The Facebook Thread

[Gazoo]

2) FB itself made me go thru a security thingy ("type these words in the box") before I could post a comment in a thread I myself started!   But the box wouldn't let me put my cursor there so I couldn't type the damn words. WTF??

Did you just try to start typing? I've run into a few of those things, sometimes the cursor automatically appears when you start entering text.

nope -- it was clearly their glitch. seems to have resolved itself in the last half-hour. But seriously: a security check to comment in your own thread?

I've had that happen when trying to post a link in response to a thread, but not with just plain text.

[RGMike]

2) FB itself made me go thru a security thingy ("type these words in the box") before I could post a comment in a thread I myself started!   But the box wouldn't let me put my cursor there so I couldn't type the damn words. WTF??

Did you just try to start typing? I've run into a few of those things, sometimes the cursor automatically appears when you start entering text.

nope -- it was clearly their glitch. seems to have resolved itself in the last half-hour. But seriously: a security check to comment in your own thread?

I've had that happen when trying to post a link in response to a thread, but not with just plain text.

AH! you've explained it then -- my post indeed included a link (to your blog, as it happens*). But I've posted links in comments before and never got a security check. 

* I posted a clip of "Can't find the time" yesterday and one FB-friend gushed about how much he loved that song, so I directed him to your posts on the subject.

[RGMike]

couple interesting things, re: the anti-FB uprising. First, the "Don't Log-On to FB on June 6th" protest:

http://facebookprotest.com/

and a good article on how to delete your account permanently, from CNET:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20005556-245.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

[RGMike]

No more FB at work for me -- they're cracking down here.

[Wayback]

Man jailed for sending Facebook friend request
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/hottopics/detail?entry_id=70304&tsp=1

Mom arrested after posting pic of baby with bong
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/08/17/national/a060703D71.DTL&tsp=1

[RGMike]

Man jailed for sending Facebook friend request
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/hottopics/detail?entry_id=70304&tsp=1

damn, that guy looks like the poster-child for hillbilly inbreeding.

[Wayback]

How to opt out of that new FB Places (tracker) feature:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/hottopics/detail?entry_id=70465
Video How-To: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKrYBT7OUsM

[RGMike]

I just tried to post a comment on someone else's FB page and got a "you must confirm your account" pop-up asking for my "mobile phone" or "credit card" number -- WTFF?

addendum: I had tried to post a comment on a thread on AL's page that was started by that Scott Fisher dude  (he wanted to know when Live at the Archives would be repeated -- jeezus, the guy listens to KFOG 24/7 and he doesn't know they repeat it Sun nite? They've only been doing that for over a decade!).  Anyway I tried to post an answer and got the above-described pop-up, clearly looked like a Facebook dialog box.  But I was able to post a comment in an AL-originated thread with no problem. Again: WTFF?

[Gazoo]

I just tried to post a comment on someone else's FB page and got a "you must confirm your account" pop-up asking for my "mobile phone" or "credit card" number -- WTFF?

Wha-wha-WHAT?!  This sounds REALLY fishy.

[sundaygal]

Some dude is kvetching about getting "extremely frustrated" that AL hasn't played any of his 10@10 requests - the recent one being Opposites Attract.  Um, maybe if you didn't choose songs that SUCK.  Wasn't that a "duet" with Paula Abdul and MC Skat (lol) Kat? 

[RGMike]

Some dude is kvetching about getting "extremely frustrated" that AL hasn't played any of his 10@10 requests - the recent one being Opposites Attract.  Um, maybe if you didn't choose songs that SUCK.  Wasn't that a "duet" with Paula Abdul and MC Skat (lol) Kat? 

Bwahahaha!



Indeed, AL has to be careful not to overdo the Hits From Hell angle.

[RGMike]

FB was down or painfully slooooooow for a couple of hours earlier today. In the article about it on SFGate, one wag commented:

"Facebook went down for only two hours causing millions of US workers to resume office duties — bounces entire country out of recession instantly"

[RGMike]

Facebook the cause of 1-in-5 divorces:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1334482/The-marriage-killer-One-American-divorces-involve-Facebook.html

[RGMike]

Have you seen those "bucket list" ads on FB? "things to do in _____ before you die"?   Just got one that was a Contra Costa County bucket list -- I'd say the #1 thing to do in CCC before you die is... get the fuck out of CCC.

And in other news, FB founder Mark Zuckerberg was named Time's Person of the Year. Amazing what a movie about you can do.

[Lightnin' Rod]

Have you seen those "bucket list" ads on FB? "things to do in _____ before you die"?   Just got one that was a Contra Costa County bucket list -- I'd say the #1 thing to do in CCC before you die is... get the fuck out of CCC.

And in other news, FB founder Mark Zuckerberg was named Time's Person of the Year. Amazing what a movie about you can do.

I live in CCC most of my life, and I can't come up with anything.  There are some golf courses I could recommend, I suppose, but none of them are bucket list worthy (say, like Pebble Beach or The Old Course in Scotland would be).  Um, Mt. Diablo is nice....  Go look at it.  Done.