Who here with a decent number of Facebook friends could match 5 random profile pictures with their owners without fail? Hell, I’ve got 5 different people who use the same picture of Yosemite Sam! Poeple change their pictures on different occasions or to join some internet interest group-one week a yellow support ribbon, the next week showing childhood pictures, and the week after that a picture of a loved one who died. WTF, Facebook-the “show yourself as a child” event was one you threw to celebrate an anniversary!
I want my ghod damn page back!
Personally, I am utterly baffled as to why anyone, anywhere, feels to the need to have a Facebook account or to be involved with them in anyway. YMMV and obviously does and I honestly don’t mean my comment to be as snarky as it sounds. Its just that when it comes to Facebook and others of its ilk, I just don’t get it. But I’m an old guy and no longer hip, or whatever the current word is.
I do not like Facebook but still go through the hoops. But Czarcasm, how on this earth could you have 2,000 friends? I gather that it is for gaming purposes but is Facebook that powerful a gaming tool?
I have never played a single game on Facebook. There are not enough ignore buttons. And I don’t care if some Manta has a fin caught in a trap.
If you play any of the larger games, it is damn easy to get 500 to a 1000 friends. One game out their recently limited how many people could be on the same team…to 3000!
I set the account on the counter at the lunchroom, went to get my chocolate pudding cup, and when I came back it was gone!
I have no idea how my account was hacked.
A spammer would collect names of people with similar interests, while a game hacker would transfer gold pieces(or whatever the game currency was for that game) and items to her/his own account.
Ah. But then that’s not “real money”, so what’s the point? Simply to gain an advantage in a little Facebook game? Jeez.
I have a Facebook account but I hardly ever use it and I never play any of the games and ignore all invites to everything.
I use facebook because my two favorite sisters live in Nashville and Washington DC, respectively, while the friends I am closest too live in even further away–one in Singapore. Facebook is an easy way to stay involved in their lives. I don’t play games like Farmville or whatever it’s called, but I value being able to stay in regular contact with them in a way that the distance differences in time zone do not allow.
There are a large number of games that are specifically designed to get you to have lots of friends also playing the game. They do this because the more people playing, the more money they get, either through advertising or selling game items for real money. Ideally, they want you to convince all of your real-life friends to also play the game, bringing in new eyeballs, but in reality, people just join forums where people already playing can just friend each other.
Well, there’s this guy who already has an account with the exact same (unusual) name as me, who’s friended several people who I know, who obviously think he’s me. I’m tempted to join just so I can show that he’s not me if he ever says/does something stupid.
