lying in bed covering their junk with Mickey Mouse hand towels.

169 The "privacy settings" are designed to make you give up before you complete them all.  I think it took me a good 45 minutes to mark everything private and even then, they have one setting that can only be changed to "friends of friends," meaning that if someone is a friend of my cousin, they can find me.  Not happy about that.

It would be nice to have one setting selection: Public, Private, Friends Only.

170 C'mon in. Nobody here but this glass of scotch and these .45 ACP Hydra-Shoks.

171 Including some attractive you ladies half my age, which wierded my wife out.  I've never logged back onto my account. 

Posted by: Louis Tully at May 13, 2010 11:03 AM (jat5l)

Louis, that well could have been the old "I like older men" comment, and when translated, means if you have a pocket full of personality in one-hundred dollar dominations, we can be the best of friends.  For a short while of course. In my geezer community, we call it Cooter Call!

172 Soulpile: You can fix that setting easily.

Just replace all the info with bullcrap, wait a month for the google cache to fill with that crap, and then delete your account.

Putting real info on a server you don't control = FAIL

173 It would be nice to have one setting selection: Public, Private, Friends Only.

The whole point of the exercise is to induce you to fuckup navigating the maze of  byzantine settings rendering more information salable to 3rd parties.

174 Just replace all the info with bullcrap, wait a month for the google cache to fill with that crap, and then delete your account.

Eh, I didn't put most of my real info in there.  Name, yes.  Location?  Close, but not close enough.  Had to keep it sort of real so my family would know who was asking to be added. 

The whole point of the exercise is to induce you to fuckup navigating the maze of  byzantine settings rendering more information salable to 3rd parties.

Incredibly true.  Facebook and sites like them are just following the example of the US Government.

175 168 Start typing "How do I..." into a Google search...

...and Google will keep a permanent record of your search.

You can clear your history, it is not permanent.

176 Eh, I simply use facebook as a phone book, really. If someone wants to leave me a note about hanging out, cool. I've met up with one friend I missed via facebook. But the games are stupid and I don't post every boring or personal detail of my life, and I think I have all of one picture uploaded.

177 Doll House, did someone say Doll House?  A great place to work!

http://tinyurl.com/26hlufl

LOL, I have personally been to that place and I never saw those babes there.

178

One word: AUTOHARP.

{strum}

179 I  hate to delete it, because it makes it easy to stay in touch with people.  But I've had my account since it was "college e-mail required to join", and I have to say as it's gotten bigger and bigger and more popular and powerful, it's gotten more invasive, bureacratic, and troubling from a privacy standpoint.  I don't trust it all, have deleted most everything off of my profile, and have maxed the security settings.

180 Reveler dies at giant cocktail party in France Published: 5/13/10, 12:05 PM EDT

PARIS (AP) - Police say a reveler has died in an accident at a giant cocktail party in the French city of Nantes that drew 9,500 people after it was organized on Facebook.

There is a trend of raucous, enormous cocktail parties in France. Another one in Montpellier in southern France Thursday drew 10,000.

The Nantes prosecutor's office said a 23-year-old man died Thursday after falling six meters (18 feet) while trying to slide down a railing at a bridge.

Nantes' regional prefect Jean Daubigny told 1Tele TV that 57 revelers were hospitalized after drinking too much.

Paris police posted their own Facebook note, warning that a planned May 23 giant cocktail party near the Eiffel Tower is illegal, as is drinking alcohol there.

181 Jolly Pirate Donuts.

182 Cuffy, you are so right. Most under-appreciated instrument ever.

183 I was a pretty early adopter, quite a bit before they let non student in, which made facebook a slightly better looking myspace.

I never gave them my accurate birthdate, or other helpful info like that.

Just come up with a day that is kinda close to your real birthday, and use that.  Don't put anything on there that would facilitate identity theft.  And don't friend anyone you don't know.  If someone tries to friend you and their profile is so vague that you aren't sure it's your real friend, message them and make sure.

This is common sense shit.  If you can't handle facebook, I'm afraid you're probably going to be fucked at your next myfacester.com profile destination too.  I guess I also don't act like a douchebag when drinking or having a good time, so there aren't any incriminating photos either.  Just nice family photos, pics of my dog.

I tell facebook to keep it private with 100% awareness that they really won't.  That assumption should follow you to gmail, blogs, etc.

184 'm really pretty much an acoustic guy these days. Country-style flatpicking and Travis-picking are my preferred styles.

The real deal

http://tinyurl.com/2bfhsep

And his protege, the best guitar picker who ever lived

http://tinyurl.com/2v6ync

185 "I don't trust it all, have deleted most everything off of my profile, and have maxed the security settings.

Posted by: that guy at May 13, 2010 12:41 PM (jXQdW)"

This makes a lot more sense than just deleting your profile.  That information you have, contact with many old friends and family you might not speak to much, is incredibly valuable to you, and maybe slightly valuable to others.  Don't cut off your nose to spite your face, just remove anything you don't want public, try to keep it private anyway, and keep your contact with your friends.

186 The real auto-harp deal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwpnFjlTSwU gives me chills.

187 Thanks for all the banjo links--I'm going to have a nice evening after work!

188 Did someone say "One word: AUTOHARP."

Another famous picker:

http://tinyurl.com/24zkeou

189 And his protege, the best guitar picker who ever lived Chet is great, but Doc Watson is the best picker who ever lived. Bar none, full stop. Chet was probably the better overall guitar player because he played so many different kinds of styles -- Jazz, country, swing, what have you -- but no one has tone and dynamics like Doc. Listen to Chet do Loudermilk's "Windy and Warm" and then listen to Doc's version of it and see if you don't agree. Norman Blake is another superb acoustic instrumentalist -- he can play about anything with strings on it, but his guitar work is absolutely wonderful. And he's a member of the "crooked but correct" school of singing to which I myself belong! Norman has also written some of the best country songs in the last half-century ("Green Light On the Southern" and "Billy Gray" are two of my favorites, but there are lots of others).

190 Another famous picker Vic, You should pick up the DVD set of the Johnny Cash Show if you haven't already. Mother Maybelle is featured prominently on that set*, and she's a treasure. (She does the version of "Wildwood Flower" that I learned from and still like the best, though I play with a pick.) *As is Norman Blake in the studio band!

191 April, Just to overload you with banjo goodness, check these out: "Sally Ann" by Mary Z. Cox "House of the Rising Sun" by Mike Iverson (Cello banjo!) "Angeline the Baker" by Richard Peek (I love this tune, an old Stephen Foster melody from the Civil War era.)

192 I find it amusing (yeah I know I need better hobbies) to read a story, and then go to the last comment to see how far off the tracks the comments have gotten from the original story............the Facebook privacy (NOT) story begets a comment about bango playing & cellos!  This is certainly a diverse crowd............

193 Facebook and Myspace: helping lawyers nail personal injury plaintiffs since 2004

194 This gets better 'n better: FB founder Zuckerberg calls early users "Dumb Fucks" for trusting him with their privacy.

195 Chet is great, but Doc Watson is the best picker who ever lived. Bar none, full stop.

I have many Doc Watson albums and yes he is a good picker.  But....Chet is better.

As for the DVD of Johnny Cash show yes that would be good.  I do have this album that has both Doc and Mother Mabel.

http://tinyurl.com/b5l8ov

That is one of the best albums ever made. I originally got it on vinyl and have purchased two copies on CD.

196 BTW, Norman Blake is also on that album.

197 I believe the FB founder was also caught stealing passwords his enemies and friends used on their facebook accounts and using that to break into their accounts off facebook.  That 'give me your gmail password and I'll find more of your friends' thing?  Apparently I shouldn't have done that.

Really, a tremendous douche.  Facebook was pretty good and could have been a persistent and successful thing, but now it's imploding.  It's trivial to replace when you think about it.  But if they hadn't gotten greedy, they would have had a very easy job raking in a fortune.  It's never enough?

198

114  I like Flickr and YouTube to post scans and captures of family photos and old home movies for my siblings.

 

Are Flickr accts password protected?  What's to keep computer literate hobos from looking at your photos & stalking you? 

199 I've used Facebook to track down lots of girls I made a fool of myself over and found out that I'm pretty well off with my wife.

200 nickless, that's got to be a pretty universal experience.

I guess I was smarter than I give myself credit for.  A lot of the ladies I was interested in checking up on had done as well as I thought they would.  The ones I didn't like were miserable weirdos, and the ones I did like more were happy with nice families.

And none of them really compare well against my old lady.  I married young, and it's amazing to me that I picked such a worthy mate when I was a pretty dumb kid.  FB has really helped show me just how many bullets I dodged.

201 138  No discussion of bajos is complete without mentioning Bela Fleck. Saw him live out at Disney a few years back with the Flecktones. I really went to see Vic Wooten, but they were great.

He pulls out an E-Bow and cracked a joke about banjo players who have problems with sustain.

I was the only one in the audience who laughed.

 

Bela Fleck & the Flecktones have a Christmas album, Jingle All The Way, which includes "Jingle Bells" as sung by Tuvan Throat Singers.  The words are unintelligible, and the singing itself is like cicadas.  Truly some strange stuff, but great for jazzing up a boring holiday party.

202 Are Flickr accts password protected?  What's to keep computer literate hobos from looking at your photos & stalking you?

FlickR is a division of Yahoo which I suspect has all the same privacy invasion as Facebook. And yes, you need a password to look at some pictures and to post.

203 Sort of related... I've noticed that xobni, part of Outlook, shows which social networks (Linkedin, Hoovers, facebook) my email senders belong to. So if you want to keep that info private, don't sign up with your main email account. Big fucking Brother is among us.

204 I found some old Army buddies on there, but shortly after, they disappeared back into the woodwork.  As for friends, we communicate in person, by phone and by instant message more often than not, so FB became superfluous.  Deleted it some time ago.

Also eliminated the urge to go peeking on my cheating ex-wife.  Better to just not even exist on social networking sites with one of those in your past.

205 Schlippy, I found a ton of old army buddies on there.  Many long out of the service and asking me to join their freaking game mafia.  LAME, but really nice to see their kids and wives and lives are pretty great.  We all faced a few losses and it's just nice to check in on them.

Even if I almost never take advantage of my ability to contact them, in some way, I am in touch with them.  It's lame that FB decided not to be satisfied with that, but the founder is a colossal POS.

206 This is a facebook thread.  Whats up with the Banjo talk you Deliverance watching hillbilly morons?

207

This girl I knew back in high school was eager to put me on her friends list saying she said she wanted to re-connect with old friends.

My reply: "We were never friends. We were just two high school students who were in the marching band at the same time a quarter of a century ago. We never even spoken a single word to each other during those four years. We had zero interest in each other back then so why should we be interested now that we're 25 years older and 1,000 miles away from each other?"

I only have 18 people on my Friends List. Half of them are kinfolk and the other half people who I actually meet in real life on a regular basis.

208 I only have ten friends. Four ex-co-workers, one ex-boss, one former classmate from my school years, two longtime acquaintances who moved south some time ago, and two people who are related to someone I know that doesn't have a Facebook account. And that's it.

Any friend requests that show up from someone I don't know get disposed of, no questions asked.

209 @209: My reply: "We were never friends. We were just two high school students who were in the marching band at the same time a quarter of a century ago. We never even spoken a single word to each other during those four years. We had zero interest in each other back then so why should we be interested now that we're 25 years older and 1,000 miles away from each other?"

Well...what can one say to that but "Bet you're a blast at parties."  Maybe the "ignore" button'd work better for you next time.  Heh.  

That said, only have about 40 "friends," all actual people in my life day to day whom I like.  As w/ others above, any "friend requests" from people I don't know (more often) or who are assholes (there are a few in my life) just get ignored.   

Some people think that if they have 500 "friends" on their page that proves they are popular or well liked or something.   All it means is one of two things: they spend too much time on FB instead of with their REAL friends, OR that they're annoying, overtenacious jerks likely just using you to put one more notch on their "friends" belt so they can say at work, "I have 500 FB friends!". 

210
Friends will help you move.
Good friends will help you move dead bodies.
FB friends will help you do neither.

211 thanks personel alimi, memur alimi, isci alimi, is basvurusu